Sunday, January 15, 2012

YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes!


The YAmazing Race is now officially OVER. Thanks to everyone who participated - grand prize winners will be posted tomorrow. Good luck!

Welcome to the starting line of the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes, presented by the Apocalypsies! Over the course of the race, you'll be introduced to over 50 debut YA and MG authors and their fabulous books. Are you up to the challenge?

Here's how it works:
-Once you've finished reading these fascinating rules, click on the link at the bottom of this post to start the race. At each author's stop, you'll find a synopsis of their book. Read it, remember it, drool over the pretty cover. When you're done, click on the link provided and jump to the next author.
-At the end of each Leg of the race, you'll be taken to a quiz with questions about the books you just met. And accuracy counts - the winners will be whoever gets the most questions correct!
-Once you complete a quiz, you will be given a link for the start of the next Leg. There are five Legs in all. You are welcome to run the race all at once, or do a couple of Legs and come back for the rest - pace yourself however you'd like! Speed does not matter. In case you want to break up the Legs or get tripped up along the way, here are the starting positions for each Leg of the race:
Leg 1
Leg 2
Leg 3
Leg 4
Leg 5

Rules of the Road:
-To be eligible to win, you must submit all five quizzes, and must provide your name and email address on each quiz.
-The race will run from 12:00pm EST on Monday, January 16th to 12:00pm EST on Monday, January 23rd. Any quizzes submitted before or after these times will not count.
-Winners will be posted here on the Apocalypsies blog on Tuesday, January 24th, and will also be notified by email.
-As stated above, speed doesn't matter; accuracy does. Take as much time as you need to complete the quizzes - go back and look for the answers if you need to. The winners, five in all, will be whoever gets the most number correct. If there is a tie, the winners will be chosen at random from those who got the most correct.
-Only one completed race per person, please.
-This contest is open internationally.
-If you run into any problems during the race, have any questions about the race, or need a medic, please click HERE to contact a race official.

Prizes:
There will be five prize packs, each featuring a mix of ARCs/finished copies, gift certificates, and more. The prizes generously donated by the participating Apocalpysies authors are:
-ARCs or finished copies of: THE GATHERING STORM, A BREATH OF EYRE, CRACKED, BORN WICKED, CROAK, WAY TO GO, OLDSOUL, THE BOOK OF WONDERS, UNRAVELING, INCARNATE, YOU CAN'T HAVE MY PLANET BUT TAKE MY BROTHER PLEASE, THE CABINET OF EARTHS, THE OTHER LIFE, WELCOME CALLER THIS IS CHLOE, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, THE BOY PROJECT, STORYBOUND, and THE MAPMAKER AND THE GHOST
-Gift certificates to: Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Indie Bound, Powell's, Bakka-Phoenix, and iTunes
-And: T-shirts, jewelry, a journal, a booklight, a CD, playing cards, and a 15pg critique
-Plus: TONS of signed bookplates, bookmarks, tattoos, postcards, stickers, and more! Literally, a truckload of stuff. You should already start clearing out a room in your house for all the goodies you've got a chance to win.

But wait! Bonus prizes!
Make sure to fully read each author's post, because there are plenty of bonus giveaways along the way, with chances to win even more prizes - more ARCs, more swag, more everything! We've got more booty than a pirate dressed as Jennifer Lopez! (Sorry about that visual.)

Okay. Are you ready to start? All carbo-loaded, stretched out your hammies?

Then take your mark, get set.........CLICK HERE!

25 comments:

  1. YAY! Thank you for this epic race! :D

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  2. Wow, this is quite an undertaking! Kudos to you guys for all your hard work, it will be lots of fun for the rest of us, and hopefully some good exposure for a lot of cool books! Thanks!

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  3. This sounds really fun. Thanks for all the hard work. I look forward to finding out more about the books I am familiar with and discovering new ones.

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  4. Wow, seriously fun race! Kudos for putting it together!

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  5. The only way this contest could be any cooler was if Phil Keoghan was standing on a mat, shirtless, telling me the rules.
    SO cool!!

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  6. I finished before 12 because I didn't know there was a time to start at first... but I'm going through and doing each quiz again... will it count??? Please. This was a great experience and I loved every second of it, and I loved learning about the different upcoming books.

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  7. Thanks so much for the awesome race - I just finished it! Learned about a lot of new debut books:)

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  8. Just finished as well, thank you! It was pretty entertaining. And now I have a few more books to add to my already overflowing to-read pile! ;)

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  9. Well, that was fun! My poor TBR list has grown tremendously. It's wild! hehehe

    Hope everyone has as much fun as I did doing this!

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  10. I hit "enter" on accident before I finished the last quiz. Is it okay if I submit it again?

    -Kim

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  11. Just crossed the finish line! Thanks so much for setting this up, it was such a great idea. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot about some new YA reads which I've now added to my wishlist. That line about the pirate Jennifer Lopez made me chuckle. Thanks again!

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  12. I got Book of wonders just fine..... usually I'm the one who gets a glitch LOL

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  13. just finished, thanks so much for this fun contest! Now I'm exhausted, going to cool down and read a book as my reward. ;D

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  14. Could you guys be more cute? I think not. *And the amazing contest award goes to...*

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  15. Book of Wonders post is up and running now - was having some technical issues! Are authors allowed to enter this race is so awesome I'm feeling jealous !

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  16. Coolest. Giveaway. EVER!
    Thank you so much for doing this! =D

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  17. I am getting an error on any thing that involves Google Docs. Did the first quiz but it errored out. Errored out when I tried to contact a Race Official.I suspect my PC so I'll save answers and links and try from home. And should I be scared that my verification word was Cultu which is far too close to Cthulu? LOL

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  18. Awesome race! I'm a bit windswept because I've just finished but it's so fun and it's a great opportunity for us to discover debut authors and their works. Thank you for doing this. :)

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  19. I really hope I didn't have to do the legs in order. I did 5 first and then went and did 1-4 in order afterwords. Hope that's okay. BTW It was so much fun, discovered lots of great books!

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  20. This was great! Can't wait to see final winners!

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  21. ARG!!! I missed it! Where was I when this was going on??

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