To celebrate my excitement about the upcoming release of "the Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls" (okay, I know it's not until February, but still, I'm excited! And if you haven't read the others yet, it's time to get on it) and my joy about enjoying the Vampire Diaries TV series on the CW, I have decided to host MY VERY FIRST GIVEAWAY!!!!
That's right, I'm giving away a copy of "the Vampire Diaries: the Awakening and the Struggle." Unfortunately it's not the old one with the cool cover but the new one with the less cool cover.
Here's how to enter:
Post a comment with your e-mail address (so that I can contact you, of course), and, if you would be so kind, let me know what your favorite (non-Twilight) vampire book is. :-)
Want extra entries?
+1 - new subscribers/followers to my blog
+2 - if you already subscribe to/follow my blog
+1 - if you post a link to the contest in your blog
+3 - if you mention and link to the giveaway in your blog post
+2 - add me to your blog roll
EDIT: (new ways to gain entries!)
+2 - answer the question at the end of this post
+5 - post my button (html can be found in the sidebar) in your blog (and don't forget to post the link!
Anyhow, so that's it! Conest ends on October 28th, 2009 at 11:59 PM Paris time (which is 5:59 PM Eastern time). And it's open to everyone, no matter where you are (meaning internationally! YAY!!!!).
Post all of your entries in ONE comment!
88 comments:
Great contest!! Love that it's open internationally :)
+1 new subscriber/follower of your blog!
Sara
sosarora_11(AT)hotmail(DOT)com
I'll put up on my blog tonight and then leave the "official" comment for my entry! Thanks for letting me know about your blog! It looks great!
Please enter me! :)
My favorite vampire book is Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz.
Count me in too!
I'm a new follower :)
hefollowedme AT gmail DOT com
Hmm..favorite non twilight vampire book- I would have to say the Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost!
+1 new follower
+1 mentioned your contest in my contest post
Thank you!
bookbutterfly9@gmail.com
Hi! Thanks for this international giveaway! I'm from Chile!
My favorite (non-Twilight) vampire books... are... The Morganville Vampires Series, by Rachel Caine :D!
+1 I'm a new follower.
+1 Posted on sidebar: HERE
+2 Your blog is in my blog roll.
And my e-mail address is kiara.dg(at)gmail.com
-Kiara
+1 Link on contest sidebar
+1 Favorite vampire book...probably The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Natalie @ Mindful Musings
n_monzyk_27@yahoo.com
Hi : ) I'm new to your blog but I like it! Thanks for holding this contest -- I would be amazing to win the book!
My favorite non-Twilight vampire book is actually all of the books in the Southern Vampire (Sookie Stackhouse series) -- if you haven't read them, you should! You would love them!
Me email is:
geekettesarbear(at)yahoo(dot)com
+1 - new subscribers/followers to your blog
Cool contest! For favorite vampire book/series, I'm torn between The Vampire Diaries, The Historian, and Blue bloods.
hauntingorchid (at) aol (dot) com
I'd love to enter!! I'm a new follower-- thanks so much!
mrsmagooreads at gmail dot com
I'd love to enter.
Favourite vampire books are Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead.
+1 new follower
Congrats on your firest contest hope it goes well.
Seahn
New follower
cfisher1504 at gmail dot com
I'm enjoying Rachel Caine's The Morganville Vampire series! tWarner419@aol.com
Favorite vampire book and one of my favorites of all time has to be Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
sarahmeg526(at)verizon.net
Congratulations on your first giveaway. I want to go with a classic and say Interview with a Vampire.
jessica(at)fan(dot)com
I really love the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
+1 new follower
+1 mentioned in contest post
http://throuthehaze.blogspot.com/2009/10/list-of-giveaways.html
+2 blogroll
http://throuthehaze.blogspot.com
throuthehaze at gmail dot com
The Southern Vampire Mysteries are my favorite.
dftrew(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite vampire book lately has to be Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith. I really think Vamps should seem a little more evil at times. :)
+1 new follower!
bittahsweetharmony@yahoo.com
Please enter me :) Cool blog :)
+1 I'm a new follower
WilowRaven[at]yahoo[dot]com
Thanks!
Please count me in. Thanks for the chance. My fav vamp books are the Sookie Stackhouse books.
lizzi0915 at aol dot com
Great contest! My favourite non-Twilight vampire book is definitely THE VAMPIRE LESTAT by Anne Rice. I love all the books in the series, but that one's my favourite.
