WIN a Signed ARC of Lost Fleet Book 6!

by Cam on February 17, 2010 · 17 comments

The Lost Fleet Book 6 Cover - Victorious

Book 6 - April 2010

As many of you know, John Hemry (aka Jack Campbell), has engaged many of us in conversation through this blog. After five books the series is coming to a close with Victorious at the end of April 2010. Following many requests from all of you I reached out and asked John if he’d be willing to autograph a book for a contest here to be mailed to the winner in early May.

He said yes but he offered up a signed ARC (author’s review copy)… NOW! He’s already got them in his hands and will personalize, sign and mail one to the winner of this contest before the end of March! The winner will have it at least a whole month early.

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Win a free book

by Cam on February 1, 2010 · 3 comments

One Second After

Win This Book

It’s been a while hasn’t it? I’m sure some of you forgot that you were even subscribed to me via RSS. I’ve been happily twittering my micro reviews of what I read at http://twitter.com/ilovescifi, but I’ve left the rest of you here in the cold. Sorry about that.

To make it up to you all I’m going to give one of my Canadian readers a free book.

I have on my desk a hard cover copy of One Second After by William R. Forstchen.

How to enter:

1. Comment on this thread. Make sure you use a valid email address (which only I see).

OR…

2. Tweet the following “The Apocalypse is near! Free book from @ilovescifi. Details here: http://wereadscifi.com/free-book/”

Rules:

1. The contest is open ONLY to Canadian residents. Sorry to the rest of you. I’ll do something for the US readers as soon as Amazon.com sends me my Gift Certificates for the holiday season :).

2. You may enter only once per medium. Once on Twitter and once in the comments here. Extra entries from the same person using different email accounts will get you disqualified. Likewise, tweeting from multiple accounts on Twitter will get you blocked (and possibly prevent me from ever doing this again). Twitter accounts must have at least 2 tweets prior to Feb 1 2009 to be eligible.

3. Winner must promise to read the book promptly and write a review of at least 250 words for posting on this blog (credit will be given to the author, and a link back to their site if applicable).

4. Valid only where not prohibited by law.

5. Contest closes at 11:59pm EST on February 8th, 2010.

6. No personal information (email or Twitter handle) will be retained following this contest (except for the winner) but you’re all encouraged to follow me or subscribe by RSS because I may do this again :)

Good Luck.

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Thanks in advance — Cam
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I becomes We. What’s the difference? YOU!

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Well folks, I’ve finally broken down and purchased wereadscifi.com to replace the previous domain of ireadscifi.com. I know it’s a small change, but I wanted the domain to reflect the fact that while I write most of the reviews (you’re welcome to submit some too BTW) this really is a place where we want to [...]

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