The new book giveaways sponsored by our sister sites, ReadersRead.com and WritersWrite.com, include:
The Accidental Vampire by Lynsay Sands (Avon), the funny,
sexy story of a woman who never intended to wind up being
the only vampire in a small town.
The Alpine Traitor by Mary Daheim (Ballantine), the
charming new Emma Lord mystery.
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins),
the gripping crime novel that won the Quill Award.
Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer
Can Afford to Ignore by Elizabeth Lyon (Penguin).
**The new (optional) Book Giveaway Question is:
"Lately there has been a rash of bestselling and critically
praised memoirs that turned out to be total fiction. Some of the
latest fake memoir stories included a man who vastly exaggerated
his tale of drug addiction (A Million Little Pieces by James
Frey), a wealthy white Valley Girl who wrote that she was a
biracial gangbanger in Los Angeles (Love and Consequences by
Margaret B. Jones) , and a woman who pretended that she was
adopted by wolves in the forest who helped her escape the Nazis
during World War II (Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years
by Misha Defonseca). The one thing these stories all had in common
was their wild, unusual storylines that made them fun to read.
(Some people think that the wild storylines should have tipped
off publishers that the books were fiction). Have these
scandals made you more skeptical about reading autobiographies
and memoirs? If you were going to write your fake memoir, who
would you pretend to be? What bizarre life experiences would
you pretend to have had? Do you think you could fool a book
publisher (or Oprah) into believing your story was true?"
There's no entry fee of any kind and all email addresses are kept strictly confidential. Winners are selected monthly from a random draw. The entry form for the Book Giveaways can be found here.
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