Book A Day Winner Announcements!

Firstly, welcome to 2009! Hope everyone had a good celebration and that those suffering from hang-overs get over it pretty darn quickly.

I've done a tally and here are the winners for the Book A Thon we've held. Thank you, to all of you, for entering! Some lucky critters managed to get their names down twice - don't ask me, I'm merely the servant of the mystical 8 ball. (especially when the same answer comes up three times in a row, you sort of don't argue!)

Mamoth Book of Vampire Romance - Ailsa F
Time Bomb - Neil H
Red Handed and Blacklisted - Louise K from Ipswich (had more than one Louise K enter, so thought I'd be clear)
I, Zombie - Son of Neil H
Superpowers - Anna G
City of Thieves - Gustav A
Moon Called & Blood Bound - Ailsa F
RuneMarks - Rachel G
The Society of S - Maxine L
Wicked Lovely - John V
The Soul Collector - Angela MacR
The Decleration - Linda L
Fly by Night - Carla H
Batch o' Books - Luisa at Chicklish

Thanks to everyone for entering! Please check your emails to make sure I've emailed you for your address details - I'd like to make sure that all of these get sent out to you this weekend. What better way to start a fab new year, right?

Last Day Book A Day Give Away

Dear followers and readers

Many thanks for your amazing support this past few days whilst we've been running our biggest competition yet. We've had a blast.

Apologies also for the delay in setting today's competition up - I'm battling the world's worst cold and feel vile. I had to trek into London to go to Boots to collect my prescriptions and am currently slightly high on flu meds and honey tea. Which is probably why I thought the following up whilst I was being rocked to sleep on the train back home half an hour ago....

Today is the last day of the competition and I've therefore put together a My Favourite Books Batch O'Book together. I'm not going to say what's in the batch o' books, all I'm going to say is it may be this, a bit of that and maybe some of this and probably a bit of this thrown in. And other random goodies and freebies I've received from publishers and authors. There will be more titles than these, up to eight, IF I can get them to all fit into my post office box I had bought. So, hold thumbs.

All you need to do is follow the rules as before - but this time add "Batch of Books" to your competition entry. Please note: the competition is UK entrants only!

Good luck everyone!

Liz and Mark

Tuesday's Book A Day Give Away

Today's give away is Frances Hardinge's Fly by Night.

In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a large and homicidal goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a revolution. Mosca Mye has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. Now he is dead, and Mosca is on the run, in search of a better life. With Eponymous Clent, a smooth-tongued swindler, she heads for the city of Mandelion, living by her wits among highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers, secret agents and radical plotters. But the city is in uproar, for someone is once again printing seditious material and no one is quite what they seem. With suspicion and peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a shocking plot to force a rule of terror on the people of the Realm, and all too soon merry mayhem leads to murder.

The Rules:


Put Fly by Night in the subject title of the email and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com . If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries for the SAME DAY competition will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on the day the competition is run, you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

You may enter more than one competition. You may not enter twice for the same one though. Hope this makes sense to everyone!

Monday's Book A Day Give Away

Today's give-away is the hauntingly well written The Declaration by Gemma Malley.

Anna Covey is a 'surplus'. She should not have been born. In a society in which aging is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. Like all surpluses, Anna is living in Grange Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. But is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy? This is a tense and utterly compelling story about a society behind a wall, and the way in which two young people take the chance of breaking free.

The Rules:

Put The Declaration in the subject title of the email and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com . If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries for the SAME DAY competition will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on the day the competition is run, you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

You may enter more than one competition. You may not enter twice for the same one though. Hope this makes sense to everyone!

Sunday A Book A Day Give Away

Today's book is: The Soul Collector by Paul Johnston. Read my review here. The book's published by Mira Publishers here in the UK and is available in all good book stores.

Paul Johnston's website can be found here.


The Rules:

Put Soul Collector in the subject title of the email and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com . If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries for the SAME DAY competition will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on the day the competition is run, you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

You may enter more than one competition. You may not enter twice for the same one though. Hope this makes sense to everyone!

Thursday - Crimbo - Book A Day Give Away!

Many apologies for the late appearance of this blog - spent this morning in a frenzy of opening presents, laughing, eating, playing with the presents (new MP3 player, yay!!) and planning the day - i.e. how to maximise stuffing ourselves for the duration of our waking hours today.

