I think my notification e-mail must have been lost in spam. I still need to hear from:

Courtney Ostaff – Heart of Steel ARC
Erica Anderson – set of Guardian novels
Taylor Lunsford – set of Guardian novels

Please go to my giveaway page and enter your mailing addresses ASAP! If I don’t hear from you by the 28th, I’m sorry — I’ll either have to re-draw or send my editor the winners’ addresses without including yours.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Thanks to the power of random.org, the winners are:

#138 – Alisha (My Need to Read)
#164 – Anya
#43 – willaful
#88 Ashley C.
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy the book!

Winners: YOU MUST! go to my giveaways page and enter your mailing information before October 5th, or I will redraw another winner to receive your copy.

Everyone: Remember to come back within a day or two. I will be having a giveaway for Angels of Darkness soon!

Please note: If you are reading this somewhere other than Meljean’s official blog, please go there to enter. Comments at other sites will not be counted as entries.

It’s that time again! I have four (4) ARCs of HEART OF STEEL to give away on this blog. No hoops to jump through — you just have to comment before midnight on Sunday, September 25th to enter. But! there is a small catch.

These are advance review copies, and I’d really love it if they were used as such. So if you win one, please review it somewhere by the week of November 1st: on your blog, on an online bookseller’s site, Goodreads or Library Thing, wherever. I’m not asking for positive reviews, or even detailed reviews — just reviews. If you don’t think you can read it by November, please pass on these advance copies; I intend to give away several final copies when the book is released, so you can try again, then. (If you want to be reminded of the release, you can sign up for the Postcard Mailing List or the Email Newsletter.)

About the ARCs: these are the yellow-covered bound copies, and are copy-edited, but they haven’t gone through that final proofreading pass. That means that there are more errors than in a final version, and that some dialogue, sentences, and descriptions are different than will be in the final version. There are no substantial differences in plot, characters, or any of the scenes. If you have any questions while reading, I’ll be more than happy to answer and/or send you the corrected passage, if applicable.

About HEART OF STEEL: This is the second full-length novel in my steampunk romance series, The Iron Seas. To read a description and an excerpt, go here. To learn more about steampunk, click here, and you can read about the alternate history of the Iron Seas world here.

So, the rules: Comment by 11:59:59 PM Pacific time on 9/25/2011 for your chance to win. Four winners will be selected randomly using random.org, and their names posted on this blog 9/26/2011. Winners must provide Meljean with their mailing address by October 5, 2011 or the winner will be re-drawn! Only one entry per ISP address. The contest is open to international readers. No purchase necessary to enter, but a good faith effort to review the book by the release date is deeply appreciated. Odds of winning depend on number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

***Winners!***
#11 Ebony M.
#14 Misty L.
#24 rissatoo
Congratulations!!

And, whee! Ilona isn’t the only one with a recent self-pubbed release! Jill Myles has, too (and if you’ve missed her fun & sexy contemporary novel, WICKED GAMES, it’s currently FREE at Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords. I don’t read many contemporary romances (with the exception of my guilty-pleasure HPs) and I especially avoid them if they are humorous, but Jill’s voice simply clicks for me, and I enjoyed the hell out of this book. And … FREE!!)

But her latest is a tale of another sort (and I haven’t had a chance to read it, either *sob*)…

When a car accident takes Leah Sunderland’s life, she finds herself in dire need of divine assistance. Her fairy godmother comes to the rescue, but her help comes with conditions. As a fairy godmother, the only assistance she can offer deals with (you guessed it) fairy tales. To win a second chance at life, Leah must play out the tale of The Little Mermaid.

Armed with a mermaid tail and nothing else (not even a voice!), she has one month to make a nobleman fall in love with her, or else she’ll die permanently. But the nobleman she must seduce is a hard, fierce warlord who thinks she’s a spy and the mistress of his enemy.

Can she win him over before the thirty days are up? Or is she in danger of losing her heart as well as her life?

So, who wants to win a copy? I’ll be happy to use Amazon’s or All Romance Ebook’s gifting feature to send the book to three winners — you just have to comment before Monday night to enter!

The small print stuff: Submit a comment before 11:59 PM PST on September 19th, 2011 to be entered into the drawing. Winners will be randomly chosen via random.org, and contacted on September 20th, 2011 via the e-mail address provided. International entries are welcome. Only one entry per household. Duplicate entries will be deleted. No purchase necessary to enter. Odds of winning depend upon number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

***Winners!***
#20 Nicole
#44 XxxXLozXxxX
#50 Kelly Mueller
Congratulations!!

Incredible author and friend Ilona Andrews has a new science fiction romance novella out, which is always cause for celebration! I love, love her work, and although I haven’t had a chance to read this one yet, I loved the previous book in the series, SILENT BLADE, and the excerpt she posted on her site.

Claire Shannon is a Kinsman, a woman gifted with enhanced mental capabilities. Her skills and her life were taken over by the military to fight in war that has raged on her home planet for decades. But as the war ends, she is forced to hide her abilities in order to make a new life for herself as a civilian. It’s a new persona, a new planet and new job that has her crossing paths with the powerful and alluring Venturo Escana. Is she strong enough to hide her true nature from her perceptive new boss? And as they grow closer, will she even still want to try?

So, who wants to win a copy? I’ll be happy to use Amazon’s gifting feature to send the book to three winners — you just have to comment before Monday night to enter!

(Sorry if you are a nook user! B&N doesn’t have a gifting option, or I’d totally use that store, too — and it’s not yet available at All Romance ebooks Don’t forget that you can also read a Kindle book on your desktop or smartphone, however!)

International readers: I think I can send this to you. If not, we’ll work something out!

The small print stuff: Submit a comment before 11:59 PM PST on September 19th, 2011 to be entered into the drawing. Winners will be randomly chosen via random.org, and contacted on September 20th, 2011 via the e-mail address provided. International entries are welcome. Only one entry per household. Duplicate entries will be deleted. No purchase necessary to enter. Odds of winning depend upon number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

Look for the giveaway beginning on Monday — and combined with the Goodreads chat giveaway, will be a total of eleven Heart of Steel ARCs that we’ll be giving away next week. The picture also includes cover flats for the mass market edition of The Iron Duke; I’ll be giving those away on Monday, too.

You don’t have to wait that long to enter to win an ARC, however. The Book Binge is having a giveaway of their own.

In other news, Demon Marked got an awesome review at AAR this morning. If you want to give the book a try but are worried you’ll be lost, don’t forget that I have a Guardian primer that can catch you up on everything you need to know before starting Demon Marked.

Sorry this is late! I will only say: family visiting + holiday = OMG WHY. Thank you to everyone who entered, and for your patience!

On to the names! Thanks to the power of random.org, I have this list of winners! (If you have a common name, please check the original post and the comment number to make certain it’s yours.)

#116 – Lisa Dennin
#174 – Na
#43 – DawnI
#208 – Mikki-Mano
#11 – Christina Irelan
#112 – JC
#127 – Jolene A
#9 – Megan
#114 – Laura Wilson
#220 – DeAnna
#59 – Julie S.
#211 – Kristin/My Bookish Ways
#218 – emmad
#130 – Emily W
#139 – kaetrin

Congratulations! Winners, please go to my giveaway page and enter your mailing information.

For those of you waiting for books/winnings/trading cards, they are on their way! The post office and I are quite good friends this week.

Sorry, the contest is now closed! Please check back tomorrow for the list of winners.

Look at what arrived on my doorstep today!

But I can’t keep all of these books. I have several that I’m setting aside for other blog contests and giveaways, but most of them will need to go ASAP. I’m guessing that you all can help me out with that. I’m giving away fifteen (15) copies to random winners who comment below.

Sorry, the contest is now closed! Please check back tomorrow for the list of winners.

So, what is Demon Marked about? It’s the seventh (and penultimate) novel in the Guardian series, but if you haven’t read any of the books before, don’t worry! There’s a primer to bring you up to speed on the general stuff, and the heroine, Ash, has no idea what’s going on, either — so you can learn about the world with her.

You can read a description of the book here and an excerpt here.

Yay! Thanks to the power of random.org, we have our three winners!

#21 DianaW – Demon Marked
#84 lynnd – Angels of Darkness
#106 Kaikes – Angels of Darkness

Winners, please go to my giveaway page and enter your mailing info. Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who entered! I will have more giveaways closer to the release date, so even if you didn’t win here, I should have a lot to give away soon!