-- Memory
xicanti AT gmail.com
Enter me please.
My favorite vamp book is the class...Dracula. Though I also enjoy the Sookie Stackhouse books. :-)
Jennifer
OOH this looks good! My only Vamp experience is Twilight but I have heard wonderful things about these books! Count me in - I am a new follower of your blog!
journey throughbooks @ gmail dot com
I have to say I haven't read a lot of vampire books although Dracula and Sunshine are on my list. I will go with Interview with the Vampire since it was my first and I remember my friends getting really into Anne Rice at the same time. Thanks for hosting this contest!
+1 new follower
stephaniefleischer889[at]gmail[dot]com
My favorite vampire book is Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
New follower
Ladytink_534(at)yahoo(dot)com
Hi :) Cool blog you have here.
blodeuedd1 at gmail dot com
Sign me up, I would like to try this series. As for other vamp books (oh did not like Twilight really). I liked the Black dagger brotherhood by JR Ward
Like Bethie, my favourite vamp books are the Sookie Stackhouse books.
The best vampire book I read was Bloodline - the first one.
thank you.
ssummmer(at)gmail(dot)com
I haven't read a lot of vampire books other, but I've always loved the tv shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel.
Thanks for the chance to win!
ruthann (dot) francis (at) gmail (dot) com
I love the Anita Blake series and Sookie!!!! I ama new follower.
Thank you for a great contest.
cfisher1504/at/gmail/dot/com
I've been meaning to read this...
+1 new follower
+2 you're on my blog roll
+5 your button is on my blog
+3 your contest is on this post: http://haleymathiot.blogspot.com/2009/10/contests.html
congrats on your first contest! i'm having my first at my blog, too. check it out if you like
haleymathiot at yahoo dot com
Cool! One of my favorite vampire books is A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole (non-YA) I love it! :)
Thanks!
- Wendy (omgitswendy at gmail dot com)
Oh! I became a follower. :) +1
- Wendy (omgitswendy at gmail dot com)
It is really hard to say another Vampire related book than the Twilight Saga because I haven't read any, I think.
I have Amanda Grange's Mr Darcy, Vampyre on my bookshelf waiting for me to read it, so I think I can say that that is a book I am really looking forward to read.
Please count me in to the giveaway. :)
+1 I became a follower
milkavainamo@lyseo.edu.ouka.fi
milkavainamo(at)lyseo(dot)edu(dot)ouka(dot)fi
+2 follower
+1 posted a link at the bottom of my blog to giveaway
+2 answered your question
What a fun giveaway!
hmsgofita at hotmail dot com
would love a chance to win this! my favorite vampire novel? I like The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. It's a classic and I like it much better than Interview with the vampire (I actually hated that book)
pls enter me!
sensitivemuse at gmail dot com
Please enter me! I love this serie! The vampires diaries are one of my favourites!
+1 new follower
+2 blog roll
+1 sidebar
sheere.dry@gmail.com
Please enter me. Thanks for the chance.
lizzi0915 at aol dot com
Favourite vampire book? That's a toughie. I'm thinking Parasite Positive by Scott Westerfeld, aka Peeps. It's incredibly well thought-out.
+2 I absolutely already follow your blog
lauren(dot)wavekeeper(at)googlemail(dot)com
I also love the Sookie Stackhouse books.
I am a new follower of your blog.
simplystacieblog at gmail dot com
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
Thanks for this neat chance to win this amazing book!!!
+1 - I am a new subscribers/follower to your blog
+1 - I posted a link to the contest in my blog http://booksaremoviesinthemind.blogspot.com/
+3 - I mentioned and linked to this giveaway in my blog post http://booksaremoviesinthemind.blogspot.com/
+2 - I added you to My blog roll http://booksaremoviesinthemind.blogspot.com/
+2 - answer to the question~I really like "The Turnning' by: Jennifer Armintrout
9 POINTS TOTAL
Oh, please count me in!
:)
carlos_durao AT hotmail DOT com
Oh, and I answered the question.
;)
Thanks for the contest!
My favorite vampire book is "Lover eternal" from the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
+1 I'm a new subscribers/followers.
My mail is estereta(at)ymail.com
Thanks for this giveaway! My all time favorite is Anne Rice. No Twilight-ish book can beat that.
