boneshaker winners, please shamble forward

It’s time to announce the winner of my giveaway for a SIGNED copy of Boneshaker, the Nebula-nominated zombie/alternate history novel by Cherie Priest. And, because I just feel like it, a second winner, who’ll get their (not signed) copy via The Book Depository. I love giving away books!

The winner of the SIGNED copy is:

Ryan G. of Wordsmithonia!

Who answered the question “What event will trigger the apocalypse?” with, “The Sun will start to die (like every star eventually does) causing gravitational shifts throughout the galaxy, sending planets off their axis, and causing the moon to crash into the Earth.”

The second winner (of the not signed copy) is:

Dani. of YA All The Way: An Epic Journey Through the World of YA!

Who answered the same question with, “Is there really any need to debate? The only trigger for the apocalypse is going to be ZOMBIES!!!! *I am already preparing as we speak; stored up supplies, and practicing my decapitation skills* :D”

Congrats, winners! Thank you to all who entered – your apocalypse theories were amazing. And hilarious. And maybe a couple of them were frightening. All as it should be, in other words. Look out for a new giveaway soon!

in honor of the snowpocalypse – a giveaway

It’s snowing right now as I type. Snowing as in, ‘we predict 18-24 inches in a 36-hour period.’ Some people are calling it the snowpocalypse, which I kind of like, because it sounds vaguely end-of-the-worldy, but mostly just silly and funny. And I’ve been kicking around the idea of a new giveaway.

BEHOLD, the giveaway has arrived. Last November I went to a Cherie Priest book-signing in Seattle (I took my Dad with me. He’s a trooper). I got two copies of Boneshaker signed – one for myself, and one for my blog. That book has been faithfully sitting on the shelf ever since, and it needs a new owner.

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine was born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. That is, until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

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If you’d like to win your own copy of Boneshaker, this is your chance! I’ll give away one (1) SIGNED book to a lucky entrant.

To enter:

Leave a comment on this post answering the question, “What event will trigger the apocalypse?” (i.e. flood, zombies, snow, asteroid, etc.)

Please include your email address or another method of contact. Giveaway is open internationally. Comments will close on February 19 at 11:59pm EST, and I will notify the randomly selected winner via email.

Good luck!

teaser tuesday (19)

It's Teaser Tuesday, a bookish blog meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Here's how it works:

Grab your current read and let it fall open to a random page. Post two (or more) sentences from that page, along with the title and author. Don’t give anything vital away!

“Down the hall and into her own room she dashed, and she dug around in her tall, creaky wardrobe until she found it—a fragment of lens left over from the early days, the bad old days…the days when the evacuation order was fresh and vague. No one was sure what they were running from, or why; but everyone had figured out that you could see it, if you had a mask or a set of goggles with a bit of polarized glass.”

-p. 50 of Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker

I have to finish Boneshaker by Thursday - I'm going to the book launch!