The winner of the PERFECT CHEMISTRY giveaway is: Angie of Angieville. You know the drill.
By the way, guys, I’m a bit behind on my post office visits because with the torn muscle in my back, I can’t lift heavy objects, like, oh, boxes of books. I’ll be enlisting help this weekend.
Thank you so much for all your well wishes yesterday. I really appreciate it. Also, muscle relaxers? Make me so loopy. I get these crazy ideas in my head about making fondue for dinner, which is ridiculous, because fondue takes a lot of scrubbing to clean up, and scrubbing is not something I do well given my current back situation. But the fondue was yummy, anyway. I am an excellent fondue maker, on account of the two years I spent waitressing at The Melting Pot. I also did some Xmas shopping. very little — I’m so behind — but at least I started.
I also got to have a nice chat with my editor about the outline I recently turned in to her for the second killer unicorn book. The second book is currently untitled, but we’re working on that, too. All systems go to finish that, now.
Speaking of killer unicorns, guess what today’s big giveaway is? Wait for it…
An ARC of Rampant!
Win it before you can buy it, folks. And because this is such a monumental giveaway (I have very very few of these things), the comments thread will be open all weekend for entering. That’s right, you have three days to comment here for a chance to win. I’ll draw the winner on Monday.
Have a great weekend!
December 12th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Not to be greedy, but those of us that have already won something are eligible for this one, right? right?
Take care of yourself.
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December 12th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I missed yesterday, so I’m sorry to hear about your back. Back pain stinks. Hope you feel better soon.
I’d LOVE to win this. The book looks awesome. So glad you are giving one away. Yay!!
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December 12th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I missed yesterday too, so sorry about your back. I get very loopy on pain meds too. Hope you feel better soon.
I would love to win an arc of Rampant! Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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December 12th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I’m so excited about this book! It would be the perfect way to celebrate the end of my semester, and that I lived through noreaster I just drove through to get to class. Hope you feel better soon!
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Eeee, exciting! Want, want, want, and did I mention want?
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Ooh, I want!
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am
ha! man the choosing for this one will definitely be difficult!
heres to hoping! ( that book would be awesome to read while recovering from hand surgery.
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and hopefully more procrastinging as i really don’t want to write this paper on biology diagrams having bad visual design & not properly communicating.. real interesting stuff right there. not so much! 6:15 am procrastinging forever.
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
ps after you posted that tairen soul series i read all three that are out, [ my design professors were none to happy when my work that week was halfassed.. ] and while they were cheesy/amazing/entertaining for my ADD destroyed brain, i had never bought a book from the grocery store and kind of felt like a tool buying one there, and a romance one no less with a crazy super oil painted styled cover. so worth it though, and hey it was cheap!
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Please count me in. That cover is so gorgeous too!
I hope you feel better. And fondue for dinner, I see nothing wrong about that.
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
can’t wait to read this book.
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Go team unicorn!
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I hope each day brings a little more progress towards wellness. Look at it this way: at some future point you will be back in the pink, right? Therefore each day is a step in that direction.
Being a huge SSG fan I have signed up for your newsletter, as instructed.
As for the paucity of ARCs of Rampant, is there any way you can persuade your publisher to print more of them so that you can say, like Alice, “Everyone has won, and all shall have prizes”?
Just askin’, as usual.
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Oh…how cool is this? I would really love love love to win a copy.
All the best for the second book…
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Bill, I really think that is counter to the point of printing ARCs. “all” can get one when the book comes out.
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:43 am
You are the coolest…hope you feel better soon…and the cover is beautiful…Thanks
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I hope you feel better soon, Diana.
Oooh, killer unicorns! Count me in please
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Oh my goodness I am so excited about this one! I’m crossing everything (even though I think I might have used up all my good luck in other areas!).
I think I’ve signed up for the newsletter, should something come through to say we’ve done it successfully?
Now I have to visit the Melting Pot -yum!
At least the internet should make shopping easier for you.
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Would love to get this, hope your feeling better!
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I love the killer unicorn premise.
