Winners!

My apologies for running late announcing the winners... again. I've been busy helping Flyboy ready for his upcoming deployment, only 2 weeks left, and we are all still trying to adapt to new schools and new routines. Good times, people, good times. Sometimes I think juggling should be a mandatory skill set for parenthood, or at the very least we should get a Rosie robot from The Jetsons.

Anyhoo, here are the latest winners:

*Lisa Richards/alterlisa wins Lockdown

Please send me your mailing info asap since this contest has a deadline!

*jfort357 wins Out in Blue

I will forward your email to Roxanne so she can send you your e-copy!

*Mary Lou Foland wins the Beautiful Creatures word scramble contest

Please send me your mailing information so I can forward everything to Michele!

A huge thank you to everyone for commenting and playing along in the word scramble! I might not always have a chance to comment back but I love hearing from everybody and I was impressed with the number of entries for the word scramble. Also, I'd like to thank Roxanne (Bewitching Book Tours) and Tara (Macmillan Publishing/Zeitghost Media) for hosting contests here at the blog.

Contest: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

Happy Monday! Hope your weekend was filled to the brim with fun and good books. Today I'm giving away one copy of Lockdown, Book 1 in the Furnace series by Alexander Gordon Smith. The Macmillan site lists this as a book for grade levels 7 and up, and it looks to be quite the dark journey that will appeal to anyone looking for a good horror, or action adventure. I'd like to read it myself! 

All you need to do is leave a meaningful comment with your thoughts on the book, the trailer, or the status of teen fiction. The contest is open to U.S. and Canada residents only. Please leave an email if one isn't included in your profile so that I have a way to contact you should you win. I will draw a winner on September 4th. 

I'd love to hear what you think of this book so check out the various links included in this post.

About the Book:

Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison.

Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that’s hidden from the eyes of the world.

Escape from Furnace Series by Alexander Gordon Smith
Includes: Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives (Available in 2012), and Execution (Available in 2012).

Trailer URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PP3dZ10T9Q

Links:

*Website: www.alexandergordonsmith.com

*Become a Facebook fan: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lockdown/126095974414

*Macmillan page for the book and author: http://us.macmillan.com/author/alexandergordonsmith