Stores and Events
- The Pittburgh Public Library is having a Breaking Dawn launch party on 1 August (I guess libraries are becoming more like bookstores) with giveaways for both Breaking Dawn and Eclipse.
- At the Olympia Washington Farmers Market on 2 August, author Tony Perkins will be giving away 100 copies of the Like Everyone Else chapbook. However, the blog for the chapbook says the giveaway will be at a reading on 16 August. Either way, free books.
Book Giveaways and Contests
- I don’t know what book you’ll get
- Answer some questions about Mary B. Morrison’s African-American romance books and win a book from Apooo Books, deadline unspecified.
- General Fiction
- Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle from So Many Books, So Little Time…, deadline 1 August.
- Pulp.net is giving away one copy each of Drew Gummerson’s Me and Mickie James, Belinda Webb’s A Clockwork Apple, and Nicholas Hogg’s Show Me the Sky, deadline 6 August.
- Some contests for Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited:
- StarPulse.com, deadline 3 August.
- Moviepie.com, deadline 4 August.
- AceShowbiz, deadline 10 August.
- Premiere, deadline 24 August.
- One for you and your friends, HarperCollins is giving away a package of 12 books, 12 copies each, deadline 26 August. The books: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (see my review), The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Run by Ann Patchett , Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Wicked by Gregory Maguire, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, and The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.
- Historical Fiction
- An ARC of Kathleen Kent’s The Heretic’s Daughter from The Hag Reads, deadline 2 August.
- Horror
- Briane Keene’s Ghost Walk from Horror World, deadline 31 July.
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Etc.
- An ARC of Dorothy Hearst’s Promise of the Wolves at J. Kaye’s Book Blog, deadline 2 August.
- Weird Tales is giving away a few free issues of Weird Tales magazine and an autographed copy of Ekaterina Sedia’s The Alchemy of Stone among other prizes in a flash fiction contest. Write a 500 word or less short story based on a spam subject you’ve received. Deadline 4 August.
- Two autographed copies of Steven Erikson’s Toll the Hounds from Fantasy Book Spot, deadline 7 August.
- Romance and Chick-Lit
- Colleen Gleason’s When Twilight Burns (and other books in that series) at A Reader’s Journal, no deadline specified.
- An e-book of Melanie Atkin’s Voodoo Bones at The Deadly Vixens, deadline 28 July.
- Two prize packages from RR@H Novel Thoughts, deadline 2 August. I’m too lazy to re-do the titles in my preferred format though. Cut and paste it is!
- HUNGERS OF THE HEART by Jenna Black, SEA WITCH by Virginia Kantra, SHIFTER by Angela Knight, Lora Leigh, Alyssa Day & Virginia Kantra, SCANDALOUS LORD, REBELLIOUS MISS by Deb Marlowe, HOT CITY NIGHTS by Sandra Marton, Sarah Mayberry & Emilie Rose, BEFORE THE STORM by Diane Chamberlain, NICHOLAS by Elizabeth Amber, RAINE by Elizabeth Amber
- IN THE PRINCE’s BED by Sabrina Jeffries THE COURTESAN’s DAUGHTER by Claudia Dain THE COURTESAN’s SECRET by Claudia Dain NEVER LIE TO A LADY by Liz Carlyle NEVER DECEIVE A DUKE by Liz Carlyle THE SECRET LIFE OF CEECEE WILKES by Diane Chamberlain SHATTERED BY THE C.E.O. by Emilie Rose BOUND BY THE KINCAID BABY by Emilie Rose
- Young Adult
- J. Scott Savage’s Far World at Hey Lady! Watcha Readin’?, deadline 30 July.
- Another giveaway of Kamilla Reid’s The Questory of Root Karbunkulus by Studentofsaga, deadline 30 July.
- Harmony Book Reviews joins the parade with a Brooke Taylor Undone giveaway, deadline 1 August.
- Gaby Triana’s The Temptress Four from Reviewer X, deadline 1 August.
- Both a signed and an author annotated copy of Jennifer E. Smith’s The Comeback Season at The Ravenous Reader, deadline 12 August.
- Non-Fiction
- Samara O’Shea’s Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits from Did You See That?, deadline 29 July.
- James Peter Taylor and Kathleen Murphy-Taylor’s Willow In a Storm from Breeni Books, deadline 10 August.
- Cookbooks, Etc.
- Mary Engelbreit’s Dining Out Cookbook from Mommyhood and Life, deadline 30 July.
- Your choice of How to Survive your Freshman Year, How to Survive in The Real World, How to Get A’s in College, or How to Love Your Retirement from Hundreds of Heads at Parent Reviews, deadline 14 August. To enter, you must use StumbleUpon.
- Linda Long’s Great Chefs Cook Vegan from VegCooking, deadline 15 August.
- Christian
- Melanie Dobson’s The Black Cloister at Real Life Reviews, deadline 1 August.
If you know of other contests, giveaways or other sources of free books, leave a comment and I’ll include it in the next installment.
2 Comments
Correction to my contest. August 4th is the deadline, posting a link to it by the 30th gets you two extra entries.
I didn’t see a way to enter after 31 July. Post a question by 31 July, or blog about it by 30 July. It looked like 4 August was only the date to notify the winner.