I’m happy to report that this year’s All Male Review Challenge was a huge success. Over 100 reviews were submitted into the linky collection. I guess we really do love our boys in books!
So, are you ready to meet the winners? We had so many, I almost don’t know where to start!
Prize Pack 1 Winner: Tina
Partials by Dan Wells
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Zombie Blondes by Brian James
Jenna & Jonah’s Fauxmance by Brendan Halpin and Emily Franklin
Prize Pack 2 Winner: Carrie
Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
The Last Domino by Adam Meyer
Future Imperfect by K. Ryer Breese
A Bad Day For Voodoo by Jeff Strand (Thanks to Sourcebooks)
Prize Pack 3 Winner: Lili
Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2) by Mike Mullin
Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
Doing It by Melvin Burgess
Send by Patty Blount (Thanks to Sourcebooks)
International Prize Pack Winner: Maja
Streamline by Jennifer Lane (e-book. Thanks to Omnific Publishing)
Destiny’s Fire by Trisha Wolfe (e-book. Thanks to Omnific Publishing)
Ember by Carol Oates (e-book. Thanks to Omnific Publishing)
Breaking Point by Jess Bowen (e-book. Thanks to Omnific Publishing)
Read-Along Prize Pack Winner: Ash
Fairy Metal Thunder (Songs of Magic, #1)
Fairy Blues (Songs of Magic, #2)
Fairystruck (Songs of Magic, #3)
Fairyland (Songs of Magic, #4)
Thanks to J.L. Bryan!
All the winners have been contacted and prizes are being distributed.
The mini giveaway winners were:
Jade won a signed copy of Arson by Estevan Vega
Danielle won Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach
Sallie won Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
On Books and Things, Haley H. won Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride
On Supernatural Snark, Molly won Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Special thanks to everyone who helped to make this challenge a success, including author J.L. Bryan, Omnific Publishing, and Sourcebooks for donating some awesome books to the prize packs. I’d also like to thank my beautiful cohosts, Danny of Bewitched Bookworms, Meliisa of Books and Things, Jenny of Supernatural Snark, and Jen of In the Closet with a Bibliophile for all their help and support!
I hope you all enjoyed this year’s The All Male Review Challenge. If you have any feedback you’d like to offer, please feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail. I’m always looking for ways to improve to make things even better.
I’m off to Authors After Dark in New Orleans for the week! I’m so very excited about this because I’m going to get to meet a lot of awesome authors and bloggers! *squee* Yes, I plan to fangirl all over everyone. My only hope is that I don’t embarrass myself too much.
Quick reminders: If you are looking for My Book Boyfriend, Lesley of My Keeper Shelf has taken over as cohost for the rest of the year.
If you are looking for the Why Buy the Cow? RC, Kelly of Reading the Paranormal will host the reviews link up on her blog for the rest of the year.
To wrap up our awesome read-along of HOUNDED we are amazingly excited to have a fabulous Q&A with author Kevin Hearne! We hope you enjoy!
Will you be writing more Atticus stories (what I’m hoping for is a lot)? They’re so much fun – so hopefully you aren’t planning to stop after 5 or 6?
Absolutely. Though I’m currently under contract for six, I’d like to write nine, in addition to a couple of novellas and some short stories along the way.
If the Iron Druid Chronicles series could be adapted to a graphic novel (which would be awesome) or TV series/movie (which would be epic), would you consider it?
Heck yes to both! Iron Druid Chronicles (IDC) was originally conceived as a comic, so I’d love to see that happen. The project needs the right artist who can handle the tattoos.
Is Atticus going to have a love interest?
Doesn’t he already have one? 
Heh! His love story will definitely become clearer in books 4-6.
What kind of research did you do on Druids? Where did you look for it?
