EREADER CONTEST: Trucker vs Outcast Throwdown!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Bree

EDIT: WINNERS WILL BE POSTED SOON.

In the tradition of our Vampire Lumberjack/Werewolf Bootlegger contest and the Wilder’s Mate Kindle Contest, we’re back with another adventure across the blogosphere where we all get to discover awesome new blogs and have a rollicking good time.

The Whats & Whys

This week celebrates the first full novel release in the Children of the Undying series. Hammer Down involves the meeting of two strong people–a mercenary heroine who leads her own trucker crew, and a half-demon hero who leads an outcast settlement.

Instead of holding a boring contest on our blog, we decided it was time for another knock-down bare-fisted brawl. You get to choose the side you’d rather belong to and tell everyone who disagrees with you how very wrong they are. (And they are wrong. They are so wrong, they won’t even know how wrong until you tell them! Which you must. Often!)

And the grand prizes for this epic brawl pitting friend against friend?

That’s right! We’ll be picking one lucky warrior from each team to win their choice of a kindle touch, a nook simple touch or a kobo touch. So how do you get in on this brawl?

The Hows

Step One: Bloggers/Authors/Journalers Only

Declare your side! At the end of this post, you’ll find information about each team along with graphics and disclaimer text to create your own fighting post. You don’t have to have read the books to participate–all you have to do is pick a side!

Important: Once you’ve made your post, come back here and leave a comment with a link. That’s important for step two! Because we’re going to be sending a lot of people your way.

Step Two: Everyone

FIGHT! As posts are made declaring for one team or the other, I’ll be updating the master list of battlegrounds on this post. You enter to win by commenting on those posts–not by commenting here. Go to the people supporting your team and tell them how right they are. Go to the people supporting the opposite team and point out the obvious flaws in their logic. (Make up reasons. There’s no fact checking in war!)

Every comment on one of our participating bloggers’ posts will count as one entry. At the end of January, I’ll add up the number of comments on each post and use that to randomly draw one winning comment from each team. The person who left the comment wins their choice of the ereader prizes, and the blogger who posted the winning comment gets a $50 gift certificate to Amazon or Barnes & Noble as a reward for hosting a good fight.

Participating Blogs

Visit any (or all!) of the blogs below and leave a comment! Each blog you visit & comment on gives you another entry for the kindle, and you’ll get to explore a little more of the blogging community while you’re at it!

Team Trucker

Team Outcast

More About the Teams

Need more information before you pick a side? How about a little idea of who you’ll be siding with.

Devi: Devi is third-generation trucker and a human citizen in good standing. Human leaders pay her well to brave demon attacks while hauling goods between cities. Outcasts pay her even more to accept off-books trade missions. She’s loyal to her people, but fully capable of throwing you to the demons if you threaten those she cares about.

Juliet: Don’t even bother, macho men of the world. Her guns are bigger than yours, and she can use them. Juliet’s never come across a firearm she couldn’t master, and she’s seen her share. As Devi’s resident weapons expert, she’s at the front of any battle–and is usually the one to end it. Okay, maybe she has a secret in her past…but what mercenary doesn’t have secrets?

Tanner: Speaking of secrets… Tanner is the original man of mystery. He came from a mysterious training outpost in the southwest. He sometimes speaks Spanish. He could kill you with dental floss, if you have enough credits to find some dental floss after the apocalypse. Ladies, he’s a flirt. Feel free to ask him his sign–just don’t ask why he’s inhumanly fast.

Cache: One bad run-in with a demon can ruin your whole day. Cache lost her access to the human world when she was declared demon-tainted and lost her hearing when a back-alley doctor botched her network chip replacement, but she hasn’t let either setback stop her. If you get on her bad side she might just hack your brain. She can do that, you know.

Shane: Shane might not be able to hack your brain, but he could build you a new one out of wires and circuit boards. If it runs on electricity, Shane can build it, fix it or enhance. The city offered him a posh job, but a serious case of claustrophobia drove him to choose open-if-demon-infested freedom of the road over a life underground.

Zel: With a mother strong-willed enough to escape a demon’s clutches and a step-father capable enough to hold together an outcast enclave, Zel was raised to leadership. It’s too bad his demon nature is more suited to savagery than statesmanship. He’ll lead his people because it’s his duty, but he’d rather be punching someone in the face. Repeatedly.

Hailey: Hailey’s mother could summon demons. Her father was demon-spawn. She’s one of the first generation of hybrids, humans with strong demon and summoner blood mixing in their veins to create magical ability. Or, in her case, psychic ability. Hailey knows if you’ve been bad or good, and will make you regret it if you try to lie to her.

Lorenzo: Some halfblood demons are fighters. Some are lovers. Then there’s Lorenzo. Technically he’s only half-incubus, but that hasn’t stopped him from being 100% irresistible to women and men alike. He’s also the iron fist that will crush any halfblood caught using magic to cross the line between seduction and coercion.

Trip: Being mostly human doesn’t make you powerless–not when you’re a world class hacker in a network-dependent world. Whether it’s security, communication or entertainment, he’s the final word on computing in virtual reality among the outcasts. If you’re really nice to him, he might share his stash of pre-apocalypse music and movies, too.

Jai: Most halfblood outcasts were born to human women who escaped demons. Jai’s halfblood mother worshiped them as gods. There are probably more comfortable places to grow up than a demon hunting camp–Sparta and Hell being among them–but Jai has done his best to adjust to a life with human rules, even if he’s more demon than man.

Headers & Disclaimers for Bloggers

Here’s everything you need to make your own post. Feel free to copy any images, covers or biographies that you want to use to make your point! Your post should contain one of the header images, the disclaimer text (including the link back to this post, please, so they have access to the rules!), and any arguments you’d like to make about why you’d choose to be on Team Outcast or Team Trucker.

This post is part of Moira Rogers’s Post-Apocalyptic Trucker vs Outcast Showdown. A comment on this post will enter you to win your choice of a NOOK Simple Touch, or a Kindle Touch or Kobo Touch with special offers. For rules, details on more ways to enter or information on how to pick your own side, visit the contest page at Moira Rogers’s website.

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Rules & Disclaimers

1) Replying to this post does NOT constitute an entry. Comments on participating blogs are the only comments that will be considered. 2) Contest ends January 31st, 2012. 3) No purchase necessary to enter, void where prohibited, odds of winning dependent on number of entries. 5) Winners will be drawn between February 1st and February 14th, and prizes will be awarded in the form of gift-certificates to applicable outlets. No substitutions.

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