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!

Book Giveaway: Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

This is for those who love urban fantasy, and like it a bit philosophical. Up for grabs is a copy of Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch. If you aren't familiar with it, I have a review posted here.

Others. They walk among us, observing. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy trilogy from bestselling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light.

The agents of Light--the Night Watch--oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of Dark keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman--an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential--both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possibly the world.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "WATCH" 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 worldwide residents. Contest ends: September 1, 2009 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 "WATCH", 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!

Book Giveaway: Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold! by Terry Brooks

Talk about classic fantasy. One of the books I picked up for free at San Diego Comic Con a few weeks back was Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold! by Terry Brooks. It's an extra copy, so I thought I'd try to find it a new and loving home.

Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention.

The kingdom was in ruin. The Barons refused to recognize a king, and the peasants were without hope. A dragon was laying waste to the countryside, while an evil witch plotted to destroy everything.

Ben's only followers were the incompetent Court Magician; Abernathy, the talking dog who served as Court Scribe; and the lovely Willow--but she had a habit of putting down roots in the moonlight and turning into a tree. The Paladin, legendary champion of the Kings of Landover, seemed to be only a myth and an empty suit of armor.

To put the final touch on the whole affair, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible lord of the demons, had challenged all prospective Kings of Landover to a duel to the death--a duel which no human could hope to win.

The task of proving his right to be King seemed hopeless. But Ben Holiday was stubborn...

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "KINGDOM" 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 worldwide residents. Contest ends: August 31, 2009 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 "KINGDOM", 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!

Book Giveaway: Signed Eve of Darkness by S.J. Day

I have a copy of the newest urban fantasy sensation Eve of Darkness by S.J. Day to giveaway. Even better, this copy is signed.

For Evangeline Hollis, a long-ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the mark of Cain.

Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted to kill demons, Eve knows her learning curve must be short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She's also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history...

But she'll worry about all that later. Right now she's more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she'd never quite believed she had.

To Enter to Win: You must be an active email subscriber of Blood of the Muse to enter. If you have not signed up to receive Blood of the Muse email updates yet, you can sign up here.

Once you are an active subscriber, you can send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "EVE" and include the email address where you receive your Blood of the Muse updates in the body of your email. Multiple entries will be disqualified. The winner will be selected at random. No purchase is necessary. Contest is open to all Blood of the Muse email subscribers worldwide. Entries from non-subscribers will be disqualified. Contest ends: June 7, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

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Good luck to everyone who enters!

Book Giveaway: The Wolverine Files by Mike Barr

I have five copies of The Wolverine Files by Mike Barr, graciously provided by Simon & Schuster (you can opt-in here to receive all kind of yummy book news, videos and more from them.) Yay, five chances to win!

This book is a top secret compilation of all known facts about the mutant called Wolverine (a/k/a Logan, Weapon X, Patch, the Runt). This report, generated by the concerted effort of SHIELD (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law Enforcement Division) agents, is intended for the eyes of SHIELD personnel only, and is not to be copied, distributed, disseminated, or in any other way leaked to the general public due to the delicate nature of the information herein. It details Wolverine's origins, career, friends, allies, in all manner of specifics.

If you can't wait to get your own copy of this big bundle of Wolverine love, you can purchase The Wolverine Files here.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "WOLVERINE" 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 US and Canada only. Contest ends: May 30, 2009 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 "WOLVERINE", 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!

Book Giveaway: World of Warcraft Arthas Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden

Today I have ten copies to give away of World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden, graciously provided by Simon & Schuster (you can opt-in here to receive all kind of yummy book news, videos and more from them.) So that's ten chances for you to win!

His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice--his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the...World of Warcraft.

But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner'zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.

When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas's path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.

You can read an excerpt from the novel here.

Or if you just can't wait to get your hands on it, you can purchase World of Warcraft: Arthas Rise of the Lich King here.

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To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "WARCRAFT" 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 US and Canada only. Contest ends: May 5, 2009 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 "WARCRAFT", 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!

Comic Giveaway: Perfect Dark by Eric Trautmann and Jason Carl

Like graphic novels? How about video games? If you do, I've got something just for you. I'm giving away a copy of the Perfect Dark graphic novel written by Eric Trautmann and Jason Carl.

The year is 2021. Corporations control everything. Everyone. Everywhere. With one exception.

