Literary Illusions is proud to be giving away five copies of the book Keep the Faith by Faith Evans with Aliya S. King. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to only leave one. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, so it will not show up right away. People who leave multiple comments will be deleted from the contest altogether. If you do not see your comment within a day then by all means leave another one. Otherwise, do not worry as we accept comments several times a day.

To enter you need to be at least 18 years of age and a resident of the US. If you have won a contest within the last 30 days you are not eligible. Winners will be sent an email shortly after the end of the contest. To claim your prize all you will need to do is send us your address in a reply to the congratulation email that you will receive. If we do not receive a reply from you within three weeks, your winnings will be forfeited and your prize will be offered to another contestant.

We will begin emailing winners for this the week of September 12, 2008, which means you have until September 11, 2008 at 11:59 to enter.

About the Book:
KEEP THE FAITH: A MEMOIR

Biggie’s wife, Lil’ Kim’s rival, Tupac’s rumored lover, and Platinum-selling R&B queen; Faith has kept her secrets and her silence… until now.

KEEP THE FAITH: A MEMOIR is Faith Evans’ first person account of life at ground zero of hip-hop’s greatest generation.

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Literary Illusions is proud to be giving away five copies of Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me? By Kevin Nealon. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to only leave one. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, so it will not show up right away. People who leave multiple comments will be deleted from the contest altogether. If you do not see your comment within a day then by all means leave another one. Otherwise, do not worry as we accept comments several times a day.

To enter you need to be 18 years of age and a resident of the US. If you have won a contest within the last 30 days you are not eligible. Winners will be announced here. If we do not hear from you within 3 weeks from the date the winners are announced you forfeit your prize and we will select another winner. Prizes will be shipped within 45 days from the day you win.

We will begin choosing winners for this the week of May 25, 2008, which means you have until May 24, 2008 at 11:59 to enter.

From the Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me? Book Page

Now, in his first-ever book, Nealon tells the outrageous story of how he battled through aching joints, Milano cookie cravings, and a rapidly receding hairline to become a first-time dad at an age when most fathers are packing their kids off to college. Offering hysterical commentary about his fickle, often hormonal, road to belated and bloated fatherhood, Nealon guides you through the delivery room and beyond, discussing how his past, his wife, and his neuroses all converged in a montage of side-splitting insecurities during the months leading up to the birth of his son.

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Literary Illusions is proud to be giving away five copies of The Scandal Plan Or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife By Bill Folman. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to only leave one. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, so it will not show up right away. People who leave multiple comments will be deleted from the contest altogether. If you do not see your comment within a day then by all means leave another one. Otherwise, do not worry as we accept comments several times a day.

To enter you need to be 18 years of age and a resident of the US. If you have won a contest within the last 30 days you are not eligible. Winners will be announced here. If we do not hear from you within 3 weeks from the date the winners are announced you forfeit your prize and we will select another winner. Prizes will be shipped within 45 days from the day you win.

We will begin choosing winners for this the week of May 25, 2008, which means you have until May 24, 2008 at 11:59 to enter.

From The Scandal Plan Or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife Book Page

A presidential candidate behind in the polls concocts an outrageous scandal to improve his chances in this hilarious political satire in the spirit of Primary Colors

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CBS News on Logo to offer behind-the-scenes exclusive of this year’s GLAAD Media Awards
NEW YORK, NY – April 30, 2008– Logo, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, today announced the premiere of CBS News on Logo Special Report: GLAAD Media Awards Backstage Pass on Saturday May 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. The 60 minute special report offers a backstage look at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York and Los Angeles.

British comedian and talk show host Graham Norton emceed the New York GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriot Marquis on Mar. 17, 2008. The ceremony honored the best in film, television and journalism to an audience of 1,600 people. Celebrities such as Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Tim Gunn, Barbara Walters and Alan Cumming were in attendance as Brian Graden, President of MTV Entertainment and President, Logo, was honored with the Vito Russo Award. The Vito Russo award is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community.

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SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER HEAR AND NOW, DEBUTING MAY 8 ON HBO, TELLS THE PERSONAL STORY OF TWO PEOPLE WHO JOURNEY INTO A WORLD OF SOUND TOGETHER AFTER SURGERY ENDS 65 YEARS OF SILENCE

A deeply personal memoir by Emmy(r) winner Irene Taylor Brodsky, HEAR AND NOW chronicles her deaf parents’ decision to undergo risky cochlear implant surgery, following their touching journey from a comfortable marriage of silence into a new, complex and challenging world of sound. Winner of an Audience Award at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the documentary debuts THURSDAY, MAY 8 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Other HBO playdates: May 8 (5:25 a.m.), 11 (7:30 p.m.), 15 (9:30 a.m., midnight), 19 (2:30 p.m., 10:15 p.m.), 24 (12:30 p.m.) and 27 (6:30 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: May 10 (6:00 p.m.), 12 (12:30 p.m., 12:10 a.m.) and 18 (11:00 a.m.)

