Contest: Celebrate Summer and the Bard!

Thanks to the nice folks at Hachette I have 5 copies each of two different books to giveaway. The first- My Name is Will by Jess Winfield- is due out in July. The other- Off Season by Ann Rivers Siddon- is a paperback re-issue so if you missed it last year, now's your chance. The rules are simple, and I'll draw the names on July 15. Think you're interested? Here's the blurb from Hachette on Will: (I haven't read it yet myself, but will post a review as soon as I get my review copy):

A Tale of two Shakespeares... Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of... Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard's life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome... This, at a time when adherents of the "Old Faith" are being hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors. Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the 'Shakespeare' each is destined to come... but the very course of history itself.

I read Off Season last year, and found it different from earlier Siddons books, but the Maine and DC settings are both familiar and therefore attractive to me, and the plot twists and turns were quite breathtaking. Even the ending was different from what I've come to expect from Siddons. If you're a fan of lost love, Maine beaches, and introspective, thought-provoking prose, you'll love this one. So...........how to win. Here are the rules: For each book you want to win, leave a separate comment below. and tell me which book you want to win in each entry. Please make sure to leave your e-mail address if not visible in your blogger profile. (if you're worried about spam, you can leave the address as yourname (at)whatever (dot)com.) You don't have to have a blog to enter, but I have to have a way to get in touch with you off post. For extra entries, you can do one or all of the following - please leave a separate comment for each:

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The deadline to enter is July 17, 2009, 11:59pm EST. I'll select the five winners for each randomly and notify you by email. If you don't acknowledge within 72 hours, I'll draw another winner. Sorry, but this is open only to residents of U.S. or Canada. No P.O. box addresses, please. One book per person. Winners will receive their prizes directly from Hachette Book Group. Good luck!