And I hope you are feeling better.
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Making fondue, fine, but you should not be scrubbing! Put SB to work. Or let Rio lick the pots.
Hope you’re feeling better soon. Please enter me in the drawing. I’ve said it before, but – what a gorgeous cover!
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I almost never have fondue, but I just went to a fondue party hosted by someone else and it was indeed delicious. I’m sure the clean up was horrendous, though. I’m so intrigued by the concept of killer unicorns I just have to enter this giveaway. Feel better!
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I have to de-lurk for this giveaway. I’m so looking forward to reading Rampant that I can’t resist trying for a copy.
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
SO excited for this one! I would set up a website to review books if I won this one, just to spread the (non-spoilery) love!
I was also going to mention shopping on the internet…Amazon.com is the best (and far superior to the sad Canadian version).
Mmm…fondue. I’m still bitter about the fact that I spent 10 days backpacking around Switzerland, and we couldn’t afford to get fondue.
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Wow, you must’ve really been hacking to pull a muscle. Ouch. And I didn’t know you have a fondue thing and worked at The Melting Pot. ERF took me there once and she’s got a real thing for the melty melty stuff too.
Hope you feel better soon, DP! In the meantime, I prescribe hot baths with something lavendery in them. Mmmm.
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
exciting! count me in
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
exciting!! count me in
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Yum! Fondue! I am jealous.
Please count me in for an ARC. Also feel better soon. And perhaps treat yourself to a massage.
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I haven’t even read the first book and I’m already excited about a second one!
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Arc please! What news letter? What do I get in the news letter?
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Take care and have a great weekend! I’m looking forward to reading Rampant.
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Rampant ARC? I’m totally there.
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I’m in.
Feel better soon.
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
So exciting! Please add me in.
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Pick me, pick me, pick me.
And I hope that muscle heals soon. What a bummer.
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Oh, yay! Thank you so much, Diana. I’m excited to read PERFECT CHEMISTRY.
And while I can’t not enter to win an ARC of RAMPANT, feel free to exclude me since I just won this one.
Fondue…Mm. We have a pot someone gave us when we got married. It must be around here somewhere…
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hope you’re taking care of yourself. From what you’ve siad, that sounds more painful thatn when I had shoulder surgery a few years ago.
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Me me me me!!!
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Nah, purple ranger. I’m sure I’m just a wimp and a crybaby. You should have seen me when they were trying to put an IV in. I was shaking and crying because the first place they tried to stick me didn’t work (I’m very hard to take blood from) so they had to put it in my wrist instead, and as they were taking the blood, it felt like they were pulling my vein out of my arm.
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Rampant ARC?!?! So cool.
This is me DEFINITELY commenting.
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December 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
This book looks awesome! P.S. my anti-spam word that I had to type in was poe.
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December 12th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I want to read this book SO badly! The cover is completely awesome and I love any story that has girls doing incredible things, especially if it involves swords. And until your book, unicorns have been pretty wimpy. I love seeing new takes on old fantasy creatures, and unicorns would be a first (we already see this done a lot with vampires and wereanimals).
Please pick me!!!
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December 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I’m sorry about your back. I hope you feel better soon!
I wish I could go to the Melting Pot again…i haven’t been in awhile, but it’s soooo good.
-Lauren
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Fondue is tasty!
And books are wonderful! I would love to win this book. I would promise not to drip fondue on your sure to be brilliant writing. Pick me!
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
You know, I don’t really like unicorns (zombies FTW!) but this book looks awesome.
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December 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
comment comment comment comment! What a treat to be able to receive your new book….
Oh and fondue is tasty, I lived in Switzerland for a while and they know how to serve cheese there. But you know what’s even better than fondue? Raclette! This basically means that besides bread, you can dip whatever you want into the melted cheese, yummie! You should try it some time…
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December 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Please enter me.
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December 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’d love the chance at an ARC!
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Sorry I’ve been MIA with your contest all week. And that I’m offering belated sympathies for your back. REALLY HOPE it eases up soon!
