Monday Book Giveaway (June 29, 2009)

Right to it — today’s winners are M.J., Valorie and nfmgirl! Congratulations! They each win a brand new copy of Diana Rowland’s hot, new urban fantasy, The Mark of the Demon (which I reviewed here). Please send your shipping information to katrina (at) stonoff (dot) com, and I’ll get your books winging toward you!

Now, for this week, it’s time once again to play Clear My Shelf.

This is my giveaway shelf, crammed full again, as you can see.

Study the shelf (you can see a bigger image by clicking on the picture) and choose one book that you’d like to have. Your odds of actually getting it are much higher if you choose a book no one else has picked.

Next Monday, I’ll start choosing names from one of my hats, and I’ll keep choosing until I choose a book I’ve already given away. So if the first two people I draw request the same book, I’ll have one winner. If everyone chooses a different book, everyone will win, and I’ll have two lovely barren shelves to prove it. Understand?

So, to recap: your task is to study the picture above and choose one book in it that you’d like to have.

Except for Wanda. Wanda can ask for a copy of Trudy J. Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn because I told her I was going to do an Any Book I’ve Mentioned giveaway, and then I changed my mind. So, Wanda! Go ahead and ask for Trudy’s book, and you have a good chance of winning since you’ll be the only one asking for it (since it isn’t on the shelf). And this is summer, and fewer people are reading blog. So ask away, Wanda!

As always, contest open to anyone who has access to reliable mail service, even if they’re related to me or won today. Anyone except Aime, apparently (don’t worry: I’ll make sure she has a copy of The Mark of the Demon).

Now, the hat (#50) from which I chose the winners:

This is one of my funkiest hats. There’s no label, and I cannot remember where I got it (I suspect it came in one of the ebay boxes).

It looks to me like something that would be used as a stage prop for a British Comedy of Manners. I can SO see Miss Prism in this hat.

I don’t think the hat is really old because it’s clearly machine stitched, but it’s made of a natural fabric (silk?), old enough to suffer insect damage. And you can see the poor rose is completely squashed.

But it must have been a decent hat at one time because the crown is lined with a stiff webbing to give it shape, and you can tell it definitely had a shape once.

I like this picture of me. The weird shape of my nose is emphasized (I used to call it a ski jump nose), and there’s a hint of Ye Olde Witch in the photo, but not the green-skinned, warted Wicked Witch of the West. Rather the mischievous Wise Woman from Puritan times, schooled in herbs and other questionable dalliances.