Five Days of Quirkmas: Win a Quirk Fiction Pack

published by Eric Smith on December 23, 2011 - 12:18pm
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Contest Closed! Thank you!

Well, this is the last holiday giveaway. Today we're giving you a chance to win all our fiction titles, including our mashups and Taft 2012, which isn't due out until January. I'm also tossing in some posters with a couple of the books... which includes a special, limited edition signed Miss Peregrine poster.

Now, you might notice us go quiet over the next week or so here on the website, Twitter, Facebook... but we'll be back! We're all taking a nice holiday break and returning January 2nd.

See you next year, book lovers!

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs: The New York Times bestselling YA smash. I'll include a signed poster with this!

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Seth Graham Smith: The original mashup that helped usher in a new literary genre.

Bedbugs by Ben Winters: A young couple's dream home is crawling with bedbugs... or is it? Rosemary's Baby meets the Amityville Horror in Ben Winters' horror story of supernatural bedbugs.

Taft 2012 by Jason Heller: A Rip Van Winkle-esque tale of William Howard Taft. Reawakening in our time and thrust into the primaries, Taft adjusts to our world with hilarious and often times heartwarming results.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steven Hockensmith: The New York Times bestselling prequel to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. How did the Bennett sisters become such fierce warriors? Hockensmith tells their story.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith: When Mr. Darcy is bitten by a dreadful, Lizzy goes on an epic quest to find a cure for her beloved.

Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters by Ben Winters: What happens when the Dashwood sisters run into giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, and two-headed sea serpents? Ben Winters' New York Times bestselling Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters does.

Android Karenina by Ben Winters: An enhanced edition of the literary classic... with robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

The Meowmorphosis by Coleridge Cook: "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten." That's all you need to know.

Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall: A rag-tag team of Star Trek fans get caught up in a zombie attack at a Trekkie convention.

How can you win? Leave a comment that either 1.) Details how you would survive in a zombie uprising or 2.) What your 'peculiar' superpower would be. You can also simply retweet this post while mentioning @quirkbooks. I'll select one of you at random for a bag full of Quirk fiction goodness.

Note: Make sure you leave your email so I can contact you!

Good luck, and happy holidays everyone!

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Submitted by Rachee (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:31pm
My superpower would be time travel. I am always in need of a do-over.

Submitted by Mollie (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:37pm
englishchick@gmail,com My peculiar superpower would be the ability to be able to make disgusting foods taste good. So if you hate spinach, I can make it taste like chocolate.

Submitted by Misha Vysotskiy... (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:38pm
My power can be summed up with this statement: life is hard, so let's make it a little more complicated. I can take a choice between two options and add a third. I can answer a yes or no question with another question. I can obfuscate the significance of myriad syntactic verbal juxtapositions at will. Wait, is that considered more than one power? Nah, It's the same one. My 'kryptonite'? Occam's Razor, of course.

Submitted by April S. (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:41pm
I would hole up in the local fire station. I live in a very small town, so much like Hershel's farm on The Walking Dead, I believe I would be safe there, at least for a while during the initial outbreaks. Beyond that, one would have to suss out the current conditions.

Submitted by Rasmus Pedersen (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:42pm
I would find as much food and weapons as i could and find a nice secluded place. killing everything in sight on the way :) Christmas Love from Denmark :) Rasmus Tingogsager@hotmail.com

Submitted by Rory Gascoigne (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:45pm
I personally think the best 'peculiar' superpower to have would be the ability to cure zombies upon contact with them. This way, if situation 1.) ever did come about I would be able to charge into a crowd of the undead kicking and punching and send healthy humans flying out of the brawl. Not only would it help slow the outbreak but it would also look pretty awesome too. In the unlikely event that there is never a zombie outbreak I would simply be able to live a normal life.

Submitted by Cait (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:46pm
Considering my debilitating fear of all things undone, zombies are a particularly scary sort being undead and all. I would survive the uprising as I have survived all scary things in the past - hole up in my bedroom with kitty and a machete and read, read, read until it's over. 10 Quirk books, a machete, and a kitty named Gladys is how I would survive a zombie uprising.

Submitted by Nikki (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:46pm
I wish I could say I'd do well during a zombie uprising, but I'd just be kidding myself. I would certainly be one of the first to go! I have no natural survival instincts and my three dogs would surely bring every zombie for miles to my front door with their barking! :)

Submitted by Cait (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:48pm
cait.day@gmail.com (I'm the one that needs books, a machete, and a kitty named Gladys to survive a zombie uprising)

Submitted by Kim (not verified) on December 23, 2011 - 12:50pm
Not to steal from Zombieland, but my survival plan is simply cardio, cardio, cardio. (And of course, enjoying the little things. :)

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