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Luca’s Magic Embrace Giveaway
Note: This giveaway is being hosted by Mark of The Masquerade Crew and will be open until November 4. It’s definitely not the sort of book I would normally read, but hey, each to their own.
Publication Date: October 18, 2012
Series: Immortals of New Orleans #2
Genre: Paranormal Romance
In the Big Easy, Samantha and Luca embark on a spellbinding journey, searching for a mystical amulet that promises to release her obligation from an ancient, lethal vampire who’s been threatening her life. With cryptic clues and clandestine allies, will Luca and Samantha destroy the dangerous amulet before others acquire it, setting forth a chain of catastrophic consequences? And will Luca give into his erotic desire for the witch who magically captures heart?
To celebrate her new release, the author has agreed to giveaway TWO eBooks of “Luca’s Magic Embrace!” Enter below! Giveaway ends November 4th, 2012!
Giveaway Winners
Well, my first official giveaway has now come to a close. The winners have been chosen. For category #1, you had to name your favourite historical figure and tell me why. For category #2, you had to name your favourite book and tell me why. Since I love history, I chose the winner in category #1. So, drumroll please.
The winner is Erin for her comment about poor Lady Jane Grey:
My favorite historical figure is Lady Jane Grey. I’ve always felt bad for the fact that she was unwillingly made to be queen and then betrayed and executed such a short time later. Now I wish that she wasn’t always so overlooked by history. Most people don’t know who she is, or that she was handpicked by Edward VI to be queen, and nobody ever seems to wonder why he might have done that.
Since Michelle Hansen is an author and she is the one offering up a prize pack, she picked the winner in category #2.
The winner is James Wymore for his comment about Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut.
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite book. It was the one I read that made me want to write books that meant something to people.
Winners, I have given your email addresses to Michelle and she will contact you soon about your prize packs. Congratulations on winning and thank you to everyone who entered and tweeted about my first giveaway. There will be more giveaways in the future, I can promise you that.
The Mad Reviewer’s First Giveaway: Round Two
Since there was no winner for round one (no one guessed what my favourite aria was), I’m going to ask two different questions for round two. Michelle Hansen and I will pick one winner in each of the two question categories. So here are the questions:
1. What is your favourite historical figure and why?
2. What is your favourite book and why?
You may only enter once and you can answer both questions. Since I love history, I will be picking the winner in Category #1 and since Michelle Hansen is an author, she will be picking the winner in Category #2. Please, pick whatever historical figure or book is your favourite, rather than what makes you look good. I do appreciate honesty and I’m probably one of the last people who’s going to judge you because, hey, I’m a dork.
This round will last a week and I will announce the winners on Friday, July 27th at 12:01am Central Time.
Round One: No Winner
No one guessed the answer to ‘What is my favourite operatic aria?’ I honestly don’t blame anyone for the less than enthusiastic response because opera is pretty obscure and my clues weren’t exactly great. So for Round Two of my giveaway, I’ll be asking two questions and there will be two winners!
For those of you that are curious, my favourite aria is ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’ from L’elisir D’amore by Donizetti. It’s both heartbreaking and hopeful and is probably the saddest part of the entire opera. Especially when it’s sung by The King himself, Luciano Pavarotti.
This isn’t a great recording, but the sheer power and raw emotion of Pavarotti’s voice shines through. For those of you that don’t speak Italian, here’s a link to the English translation. It’s a rough translation and the lyrics are much more beautiful in the original Italian, but you get the basic idea. Even if you aren’t a huge opera fan, this is one heck of a beautiful song sung by the greatest tenor of the modern era.
The Mad Reviewer’s First Giveaway
As you probably didn’t know, today is my blog’s six month anniversary. I’ve been publishing one book review a day for half a year now, give or take a few reviews because of power outages and personal issues. So how am I going to celebrate yet another great milestone?
How about a giveaway?
YA author Michelle Hansen, who wrote the amazing self-published novel Painted Blind (which I had no idea was self-published until she mentioned it because it was of such professional quality), has offered to help me with this first giveaway. She has generously offered to ship to my two contest winners a prize pack each that includes a postcard, a bookmark, a calendar and a coupon on Smashwords for a copy of her novel. I would quite honestly recommend Painted Blind to anyone who loves amazing fantasy.
That said, let’s get to the contest! Part One of this contest involves correctly guessing a question on one of my favourite interests: opera. You will have one week to post your guess in the comments below and whoever guesses the answer first wins. If no one guesses it, I’ll ask a different opera-related question. After Part One is over, Part Two will begin and run for a week in which you may guess the answer to another question, this time book-related. If no one guesses it within the time-frame, I’ll ask a different question and so on. That said, here’s my first question:
What is my favourite operatic aria?
Here are your hints:
- It is sung in Italian
- Many attempt to sing it, but there is only one king or queen of this highly emotional aria
- When I hear my favourite version, I have to hold back the waterworks because the lyrics in Italian are so beautiful. In English this aria would sound absolutely stupid.
So go on and use Google like you’ve never used it before! You may only guess once and the first person to guess correctly will win the contest. I will announce the winner of Part One at 12:00am local time on Friday, July 20.
Note: I have told Michelle Hansen herself the answer so she knows I’m being honest. And no, she will not tell you the answer.
UPDATE: A great place to look would be Wikipedia, especially this page. *Hint, hint*