Giveaway Time!

A few weeks back, I polled people on what they'd like to win on a blog giveaway.

Here are the results. There were a total of 82 people who voted, and people could vote more than once.

54% gift cards for books
10% gift cards for other stuff
34% books
32% ARCs
18% writing stuff
8% hand-crafted item
19% random stuff (like plush microbes!)
25% critiques

I have a few things to celebrate.

• a new blog design (Thank you Smitten Blog Designs!)
• the new title of my book, CONTROL
• ...which found itself onto a book blog, Head Stuck In A Book. Cool. 
• And it's now on a Brazilian social network for book lovers, SKOOB. Excelente!

But most of all, I want to celebrate you guys. I took a 3 week blogging break in May, and I came back more appreciative of the blogging community than ever before. I missed you guys.

So I picked the top four most-requested giveaway items. Here they are!

**A first 5 pages or query critique**

**A $15 Amazon gift card**

**Your choice of one of the following books:**

AAAAND...**an ARC of Elizabeth Richard's fall debut, BLACK CITY!**
 (which is excellent, btw!)

A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war. In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable--they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash's long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they're caught, they'll be executed--but their feelings are too strong. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.

Here's the Rafflecopter method of entry, and I tried to make it as painless as possible. No need to copy and past links. Honor system, folks!

a Rafflecopter giveaway