Both age 65 and deaf since birth, husband and wife Paul and Sally Taylor led rich lives filled with jobs, hobbies, passions and the support of a devoted four-generation family, including their own three hearing children. Pioneers in the deaf community, Sally worked as a teacher and a college secretary and lent her expert lip-reading skills to law enforcement investigations, while Paul, an engineer and retired professor, helped develop the TTY, a widely-used telecommunication device for the hearing-impaired.

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Literary Illusions is proud to be giving away three copies of Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music. If you want to win one of these copies you just need to be from the US and leave us a comment letting us know that you want to win. In order to win you cannot have won any contests in the past month. So if you’re interested in winning leave us a comment. The contest ends on November 23, 2007 at midnight. We will be picking a winner on November 24, 2007. Keep reading to learn more about Making Records.

From the Hyperion Book Page:

Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone.

For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records and collaborated with almost every major talent in the business. There is a craft to making records, and Phil has spent his life mastering it. For the first time ever, he shares the secrets of his trade.

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The following is an excerpt from the book The Key by Joe Vitale
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; October 2007;$24.95US/$29.99CAN;
978-0-470-18076-1
Copyright C 2008 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. All rights reserved.

Please Forgive Me

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
–Howard Thurman

If you feel stuck in any area of your life, if you’re not attracting the car, house, job, mate, or anything else you really want, it could very well be due to a lack of forgiveness.

Maybe you didn’t forgive the other person. Maybe you didn’t forgive yourself. It doesn’t matter. Holding on to past emotions, memories, or stories is guaranteed to tie up your energy and block your ability to attract what you want.

What you have to do now is forgive.

I used to struggle with this one. I was afraid that if I forgave someone, I would not learn the lesson they gave me and I would be suckered again. But as I looked at that belief, I realized it was just that: a belief. It wasn’t reality. It wasn’t factual. It wasn’t true.

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Contemporary high school history teachers might just want to prescribe The Dead Guy Interviews to hook their more reluctant students. Sardonic wit and irreverent quips characterize the tone of Michael Stusser’s historical treatise in which he “conducts interviews” marwith deceased historical figures. In addition to the basic dates, significant accomplishments, downfalls, etc., Stusser provides salacious peeks into the personal lives of the humor-invigorated, rigomortized celebrities.

Laid out in alpha order, Stusser covers Alexander the Great through Mao Zedong, from pharaohs to presidents, philosophers to plain ol’ pop culture figures. He moves through 45 historical notables with whom even 21^st century adolescents would be acquainted, and if they weren’t, the introductions to each larger-than-life figure would surely spark further interest…in at least most of the characters.

The bottom line of The Dead Guy Interviews is that it is the most entertaining historical text I have ever read, with most of the three-to-five-page interviews striking chords of interest in learning more about the characters. In most historical texts or biographies of Albert Einstein, there is surely something included in the text that explains how Einstein struggled in school. However, few would put it the way Stusser does in his interview:

Stusser: Some people say you may have actually had a learning disability.

Einstein: Yah, I haff a disability to learn vat zey vant to teach me. My problem vas zat I clashed at times with my professors – unt vas usually correct in my argument, I might add. Zen I began to skip classes to study vat I vanted. School vas a bit of, how you say, bust.

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Lovers of cat mysteries will not want to miss this contest. We are giving away five free copies of Cat Deck the Halls, which is slated for release on October 30, 2007. The thirteenth cat mystery from award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy pits Joe Grey, Feline P.I., and his friends Dulcie and Kit against a murderer who’s dead-set on ruining Christmas for the town of Molena Point, CA. You won’t want to miss this high action novel about your favorite felines.

If you want to win a copy it’s as simple as can be. All you need to do is leave us a comment letting us know you are interested. If you link to this contest we will give you two entries and up your chance of winning. In order to win you must reside in the US or Canada and have not won a contest on Literary Illusion in the last month. This contests ends on November 8, 2007 at 11:59 PM EST. A winner will be announced in this post and by email on November 9, 2007.

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On October 30, 2007 a new novel, Everlasting, by Kathleen Woodiwiss will hit the stands. Before that happens we would like to give you a chance to win one of five copies to add to your book collection. Woodiwiss is known for The Flame and the Flower, as well as other novels she has written. Everlasting is her next offering and it is being said that fans will be delighted and those who have never read her will become fans.

If you want to win a copy it’s as simple as can be. All you need to do is leave us a comment letting us know you are interested in winning. If you link to this contest we will give you two entries and up your chance of winning. In order to win you must reside in the US or Canada and have not won a contest on Literary Illusion in the last month. This contests ends on November 8, 2007 at 11:59 PM EST. A winner will be announced in this post and by email on November 9, 2007.

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