Win a copy of The Accidental Human over at Bitten By Books!

The Accidental Human Contest!

I know this is going to break your heart, BUT we have another amazing book contest for you. We are excited to offer up TEN shiny new copies of The Accidental Human!! The multi talented, hot roller toting, author extraordinaire, Dakota Cassidy is sponsoring this amazing giveaway here at Bitten by Books! For the next week you can enter everyday to win one of these copies for your very own. The contest is open to readers worldwide.

… the zaniness continues in
The Accidental Human - Book 3 of The Accidental Series

“Immortality bites.

Wanda Schwartz is raking in the dough selling Bobbie-Sue Cosmetics—and she’s a pro at recruiting new saleswomen. So, she’s shocked when a man comes to one of her in-home parties—a very hot man. Heath Jefferson is sure to put some extra spin into a lot of women’s color wheels.

When Wanda is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it doesn’t have to be a death sentence. With a werewolf and a vampire for best friends, she has options that most ordinary people wouldn’t. As Wanda ponders what to do about her mortality, Heath reveals he has secrets, and one of them is that his former bloodlust has turned into an old-fashioned lust—for Wanda. And he’s already given up too much to lose the love of his lifetimes.”

Click here to read Chapter 1 - http://www.dakotacassidy.com/TAHchapter1.html

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Readers, learn more about Dakota Cassidy here:

Read the Bitten by Books reviews of the author’s work here.
To visit the author’s website go here.
To visit the author’s blog go here.

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Readers, here’s how to enter the contest. You can do ONE or ALL of these things EVERY SINGLE DAY for a week! And each one will give you additional entries at a chance to WIN. TEN lucky participants will win a copy of The Accidental Human Dakota’s NEW release. Contest is open to international readers.

Please note, the prize stated IS the prize you will receive, there will be absolutely no substitutions or changes the prize is non-transferable. If you don’t want the prize being offered, please don’t enter the contest. If you ever win an electronic copy of a book, please note that it is ILLEGAL to forward, give away or copy it in anyway once you receive it. Doing so violates copyright. If we find out that it has been done, you will no longer be eligible to win any of our contests.

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Dying to know how to enter? Head on over to Bitten By Books and find out!

Good Luck & Happy Reading!

~Willow

Free eBook Week!

Well, it's "Read an eBook Week" (March 8-14, 2009)
Click here for more information. Pay special attention to the "Promotional Books" link on the website.


To celebrate "Read an eBook Week", several authors and publishers are giving away free or discounted books. Here's a couple that I've found so far:
- http://www.ebookguru.org/index.php/2009/03/ebook-week-is-here-free-books/
- http://businessromance.com/2009/03/09/read-invisible-for-free/

Feel free to post any free book sightings that you find in the comments!

Good Luck & Happy Reading!

~Willow

Reminder about winning an 8GB iPod Touch + Review Info

First of all, anyone who hasn't entered the Bitten By Books contest to win an iPod Touch and mentioned me as the person who sent you- What are you waiting for? It's an iPod Touch! And by mentioning me, "Willow", we both get extra entries, you'll get 4 extra entries just for saying, "Willow told me to enter". How easy is that?

The contest ends on Friday 3/20/09 at 11:59 pm PST and there are TONS of ways to enter.

I'll be honest, this blog post was initially intended to simply net me a few more entries in the contest, but turned into so much more! After reading the reviews and comments for Moira Rogers' books, I can't wait to read several of them. Moira Rogers seems to have quite a knack for coming up with intriguing story concepts and strong characters.

While a couple of the books reviewed don't sound like they'd be my usual "cup of tea", most of them sound amazing! Especially the Last Call series, Some Like it Haunted, and Cry Sanctuary. This sounds like an amazing author that I can't believe I haven't read before. Below are the links to the reviews of Moira Rogers' books over at Bitten By Books:

Christmas Party - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=4858
Last Call: Virgin Daiquiri - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=4850
Wild Card - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=2889
Last Call: Kamikaze - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1128
Last Call: Hurricane - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1389
Last Call: Tequila Sunrise - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1390
Moonshine - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1125
Under the Magnolia - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1729
Some Like it Haunted - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1376
Cry Sanctuary - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1633
Crux - http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=4816

So, head on over and check out this author and toss in a few entries for the contest. Not too many though, don't want you lessening my odds too much :P

Good Luck & Happy Reading!

