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Hey there Quirk fans! Welcome to the Quirk DIY Book Club!

I’m excited to announce this exciting new feature here on the Quirk Books blog. What are we doing? Well, every month we’re going to select a book from our library of fun DIY titles, from cookbooks to craftbooks, and do two very awesome things with that title.

ONE. It’ll be featured in our new Quirk Perks promotion, which will offer up a monthly eBook for $3.99 across all digital platforms. Grab it for your Kindle, Nook, iPad, whatever!

TWO. We’ll be giving away copies of that book here, and encouraging you to join in various challenges and contests. How can you join the fun? It’s easy.

The first book in the Quirk DIY Book Club is Breakfast for Dinner by Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth. You can snag one of TEN free copies by entering the Rafflecopter below. Winners will receive a copy of the book, and will be encouraged to send in photos of their recipes, which we will post here on the Quirk blog at the end of September. You’ll also be invited to pin along with us on our Pinterest page.

Our favorite submission in September will win a mini Quirk Books cookbook library. Pick five of our books, they’re yours!

We’re encouraging fun and creativity. Feel free to show us your own take on a recipe in the book, create a Breakfast for Dinner party, or just shoot some beautiful photographs.

Go ahead and enter the Rafflecopter below to enter to win a copy. Winners will be notified via email, and will be sent a copy of the book to join in the fun. Didn’t win the giveaway? You can still pick up Breakfast for Dinner for $3.99, and play along. This includes the amazing enhanced version of the book, which you can grab in the Apple iBookstore.

Be sure to like Quirk DIY on Facebook and follow the community on Twitter (@QuirkDIY). It’s the only way you’ll learn about the cookbook club, and about our awesome new deals!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

We're psyched to announce our new Quirk Perks program!

Starting this month, we're going to be dishing out monthly deals on an array of our books, from science fiction to cookbooks, horror novels to craftbooks, all from our communties Planet Quirk and Quirk DIY.

The plan? Two eBooks a month, one in each community. You'll be able to get these eBooks through the retailer of your choice. Your Kindle, Nook, iPad, whatever! 

You'll be able to find these individual monthly deals via our Quirk Books communities, Quirk DIY and Planet Quirk, so be sure you're following them on Twitter and Facebook. 

Quirk DIY: Twitter + Facebook

Planet Quirk: Twitter + Facebook

So what's on tap for the first batch of Quirk Perks? Check it out! 

BREAKFAST FOR DINNER by Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth ($3.99): Inside Breakfast for Dinner you’ll find more than 100 classic breakfast recipes made with a twist. Enjoy hearty dishes like Bacon Fried Rice, Breakfast Ravioli, Pizza over Easy, and Cornmeal Pancakes with Beer-Braised Short Ribs—to name just a few.

This cookbook is a breakfast lover’s dream come true. Note, that this promotion also includes the incredible enhanced eBook edition of Breakfast for Dinner, available in the Apple iBookstore. 

AMAZON / BARNES & NOBLE / IBOOKSTORE / INDIEBOUND

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PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen ($3.99): The New York Times bestselling mashup that launched a literary genre, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 

As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.

What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers-and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.

AMAZON / BARNES & NOBLE / IBOOKSTORE / INDIEBOUND / KOBO

PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen ($3.99)

AMAZON / BARNES & NOBLE / IBOOKSTORE / INDIEBOUND / KOBO

The New York Times bestselling mashup that launched a literary genre, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 

As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.

What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers-and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.

BREAKFAST FOR DINNER by Lindsay Landis and Taylor Hackbarth ($3.99)

AMAZON / BARNES & NOBLE / IBOOKSTORE (ENHANCED EDITION!) / INDIEBOUND

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