win a prize pack from the future hit movie ‘The Looking Glass War’
WIN: one of two copies of the new fantasy novel -- and soon to be movie -- The Looking Glass War, with bonus book soundtrack, containing music inspired by the book
HOW: send an email with your U.S. mailing address and the name of your favorite character from Alice in Wonderland
THE RULES: Here's a gimme contest for ya: No need to be funny or clever -- all you need to do to enter is click to send an email. If you have not won a prize in one of my caption contests or gimme giveaways in 2006*, and you have a United States mailing address, you're eligible to win. (*Micropatrons who've snagged some exclusive micropatron goodies are eligible to win.) One entry per person.
In the vein of Harry Potter and Eragon comes The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor, an intriguing new fantasy novel that tells the “real” story about Alice and the realm of Wonderland... a story that Lewis Carroll got totally wrong. As with the Harry Potter books, it’s pretty dark, as kids’ books go, with surprising levels of violence and plenty of death -- though there’s nothing terrible explicit in the depiction of any of it, it doesn’t pretend that the world (ours or that of Wonderland) is a particularly pleasant place to live. With lots of action and clever twists on the Wonderland characters we’ve known forever, this is an entertaining read, and is sure to make a terrific movie.
The book has also spawned a graphic novel, Hatter M., about the gentleman-warrior who is Princess Alyss Heart’s bodyguard -- you can learn more about that, and about the world of The Looking Glass Wars, at the book’s official site. (There’s also a MySpace dedicated to Alyss.)
The celebrate the book’s release this week, I’ve got two copies -- as well as two copies of the CD soundtrack, a collection of songs based on the book -- to give away, courtesy of Penguin Publishing. Here’s what Penguin says about the book:
A little girl named Alice tumbled down a rabbit hole and proceeded to have a charming adventure in the delightful, made-up world of Wonderland...Now discover the truth behind Alyss of Wonderland . . .Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home. But Carroll had gotten it all wrong. He even misspelled her name! If not for royal bodyguard Hatter Madigan's nonstop search to locate the lost princess, Alyss may have become just another society woman sipping tea in a too-tight corset instead of returning to Wonderland to fight Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
Meet the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52's and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and travel across the Chessboard Desert.
The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, sleepy dormice, and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.
If you don’t want to wait to win, buy the book at Amazon.
YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR U.S. MAILING ADDRESS. Entries without an address will be disqualified. Entries without the name of a character will be disqualified. Multiple entries will ALL be disqualified.
NOTE: Your email address and mailing address will be used ONLY for contest purposes. You will not be added to any mailing lists; you will not be spammed as a result of entering. All contest entries are discarded at the end of the contest period.
I’ll choose two winners at random from all eligible entries received.
Deadline: 11:59pm Eastern time, Friday, October 13.
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