Giveaways at the Zombie Apocalypse

(NOON UPDATE: I just found out the comments have been broken all morning. Fixed now, and due to technical difficulties, the contest will remain open until NOON Easern time on THURSDAY.)

Thanks to the good people at random.org, I can announce that the winners of the Justine Larbalestier HOW TO DITCH YOUR FAIRY Giveaway are:

#11: the dragonfly

#18: Kim

Winners, email me at: diana AT dianapeterfreund DOT com with your mailing address to receive your prize.

Everyone else, stay tuned, there are plenty more giveaways to come this week!

In other news, you ever have one of those days where you know exactly what you want to blog about when you get up in the morning, but by the time you’ve put the water over for your white tea with blueberry you’ve totally forgotten? Just me?

It probably doesn’t help that I’m living in BookWorld these days. The only thing on my mind, aside from taking care of Rio, is Amy and her friends. The new Tap Night. The new Initiation. Her graduation. It’s fun to be in Amy’s head again for a while, except for the fact that people have told me I’m talking like her.

You know, in lists.

So moving on…

Today’s giveaway is RAZOR GIRL, the new SHOMI novel by Marianne Mancusi. It’s about a cybernetically engineered warrior girl who saves the world after the zombie apocalypse.

No, really.

And because it’s Mancusi, you can be sure that the book is filled with pop culture references (everything from the 80’s classic Pretty in Pink to the titular homage to William GIbson’s cyberpunk creation, “Molly”, the original “razor girl”) as well as her signature one-liners: “He’d had three plastic surgeries already, whereas most of the boys his age had only had one. (Penis enlargement. Did you have to ask?)”

All that, the zombie apocalypse, and a showdown at Disneyworld. What’s not to love?

I’ve known Marianne for several years now, and I’m always impressed by her boundless imagination and willingness to take risks in her fiction. Also, her output. Do you know that Razorgirl marks her ELEVENTH book release since 2005? Yes, eleven. That on top of being a full time, Emmy winning, television news journalist.

And having a twelfth book for a third publisher being released this fall.

Yowsa! (Scurries off to write.)

So go check out Marianne’s blog, but make sure to leave a comment here to be entered in the giveaway!