Two words: Killer Unicorns. Two more words: Out Today. One last word: OMGit'sanamazingbookgoreadit. Yes, I've been waiting for this book to come out for AGES. In fact, when Diana and I first became critique partners back during NaNoWriMo in 2005, she was working on
Rampant and I was working on The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Which I why I'm just to ecstatic that both our books have come out in the same year! Squee!
So
Rampant is about killer unicorns -- we thought they were extinct and they're not; we thought they were fluffy and rainbow farting and they're not. They're vicious and can only be killed by virgin descendants of Alexander the Great. This book is packed with action while at the same time dealing with so many huge issues that affect all of us (not just teens). How do you figure out who you are and what you want in the world? How do you balance everything thrown at you? What choices do you make?
This book is tremendously thoughtful in addition to being totally thrilling. It's a gorgeously layered book and I'm so excited it's finally out so I can share it with everyone!
Speaking of sharing it with everyone,
I'm going to give away two personalized/autographed copies of Rampant. To enter, post a comment on my blog or LJ telling me if you're team zombie or team unicorn (if you want to explain why, that's awesome). If you want more than one entry, tweet (+1) or blog (+1) about Rampant or this giveaway. There's also an AWESOME video for Rampant at
www.killerunicorns.org so I'll give another point for linking (+1) or tweeting (+1) to that. Just make sure to post a comment letting me know about the tweets and blog posts!
Contest closes Friday night! Thanks everyone for celebrating the release of Rampant with me and congratulations Diana!!!
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119 comments:
I am totally team zombie... sorry Unicorns. Maybe once I read Rampant, I will change my mind.
Maybe
~2mara
tomaraa@gmail.com
Can I be TEAM ZOMBIE UNICORNS?
Ok if not, I'm Team Zombie all the way. ;) Yay for Diana! Can't WAIT to read RAMPANT.
Re-Tweeted @Emily_YA
In deference to my childhood, I have to go with Team Unicorn.
I retweeted your twitter message about Rampant. I'm on team unicorn. }:)
OMG I am COMPLETELY team Zombie! You could date a hot zombie...you can't date a hot killer unicorn...unless you were a killer unicorn yourself...and that's assuming killer unicorns actually date...
So, yeah Team Zombie FTW!
And I'm tweeting this up like there's no tomorrow (@DevonHernandez).
Sent out a RT about your contest(Alexia561)
I'm on Team Unicorn! Sorry zombies...
I was Team Zombie, but only because I didn't know there was a Team Unicorn until the other day, so I'm switching over! :)
I am Team unicorn due to my love of the cartoon and the movie Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry.
Zombies scare me! *shudder* But I love your zombies. ;)
Team Unicorn because of this awesome comic: http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF103-Nice_Shirt.gif
Re-tweeted at @garythellama
garythellama [at] gmail [dot] com
Team Zombie!!!
+1 Posted about it here: http://lorilaws.blogspot.com/2009/08/rampant-giveaway.html
+1 Also linked the video!
pureimagination77(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Hum I'm torn now. For now I'll say Team Unicorns, but only because I love them ever since The Last Unicorn. I'm completely intrigued by this twist though!
Blogged about it: http://twistedquill.blogspot.com/2009/08/killer-unicorns.html
Also linked the really awesome PSA. It was so cool. I love that unicorns growl, and kill.
Even though I haven't read either book (yours or Diana's) (I know! What am I waiting for??) I'm all for team zombie! Love them.
One of my favorite movies is Land of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead! :)
Although.. killer unicorns sound pretty fun!
Congrats on your release, Diana!!
Tweeted about the unicorn video! (@omgitswendy) pretty cool.
Woot! Have been so looking forward to getting my hands on this book!
Comment: Team Unicorns! Your book kept me up with fear for 3 nights, thats how creepy good it was. +1
Tweet Giveaway: @lights_aurora +1
https://twitter.com/lights_aurora/status/3536191255
Tweet link to video: +1
http://twitter.com/lights_aurora/status/3536245801
Blog Giveaway: +1
http://whatacrazythinks.blogspot.com/2009/08/autographed-copies-of-rampant-contest.html
Video Link: on blog +1
the_lights_aurora@me.com
Team Zombie all the way.
bbricke AT yahoo DOT com
Team Zombie - I am always thinking of what my plan would be if the zombie apocalypse started...right now!
I guess I'm team unicorn because I use to love and collect them when i was a little girl.
+1 I also retweeted yours about this giveaway (justkeepreading)
foltzsfantasticbooks(at)gmail(dot)com
TEAM ZOMBIE!
OMG I would love to read this book. As far as teams, it would depend on my mood. Team Zombie if I'm bad; and Team Unicorn if I'm good.
I also retweeted @wendyreads09.
Thanks.
Wendy C.
lulubee183@hotmail.com
I'm Team Unicorn, even though I love to be scared of Zombies, I'd still much rather meet a Killer Unicorn, they are at least beautiful to look at.
Can't wait to read Rampant and the Dead-tossed Waves, Loved FH&T.
hfort12(at)aol(dot)com
If I'm going to be killed by a zombie or a unicorn, I'd rather it be a unicorn. At least then I'd know the suffering was actually going to come to an end. Plus they're pretty. So, team unicorn.
While I appreciate zombies, they scare me. Really, really scare me. So by default I guess I'm team unicorn.
I tweeted about the giveaway and the video, but it was all in the same tweet. So I'm not sure how much it counts for.
http://twitter.com/Cornucopiaofluv/status/3536703601
-Lizzy
Cornucopiaofreviews@gmail.com
mmmm which would be a better way to die? Ravaged by a zombie or unicorn? At least a unicorn would be pretty to look at as my final sight. So I'll go with team Unicorn (and keep my fingers crossed I can enter as I'm in the UK).
I am Team Unicorn! My colleagues and I have had many Twitter conversations about them - in various forms. :)
Team Unicorn all the way!
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/lilbookworm/status/3536919553
Ooh, Rampant sounds awesome, so I'm gonna say team unicorn.
hauntingorchid (at) aol (dot) com
Team Unicorn. Because you can ride them and you can't ride zombies.
Also tweeted about the contest!
http://twitter.com/aflightofminds/status/3536879306
Thanks!
Alex & Lauren at aflightofminds(at)hotmail(dot)com
Team Zombie all the way!
I posted a link to your contest and a link to the video on my blog:
http://jena.wanderlust.ws/
Team Unicorns, because if I have to chose between being killed by one or the other, I'd prefer the one that didn't smell like death.
I'm team unicorn. I have a soft spot for unicorns once I saw The Last Unicorn. Of course I don't know how I would feel once the unicorn starts to gore people!
lesly7ch(at)yahoo(dot)com
team zombie. however, i'm interested in reading about this unusual unicorn breed.
vvb32 at yahoo.com
Team zombie, all the way! I love zombies, they embody a plethora of my favorite topics; plagues, pathology, post-apocalyptic society, and action, action, action! They're also quite inspiring in the artistic realm. :)
Killer unicorns are awesome too, don't get me wrong. I'm stoked to read both books! XD
zombiegirrrl21 at aol dot com
P.S. I don't know if this worth extra points or not, but I linked your contest on my sidebar here. ^_^
I'm Team Unicorn, for sure!
+1 on my twitter here:
http://twitter.com/KristaCarmen
Thank you, my email is
kristacole64(at)yahoo(dot)com
I'm team zombie. Because...they're zombies.
tweeted about it (@opinionatedme12)
I'm definately Team Unicorns. Zombies just are ...
:) Erica
thebookcellar@wi.rr.com
I am definitely Team Unicorn, as I am part of a group of twitter librarians who somehow took to calling ourselves #teamunicorn. It had something to do with immortality and decorating a nursery. I think.
Retweeted @amandamcneil
I'd love a signed copy! (Though, I'm going to pick one up after work, so I can get started reading asap!)
BTW, Team Unicorn: My own unicorn characters might have a problem if I didn't support them.
Let's tally my extra points:
+1 Tweeted about RAMPANT: @sam_elliott
+1 Tweeted about the video: @sam_elliott
i think i am team unicorns. zombies freak me out too much. can't wait to read a book about them!
meaghan_koci (at) yahoo (dot) com
I can't really say, I love them both...but for now, Team Zombie I guess.
-Lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
A deep, deep love of a childhood book called The Baby Unicorn has me firmly in camp unicorn. I'm so excited to read Rampant : )
Also, retweeted @bookbrig
Team Unicorn, even if they are killers :)
Team Unicorn, definitely.
Who wants to be killed by a rotting, oozing hunk of flesh?
To enter, post a comment on my blog or
Sorry, but for the moment I have to say Team Zombie. Although, I really think reading Rampant will change my mind.
+1 tweeted
https://twitter.com/neshelf/status/3540012565
+1 tweeted about video
https://twitter.com/neshelf/status/3540096527
Kate
neverendingshelf@gmail.com
The kid in me is saying Team Unicorn, but the fantasy lover in me is screming Team Zombie. I'm torn.
