January Swagday Give Away!!

So much sexy swag your ovaries will explode!

(insert testicles here if you are a guy)

Welcome to January Swagday where we will celebrate

FIRSTS

It is time to try some new authors and win some swag!

Featured authors:

Neil Gaiman, Terri Garey, Larissa Ione,

Skhye Moncrief, Laura Kaye

What you win:

First Place:

1. your pick of three of the author's books

2. ovary exploding amount of swag (both pictures)

3. books sent to a soldier in your name

Second Place:

1. the two books left over

2. small swag pack

How you win:

1. play the matching game and leave answers in comments (ex. 1.a, 2.b, 3.c...)

2. leave your email

3. tell me a first for you (first kiss, first teacher, first kid, first time you tried something...)

*DOUBLE entries for followers - tell me if you do

Onto the game!

Match the first line from the book to the author

Answers:

a. "Arik Wagner had to hand it to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; they threw one hell of a party."

b. "the human male standing near the San Diego pier never ceased to amaze Kindrist Trekaar after seven hundred and twenty-one days of observation."

c. "There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."

d. "Whoever said 'Dead men tell no tales,' obviously wasn't listening very hard."

e. "The cold scorched Megan Snow's throat, making it hard to breath."

**as always there are clues in the choices. Blurbs for all 5 books are at the bottom of this post**

1. Laura Kaye is offering an ecopy of her latest release award winning fantasy romance North of Need. Want to read about Owen Winters, a snow god? Yes, yes I do! You need to figure out which first line comes from this sexy book that will make even the coldest heart melt.
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2. Neil Gaiman I have a hardback copy of his haunting adventure Y.A. The Graveyard Book. I loved this story of Nobody Owen who was raised by ghosts in a graveyard. He is hiding from the mysterious Jack who murdered his family. Which first line is from this tale of death.
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*Neil Gaiman has offered a limited edition poster called "How to talk to girls at parties" there were only 1200 made and they are sold out!
based on his short story you can read here

isn't this fabulous?

3. Skhye Moncrief is offering a copy of Feral Fascinations the first book in her Sci-Fi series Feral. Can you say werewolf Sci-Fi! Action packed and just the right amount of smexy as alien Red Trekkar meets her mate. Which line comes from this alien meets shifter story.
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4. Larissa Ione I have a copy of Immortal Rider the second book from her super smexy Lords of Deliverance series. Who wouldn't want to bed down with one of these horsemen ;) Which first line comes from this story of apocalyptic love!
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5. Terri Garey I have a copy of Dead Girls Are Easy, the first book in Terri's fabulous PNR/mystery series about a woman, Nicki Styx, who can talk to ghosts. This series is where you first meet that smexy devil, Sammy Divine who has his own series now called The Devils Bargain. The second book of this series, A Devil Named Desire comes out this month! Which first line comes from Dead Girls Are Easy.

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There is no Blog Shout out this month, but it will return!

Remember to leave an email, answers to the game, and tell me a first for you in the comments!

contest ends: January 17th at midnight

Feral Fascinations

Beyond rebels and rogues, the ultimate insurgents, psychic mercenaries, fight for your freedom of thought and hunt earth mates for one purpose--to defeat the universe's psychic emperor wanting to control all sentient beings through mind control. And you have no idea this war rages beyond the planet... Failure is not an option for the free-thinking universe. The free thinking's universe's prized psychic mercenary, Red Trekaar, seduces an ex-mercenary from earth, a Violet Child of heightened psychic ability, who she feels can hold his own as a were-assassin, i.e. her psychic soul mate. But she's running out of time. A legend claims she will give birth to a child that will end the war. But gaining her mate's respect just might prove her greatest challenge of all. A sexy Goth babe crosses Jake Straightarrow's path, and he wakes up in an alien-abduction nightmare with a chronic hard-on, powerless, labeled a blood fucker. She shanghaied him using some force's magnetic attraction. But a guy has self-respect. She should have earned his trust, then spread her legs. Especially after he learns sacred soul mates shape shift into uncontrollable werewolves trapped in a frenzied blood lust for their mate's blood. Self-control is what kept him alive so long. Now, the unshakable countdown to the moment he will shape shift ticks inside his head. His gut shouts escape stud service. Yet, humanity needs a hero. Colliding in a world of mind-reading games where one's best friend is the equivalent to one's worst enemy, each knows trusting the other is as dangerous as buying into their FERAL FASCINATIONS. Rating: Carnal Genre: Paranormal/Futuristic Romance.

North of Need

While attempting to escape the agonizing memories she associates with Christmas, twenty-nine-year-old widow Megan Snow builds a snow family outside the mountain cabin she once shared with her husband and collapses in tears against the snowman at the sight of what she'll never have.

Called to life by the power of Megan's tears, snow god Owen Winters appears unconscious on her doorstep in the midst of a raging blizzard. As she nurses him to health, Owen finds unexpected solace in her company and unimagined pleasure in the warmth of her body, and vows to win her heart for a chance at humanity.

Megan is drawn to Owen's mismatched eyes, otherworldly masculinity, and enthusiasm for the littlest things, and her heart opens enough to believe he's a Christmas miracle. But this miracle comes with an expiration before the snow melts and the temperature rises, Megan must let go of her widow's grief and learn to trust love again, or she'll lose Owen forever.

Immortal Rider

The signs are everywhere...disastrous world events. Evil rising up, unleashed upon the innocent. The prophecies were there...but no one listened. Until now. The time has come for those who can either usher in Doomsday...or prevent it. They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Arik Wagner, a soldier with the U.S. Army's paranormal unit, the R-XR, kissed a girl and liked it. And then he went to hell as punishment. Where he's spent weeks being tortured...and plotting revenge.

Limos, Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, isn't your average girl. She's immortal, dangerous, and her fiancé is Satan himself. In a moment of weakness, she gave in to her desire and kissed Arik, triggering her fiancé's wrath - and his claim on her. In order to save Arik, and theworld, Limos must make a dangerous pact with her recently turned evil brother, Pestilence. A deal that might just cost her her soul...and her heart.

Dead Girls Are Easy

There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.

Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and one-on-one anatomy lessons with Dr. Joe Bascombe, the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the deceased is a real drag, especially for a girl who'd rather be playing hanky-panky with her hunky new boyfriend . . . who's beginning to think she's totally nuts.

But things get even more complicated when a friend foolishly sells her soul to the devil, and Nicki's new gift lands her in some deep voodoo.

As it turns out for Nicki Styx, death was just the beginning.

The Graveyard Book

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . .

Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages