Book Tour: Time Killer [Giveaway Included]

Once again, LoupDargent.info is hosting a Book Tour for the day, cool! 

This time, it's for 'Time Killer' by Todd M. Thiede... and it's a detective story. Yeaaah! We do love a good detective stories here at LDi. They do help make our little grey cells work and all, don't they? 

Today's Book Tour should please most of you (as long as you like books and detective stories, of course) as, not only we learn a bit more about the book and its author, but it also includes a Guest Post by Todd M. Thiede himself and, (yes, that's right!) a Giveaway giving  our readers the chance to win an autographed copy of Time Killer, by Todd Thiede AND one $10 Amazon gift card as first price. Not too shabby, is it?

All you have to do to participate to the Giveaway is go to the end of this post and follow the easy instructions there... Worth the effort, surely?

(Oh, and yes, the virtual tea and coffee area is opened as usual.)

Enjoy!

Loup Dargent

Join Us For 'The Radio Murders: The Collectors' Cosmic Blast

For this second Cosmic Blast hosted by LoupDargent.info, Chuck Collins, author of  The Radio Murders: The Collectors is giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card and 5 Signed copies of his book.to some of this blog's lucky readers. Cool, isn't it?

All you need to do to enter is filling the form at the end of this post... Worth the effort, don't you think?

   

Good luck and enjoy!

Loup Dargent

Giveaway Time: Join Us For The Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard Cosmic Blast!

On Friday 1st February, between 12:01am & 10am EST (5.01 am to 3.00 pm GMT), bestselling author, Lars Guignard is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card & 5 kindle ebook copies, here at LoupDargent.info to some of our lucky readers. 

Fill out the form in this post to enter! 

Open to anyone that can receive an Amazon.com Gift Card (Int.) 

Good luck to you all!  

Loup Dargent

 

How Would You Make Someone’s Day Better?

Western Union’s World of Betters is all about making people’s day better. 

Okay, that's definitely one I had to share with you guys... as some of you might get lucky and win $1000 (as long as you live in the UK and the US, that is) and make someone's day better, thanks to this post. 

Yep, my real name is Santa Claus!

UK: Arthur Christmas - The Movie, The Trailer and Arthur's Big Wrap

The Storyline

Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

And The Giveaway's Winner is...

Okay, the time has come to reveal who won our giveaway prize...

Yep, a while ago we ran a giveaway event giving a chance to one of our readers to win a 16 x 20 Rolled Canvas kindly given away by UPrinting.com.

And, today is the day when we announce the lucky winner.

Five... Four... Three... Two... One...

The winner is...

V-A! 

Congratulations V-A! I've got your email addy through my IntenseDebate account so I'll pass on the details to UPrinting.com sometimes today.

Also, if you could send us a picture of you next to your prize, that's would be great... You don't have to, but that would help making this contest as friendly as possible (you know, with the personal touch and all that).

Thanks everyone for taking the time to post comments on the Giveaway's page.

Talk soon

Loup Dargent

PS: I'm currently net-less, so I can't be online as much as I would like but I'll be back soon with hopefully more goodies.

Tags : Blogs, Canevas Prints, Giveaway

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• Artist Canvas Prints from Uprinting.com {Giveaway}

Giveaway Time: Let Me Bribe/Reward You

"Turn your most precious moments into masterpieces!
Get that artist’s feel and transform your favorite photos or work into canvas art.
These thick and high-quality canvases are ultra durable and will last a long time."

And, guess what? You could be the lucky one who wins a 16 x 20 Rolled Canvas kindly given away by UPrinting.com to one of our readers... Nice of them, isn't it? Plus, the canvas will be delivered free of charge.

How To Enter

To enter this Giveaway all you need to do is visit UPrinting.com and then come back here and leave a comment about your favorite product and tell us what picture you would like to make a canvas print of if you won...

Extra Entries

You can get extra entries by following this blog on:

• Google Friend Connect (2 entries)
• Facebook's NetworkedBlogs (2 entries)
• MyBlogLog (1 entry)
• BlogCatalog (1 entry)

(and by letting us know by leaving a comment here)

Easy, isn't it?

Now, if you subscribe to this blog through email, you also get 2 extra entries and (that's the icing on the cake), if you mention this giveaway on your blog with a link to this post you get 3 extra entries as well as a big thank you from us.

Want more?

You can also get extra entries by following me on

Twitter (1 entry)

YouTube (2 entries)

FriendFeed (2 entries)

BlogEngage (1 entry) 

Amplify (1 entry)

Once that's done, let us know here by leaving a comment and your extra entry/entries will be automatically allocated.

Okay, enough of "me, me, me!"... What about "you, you you!"?

Ah, yes... Even so, with the CommentLuv facility, every post of yours should show a link to your latest blog post,  you can also leave a comment telling us about your blog or/and your latest post and still get an extra entry that way. See, I didn't forget about "you, you, you!".

By the way, if you are running a Giveaway event as well, you are very welcome to leave a comment about it (and earn another entry that way) with link to it and all...

Unfortunately the Giveaway is only opened to our readers who are US residents (that has to do with the free shipping part) and are 18 or above... 

But, we would like those of you who are not US residents to also get something out of this Giveaway event. So you are very welcome to comment about your blogs or/and your latest posts too... Granted, you won't get an entry to the Giveaway, but, at least, you'll get some link love (and, who knows, maybe even a few extra visitors in the process).

Don't Forget

• You can only enter the Giveaway if you've done the first entry (comments have to be a bit more original than "I want to win!" to be considered). 
• The Comments/Entries have to be posted here only to be considered (that's very important to know if you're reading this post on Magnify or Zimbio).
• You will have until Wednesday April 21st at 11:59pm GMT to enter. 
• The winner will be randomly chosen the next day and notified by DM or PM depending on what sites they're following me on. 
• I'll also post the winner on this blog through a new post (link to be provided here as soon as it has been published) and I'll also leave a comment about it on this post. 
• If I don't hear back from the winner within a week, I'll pick another one.

Good luck everyone!

Loup Dargent

Football Fiesta - The Heineken Way

Girls, Rio Carnival costumes, beer and football. The perfect mix?

What happens when you bring together the beautiful game, amazing costumes from the ultimate football nation – we’re talking Brazil of course – and everyone’s favourite Dutch export? 

Whatever you’re imagining, it probably isn’t this…

The One About The Nation’s Ultimate Dad Dancer

Cool! I actually recognised some of my own moves in this video-clip...

As a Dad, I quickly understood that one of my duties was to embarrass my kids at any opportunity available if I wanted to make the grade... So, showing off my "classy" dance moves in front of their friends was one of my favourite (and one of the most efficient) ways to do so.

Believe it or not, you'll never be a true Dad until you've demonstrated your dance moves in public (and preferably in front of your kids' friends)...

Unless, of course, you're a single/divorced Dad and you want to impress some of your kids' friends' Mums, that is. That's the only acceptable reason for not doing it as, for some unknown and weird reasons, the Mums don't really warm up to that kind of public display. That's also why I've stopped doing my famous dance moves in public since I've got divorced... Just in case, you know.

Of course, your kids will try to stop you doing your dance moves... they might even plead with you or (they can be crafty, when they want) give you the wrong address of where the party they're going takes place so that you don't show up there and make (in their eyes) a fool of yourself.

Don't worry too much about that, they're just jealous... They wish they could dance like you, but haven't got the guts to do it. They also know that they'll have to wait until they're parents themselves to dance like that and get away with it.

But, now, you've got a good reason to carry on dancing your way and even do so with your kids' blessing...

Yep, you could win a prize for you and your family!

There is no way they'll even think of stopping you now...

 Here is what the competition's organisers say:

"The winner (that could be you... as long as you live in the Uk) and his family will be sent to spend a week in Jamaica, where the island’s infectious rhythms, music and attitude will hopefully rub off on dad. 

He’ll also go into Dance Rehab and be given some individual tuition."

Don't worry too much about the "Dance Rehab" business, it's not as painful as it sounds...

"Kiss FM's Rickie Haywood-Williams will choose a winner from the ten most popular clips. Runners-up will be drawn from a Rasta hat and will receive special ipod Nanos."

Are you the Uk's Ultimate Dad Dancer?

There is only one way to find out: by entering the competiton...

Have fun! 

Loup Dargent

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Tags : Rickie Haywood-Williams, Jamaica, Ultimate Dad Dancer, Competition

The One About England's Football Legends

Genuine football legends share how it feels to wear the England shirt

Image via facebook/marsbar

At last a post that my kids will read and won't mind being seen reading...

They're lovely kids, really... but when it's football's World Cup and/or European Cup time, they usually turn all BNP on me, loudly supporting the English team (they're born in England and their mum is British) but not allowing me to make my support to the French team too vocal. Hmmph! 

(I'm only joking, they're not that bad.)

The video for today's post is a film where football legends are interviewed in a way that lets us see them as everyday heroes... people who have simply achieved their personal best.

• Terry Butcher expresses how it feels to put an England shirt on – that it has the ability to inspire you to realise that you could be making history. His story about wearing the shirt, looking in the mirror before games and feeling a sense of readiness for the challenge of playing is summarised perfectly in his line ‘right, let’s go!”.

• Viv Anderson communicates the sense of positivity he felt with the entire country right behind him when he played his first game for England. We also realise how he proudly rose to the occasion of being England’s first black player.

• We feel Bert Williams’ sense of self-belief shine through as he explains that putting the England shirt and badge on made him ‘feel on a different planet!’

• We begin to appreciate the sense of inspiration Stuart Pearce must have felt when he expresses the feeling of being in the England team for the first time. We also understand the sense of achievement he must have felt being selected for England after all his efforts to get there - it is summarized perfectly in his line ‘it’s not bad for an electrician.’ Most poignantly we realise the scale of the challenge he must have faced in rising to the occasion of walking out against Brazil to a crowd of 92,000 people.

• Hope Powell’s sense of positivity is felt as she explains how playing for England felt like being in a fairytale.

• And finally, as Martin Peters relates his experiences of being picked for the 1966 England squad we appreciate the personal efforts he must have made to get there and the pressure he must have felt to rise to the occasion of playing for his country in a World Cup final.

Yep, genuine football legends and everyday heroes...

I can see a competition coming on...

Image via facebook/marsbar

Ah, yes... It's for our readers living in the UK, and the winner could be Mars' official reporter at England’s pre South Africa training camp. Not a bad prize, is it?

Tell the competition's organisers why you should go and you could be a winner! Simples.

Oh, and you'll need to click on this link first for more information, of course.

 Enjoy the video and good luck to our British readers...

Loup Dargent

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Tags : Football, South Africa, World Cup 2010, Competition