Congratulations to Callie, Mark, Raelena, Teresa and Leigh!
You are the proud new owners of your very own copy of The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan.
Thanks to all who entered!
Comments rssOnly 1 more day to enter…please get your entries in
It seems like it has been a while since we have had a giveaway. But what a good one to revive the free book fun! Yes, you could be one of 5 lucky winners of a copy of The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan and as a bonus you can enter to win a trip for two to LA to meet Guillermo del Toro. How cool is that? The paperback version of The Strain will hit shelves on June 29.
Dust Jacket Summary: The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.
The Strain They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.
In two months—the world.
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood…
About the Authors:
Guillermo del Toro
Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro made his feature directorial debut in 1993 with the film Cronos, and has since gone on to direct Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy I, Hellboy II, and Pan’s Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards. He will direct two films based on The Hobbit, to be produced by Peter Jackson.
Chuck Hogan
Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Standoff and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award and was called one of the 10 best novels of the year by Stephen King. Prince of Thieves will soon be a major motion picture.
How to Enter:
1. Only open to U.S. Residents with a valid mailing address.
2. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted.
3. Send an email to robotsandvamps@gmail.com by Friday, July 2, 2010 to be entered into a random drawing. Please put The Strain in the header. And don’t forget to include your name and mailing address.
4. Bean will randomly pick the winner out of the RaV sorting hat and we will notify you by email.
Good Luck to all!
To enter for a chance to meet Guillermo del Toro in L.A. check out this link!
Comments rssWOW! What a HUGE response we had for this giveaway. Thanks so much to all who participated!
After vigorously mixing and tediously plucking the names out of the RaV sorting hat…
The lucky winner is…drumroll please……
“sbbrowning”
Congratulations and thanks again to all who entered!
Comments rssSomehow RaV was lucky enough to receive 2 copies of Cory Doctorow’s For the Win. Lucky us = Lucky you. We are giving away our extra copy to 1 lucky RaV reader.
Dust Jacket Summary: At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of “gold farmers” toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money.
Mala is a brilliant fifteen-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the nickname “General Robotwalla.” In China, Matthew defies his former bosses to build his own gold-farming crew. Leonard lives in Southern California and spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia. All of these young people, and more, become entangled with the mysterious woman called Big Sister Nor, who builds them into a movement to challenge the status quo.
Fighting pitched battles in the virtual worlds of every MMORPG worth playing, Nor’s network of gamers is so successful that it incurs ruthless opposition. Ultimately, Big Sister’s people devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once—a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.
About the Author: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY, COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW’S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW. His latest novel is MAKERS, out from Tor Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009.
LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America’s top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, “The William Gibson of his generation.” He was also named one of Forbes Magazine’s 2007/8/9/10 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2007.
His next two books are WITH A LITTLE HELP, an audacious experiment in print-on-demand publishing (Feb 2010), and FOR THE WIN, a young adult novel about macroeconomics, video games and the labor movement, out from Tor/HarperVoyager in May 2010.
On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.
Authors Website: Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com
How to enter:
1. Only open to U.S. Residents with a valid mailing address.
2. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted.
3. Send an email to robotsandvamps@gmail.com by Saturday, May 15, 2010 to be entered into a random drawing. Please put For The Win in the header. Please include your name and mailing address.
4. Bean will randomly pick the winner out of the RaV sorting hat and we will notify you by email.
Comments rssCongratulations Raelena! You are the winner of the Morpheus Road Prize Pack. You will receive a copy of the book and a $25 Visa gift card to purchase more lovely books of your choice!
Thanks to all who entered!
Comments rssCongratulations to Angie D. Winner of her very own copy of Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr.
What a great response we had! Thanks to all who entered!
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TrackbackHere is a fun giveaway! We’ve got a copy of Melissa Marr’s new book in the Wicked Lovely series to give away to 1 lucky winner. Radiant Shadows is the 4th novel in the series and it hits shelves April 20, 2010.
Dust Jacket Summary:
Hunger for nourishment.
Hunger for touch.
Hunger to belong.
Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers.
Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries’ coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani’s death.
Ani isn’t one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin’s plans—and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear for one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?
Alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, and sinister intrigue combine in the penultimate volume of Melissa Marr’s New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series.
How to Enter:
1. Only open to U.S. and Canadian Residents with a valid mailing address.
2. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted.
