Your Creepiest Story Contest (+ giveaways)

If you haven't picked up a copy of Playing Saint yet (and why wouldn't you have? The ebooks is on sale for $2.99 until Halloween), you should probably go buy a copy right now. Or, if you're the kind of person who who'd rather win keep on entering until he/she wins, here are some opportunities to win the book:

• There's this goodreads giveaway (runs through Halloween, fifteen copies available--click here to enter).

• Or this Trick or Read giveaway that Thomas Nelson is doing. (Click here to enter.)

• And, if you reside in or near America's High Five (that's what we're calling Michigan  these days), you could come to my in-store event on October 30 at Baker Book House. I will be giving away books and other stuff and the event will feature assorted hijinks (click here for details).

Book Giveaway!

So my book Playing Saint comes out on October 7. Three weeks later, we're having an in-store event at Baker Book House in Grand Rapids. Thankfully, it's shaping up to not be my worst nightmare (i.e., me, card table, stack of my books, sadness), but I'd still love to have more people coming.

SOOOO, I offer this small incentive: if you live close enough to come,  click over to the event page and RSVP. At the end of the week, I will pick four people to receive Advanced Reader Copies of the book, a couple months before it even comes out.

If you live far away from Grand Rapids, I feel sorry for you, but you too can be in the running for a book by tweeting about the book or the event (include my twitter handle, @AuthorZBartels and hasthtag #PlayingSaint).

Great New Books to Check Out!

I will be unleashing some awesome news (and visuals) re: my upcoming book Playing Saint very soon!

In the meantime, here are some other great books to check out:

Great deal and a giveaway with the release of Terri Blackstock's latest thriller.

Lip Reading, the latest from Harry Kraus, about an impossible choice: save yourself or help millions?

And check out the ebook giveaway of Lynette Eason's Too Close to Home. FREE for Kindle and Nook.