Book Giveaway - "Drood" by Dan Simmons

Thanks to the wonderful people at Hachette Book Group, I have a copy of Dan Simmons's Drood to giveaway in celebration of the upcoming release of Simmons's latest book Black Hills.

Drood is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.

On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in the trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. When Dickens descends into that valley to confront the dead and dying, his life will be changed forever. And at the core of that ensuing five-year nightmare is...Drood...the name that Dickens whispers to his friend Wilkie Collins. A laudanum addict and lesser novelist, Collins flouts Victorian sensibilities by living with one mistress while having a child with another, but he may be the only man on Earth with whom Dickens can share the secret of...Drood.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "DROOD" and include your name and mailing address in the body of your email. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Winners will be selected at random. No purchase is necessary. Contest is open to residents of U.S. and Canada only. Contest ends: February 20, 2010 at 11:59pm PST.

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Bloggers: if you promote this contest on your blog, I will give you an additional entry. Email me at pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "DROOD", and include the address to your blog in the body of the email, or you can leave the address to your blog in the comment section of this post. I'll check it out and make sure you get another entry.

Good luck to everyone who enters!