3. Send an email to robotsandvamps@gmail.com by Wednesday, April 21, 2010 to be entered into a random drawing. Please put Radiant Shadows in the header. And don’t forget to include your name and mailing address.
4. Bean will randomly pick the winner out of the RaV sorting hat and we will notify you by email.
Good Luck to all!
Comments rssWow. What a great giveaway we have for you guys! 1 Lucky winner will receive a copy of D.J. MacHale’s new book Morpheus Road: The Light and a $25 Visa Gift Card to purchase even more reading material! How cool is that? And all you guys have to do is follow the simple rules below. May the Force be with you!
D.J. MacHale, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series, has a new adventure for readers in Morpheus Road.
Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In The Light, the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, sixteen-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start dying, it’s clear whatever this is–it’s huge.
Marshall has no idea what’s happening to him, but he’s soon convinced that it has something to do with his best friend Cooper, who’s been missing for over a week. Together with Coop’s sister, Marsh searches for the truth about what happened to his friend, ultimately uncovering something bigger than he could ever have imagined.
Book in stores April 20th.
About the author:
D.J. MacHale is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series. He has written, directed and produced many television series and movies for young people including the cult-favorite TV show ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK. His work has been seen on Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, HBO, Showtime, PBS, Discovery Kids and the broadcast networks. D.J. lives with his family in Southern California.
How to enter:
1. Only open to U.S. Residents with a valid mailing address.
2. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted.
3. Send an email to robotsandvamps@gmail.com by Tuesday, April 27, 2010 to be entered into a random drawing. Please put Morpheus Road in the header. Please include your name and mailing address.
4. Bean will randomly pick the winner out of the RaV sorting hat and we will notify you by email.
Comments rssCongratulations to Nicole and Evil Miss Monkey!
Winners of a copy of Bite Me by Christopher Moore and a Bite Me T-shirt!
Thanks to all who entered!
Comments rssReminder: One More day! This Giveaway Ends Tuesday, March 23.
Get your entries in, you don’t want to miss your chance to win!
I am very excited about this giveaway! From all of my past gushing about Christopher Moore I am sure you all know how much I love reading his work and how excited I am about his new release Bite Me: A Love Story. Therefore, I am pleased to announce that 2 lucky winners will each receive a copy of the novel and a Bite Me T’shirt! Just check out the rules below to enter! Good luck! And if you have any pictures of a shaved cat named Chet wearing a sweater, that would likely improve your chances!
Let’s take a look at vampires, shall we?
There’s Nosferatu: a violent, brainless, insatiable scavenger out for blood…
Polidori’s Vampyre, Lord Ruthven: a handsome, aristocratic, sexually exciting figure with a hypnotic stare…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: enigmatic, erudite and evil…
Ann Rice’s Lestat: sensitive, sensual, and emotional…
Stephanie Meyer’s Edward: beautiful, beguiling, and vegetarian…
And then there’s Christopher Moore’s vampires in his latest novel, BITE ME: A Love Story: Jody, a fiery redhead who used to work in insurance and her consort in blood C. Thomas Flood, a former Safeway stock boy who wants to be a writer.
BITE ME: A Love Story (On Sale March 23, 2010) wraps up the outrageous adventures begun in You Suck: A Love Story (2007) and Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995). In it, Jody and Tommy live the undead life in San Francisco with their sidekick, Goth girl Abby Normal, otherwise known as Allison Green, and her bio-chem Ph.D candidate boyfriend, Steve “Foo Dog” Wong. The thing is, Jody and Tommy are imprisoned in a bronze shell in the pose of Rodin’s The Kiss.
Meanwhile, Chet, a giant shaved vampire cat and his recently turned meowing minions are on the prowl. As Abby says, “There’s nefarious shit afoot, Foo. Bring portable sun and fry these nosferatu kitties before they nom everyone in the hood.”
BITE ME: A Love Story is an inventive, hysterically funny, sophisticated comic horror novel with flamboyantly original (and endearing) characters, pitch-perfect postmodern dialogue, break-neck pacing, and utterly entertaining vignettes. BITE ME readers have a lot to sink their teeth into.
How to Enter
1. Only open to U.S. Residents with a valid mailing address.
2. Only one entry per contestant will be accepted.
3. Send an email to robotsandvamps@gmail.com by Tuesday, March 23, 2010 to be entered into a random drawing. Please put Bite Me in the header. Please include your mailing address what size T-shirt you prefer. S, M or L.
4. Bean will randomly pick the winner out of the RaV sorting hat and we will notify you by email.
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