Book Giveaways and Contests
Kind of thin on the contests and giveaways today. Get your friends to give stuff away!
- General Fiction
- Residents of Adelaide, Australia (or anyone in the country who has a copy of the Advertiser Sunday paper) can win one of six $1000 book packages, deadline 30 July.
- Claire Cook’s Summer Blowout from badgerbooks, deadline 14 August.
- Mystery
- Five copies of Jason Goodwin’s The Bellini Card from EuroCrime, deadline 31 July.
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Etc.
- Two autographed copies of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion at Blood of the Muse, deadline 15 August.
- Romance and Chick-Lit
- A signed copy of Jeri Smith-Ready’s Wicked Game at Sidhe Vicious Reviews, deadline 30 July.
- Gerry Bartlett’s Real Vampires Have Curves at Shaunie’s Happy Place, deadline 2 August.
- Bitten by Books is spearheading Carnival, a week-long set of giveaways consisting mostly of e-books and gift certificates totally nearly $1000 worth of stuff. Most of the books offered are romance and erotica. Get your freak on.
- An autographed copy of Rachel Caine’s Gale Force at Sidhe Vicious Reviews, deadline 15 August.
- 24 books (I may have miscounted) including some big ones like Kelley Armstrong from the Toronto Romance Writers, deadline 31 October.
- Young Adult
- In Bed With Books will be giving away three young adult books over the next week: Maryrose Wood’s How I Found The Perfect Dress, Jennifer Banash’s The Elite, and Melissa Walker’s Violet in Private.
- Non-Fiction
- Brian J. Robb’s Heath Ledger: Hollywood’s Dark Star from LondonCareers.net, no deadline specified. I suspect winners must be UK residents as well.
- Jeffrey Kluger’s Simplexity at Puss Reboots, deadline 28 August.
- Cookbooks, Etc.
- The Rachel Ray Show has a few health and cooking related (mostly) giveaways:
- Three copies of Rachel Ray’s Yum-O! The Family Cookbook, deadline 1 August.
- Five copies of Nicholas Perricone’s The Perricone Prescription, deadline 1 August.
- Six copies of Robin McGraw’s Inside My Heart, deadline 1 August
- Eleven copies of Mark Liponis’ Ultra-Longevity, deadline 30 July.
- The Rachel Ray Show has a few health and cooking related (mostly) giveaways:
- Christian
- Win one of two copies of Angela Benson’s Up Pops The Devil from Angela Benson by commenting on her blog before 1 August.
- Win one of eight Christian fantasy author’s new books from Ryann Watters and the King’s Sword (that’s the title of one of the books), deadline 30 August.
- S. Dionne Moore’s Murder on the Ol’ Bunions from S. Dionne Moore, deadline 1 October.
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.

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Thanks for blogging about my contest! I appreciate you spreading the word.