I'm author ELLE STRAUSS and welcome to my website!

I write fun, lower Young Adult (teen) fiction to do with whimsical things like time-travel, fairies and merfolk.

When my serious side peeks out, she's called LEE STRAUSS. She likes to write upper YA about real things that have happened in the past, or made up things that could quite possibly happen in the future.

This blog is about books, mine and other fab authors', but occasionally I'll share about other topics.

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Well, I Hope That Never Happens Again (and blog hop winner!)

My beloved blog was hacked yesterday! Ugh--such a nasty feeling. Google had the cuffs on it for most of the day. But never fear, NO ONE WAS INFECTED BY ME. I was hit, but never re-hit. So, we're all good now.

Because of that, I had to remove two posts, my British Amazon Card giveaway and my Random Act of Publicity for Denise Jaden's book LOSING FAITH (sorry Denise).
I'll re-post both of them next week.


And on to better news: The Back to the Book Hop winner of POSSESSION by Elana Johnson is...

                                       !!PABKINS!!

Pabkins, random.org chose you! Congratulations! I will contact you by email to notify you of your prize.

9 comments:

  1. I didn't know a blog could be hacked. How awful! I'm glad you're back up and running! Congrats to the winner!

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  2. That's rotten! Glad it wasn't worse.

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  3. Nisa and Candie - yeah, that's a first for me. I suppose it could've been worse. It only took me out for one day, and now everything is CLEAN! :)

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  4. Glad to hear that you got your blog back! I had my gmail hacked a couple of months ago - it's a frustrating experience!

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  5. It was a bummer,it followed you to me. I've taken my blog roll off for now. But it's all good, we are healed. :)

    Congrats to Pabkins!
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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  6. Thanks everyone! I'm glad the blog is back to normal. I think another blog I stopped on the hop was having issues last night to. I let her know about it on twitter. I hate hackers and spammers.

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  7. Oh my goodness, your blog was hacked thats horrible. I wanna smack those hackers for you. I am so glad that all is better. Oh, and do repost those posts that were taken down. I wanna read them:)

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  8. A horrible affair. Glad it is all OK now. Congratulations to the winner of your prize!

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