My email is ivanaquick at gmail.com
+1 I'm a new follower
+1 posted on my sidebar
+2 you're in my blogroll
+2 I say option B
Cheers!
Ivana
willingtoseeless.blogspot.com
Haha, the less cool cover. I agree with you! Count me in, please ;)
+1 new follower
+1 posted a link on the sidebar at http://endlessbooks.livejournal.com
+5 posted your button on the sidebar at http://endlessbooks.livejournal.com
Hm. And my favourite vampire book would have to be...Peeps by Scott Westerfeld ;)
Justine
justeena_25(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Definitely going to have to go with Memnoch the Devil- Lestat is my all-time favourite.
Holydread(at)gmail.com
International??? Great, please count me in ^^
+1 new follower
+1 link on sidebar: http://entrelibelulas.blogspot.com/
+2 you are in my blog roll
+2 answered the question
+5 post button: http://entrelibelulas.blogspot.com/
Mariana
sarima89(at)gmail.com
sooo cool! internationally YAY!
+1 new subscriber/follower of your blog!~
+2 answered the question~
Katia
morsmordre_k@hotmail.com
My favorite vampire book (series) would be The Little Vampire (Der kleine Vampir)
+1 - new follower
+2 - answered the question here: http://brizmusblogsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-wonderland-by-gabriel-common-and.html?showComment=1255567957459#c1174418583751212797
thanks for the giveaway!
brignetiATgmailDOTcom
I would love to be entered!
My favorite non-twilight vampire book is VAMPIRE ACADEMY!!!!! I love that series with a passion.
+1 - new follower
:) Erica
thebookcellar@wi.rr.com
+1 Sidebar linked contest
Favourite vampire non-Twilight book would probably be... Scott Westerfeld's PEEPS. :)
lucidconspiracy[at]gmail[dot]com
Great contest.
My favourite vampire book would have to be Daughters of Darkness by L.J Smith
+1 New follower of your blog.
Rebecca
everythingtodowithbooks@gmail.com
Great contest! Please count me in!
+1 new follower
+1 Link on sidebar: http://eternamente-en-tiniebla.blogspot.com/
+3 Post in blog: http://eternamente-en-tiniebla.blogspot.com/2009/10/giveaway.html
Brenda
where.is.your.heart(at)hotmail.com
thanks! ;)
Please enter me, thanks!
booksobsession(at)gmail(dot)com
+2 I follow your blog.
+1 Posted on my sidebar at http://booksobsession.blogspot.com
+2 Yes I agree: A hero is only someone who WANTS to be a hero, not has the feeling that he NEEDS to be one. That's dumb.
We need more of these contests (open to every one without any discrimination).
Great interview
I'm a new follower (italian).
Ciao
I'd love to enter your giveaway. A vampire book I liked was Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris.
I blogged about your contest at http://linktoink.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-salon-my-fall-tv-lineup.html
Email:ahazraDOT88ATgmailDOTCOM
I would love to win this book. I love the TV series.
My favorite book is Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning.
milacagirl92@gmail.com
+1 NEW FOLLOWER
+2 on Blog Roll http://goodgollymisshollybooks.blogspot.com/
hollyy.heart.attack@hotmail.com
LOL. Is it cheating to say the Night World series by L. J. Smith?? Cuz it’s definitely my favorite. LOL. Its ironic considering L. J. Smith is also the author of Vampire Diaries . The Night World series has a beautiful blend of adventure and romance (I know, I’m a total sap). Other than that I like The Otherworldlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler because the main character is unique and funny. Her strange quirks immediately had me interested and laughing.
+1 I became a follower!
+1Posted about this contest with a link on my sidebar at
http://gimmethatbookbeforeipunchyou.blogspot.com/
+2 Added you to my blogroll.
+2 Answered the question about heroes. Here’s a copy of my answer.
To tell you the truth, they both make sense to me in a way. I’m gonna use superheroes as an example. If you had the ability to make your body as hard steel would you just sit back while a building crumbles? After all, you wouldn’t be hurt by falling rubble as a fireman would be. I think that if I was facing that situation I would go into the building and try to rescue people regardless if I wanted to or not. I mean, its not like you ASKED for the ability to make your body as hard as steel. Maybe you just wanted to be normal and it’s the power is just a random thing that was forced on you.