The problem with Druids is that they never wrote anything down. Ever. So what we have are accounts written by people who weren’t Druids and probably didn’t like Druids (such as Julius Caesar). Less than reliable, I’d say. Keeping that in mind, I tried to assign Atticus the powers that multiple sources said Druids had–some shapeshifting abilities, weather control, herbal talents, divination, and even teleportation. These came primarily from written accounts by Herodotus, Caesar, and the Annals of the Four Masters, as well as old legends about the Tuatha De Danann.
After book 3, will we see more of Laksha?
Provided that the series continues past book six, yes. The only way series continue is if people keep buying them, so let’s hope folks continue to like it. I’m really grateful to you all for spreading the word, by the way. Thank you.
It has to be asked, is Atticus ever going to travel to Las Vegas in future books? Are we going to see more of the sex demons?
If you’re asking about the Bacchants, thralls of the god Bacchus, then yes, you will see them again in book five, TRAPPED. If you’re wondering if TRAPPED contains any bow-chicka-bow-wow, well, yes, it does. There’s a whole chapter of it! Get the cold shower ready!
Is there any actor or person you picture as Atticus when you write him? If so, who?
Not really…I’m not that up-to-date on my actors. I haven’t had television in my house for a year now, and I have to admit that I don’t miss it. I see Atticus as a comic book hero, since that’s the way I originally envisioned him.
Atticus is a tree hugger, is that a reflection of you?
Yeah, it is. I do my recycling and contribute to nature charities and all that stuff. Eat granola. Wear sandals. I do bathe more often than the average hippie, though, so you don’t have to fear me.
~Atticus~
Do you stay in touch with any of your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grand kids?
I actually spend some effort trying not to interact with them at all. It would cause me no little embarrassment and they’d never believe that I was their ancestor anyway. I have a genealogist in Brussels keeping track of the family for me.
~Leif~
What is your favorite thing about being a vampire?
I know everyone says the long undeath and the screams of fear, but I quite rather enjoy the power and defending my territory.
~Oberon~
What is your biggest human peeve?
Without a doubt, their mating habits. They’re ridiculously complex. Dogs know how to get things done–especially French poodles. Especially WITH French poodles. Yeah…Sorry, but can I just hump your leg for a minute and call you Fifi?
What is your favorite story from bath time?
Atticus told me a great story one time about Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, but that turned out to be a fictional character and something of a disappointment. Still, I dream of becoming a Sausage King someday. Stranger things have happened. Napoleon Dynamite, for example.
~Granuaile~
Your name is pretty unique. Do you know why your parents picked it and what it means?
They wanted to give me an Irish girl’s name that wasn’t Siobhan or Katie. I think it was a s simple as that.
~Mrs. MacDonagh~
What is the best advice you could give a lass looking to find her own perfect Irishman?
Less is more, me dears, until the bedroom door is closed, and then more is more, if ye take my meanin’. Be the sort of woman in public whose honor is never in question, but the sort of woman in private he’ll be havin’ daydreams about. And a drop or two of whiskey never hurt, either.
What did everyone think of the read-a-long? I hope everyone had as much fun as we did! If you have any thing that you thought we could have done differently, please let us know in the comment section? We’re going to be doing more in the future and I always love input. Thanks!!! *HUGS*
Don’t forget that TRICKED will be released APRIL 24TH! If you’re as excited as me, you can Pre-Order it here: Tricked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four)
Thanks everyone who participated. We hope to see you around for our future events!
First, I have to thank my lovely Trick or Treat for Books co-hosts: Felicia of Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog, Melissa of Books and Things, and Ashley of The Bookish Brunette, for helping me plan, execute and sponsor this event for a second year in a row! They are the reason this event was so much fun!
I also want to thank the awesome author and publishers who contributed to the guest posts and giveaways hosted on my blog for Trick or Treat for Books: Kirsty Eagar, Rhiannon Frater, Debra Anastasia and Ominfic Publishing.
And now to announce a month long list of winners.
Winner | Mini-Giveaway Prize
Mimi |
Crushed Seraphim
For the Grand Prize, we had over 2000 entries, but could only pick one winner.
