In late March, I reviewed Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews; if you missed my review, check it out, here.

Virginia Stanley will be welcoming Mary Kay Andrews to her show Library Love Fest on BlogTalk Radio on June 16 at 3PM. Ms. Andrews is a lovely author and loves to participate in discussions about her writing and other topics. She will be on the show to discuss her latest book, The Fixer-Upper, which I am dying to read.

Check out her discussion on June 16 at 3PM, here, with Mary Kay Andrews. I guarantee it will be a hoot. Call in and ask questions or write in to the chat section to ask your questions and you could win one of 25 copies of The Fixer-Upper.

Don’t forget my current giveaways:

2-year Blogiversary
Secrets to Happiness

I haven’t read any more WWII books, since Reading by Lightning, but Anna and I have been posting reviews from the participants and some worthy news items.

If you are interested in the latest news item about the Invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day, please head on over and comment. Here’s the link.

I also wanted to alert you to an upcoming 2-year Blogiversary here at Savvy Verse & Wit, and I am planning a big giveaway, so stay tuned. Look for the announcement on June 12.

Check out this giveaway:

1 copy of Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham, here; Deadline is June 10, 2009, 11:59 PM EST

Due to some confusion, I’ve had to amend June 3rd’s guest post from Bill Surie, author of Holly’s Inbox.

If you’ve already seen the post today and entered the giveaway, don’t worry you are still entered. But if you are curious about what Bill Surie really wanted to share with you on Savvy Verse & Wit, please go here.

Ok, I haven’t talked much about Book Expo America yet, but here it is. The official post.

Anna from Diary of an Eccentric and I will be headed up to NYC and can’t wait to meet all of the book/lit bloggers who will be in attendance, not to mention some of our favorite publishers and publishers we haven’t even made contact with yet.
I’m taking this trusty Fodor’s New York City 2009 guide with me, and trust me there will be tabs galore in it of sights to see and things to do, though in about 2 days, who can get through the entire city and all its sights? Not me. It’s a repeat trip in the future that will get it done, but I’m hopeful that I can get some sights in.

We’ve already registered to the BEAtweetup 2009, and hope to see many of you there. I wish everyone were able to come, but rest assured we will be thinking of you.

I plan to bring the SLR and shoot photos as much as possible, hopefully this will make everyone feel like you were there with us.

In other developments, I’ve cracked and joined Twitter. Have you joined up already? I may have not found you, but if you want to find me, here’s the handle @SavvyVerseWit

Oh yeah, we’ve got a modern throwback to the CB radio. . . “handles” over at Twitter.

Don’t Forget About These Great Giveaways!

1 Signed Copy of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C.M. Mayo, here. Deadline is May 30, 2009, 11:59PM EST.

2 copies of The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa, here; Deadline is May 30, 2009, 11:59 PM EST

3 copies of Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton, here; Deadline is June 3, 2009, 11:59 PM EST.

1 copy of Reunion by Therese Fowler, here; Deadline is June 4, 2009, 11:59 PM EST

Dear Blog Readers,

Check out the new look for Savvy Verse & Wit. I had a great collaborative experience with Doodlebug Designs.

Judi at Doodlebug Designs is fantastic, very hands on, and creative. I just hope my inexperience with HTML and other design elements didn’t drive her too batty.

I’m excited about my new navigation bar and the links to my Interviews, Awards, and the coming soon “Poetry: Verse Reviewers” page.

Check out this fantastic blog button she made as well:

Just a quick note that if you don’t have Lucida Calligraphy font on your system, you may have to download it to see the headers and navigation bar as they were designed to look; otherwise, the font will be plain. I’m not sure the reasoning for this, but I discovered this when I was viewing my new blog look at work and discovered that it looked wrong.

Feel free to drop me a note about what you think and if I’m missing any of those loved elements I had on here that may have disappeared in the transition.

Don’t forget my giveaways:

1 copy of Rubber Side Down Edited by Jose Gouveia, here; Deadline is May 15 at 11:59 PM EST

2 copies of The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner, here; Deadline is May 22 at 11:59 PM EST