Joanna Dark has trained since birth to become a bounty hunter, to follow in her father Jack's footsteps.

She was taught to battle an endless supply of crooks, con-artists, thieves, and murderers on a bleak battlefield of back alleys, seedy bars, and mean streets.

She thought she was ready. She thought she knew what the world was all about.

She was dead wrong.

Her father's murder has thrust Joanna into a world-within-a-world, the secretive, shadowy conflict between titanic corporations, vast entities called "Hypercorporations," which wage a terrible war for control of humanity's future.

Six months ago, she fought against the people that killed her father-agents of the sprawling, omnipresent dataDyne Corporation. Six months ago, she learned that her revenge would not be complete unti dataDyne was a smoking ruin, removed forever from the face of the Earth.

Her violent vendetta forced Joanna into an alliance with the mysterious Carrington Institute--run by the equally enigmatic Daniel Carrington--Joanna is now a footsoldier on this new, clandestine battlefield, where information is ammunition, where money buys deceit, and where a cold war in the new world order is about to turn hot...

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "DARK" 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 all participants. Contest ends: May 3, 2009 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 "DARK", 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!

Book Giveaway: Lethally Blond by Kate White

Lethally blond. Sounds so dangerous. So scary. So much like a Nice n' Easy hair color, some model flipping her goldilocks at you with a sneer on her face. And a deadly look in her eye.

So what's this mean. It means some lucky winner is going to win a copy of Kate White's Lethally Blond.

Do old flames burn brightest? Now that the TV show Morgue is shooting in Manhattan, Bailey Weggins is remembering her fling with its gorgeous star, Chris Wickersham. Yet when Chris does contact Bailey, the crime reporter for Buzz, his intentions are all too honorable: It's to tell her that an actor from the show has gone missing. Delving deep into the glamorous yet crazy world of TV, Bailey soon finds herself in the middle of a killer story--literally. And as the case gets hotter, so does the action under the covers--especially the moment Bailey's crush Beau Regan comes back to town. With a dead body on the scene and a stalker targeting her, this reporter must unearth the truth now--before she becomes the inspiration for Morgue's next show.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "BLOND" 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 worldwide residents. Contest ends: April 7, 2009 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 "BLOND", 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!

Comic Giveaway: Grab Bag

So that I don't get overwhelmed by the comic books, I have a bundle of ten assorted comics to giveaway. They are the following:

Young Liars #11 (Vertigo)
Epilogue #1 (IDW Publishing)
Epilogue #2 (IDW Publishing)
X-Men Worlds Apart #1 (Marvel)
Northlanders #11 (Vertigo)
Gravel #5 (Avatar)
Spike After the Fall #1 (IDW Publishing)
Spike After the Fall #2 (IDW Publishing)
Crossed #1 (Avatar)
Devilslayer Dead of the Night #1 (Marvel)

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "GRABBY" 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 all participants. Contest ends: March 30, 2009 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 "GRABBY", 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!

Comic Giveaway: Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli

Here is a chance to catch up on the excellent Vertigo series Unknown Soldier in one large chunk. One random winner will receive the first four issues of the new series that's as topical as the nightly news. But a whole lot more educational.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "SOLDIER" 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 all participants. Contest ends: March 20, 2009 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 "SOLDIER", 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!

Comic Giveaway: Ferryman by Marc Andreyko and Jonathan Wayshak

Time to set up another comic giveaway. This time I have an entire run of Ferryman to give away. That's five issues of demonic bounty hunter butt-kicking goodness for some lucky winner. Not to mention Jonathan Wayshak's tasty artwork and Marc Andreyko's dark humor.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "FERRYMAN" 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 all participants. Contest ends: March 15, 2009 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 "FERRYMAN", 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!

Book Giveaway: Signed "The Scent of Shadows" by Vicki Pettersson

I don't know what shadows smell like. Probably urine. But some lucky (or unlucky) winner's about to find out. I have a signed copy of The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Pettersson to giveaway.

When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead.

Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset--a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow--seeking answers to whom or what she really is... and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.

But the nightmare is just beginning--for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own...

To Enter to Win: You must be an active email subscriber of Blood of the Muse to enter. If you have not signed up to receive Blood of the Muse email updates yet, you can sign up here.

