Middle Grade Madness! discussion

Happy 2 Year Anniversary!!
That's right, Middle Grade Madness turns 2 years old in May! Not only that but we've also surpassed 500 group members!! And to celebrate I've created a brand new masthead and group icon that doesn't look as 2010-ish as the old one.

I'm also hosting this giveaway! This is to say a huge thank you to our 500+ members who honestly make this group my favourite place to talk books. Thank you everyone!!

Rules to enter:
- You MUST be a member of the group.
- You have to fill in the form below.
- You can only enter the draw once.

The prize:
- The winner will be chosen at random.
- There will be only 1 winner.
- The winner will be given a US$30 Amazon gift card to spend on books!
- The winner's favourite MG book will be featured and read on the group in June.

DEADLINE:
- The giveaway closes on 20th May 2021!
- The winner will be announced on 23rd May.

Feel free to ask any questions below...

GIVEAWAY FORM: https://forms.gle/9vawoqWQZ4CQGxBR6

Here's our brand new masthead:



I designed and coloured it myself!
What do you guys think of it?

Love this.

Looks great!

@Lynn @Mary Kathryn thank you!! I went a little wild with the design so it looks like a paint explosion but I quite like it like that. It’s a look😂

Awww this sounds great!!

Thanks Ilsen! Hope you can enter the draw, doing a giveaway is really exciting!

@Kadi can I just say congratulations and great job at running this group so well!! I really enjoy the discussions here even though I don't participate in everything. Here's to more middle-grade fun!!

Spencer wrote: "@Kadi can I just say congratulations and great job at running this group so well!! I really enjoy the discussions here even though I don't participate in everything. Here's to more middle-grade fun!!"

I echo Spencer's sentiments. 👍

@Spencer @Lynn Thank you!!! Surpassing 500 members and reaching 2 years is so surreal and I definitely could not have done it without all of you who participate in even the slightest of ways! It's such an honour to host events on this group for you guys and I hope to do it for many more years to come!!

Congrats Kadi! I love the masthead and also wanted to say this group is amazing!! Nice job on making it very successful!

@Deaflower @Hedda thank you my lovelies!! And yes so colourful😂 You should've seen the first design. It had so many more colours. Alas, I had to remove some of the colours because it was quite frankly far too many!

As much as I love black, I also love colors, so I am quite curious as to what that first design looked like, haha!

I love this group so much, even though I've barely been active in it. And then I was, but slumped. Life is hard *shrugs* Kudos for keeping it going all this time!

Great!!

That’s beautiful! I love it!

@Carmen I'd show you if I hadn't deleted it already! I'm a cheapo who doesn't pay for extra storage on the Adobe Creative Cloud so I've only got 2GB and everything unnecessary has long since been deleted😂

Also yeah that's the true struggle. Like people will be like I bet it's hard to organise and run events but no, that's actually the easy bit. The hard bit is to keep coming back even when it's quiet on the group. I have a bad habit on giving up on things eventually when I run out of steam so the fact that I'm still here after 2 years is quite frankly shocking to me! So when I tell people even one little comment is appreciated I really mean it because that one little comment is what makes me keep the group going. As long as there's one person engaging with the group then that's good enough for me!

@Ankit @Becky thank you!!😊

This is a little late (blame the exams) but
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY:
A Bookbound Soul!!

In honour of our winner we'll be reading Mister Monday in June!

Kadi wrote: "This is a little late (blame the exams) but
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY:
A Bookbound Soul!!

In honour of our winner we'll be reading Mister Monday in June!"

Congrats to A Bookbound Soul!

Thank you so much for hosting the giveaway!
I ended up buying (hardcover). As it was an amazon.com gift card, I had to order it from US so the shipping ended up being a lot. But I'm really happy to get it because that edition wasn't available in India. =)

@Lynn Thank you! :)

I'm so sorry I cannot join you guys for reading Mister Monday (I've wanted to reread it since ages!) because of exams (they keep postponing it >_< )

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

@A bookbound soul CONGRATULATIONS🎉🎉🎉
Wow the book you bought has such a beautiful cover, I'm glad you managed to buy it! Marie Lu is a great writer so I hope you enjoy it!

And not to worry that you can't join in with the Mister Monday reading, focus on your exams! I definitely relate, exam season right now is the reason I'm responding so late😔 I hope your exams go well when they eventually roll around!