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Whoa! This week there are a few mega contests with multiple winners and big prizes. We’ll get right to the good stuff. This is the last week to enter our contest for Vampire Academy swag. There will be four winners and it’s open internationally. Score shirts, bookmarks and keychains. Get your name in the ring while you can. 25 books. 3 winners. Total awesomeness from in which a girl reads. Books up for... 
We’re leading with our contest, because, well, we’re super excited to be giving away anything related to Vampire Academy — especially new shirts to proclaim VA/Richelle Mead love. But since this post isn’t all about us, we’ve found a handful of other giveaways worth clicking to — most of which are open internationally. If you somehow missed it, we’re giving away four sets of official Vampire Academy... 
Vampire Academy fans can finally purchase official merchandise — shirts, bookmarks, keychains — from the series. While there are some great fan-made shirts out there, if you look hard enough, it’s much better to have the real-deal. These ones have been signed off on by Richelle Mead. She loves them. We love them. Now, you get to love them. (Jump to the giveaway.) The company creating and producing the new... 
Because we’re really excited for Mockingjay, the final chapter in the Hunger Games trilogy, to be released later this month, we’re giving the first two spots to Hunger Games-related contests. (Related: Waiting on Wednesday: Mockingjay) Win all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy — The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay — from Supernatural Snark. The contest is open through Aug. 17. Only open... 
The other night a reader asked us for book recommendations that would be worthy of re-reading. She told us she wanted to limit her budget, so she wanted books that wouldn’t just collect dust. It was all too easy for us to churn out series (and specific novel) suggestions for her. We opened it up to our Twitter followers, too, and many went with the same addictive series we did. Of course the first words... 
Last week Richelle Mead announced Vampire Academy has been optioned for a film by Preger Entertainment. (You may all cheer now.) Options are just that, though. The film is in the baby phase of producers pitching it to studios. So, while it may or may not happen (read Richelle’s reminder about not getting our hopes up), we can all start thinking about our dream cast. It’s time to play armchair casting... 
Happy 4th of July to my U.S. readers! (And an early happy Canada Day to our friends to the north. Those of you in outside North America, how’s your Sunday?) In honor of America’s Independence Day and the big fireworks displays we’ll be attending tonight, Vampire Book Club rounded up a handful of our favorite vampire novel plot fireworks — the moments that made you go “Yes, finally!” “Oh, God, no!” and the... 
I finished Succubus Dreams last night. It’s the third in the Georgina Kincaid series by my favorite author, Richelle Mead. First, let me say, I realize I haven’t been reviewing the first books in series thus far. I’m going to work to rectify that soon. I will write up a review of the first Georgina Kincaid book, Succubus Blues, in the near future. I’ll try to get everyone up-to-speed on the series... 