Once you are an active subscriber, you can send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "SCENT" and include the email address where you receive your Blood of the Muse updates in the body of your email. Multiple entries will be disqualified. The winner will be selected at random. No purchase is necessary. Contest is open to all Blood of the Muse email subscribers worldwide. Entries from non-subscribers will be disqualified. Contest ends: March 1, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

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Good luck to everyone who enters!

Book Giveaway: The Entire Kitty Norville Series by Carrie Vaughn

Thanks to the wonderful people at Hachette Book Group, I have 3 sets of Carrie Vaughn's entire Kitty Norville series to giveaway. That's six books in all! The sets include:

Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Kitty Goes to Washington
Kitty Takes a Holiday
Kitty and the Silver Bullet
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
Kitty Raises Hell

For those unfamiliar with the series, Kitty Norville is a Denver-area radio disc jockey who happens to be a werewolf. Her affliction has a tendency to get her involved in all types of supernatural shenanigans. Fun and enjoyable, the Kitty Norville series is one of the most enjoyable urban fantasy series currently available.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "KITTY" 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 U.S. residents only. Contest ends: February 20, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

For more Blood of the Muse giveaways: click here.

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 "KITTY", 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!

Book Giveaway: Signed "Night Shift" by Lilith Saintcrow

I have a copy of Lilith Saintcrow's Night Shift to give away to a lucky winner. So if urban fantasy is your genre of choice, you'll want to get those entries in.

Jill Kismet.

Dealer in Dark Things.

Spiritual Exterminator.

Demon Slayer.

Not everyone can take on the nightside. Not everyone tries. But Jill Kismet is not just anyone. She's a Hunter, trained by the best--and in over her head.

Welcome to the night shift...

To Enter to Win: You must be an active email subscriber of Blood of the Muse to enter. If you have not signed up to receive Blood of the Muse email updates yet, you can sign up here.

Once you are an active subscriber, you can send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "SHIFT" and include the email address where you receive your Blood of the Muse updates in the body of your email. Multiple entries will be disqualified. The winner will be selected at random. No purchase is necessary. Contest is open to all Blood of the Muse email subscribers worldwide. Entries from non-subscribers will be disqualified. Contest ends: February 15, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

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Good luck to everyone who enters!

Book Giveaway: "Betwixt" by Tara Bray Smith

I have a creepy young adult novel to giveaway today, Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith. It's nice to see Smith roll out an Old English word for the title. That said I'll probably never use the word in a sentence again. Just doesn't roll off the tongue in conversation.

Beautiful Morgan D'Amici wakes in her meager home, with blood under her fingernails. Paintings come alive under Ondine Mason's violet-eyed gaze. Haunted runaway Nix Saint-Michael sees halos of light around people about to die. At a secret summer rave in the woods, the three teenagers learn of their true origins and their uncertain, intertwined destinies. Riveting, unflinching, and beautiful, Betwixt is as complex and compelling as any ordinary reality.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "BETWIXT" 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 all participants. Contest ends: February 5, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

For more Blood of the Muse giveaways: click here.

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 "BETWIXT", 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!

Book Giveaway: Signed "Hotter Than Hell" edited by Kim Harrison

Up for grabs today is a short story collection edited by Kim Harrison called "Hotter Than Hell." To make things even better, three of the contributors, Marjorie M. Liu, Lilith Saintcrow and L.A. Banks have signed the book on their story pages.

Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying--and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely dark...and different.

Hotter Than Hell gathers together a baker's dozen of today's boldest and best authors of supernatural fiction and paranormal romance in a breathtaking anthology that blends black magic with red-hot desire. From the tantalizing tale of a conflicted psychic vampire driven by a powerful, savage love to the strange sage of a Greek warrior woman battling to save the world, these are stories outside the limits, as hypnotic as the full moon...and hotter than the sun.

To Enter to Win: You must be an active email subscriber of Blood of the Muse to enter. If you have not signed up to receive Blood of the Muse email updates yet, you can sign up here.

Once you are an active subscriber, you can send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "HOTTER" and include the email address where you receive your Blood of the Muse updates in the body of your email. Multiple entries will be disqualified. The winner will be selected at random. No purchase is necessary. Contest is open to all Blood of the Muse email subscribers worldwide. Entries from non-subscribers will be disqualified. Contest ends: January 31, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

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Good luck to everyone who enters!