And of course, offering you, Dear Reader, an opportunity to win an awesome book.

Today's offering is: Runemarks by Joanne Harris. And it's not just any old copy, no! It is a SIGNED HARDBACK edition of Runemarks...signed by the author, not me, by the way.

So, go ahead and enter.

A note of warning though: although it's been marketed as a children's novel, it is anything but childish and relies heavily on Norse lore and the knowledge of runes. Beautifully written, quite dark, but the perfect read for someone who's looking to break away from the mundane.

The Rules:

Put Runemarks in the subject title of the email and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com . If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries for the SAME DAY competition will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on the day the competition is run, you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

You may enter more than one competition. You may not enter twice for the same one though. Hope this makes sense to everyone!

Wednesday book a day giveaway

We've got a twofer one today - Patricia Briggs' Moon Called and Blood Bound. The covers are the American covers. I'm letting these go as I've got the UK covers and doubling up is a bit silly. Although, they are so very pretty.

The Rules:

Put Patricia Briggs in the subject title of the email and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com . If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries for the SAME DAY competition will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on the day the competition is run, you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

You may enter more than one competition. You may not enter twice for the same one though. Hope this makes sense to everyone!

Find Patricia's site here - she has a very interesting article about silver bullets on there. I printed it off for myself a few weeks ago. I shudder to think what the people at my office think of me, printing off paperwork on how to make and cast silver bullets...hey, you just NEVER know, right?

Tuesday book a day give away

Am a bit late this morning, so apologies for that!

Today's give-away is City of Thieves by David Benioff published by Sceptre.


The Rules:

Choose ONE book only (this is not an either/or competition) pop your preferred title in the subject line and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com. If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on Saturday, 20thDecember you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

I've not had a chance to read this but from the Amazon Reviews and from reading reviews of it when it first came out, I know it to be a good story - slightly unusual - but well written and different enough to grab a reader's attention. Find the Amazon links here.

Good Luck!

Monday Book A Day Give Away

Today's first giveaway is published by Abaddon Publishers and it is I, Zombie by Al Ewing.

The second book we're throwing into the pot for today is Superpowers by David J Schwartz.

The Rules:

Choose ONE book only (this is not an either/or competition) pop your preferred title in the subject line and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com. If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on Saturday, 20thDecember you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

About I, Zombie - read a review here by our good mate, Graeme.

About Superpowers - read my review here.

Good Luck!

Sunday Book Give Away

We have got one set of 2 books today.

Gena Showalter's Red Handed and Blacklisted.

Please note: Red Handed and Blacklisted by Gena Showalter will form ONE prize.

The Rules:

Pop Gena Showalter's name in the subject line and email us at myfavouritebooksatblogspot(@)googlemail.com. If you've won, we'll contact you back and ask you for your postal address.

UK entrants only.

Duplicate entries will be disqualified.

Entries with no subject line will be deleted/seen as spam.

The competition will run on till 1st January 2009. This means that even if you don't enter this on Sunday, 21st December you have time to do so for the rest of the month, till 1st January 09.

About Red Handed and Blacklisted - I am working on my review for both but in the meantime visit Gena's shiny site here. A very talented lady and pretty to boot!

Book-A-Day-Give- Away

Liz and I have decided to pay it forward this year and to host a big, huge, massive, book-a-thon giveaway every day for the rest of this year until 1st January.

There will be one (or two or three) books to give away each day, including Christmas, until new years day. On 1st January 2009, we will post all the winners of the book-a-thon.

It is going to be a wide variety of books: some brand new (not yet published) some a bit older, i.e. published this past year, across all genres, adult and young adult fiction but all of them will be pretty darn cool.

So, make sure to check back each day and to enter the competitions. This will ONLY be open to UK peeps as I can't afford (not yet!) to send many books abroad.

However, if you market this give-away on your site, you will be entered into a pot to win an extra (super dooper) prize. Should you do decide to market this, please email me the details and you'll be entered. For the marketing of this competition WE ARE prepared to send the pressie overseas...

Visit us tomorrow, Saturday 20th December for the start of the Book-A-Day-Give-Away!