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(over) Lauren Dane has a contest up for an ARC of Relentless, the sequel to Undercover (Berkley Heat) (check here and here)

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(over) Dakota Cassidy is holding a giveaway from March 3rd to the 8th, to celebrate the release of The Accidental Human, her third Accidental novel.

(over) Nalini Singh has a big promo event with lots of giveaways leading to the release of Angel's Blood in early March--go forth and get stuff.

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(over) Dear Author, a well known readers' blog, is hosting a large ARC giveaway in partnership with Berkley. Seventeen ARCs for seventeen different upcoming tittles, from late March to May, up for grabs. Go check it out!

(over) Barbara Vey, who blogs about romance books at Publishers Weekly, is holding a week long bash to celebrate the second anniversary of the blog. Check it out here.

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(over) And there's an extra chance to win two ARCs from Ms Aguirre--one for Blue Diablo and a mystery ARC of an upcoming title--at the multi author blog The Bradford Bunch. Go here and find out how! This one closes in less than two days.

(over) The well known readers blog, Dear Author, is hosting a number of ARC giveaways in the next few weeks. Currently, there is one for ten copies of different ARCs from ACE/ROC (science fiction and fantasy) open until 8PM on Tuesday.

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(over) The husband and wife team behind Ilona Andrews successful Kate Daniels series is giving away a signed copy of the Magic Strikes, the third title, which comes out everywhere on March 31st. But hurry, this is a one day thing--read how you can enter here.

(over) Jordan Summers is holding a limited time giveaway in her blog for two ARCs of her upcoming Scarlet. This is the second title in her Dead World trilogy, a post apocaliptic urban fantasy work. The first title, Red--and indeed the whole series--is based on the question, What if Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf turned out to be the same person? Definitely worth checking the books out for the answer.

(over) Ms Summers is also doing a purge of her own library and offering two boxes full of books to US residents who comment here. Check out the list of great authors you get to try!

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Via the amazing Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, you can download the free novella "SERIAL" from Hachette Publishing. Description:

Remember the twin golden rules of hitchhiking? # 1: Don’t go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy.
# 2: Don’t pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be raving nutcase.
So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a ride to Nutcase #2?
When two of the most twisted minds in the world of horror fiction face off, the result is SERIAL, a terrifying tale of hitchhiking gone terribly wrong. Like a deeply twisted version of an “After School Special,” SERIAL is the single most persuasive public service announcement on the hazards of free car rides.
Beyond a thrilling piece of horrifying suspense, SERIAL is also a groundbreaking experiment in literary collaboration. Jack Kilborn wrote the first part. Blake Crouch wrote the second. And they wrote the third together over email in 100-word exchanges, not aware of each other’s opening section. All bets were off, and may the best psycho win.

And you may want to check the extras in the story (a Q&A and some excerpts from their upcoming books--Kilborn’s Afraid and Crouch’s Abandon (which you can always pre-order through the forum's aStore with those handy linkies)

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Kilborn's Afraid is out already, I read it a week or two ago.

It was good, could have used a better editor, some scenes went on WAY too long.

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Brought to you by the ever generous ladies at Dear Author and Smart Bitches, this week you have a chance to win wonderful prizes. Go forth, read, enter!

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Elizabeth Naughton is celebrating the release of Stolen Fury, the second in her Stolen trilogy, with a wonderful contest--check it out here.

Lauren Dane's Laid Bare with Flair contest is still going on--go here, read the rules, and enter!

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Nalini Singh is giving away books on her blog, every day until the release of Branded by Fire on July 7th.

Cynthia Eden's 30 days of demons ends tomorrow--there's still time to enter at her blog.

Beth Kery's Huge Sweet Restraint Contest still has a full week to go--check her blog for details.

Lauren Dane is celebrating the upcoming release of Laid Bare with a month long giveaway stravaganza at her blog starting on Friday.

And finally, Shiloh Walker is celebrating the release of The Redeeming--check it out: