Day 12: The Best Bite…
Continuing a super duper month of giveaways here’s your next chance to win some cool Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy goodies. Remember rules of the game change daily, so be sure to check back often to see how to enter and whether or not you won!
Day 12 : The Best Bite…
The next few contests are going to be open polls! Meaning we are looking to find the best, most beloved books around in the genre. Today, you have the opportunity to nominate your favorite vampire book or series. We will use the full list to do voting in June!
THE RULES
1. Type the name of your nominee into the comments below. Include the full name of the book or series along with the full author’s name. For tracking purpose, please only put one nominee per comment.
2.For each NEW nominee you add to the list, you receive an entry into today’s online contest.
3. You can post as many times as you want. Please NOTE: Vampires must be central character’s in the book (not minor or supporting roles). We will have other opportunities for other books later! YA Books are included.
4. As always, you get an additional entry for promoting the contest on your website, blog, facebook or twitter. Just be sure to include the link in the comments. If using twitter include @wickedjungle in the tweet!
5. The contest is open from now and will close at 12PM Eastern on Wednesday May 26!
The PRIZE:
Each daily winner will have the option of choosing an autographed copy of the following books:
- C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp–Touch of Darkness
- L.A. Banks –The Forbidden (Selected by previous winner)
- Mary Janice Davidson–Undead and Unwed (Selected by previous winner)
- Mary Janice Davidson–Undead and Uneasy
- S.J Day–Eve of Darkness
- Devon Monk–Magic to the Bone (Selected by previous winner)
- Devon Monk–Magic in the Blood (selected by previous winner)
- Kat Richardson–Greywalker (Selected by previous winner)
or an un-autorgraphed copy of one of the following books:
- Rachel Caine–Kiss of Death
- Jocelynn Drake–Nightwalker (Selected by previous winner)
- Angie Fox–The Dangerous Book of Demon Slayers
- Richelle Mead–Succubus Blues(selected by previous winner)
- Linda Wisdom–Hex in High Heels
Each book is also paired up with a swag bag, which contains buttons, postcards, bookmarks, and posters (some signed, some not). Each bag varies and winners will not have the option of pre-selecting the swag-bags.
Winners of the daily contest will automatically be entered into the grand prize drawings (winners to be announced May 31st). This includes the RT 2010 Tote Bag, Strange Brew Anthology (signed by Jim Butcher), signed posters, books, swag and your choice of a $25 gift e-gift cart to borders.com, bn.com or amazon.com. (Second place winner will receive similar package with signed poster, tote bag, and $10 gift card).
The Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
House of Night series by PC Cast and Kristin Cast
The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson
Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
The Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine
and humm.. how could one omit the one and only Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer..
The Hollows series by Kim Harrison
Her Vampire Husband by Michele Hauf, I haven’t read this one yet, but I’m dying to! The premise sounds so exciting, I love the vampire-werewolf conflicts and love how this novel would resolve it!
The Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole
The Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey
The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward. That series opened the door to PNR and UF. Before reading BDB, I’d never paid any attention to the genre.
The Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz
Sorry for all the nominations, I got carried away, there are SO many great vampire books and series!
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/Stella_ExLibris/status/14696703183
and I also spread the word on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000899165880&v=wall&story_fbid=122006651167588&ref=mf
ok, just one last: Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber
ok, another one: Accidentally Dead by Dakota Cassidy, I have heard great things about this one, it is on top of my wishlist. Humourous, tongue in cheek paranormal novels are so rare!
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
David Wellington’s “13 Bullets” series.
Christopher Golden’s “Shadow Saga” (Of Saints and Shadows, Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, Of Masques and Martyrs, The Gathering Dark)
Michael Romkey’s “I, Vampire” series (I, Vampire; The Vampire Papers; The Vampire Princess; The Vampire Virus; The London Vampire Panic; The Vampire Hunter; The Vampire’s Violin; American Gothic)
Charlie Huston’s “Joe Pitt” detective series (Already Dead; No Dominion; Half the Blood of Brooklyn; Every Last Drop; My Dead Body)
Teresa Medieros’ Regency Vampire series (After Midnight; The Vampire Who Loved Me)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s “Saint-Germain” series (Hotel Transylvania; The Palace; Blood Games; Tempting Fate; Path of the Eclipse; The Saint-Germain Chronicles; A Flame in Byzantium; Crusader’s Torch; A Candle for D’Artagnan; Out of the House of Life; Darker Jewels; Better in the Dark; Mansions of Darkness; Writ in Blood; Blood Roses; Communion Blood; Come Twilight; A Feast in Exile; Night Blooming; Midnight Harvest; In the Face of Death; Dark of the Sun; States of Grace; Roman Dusk; Borne in Blood; A Dangerous Climate; Burning Shadows)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s “Brides of Dracula” series (The Soul of an Angel; The Angry Angel)
Anne Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles”
Kim Newman’s “Anno Dracula” series.
P. N. Elrod’s “Vampire Files” series.
P. N. Elrod’s “Gentleman Vampire” series (Red Death; Death and the Maiden; Death Masque; Dance of Death; Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire)
Katherine Kurtz’ Vampire Knights Templar series.
Les Daniels’ “Don Sebastian de Villanueva” series (The Black Castle; The Silver Skull; Citizen Vampire; Yellow Fog; No Blood Spilled)
Tanya Huff’s Victoria Nelson series.
Elaine Bergstrom’s “Austra Family” series (Shattered Glass; Blood Alone; Blood Rites; Daughter of the Night; Nocturne)
Fred Saberhagen’s “New Dracula” series (The Dracula Tape; The Holmes-Dracula File; An Old Friend of the Family; Thorn; Dominion; A Matter of Taste; A Coldness in the Blood; A Question of Time; A Sharpness on the Neck; Seance for a Vampire)
Heather Brewer’s “Vladimir Todd” series.
Lee Killough’s “Blood” series (Blood Games; Blood Walk; Bloodlinks; Blood Hunt)
Kate Cary’s “Dracula’s Children” series (Bloodline; Reckoning)
Nancy Kilpatrick’s “Power of the Blood” series (Child of the Night; Near Death; Reborn; Bloodlover)
Peter Tremayne’s “Dracula Lives” series (Dracula Unborn; Dracula, My Love; The Revenge of Dracula)
Jeanne Kalogridis’ “Diaries of the Family Dracul” (Children of the Vampire, Lord of the Vampires, Covenant with the Vampire)
Susan Sizemore’s “Laws of the Blood” series (The Hunt; Partners; Companions; Deceptions; Heroes)
Trisha Baker’s “Crimson” series (Crimson Kiss; Crimson Night; Crimson Shadows)
Tanith Lee’s “Blood Opera” series (Dark Dance; Personal Darkness; Darkness, I)
Mick Farren’s “Renquist” series (The Time of Feasting; Darklost; More than Mortal; Underland)
Not sure if this would count, but vamps are some pretty main characters:
Anita Blake – Laurell K. Hamiliton
Nancy A. Collin’s “Sonja Blue” series (Sunglasses After Dark; In the Blood; Paint it Black; A Dozen Black Roses; Darkest Heart; Dead Roses for a Blue Lady)
Red-headed Stepchild & Mage in Black – Jaye Wells