Not one but TWO Lucky winners for Bedbugs!!

As a little surprise [heh heh] I would like to announce that there are not one, but TWO lucky winners of my Bedbugs giveaway!! See, I'm tricky that way ;D

I actually had TWO brand new drool-worthy copies of Ben Winter's amazing book up under my sleeve [which sounds way better/less traumatic than saying I had multiple bedbugs under my sleeve ... buh jankity].

So without further ado [translates to mean I'm lazy today] the winners are:

TIFFANY DREW and ELI SQUARED!!!!!!!!

Congrats gals and I hope you enjoy this terrific horror yarn :D
I'll be emailing you soon for your mailing address and PLEASE respond within 72 hours or I'll be hunting up a new winner.

For the rest of you, seriously - if you haven't read Bedbugs yet then you are missing a real treat, as I loved it X 10.

Okay, it's cold, nasty, windy, gloomy fixin' to snow/sleet/other crap and I just want to huddle up with a cup of hot chocolate/nap/watch Christmas movies. I love you guys.
The End.

Giveaway - Bring home *Bedbugs* for Thanksgiving!!

WIN A BRAND NEW COPY OF BEDBUGS FOR THANKSGIVING!!

Seriously, I love Ben Winters. Anyone who's already familiar with Sense, Sensibility and Sea Monsters knows he rocks as an author. His latest little gem - Bedbugs - is one of those horror stories that creeps up on you, bit [bite?] by bit until you find yourself still awake at 2 a.m. determined to finish the book. Cos you gotta. Know what I mean?

Anyhoo - thanks to Eric at Quirk Books I've got a pristine copy for one lucky winner.

Here's the deets:

USA ONLY. Sorry guys, but until I win the damn lottery I'm poor as a mouse. Believe me, I'd make this world wide if I could afford to. Stupid postage $$$.

Contest is open from NOW until Thanksgiving and will close to entries at 11:59 pm on Thanksgiving - November 24, 2011.

All I ask is that you follow me publicly in Google Friend Connect. That's it. Not much to ask in the grand scheme of things, eh?

To enter, leave a comment on THIS post with your first name/alias & email addy so I can contact the winner. ALSO leave your GFC name so I can verify you as a follower.

And per your comment, something besides the generic *thanks* would be nice. In fact, since I'm poor and really DO need to win the lottery, comment with your favorite LUCKY NUMBER [S].

So again: USA ONLY, GFC FOLLOW, NAME/ADDY & LUCKY NUMBER[S].

Not too hard or time consuming. Forget buttons, tweets, hops, skips, dingles and all the rest. No hoops to jump through here [... for NOW. heh heh heh].

Hurry and enter. You know you want some of this. ;D

Book Review: Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters

Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters

Release date: Sept. 6, 2011

Quirk Books

[from the back cover]

FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone. 1,300 sq. ft.,

2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker's fee.

I'd like to say two (2) things right off the bug ... I mean, bat.

One, Ben Winters is a New York Times best-selling author for a reason. The

guy's that good! Fans of Sense, Sensibility and Sea Monsters know what I'm talking about.

Two, if Stephen King and Bentley Little went through some hideous teleportation accident

and emerged as one being - that being would be Ben Winters. Seriously.

Edgy and evenly paced, Bedbugs begins innocently enough with the upwardly mobile

Susan and Alex Wendt *just looking* [we all know where this leads] for an affordable

place to rent.

Susan, stay-at-home mother of their young daughter - Emma, yearns for a larger

apartment to accommodate her growing family. Her fantasy/dream home includes a

special room just for Susan to renew her artistic desire for oil painting.

Stumbling across an ad for what appears to be the perfect place, the Wendts quickly set
up an appointment to meet with Brooklyn landlady Andrea Scharfstein - a

dry-as-dust and helpful to the point of hellish geriatric who slowly emerges as

the poster child for creepy old ladies.

They say there's "no such thing as a free lunch", and this is where the Wendts discover

their dream apartment has a small problem. Hundreds, thousands of them to be exact!

And they've targeted Susan as their next victim ...

Bedbugs is one of the best horror reads of the year. Even though I knew better,

I couldn't put it down, gobbling the entire book in one emotionally-fraught sitting.

I say emotionally-fraught because I'm mildly phobic about bedbugs, and suspicious

of landlords in general.

And ehmagawd, suddenly I discover there's good reason to be, at least according to

Ben Winters.

The M.A.D. take on Bedbugs:

An 'all-nighter' - there's no putting this book down once you start.

*and here's a dirty little secret for you ... besides an epic story featuring an absolutely

awesome cover, HUNDREDS of terrible, tiny bedbugs are scattered throughout the pages.

Thank goodness they're only ink on paper.

... for now.