And of course, I’m drooling over the thought of Rampant.
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
who wouldn’t love killer unicorns
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December 12th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
khy, no matter what Justine Larbalestier might tell you, you CAN like both. I do. I like zombies, AND unicorns. What makes you say you’re not a fan?
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December 12th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I am a big SSG fan and am sure I would like Rampant, too.
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Ooooh, I’d love to win this! I’m so looking forward to reading this book.
Hope your back starts feeling better soon.
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December 12th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Would like to be in the running, please.
Have a lovely day!
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:50 am
What a gorgeous cover. Please enter me.
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December 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:28 am
fingers crossed!
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Gahd, I still can’t get over how lovely the cover is!
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December 13th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I’m pretty psyched to read your book–I mean, who wouldn’t love a book about killer unicorns?
Your book can pierce the sky.
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Comment! Pick me!!!
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Comment! No me!
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am
COMMENT!
(Oh please pick me!)
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December 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Dan – your comment is amazing.
*insert clever comment here*
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December 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Such a gorgeous cover with bound-to-be awesome context:o) I’d have to be a idiot not to want it…
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December 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I wanted to read this book for awhile after seeing its cover like a couple of months ago!
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December 13th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
So… I think it would be fantastic and about time if I actually won a giveaway. Particulary this one
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December 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Please pick me i need a good book to read and this is a guaranteed one!!!!
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December 13th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Please count me in—I am so excited to read Rampant!!
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December 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Alas, I’m not entering since I’ve read it. I just had to comment that Rampant ROCKS and the lucky winner is going to love it!!
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December 13th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I can only live in hope…
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I totally want an ARC of Rampant.
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December 13th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I would love to be entered, please.
Thanks!
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December 14th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I’d love to be entered!! Thanks!
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December 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Fondue = awesome so who can blame you, but you should probably avoid activities that could further damage your back.
I started jumping up and down when I read this post. Oh please consider me for the giveaway!
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December 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I have two daughters who are big readers and either would love this!
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December 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
OO, I love Fondue. I always seem to get burnt by the oil doing the meat part. We’re planning on having a fondue Christmas eve. Any tips?
I’d love a chance to win Rampant. The cover is beautiful.
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December 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
This is not so much to enter the contest as it is to let you know:
I work at BookPeople in Austin, TX. When Justine Larbalestier visited last month we chatted about Rampant. The result is that I have been bugging my boss (the BP buyer) to open her boxes of summer books from Harper for about a month now. When word spread of your awesome book to the girl who was inventory manager before me, we took it upon ourselves to draw a threatening illustration of our boss being eaten by a unicorn. “This is what will happen if you don’t get us our book.” Now, because it’s been nothing but chaos over the past few months, Megan (boss lady) only just now got to her Harper boxes. Meanwhile, about 483953667 employees (we’re a big store), including dudes and people I rarely get the chance to speak to want to read Rampant. But I have the sole copy. I started reading it last night, and I am so excited – I love Astrid and I love the campiness and Unicorn lore. I’m only about 20 pages in (it was late when I started and I dozed off), but, seriously, well done! But I thought you’d like to know the power of killer unicorn buzz. It’s terrifying!
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December 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
How cool! Count me in!
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December 14th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Haha! I’ve also spent the weekend getting all those Christmas gifts… no more procrastination! WOO!!!
And ARC! How exciting! I’m in!
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December 14th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
ARC!! Coolo! Count me in!
((79th comment? WoW))
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December 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Great contest! Please include me!
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December 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Thank you so much, E. Kristin! Justine is so great, isn’t she?
Are there any pictures of your boss being eaten by the unicorn? Purely for research purposes, of course.
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December 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
This is such a cool idea! I love getting books for Christmas!
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December 14th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
omgomgomg
SQUEEEEEEEEE
i want i want i want!!!!!!!
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December 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
oh my, me me me!! i can’t of anything more to say!
ok, calming down, hope you get better soon and oh me! me! me!, that just popped out igonre it, and i am sooooo calm, meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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