~Willow

Double Contest Alert - Sophomore Switch by Abby McDonald

Double Contest Alert!

The Cupcake Witch is at it again! Today she's interviewed Abby McDonald, author of the Sophomore Switch set to release on March 10th.

Oh yeah, if you don't win, then go ahead click on the link to the book and pick up a copy anyway. Come on! Supporting authors is fun and Abby McDonald is British, how can you not like someone with a British accent?

For a chance to win a SIGNED copy of the book from the Cupcake Witch, CLICK HERE.

For another chance to win an ARC of the book from the author herself, CLICK HERE.

I know that I'm entering, in fact this blog post might be my own sly way of entering (muahahaha!). The real question is... Will You? Need another reason to enter, as if free books isn't enough incentive? How 'bout the fact that the Cupcake Witch seems to like vLogging to announce winners. How cool would that be? Not only would you win a book, but your name could end up the star of a Cupcake Witch video! So get yourself over to those sites and enter!

Good Luck & Happy Reading!

~Willow

Win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE with the Cupcake Witch

Win a ** SIGNED ** copy of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE.

Here's the description of the book from his website:

Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.

Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.

For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door's entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest.

For the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard's final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.

If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.

To Enter: Head on over to the Cupcake Witch's blog.

If you'd rather just buy Neverwhere, click here.

Good Luck & Happy Reading!

~Willow

Amazing Contest Alert!!!

AMAZING CONTEST ALERT!!!

The Last First Book We Ever Wrote

Hello there! My name is Bree, and I’m one half of the romance-writing, virtual-crime-fighting duo known as Moira Rogers. I’m here today because Bitten by Books was kind enough to agree to help us celebrate something really exciting that only comes once in an author’s lifetime: the release of the first book we ever wrote.

Awesome, right? We sure think so! Of course, the part that takes a little bit of explaining is the part where Crux is, in fact, our sixteenth ebook to be released. A lot has happened to us since fall of 2007, when we first sat down to try and tell the story of Mackenzie and Jackson, the heroine and hero who have to fight an evil supernatural conspiracy spanning generations to win their chance at a happy ending. We scampered off to hone our craft on short stories and novellas and learned from our experience. But we always came back to this story, because in the end we loved our tough determined heroine and her smooth talkin’ detective hero too much to leave alone.

Today, in honor of Crux’s release, we’ve teamed up with Bitten by Books for a chance to make someone else just as excited as we are. We have in our possession a NEW Apple iPod touch 8 GB (1st Generation) (Retail Value $229.00), perfect for listening to music AND reading books through the awesome application Stanza. The Apple iPod touch 8 GB also holds 1,750 songs or 10 hours of video. Go here to read all about it. We’re also going to give $50.00 and $25.00 Visa Gift Cards to two lucky runners up! All you need to do is read the rules below and enter this awesome contest. And if you happen to pick up a copy of Crux, we hope you’ll love Jackson and Mackenzie as much as we do!

Book Excerpt: “Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn’t crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire.

New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn’t explain why he always finds her no matter how far she runs.

When her well-meaning boss puts a PI on her case, Mackenzie comes face to face with the incredible truth: magic is real, and whatever spell has kept her hidden and separate from the paranormal world is rapidly deteriorating.

With time running out, she has no choice but to trust Jackson as he struggles to uncover the truth of her past-and her destiny.”

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Readers, here’s how to enter the Crux New Release Contest. You can do ONE or ALL of these things, and each one will give you additional entries at a chance to WIN one of THREE fabulous prizes...

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For more information visit Bitten By Books, or don't... I could always use a new, shiny iPod Touch...

Good Luck and Happy Reading!

~Willow

Cupcake Witch: Win an ARC of The Forest of Hands and Teeth!

Ok, I really hate posting this contest because this is a book that I really, really, REALLY want to win... but I get extra entries for posting this info. Understand that I do this under duress and secretly hope that you don't enter so I have a better chance at winning, lol!

So, if my not-so-silent plea for you not to enter isn't good enough, here's the address for the contest:

http://cupcakewitch.blogspot.com/2009/02/contest-win-forest-of-hands-and-teeth.html

Good Luck and Happy Reading!

~Willow