But you COULD want to be a hero. You COULD have wanted your power. You COULD want to run into collapsing buildings. So, as I said, they both make sense to me in a way.
Shadowofwonder47[at]yahoo[dot]com
Fun giveaway! Please enter me! :0
I follow your blog!
The answer tot he question for me is
a)A hero is not a hero because he wants to be. It's because he feels he has to be.
journey through books @ gmail dot com
Shawna L
weloveourdogs@juno.com
+2 My answer would be b. Because he wants to be a hero!!
+1 new follower
+ 2 you are now on my blogroll
And my favorite non Twilight vampire book would probably have to be House of Night because of it's boarding school setting.
Dey@mts.net
Count me in, please!
:)
+2 I answered the question!
joanapatriciadias AT gmail DOT com
Count me in, please!
:)
educhico [at] gmail [dot] com
And answered the question on the other post!
;)
Hello there!
Count me in for this great offer!
o_rei_de_havana AT hotmail DOT com
+2: I answered the question about being a hero!
enter me!!
+1 - new subscribers/followers to my blog nati_1825/vane_loyal
+1 - if you post a link to the contest in your blog http://doramamania.blogspot.com/2009/10/cuncursos.html
+3 - if you mention and link to the giveaway in your blog post http://doramamania.blogspot.com/2009/10/cuncursos.html
+2 - add me to your blog roll http://doramamania.blogspot.com/
EDIT: (new ways to gain entries!)
kiss
loved Anne Rice's books
New follower +1
copperllama at yahoo dot com
Oh, great opportunity!
:)
jafantunes AT sapo DOT pt
Oh, goody!
dr.strangelove.vs.citizen.kane AT gmail DOT com
International!
:D
You are the best!
tanitalves AT sapo DOT pt
Hello there!
Thanks for this giveaway!
catarina DOT magoito AT gmail DOT com
39[.]5susy[at]gmail[.]com
;)
Well, my girlfriend will love this!
goncalo DOT mil AT gmail DOT com
I'm a new subscriber~!
My current favorite vampire series is Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series, but a close second is Katie MacAlister's Dark Ones series. Love 'em~!
makotolightning (at) hotmail (dot) com
enter me I am a new subscriber
My fave series is Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series but there are so many others I love as well
Hi! I really really REALLY want to read it! please count me in!
+1 new follower!
+2 blog roll http://my-dreams-factory.blogspot.com/
thanks for the contest!
giuly_4(at)hotmail(dot)com
I like Anne Rice's books.
+1 new follower
great contest, my fave vampire book is deffs the Vampire Academy series!
+1 following
-audrey
mangoes_7@hotmail.com
+1 - new follower
+1 - linked on sidebar: http://ireadd.blogspot.com
+5 - added your button to my sidebar
EDIT: (new ways to gain entries!)
+2 - I also choose answer B to your question (after re-reading it like 20 times haha) and agree with your opinion.
andrearobbins10@yahoo.com
Oh I almost forgot my fave vamp book...well it's actually a series, Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris.
Thanks for such a great contest! As a fellow European, I truly appreciate it's international! :)
My email is rebelprince89@live.com
+1 new follower
+1 for posting a link (sidebar)
+2 for answering the question:
I feel like a hero needs to posses certain qualities, but it all comes down to choice. In other words, you can't have a hero who is egocentric or just plain uninterested - this would be paradoxical. There has to be a certain altruistic need in a hero to act heroically. However, as with all things in life, it comes down to choice as well. The choice has to do with what is right and what is easy. It's easy not to be a hero - but taking a bullet and consciously choosing to do something about the world you live in, even when it comes to most basic things, is in my opinion what makes the hero tick.
Oh, and as for non-Twilight vampire book, I'm gonna say Dracula by Bram Stoker. Not only is it a scary book, it's also great literature!
I'm so curious about this series! My favorite non T (I'm trying not to acknowledge it's existence here...)vampire books are the Angel books by Nancy Holder. I love him! My favorite vamp is Spike though hehe
+1 - new follower
+1 - link on sidebar under giveaways at
http://tvandbookaddict.blogspot.com
+2 - added you to my blogroll! :)
+2 - answered question. Totally B!
+5 - Put your button on my sidebar. It's cute btw :D
lcintocable{a}gmial{d}com
vampire_beware@hotmail.co.uk
My fave non-twilight vampire book is the house of night novels, please eneter me, i real want to win!
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