Grand Prize Winner:
Vivien
Other October winners were:
Jen D. | My Life Undecided
Jen @ RtB | A Lawman’s Christmas
Arianne Cruz | Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion
Thank you to everyone who followed the Trick or Treat for Books posts and entered the giveaways! If you have any feedback or suggestions on how I could improve this event for next year, please feel free to send me a message.
Happy Halloween!
What was doing?
Book bloggers featured on When I’m Not Reading:
The Read and Reviewed (title, author, rating)
- The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells, 4
- Fallen by Lauren Kate, 3
- Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst, 4.5*
- One Grave at a Time (NH #6) by Jeaniene Frost, 3
- Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard, 2.5
- Wicked Games by Jill Myles, 4
- The Creed Legacy by Linda Lael Miller, 4
- Awakening by Kitty Thomas, 4
*My Favorite Book of the Month
My Book Boyfriends:
September Winners on TUR:
- Zoe won Hades by Alexandra Adornetto
- Felicia of Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog, won The River of Time series by Lisa T. Bergren
- Amanda G won All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin
- LadyVampire won Descended by Blood by Angeline Kace
- Julie won Fairy Metal Thunder by JL Bryan
- Rummanah Aasi won Hounded by Kevin Hearne
- Tore won Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
Upcoming Events:
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Trick or Treat for Books kicks off on Monday! Great ready because TEAM VAMPIRE is looking for its next bite!
Trick or Treat for Books schedule:
Monday, Oct. 3rd: The Unread Reader: TEAM VAMPIRE & mini-giveaway
Monday, Oct. 10th: Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog: Witches & mini-giveaway
Monday, Oct. 17th: Books and Things: Ghosts & mini-giveaway
Monday, Oct. 24th: The Bookish Brunette: Zombies & mini-giveaway
Monday, Oct. 31st: Grand Prize Winner announced
Anything else coming up that I should mark on my calendar? Please let me know.
What was doing?
~Epic Carlton/Snoopy style happy dancing commenced when I received two nominations for Book Blogger Appreciation Week for Best Book Blog Feature: When I’m Not Reading, and Best Book Blog Meme: My Book Boyfriend! Thank You!
~Shocking as this may seem but I never get asked to guest post, so imagine my surprise when I suddenly found myself all over the place:
~Author Lena Coakley stopped by with a When I’m Not Writing guest post.
~Though my participation was half-arsed, I signed up for the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon hosted by Amanda of On a Book Bender and even hosted a challenge, My Book Boyfriend Matchmaker.
~Waterfall Wednesdays kicked off and the turn out was nothing short of AWESOME! 41 readers signed up, and 30 participated in week 1 discussion. Oh, and best part of all, Luca Forelli stopped by for a character interview! No need to fly me to the moon, I’m already there!
Book bloggers featured on When I’m Not Reading
The Read and Reviewed (title, author, rating)
- Summer Lovin’ Anthology: Heat Wave, Multiple Authors, 3
- Caleb (Shadow Wranglers #1) by Sarah McCarty, 2
- Dead Reckoning (SVM #11) by Charlaine Harris, 3
- The Iron Queen (Iron Fey #3) by Julie Kagawa, 4
- Summer’s Crossing (Iron Fey #3.5) by Julie Kagawa, 4
- River of Time series (Waterfall, Cascade, Torrent) by Lisa T. Bergren, 4
- Descended by Blood (Vampire Born #1) by Angeline Kace, 2.5
- Saltwater Vampires by Kirsty Eagar, 3.5*
*My Favorite Book of the Month
My Book Boyfriends:
August Winners on TUR:
Yup, that’s about it for my August. How did your month wrap up? Leave me a link, and I’ll check it out. Do you have any Upcoming Events I should know about? Tell me about it, and I’ll mark my calendar.
Oh, and make sure to join us for the Fall Book Exchange! Click the button for more details.