Book Giveaway: "The Glister" by John Burnside

With the new year dropping in a couple of days, we still have time to bang out one more giveaway for 2008. So while you are taking a break from polishing up your vocals on Auld Lyne Syne, start getting those entries in for our latest contest. This time I have a galley of John Burnside's The Glister up for grabs.

Since George Lister's chemical plant closed down, Innertown has been a shadow of its former self. In the woods that once teemed with life, strange sickly plants grow. Homes that were once happy are threatened by a mysterious illness.

Here, a young boy named Leonard and his friends exist in a state of confusion and despair, as every year or so a boy from their school vanishes after venturing into the poisoned woods. Without conclusive evidence of foul play, the authorities consider the boys to be runaways.

The town policeman suspects otherwise, but paralyzed with fear, he does nothing. And so it is up to the children who remain to take action. Their plan to stop the forces of evil that are destroying their town is at the shocking and terrifying heart of The Glister.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "GLISTER" 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 all participants. Contest ends: January 25, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

For more Blood of the Muse giveaways: click here.

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 "GLISTER", 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!

Book Giveaway: "City of Refuge" by Tom Piazza

Today I have a galley of Tom Piazza's "City of Refuge" to giveaway.

From the award-winning novelist and author of Why New Orleans Matters comes a breathtaking novel of two families, one white and one black, whose lives are torn apart by Hurricane Katrina and then pieced back together again in ways they couldn't have imagined.

Tom Piazza's book Why New Orleans Matters touched a nerve among readers everywhere after Hurricane Katrina and it earned him a passionate readership. Now, in City of Refuge, the Michener Award-winning fiction writer delivers something larger and deeper, a novel destined to become a classic. This shattering, panoramic novel follows the Donaldsons and the Williamses--two very different families, one black and one white--as they are uprooted from New Orleans to Houston and Chicago, and as they slowly find a way to piece their lives back together in the wake of the disaster. Gripping, compulsively readable, full of unforgettable characters, City of Refuge is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "REFUGE" 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 all participants. Contest ends: January 20, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

For more Blood of the Muse giveaways: click here.

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 "REFUGE", 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!

Book Giveaway: "Glamour" by Louise Bagshawe

Time to spread some holiday cheer around with a Christmas giveaway. With that in mind, I have a galley of Louise Bagshawe's "Glamour" to give to some lucky winner.

Texan honey Sally Lassiter, English rose Jane Morgan, and exotic Jordanian beauty Helen Yanna meet at an exclusive girls' school in LA and vow that nothing will ever tear them apart. But when catastrophe strikes, two of the young women find themselves grieving and penniless, and the third will be forced into a fate she could never have foreseen.

In their struggle to rebuild their lives, the women encounter one another again and come together to create a chain of high-end department stores the call GLAMOUR. Money and recognition rocket them into the spotlight. But the GLAMOUR empire is soon on the verge of collapse, as the three women become embroiled in a bitter feud.

Discover what happens to promises when money is no object, lust has no bounds, and glamour is worth everything in this seductive, rags-to-riches saga.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "GLAMOUR" 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 all participants. Contest ends: January 17, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

For more Blood of the Muse giveaways: click here.

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 "GLAMOUR", 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!

Book Giveaway: "When We Were Romans" by Matthew Kneale

I've trying to clear away some of the extra galleys I have so it's time for another giveaway. This time I have an uncorrected proof of Matthew Kneale's "When We Were Romans."

Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees London and heads for Rome, where Hannah had lived happily as a young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated by stories of popes and emperors, Rome is an adventure. Though they are short of money, and move from home to home, staying with his mother's old friends, little by little their new life seems to be taking shape. But the trouble that brought them to Italy will not quite leave them in peace.

Narrated in Lawrence's perfectly rendered voice, When We Were Romans powerfully evokes the emotions and confusions of childhood-the triumphs, the jealousies, the fears, and the love. Even as everything he understands is turned upside down, Lawrence remains determined to keep his family together as he views the world from a perspective that is at once endearingly innocent and preternaturally wise.

To Enter to Win: Send an email to pstotts@bloodofthemuse.com with the subject line "ROMANS" 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 all participants. Contest ends: January 15, 2009 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 "ROMANS", 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!