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In honor of Wawa's 50th birthday, we're posting Stopping by Wawa on a Snowy Evening, a poem found in Broetry by Brian McGackin.

You can also enter to win a copy in the Rafflecopter below. Enjoy! 

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Stopping by Wawa on a Snowy Evening

Is Wawa open? Yes or no?
We need to stop if it’s not closed
To stock up for the party. Shit!
But Wawa doesn’t sell beer, though.

I’m such an ass. I must admit
I’d completely forgotten it:
Convenience stores don’t sell booze here.
Now how the hell will we get lit?

We’ve only got two racks of beer
And one bottle of Everclear;
That’s just enough for maybe three
Or four of us. It would appear

That some of us will have to be
Spending the night alcohol-free.
I guess I’ll drink lemonade tea,
I guess I’ll drink lemonade tea.

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

Easter is this weekend. Me, I'm heading home to run around my house looking for Easter baskets and plastic eggs with my little nephews. Over the years, the difficulty in finding Easter swag at my parents' home has escalated from the obvious to the damn near impossible.

When I was five, the Easter baskets would sit in the middle of the living room. When I turned 30, they hid my basket under a loose board in the attic, which led to a lovecraftian portal to the nether realms. I found the basket, but was gone for thirty seven years in the Old Ones' time. I'm not sure where I was, but I am their king now.

But I digress. 

I've decided to celebrate here at Quirk, and I've hidden four Easter eggs around the Quirk Books website. They look that one, right there. If you find an Easter egg on the bottom of a page, there is a hidden Rafflecopter for you to enter, with some sweet bookish swag you can win.

Here are your hints!

One: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I solve crime. 

Two: Something Wookie this way comes… 

Three: Come on man, you should know this stuff! 

Four: I got a fever, and the prescription… is more cowbell. 

Good luck! 

Set phasers to… sweet Kindle deal? Is that a thing on phasers? Probably not. Whatever.

Today only, Night of the Living Trekkies by Sam Stall and Kevin David Anderson is on sale as a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99! So go pick up this thrilling zombie story, set during a Star Trek convention. 

And just in case you missed it, check out the amazing trailer. We were really proud of this one. 

Convention season is upon us, Quirk fans. And we are psyched. We love heading to these events, and spending time with all of you! 

This month, we're heading off to C2E2 in Chicago from April 25th to April 27th. You'll be able to find me and Nicole De Jackmo at Booth #520, selling books, giving away swag, and dishing out high fives galore. 

Now, on to what we've got planned.

SWAG: Over the course of the convention, we'll be giving away plenty of fun Quirk totebags (for you to lug all your other swag around in, of course) and tons of posters, including posters for The Empire Striketh Back, The Jedi Doth Return, How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity, and Nick & Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab. 

BOOKS: We're bringing plenty of our fan favorites, including signed copies of Ransom Riggs' Hollow City and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 

SIGNINGS: On Saturday, April 26th, some guy named Eric Smith will be signing copies of The Geek's Guide to Dating at 2:30pm at our booth.

And on Sunday, April 27th, Ian Doescher will be signing William Shakespeare's Star Wars and The Empire Striketh Back at 2:45pm. He'll also be on a panel from 1:15pm to 2:15pm in room S403. 

Another month, another bundle of giveaways!

This month, there are a lot of fun chances to win ARCs of books that aren't coming out until the Fall! This includes Nick & Tesla's Super Cyborg Gadget Glove by Science Bob and Steve Hockensmith, Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix, and William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher! 

You can also wrangle up some signed copies of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying by Carol Leifer by How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity by Patricia Carlin and Dustin Fenstermacher.

Finished copies of Tic-Tac-Tome by Willy Yonkers are also up for grabs. As always, if you're a blogger interested in scoring a copy of any of these, for your website, YouTube channel, whatever, feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected].

Here at Quirk, we like to laugh. As a publisher who takes a lot of joy in making people smile, comedy is important to us. So when comedy legend Carol Leifer's book found its way into our office… well, we just couldn't wait to publish it.

Now, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying is less than a week away, and we want to give you a chance to win a copy, as well as offer up some bits of wisdom from the book.

There are two ways to enter.

One, you can enter the Rafflecopter below by following us and Carol. Easy as that! We're giving away five books there.

Two, you can share some of the bits of wisdom here on Twitter. Tweet out one of these quote images with #HowtoSucceed and a link to the book's page (https://www.quirkbooks.com/howtosucceed). We'll pick five of you at random at the end of next week! And yes, you can enter multiple times. After all, we've got three images to share! The one up top, and the two right below.

Good luck!