Author: Jeff O'Neal

Steamy, wicked, wild, and sweet–stumbling upon that just-right romance novel will leave you desperate to prolong the pleasure. But if luck is with you, the book that has you head over heels will not be a standalone. Share your favorite romance series, and be entered to win a copy of Rough & Tumble by Rhenna Morgan!

Here’s what it’s all about:

A self-made man with his fingers in a variety of successful businesses, Jace Kennedy lives for the challenge and he always gets what he wants. From the start, he sees Vivienne Moore’s hidden wild side and knows she’s his perfect match, if only he can break it free. He can walk society’s walk and talk society’s talk, but when he wants something, he finds a way to get it. He’s proud of who he is and where he came from, and he’ll be damned if he lets Vivienne go before showing her the safest place of all is in the arms of a dangerous man.

Interested? Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!

We have 10 copies of The Lost Girl of Astor Street by Stephanie Morrill to give away to 10 Riot readers.

Here’s what it’s all about:

When her best friend vanishes without so much as a good-bye, Piper Sail takes on the role of amateur sleuth in an attempt to solve the mystery of Lydia’s disappearance. Given that Piper’s tendency has always been to butt heads with high-society’s expectations of her, it’s no surprise that she doesn’t give a second thought to searching for answers to Lydia’s abduction from their privileged neighborhood.

As Piper discovers that those answers might stem from the corruption strangling 1924 Chicago—and quite possibly lead back to the doors of her affluent neighborhood—she must decide if she’s willing to risk her life of privilege for the sake of the truth.

Interested? Then go here to enter, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!

So I got to pick the prize for this giveaway. And it is my single favorite new tech thing from the last couple of years: Apple’s AirPods.

Bluetooth headphones have been around awhile, but they all kind of suck. They lose connection, forget devices, and in general just kind of don’t work well enough to be your everyday headphones. AirPods just…work. They pair quickly and easily. They get good battery life. They come in a cool little case that can also charge them. They just are that much better.

My headphones are my main audioboook-consumption device, and I have them in a lot. And the AirPods just make it easier to listen to more and more easily. I can leave my phone anywhere in the house and walk around and keep listening. There’s no worrying about snags or ripping your headphones (and sometimes your still-attached phone) out of your pocket or coat.

This is just all to say: they are great. And we’re giving away a pair to promote some of our email lists.

So go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the pretty pretty Apple publicity image below:

We have 10 copies of The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom to give away to 10 Riot readers.

Here’s what it’s all about:

Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to deal with the gangsters who have kidnapped her father.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!

Folks, I’m not gonna lie. These are some weird times. And I’ve got no advice or solace to offer, save $250 to spend on Amazon for books or movies or music or gigantic gummy bears. I know I could use one.

So if you are interested in winning 250 smackers to blow on whatever, go here for your chance. Or just click on the absurdly large gummy bear below.

We have 10 copies each of Angel Catbird, Volumes 1 and 2 by Margaret Atwood to give away to 10 Riot readers.

Here’s what the series is about:

The catcentric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood’s debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.

Volume 1 was on the top 10 list for Best Fall Graphic Novels by Publishers Weekly and debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List!

Foreword by G. Willow Wilson.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!

We have 10 copies each of The One-Eyed Man and Everything Matters by Ron Currie to give away to 10 Riot readers.

Here’s what The One-Eyed Man is about:

Meet K., a man whose tragic past has left him unable to grasp metaphors, plowing headlong through a life lived literally, until a surprising turn of events lands him a starring role in a new reality TV show. Together with Claire, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yearning for celebrity, he travels the country ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of politics and entertainment—and finding out the hard way that the world will fight viciously to preserve its self-delusions.

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the image below. Good luck!

Another week, another Mailbag giveaway! This week we’re giving away a haul of ten sci-fi and fantasy novels (a combo of book mail and some BR faves) to promote our SFF newsletter, Swords and Spaceships! Written by our resident SFF expert Jenn Northington, Swords and Spaceships brings news and book recs (old and new) from the world of SFF to your inbox.

And in case you missed them, we have giveaways running for a Nook Glowlight Plus and Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.

To enter the sci-fi & fantasy giveaway, go here, or just click the image below:

This giveaway is sponsored by HarperAudio, publisher of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

Take The Voyage of the Dawn Treader audio tour! Journey through an interactive map of audio excerpts from Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Caspian’s trip to the eastern end of the world in C. S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, then enter for a chance to win the ultimate Chronicles of Narnia prize pack! PLUS, take advantage of a limited time offer to buy the digital audio edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for $4.99 (70% off retail)!

This Prize Pack includes:

• Audiobook CD and hardcover editions of The Complete Chronicles of Narnia Box Set
• Skullcandy Headphones
• Travel Journal

Visit the site for details and official rules.

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A lot of people want to be writers. Probably more want to make money from writing. In Scratch, a wide range of authors talk about the side of writing that doesn’t get talked about enough: making cold hard cash.

Here’s the official synopsis:

A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world.

In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?

We’re giving away 5 copies of Scratch to Book Riot readers, thanks to our friends at BookBaby. One of these lucky winners will also win  $500 credit on any BookBaby order over $500. 

Go here to enter the giveaway, or just click the cover image below: