So Many Precious Books, So Little Time: Giveaway: My Name is Will by Jess Winfield

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Giveaway: My Name is Will by Jess Winfield

Thanks to Valerie of Hachette Books I have up to 5 copies to giveaway!

Book Description:

A Tale of two Shakespeares...

Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of...

Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs.

Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard's life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome... This, at a time when adherents of the "Old Faith" are being hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors.

Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the 'Shakespeare' each is destined to come... but the very course of history itself.

The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway.

1-10 entrants= 1
11-20 entrants= 2
21-30 entrants= 3
31-40 entrants=4
41 or more entrants=5

Here are the rules:

1. For one entry, leave a comment. Please be sure to include your email address (if it isn't available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win. If I can't find your email either in the comments or your profile, you will be disqualified!

2. For a two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.

3. For another 5 more entries: Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower five times! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.

The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.

The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.Only one entry per household/IP address.

Please note change to deadline. I forgot that I will be out of town July 24th. See the new deadline below:

This giveaway will end on Friday July 31st 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn't available in your profile! Winners must respond within three days or will be disqualified. Therefore, if your moving or going on a trip, etc. . please let me know.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 11:04 PM

Labels: My 2009 Giveaways

51 comments:

Looks like a good book, please enter me into this drawing.

I'm also a current follower of your blog.

Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
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Unknown said... June 29, 2009 at 4:32 AM

I'll be the first! Please enter me. I subscribe in Google Reader. Thanks for the giveaway! milou2ster(at)gmail.com

bermudaonion said... June 29, 2009 at 5:14 AM

I'd love a shot at this book. Please count me in. Thank you!

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nfmgirl said... June 29, 2009 at 6:13 AM

This looks like a good read. I'm follower thanks for entering me.
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Lady Tobi said... June 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Add me in! I'm a follower and my e-mail is on my profile. Thanks!

Lynn Irwin Stewart said... June 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM

I'd love to be entered!!

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Anonymous said... June 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM

I'm a subscriber through Google Reader!!

Anonymous said... June 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM

Oh, this one sounds fun. Please count me in.

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I'm a follower in Blogger.

allisonmariecat said... June 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Please enter me. I'd love a chance to win.
I'm a follower!
Thanks
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Becca said... June 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM

I'd love to win--and I'm a follower through Google. Thanks!

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Lesley (aka Upper West Side Writer) said... June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM

count me in please!
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throuthehaze said... June 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM

already a follower
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throuthehaze said... June 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM

Sounds like a fun book. Count me in! :0)

Thanks!
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Dawn M. said... June 30, 2009 at 1:19 AM

I subscribe with google reader.

Thanks! :0)
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Dawn M. said... June 30, 2009 at 1:19 AM

Please count me in!
I subscribe by RSS

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LoveMyCoffee said... June 30, 2009 at 7:24 AM

This looks like a fun read. Thanks for sharing!

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Sue said... June 30, 2009 at 8:25 AM

This looks interesting! Please enter me!

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Kitten22 said... June 30, 2009 at 2:56 PM

I'm a subscriber (through Google Reader).

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Kitten22 said... June 30, 2009 at 2:56 PM

I had to pass on this ARC because I am too far behind! But I would love to win it!

I already follow.

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Kristi said... June 30, 2009 at 5:24 PM

This sounds like a fun read! Please enter my name for a chance to win, thanks. :)

I follow and have this posted here.

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Wanda said... June 30, 2009 at 8:38 PM

As an English major (it was a while ago, but I still remember it!) I'd love to win this one!

I'm also a follower!

My email is on my profile, but just in case:

lahlstedt (at) gmail.com

Lisanne624 said... July 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM

I'd love to read this book - please count me in!

Thanks,
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CherylS22 said... July 1, 2009 at 8:10 AM

Would also love to win this book!

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Monica said... July 1, 2009 at 9:09 PM

This looks like an interesting book please enter me.

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budletsmom said... July 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM

I follow.

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budletsmom said... July 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM

Thanks for the chance to win!

+5 I follow your blog.

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amanda said... July 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM

Please include me in your giveaway.

+5 follower

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Belinda M said... July 4, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Please enter me, I would love to win this! I actually saw a friend of mine reading it the other day and I had never heard of it!

Cheers,
julie.sherritt[at]gmail.com

Julie said... July 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM

I'm a new follower

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Julie said... July 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM

Just posted this on Win A Book. No need to enter me.

Bridget said... July 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM

An entry for

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Thanks!

Anonymous said... July 7, 2009 at 9:46 AM

This one sounds so fun! Please enter me.

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Unknown said... July 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM

I subscribe in Google Reader :)

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Unknown said... July 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM

This sounds like a great read! Please enter me.
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