+1 Tweeted: http://twitter.com/SamanthaLeAnne/statuses/3540461759
+1 Tweeted the video http://twitter.com/SamanthaLeAnne/statuses/3540616594
HarlequinTwilight@gmail.com
Right now, I'd have to say Team Zombie, because I LOVE George Romero!
But I may have to change my opinion after reading RAMPANT ;). You've definitely piqued my interest! Thanks!
legacyoftheempress(at)gmail(dot)com
*chuckles* team unicorn for me. :)
I already sent the unicorn flick around the office to horrify a unicorn lover. She doesn't want to read the evil book, but I do.
Great contest! Team Unicorn(:
Thanks for the contest;
Kelsey
kelseythebookscout@gmail.com
So far on team Zombie, but this could change once I read Rampant :)
Team zombie, definitely.
Travis
spongyman1026@yahoo.com
Unicorn blood helped Voldermort not be as miserable while he was attached to Quirrell.
Team Zombie.
Because Shaun of the Dead made me laugh so hard I cried.
After reading the Rampant preview on HarperTeen, i'm all about team unicorn! It's so amazing already, and that was only the first bit!
+1 - RT'ed (@thatwemightfly)
+1 - Blogged (cassandrabrownwrites.blogspot.com) and linked to the video on Diana's site
Thanks!
This sounds so good! I would automatically say team zombie but if they are killer unicorns well there's a chance... I'll have to read it to see! Can't wait!!
+1 comment
+1 added to blog
+1 added video link
www.wrightysreads.blogspot.com
5wrights1[at]verizon[dot]net
Team Zombie. They are just fantastic. Hilarious and terrifying all at the same time.
I'm tweeting away (@loramae) and will post on the blog as well!
Team Unicorn! Although they're killer creatures in Rampant, they've always been magical beings. You could pet a unicorn, but not an Unconsecrated.
+1 tweet! (@EllaPress)
I am Team Zombie completely. But then, I haven't read Rampant yet, so I'm a little biased.
I would have to be team unicorn. People know enough to avoid zombies, but unicorns can be sneaky and lure people in.
With a doubt, Team Unicorn. Way more magical.
+1 I tweeted at @jpetroroy
+1 Linked to killer Unicorns via the same tweet https://twitter.com/jpetroroy/status/3547206336
JenP
jpetroroy@gmail.com
Hmmm...hard to choose. I try not to generalize. Who's to say that there isn't a really nice zombie or unicorn despite the evil goat-eating ones that it may have been your lot to meet? It could just be bad luck.
I'm going Team Zombie because really they are just hungry and don't know any better.
Retweeted!
Cari
neohippy10 hotmail
Team Unicorn. Zombies are too messy, they leave too many parts lying around.
Posted on sidebar here: http://donnasbloghome.blogspot.com/
And linked the awesome PSA here: http://donnasbloghome.blogspot.com/2009/08/gordian-pharmaceuticals-public-service.html
bacchus76 at myself dot com
I'm team unicorn. Sounds nicer than a zombie.
wandanamgreb (at) gmail (dot) com
Have not heard about this book, but definitely adding it to my list. Who could pass up a book about killer unicorns?
Team Zombie
I did not tweet, but I facebooked a link to the contest, and video. Hope it counts
I also blogged about the contest, & put it in my sidebar
http://pageturners-underthecover.blogspot.com/2009/08/rampant-giveaway.html
Thanks!
Pixie
weblogbooks@gmail.com
I'm Team ZomBIE! because I like how the word sounds scary just to say it, AND whenever I act like one it scares my friend Rhys, lol!
+1 tweeted
(http://twitter.com/BellaFranco)
+1 tweeted www.killerunicorns.org
(http://twitter.com/BellaFranco)
~Bella
iroquois.girl@yahoo.com
Can I claim to be a pacifist, and NOT choose a team?
Carrie (or should I say Ms. Ryan?),
I picked up your book after it was recommended by a fellow Shelfari member. I'm a terribly slow reader, but finished it in just a couple of days. I'm also a bookseller for a major retailer, and have asked my manager to order in multiple copies for an "Employee Recommendation" display. (Yes, I'm happy to say, the order has been approved.)
I'd love to find something else to recommend following your book. Perhaps Rampant could be it!
Thanks for the Info,
venetianfirefly
I have written an entry in my blogs, and provided a link to your promotional post, announcing the give-away at both:
http://venetianfirefly.blogspot.com/
http://venetianfirefly.livejournal.com/
Best of luck to all!
I'm team Unicorn, just because I love those animals.. Maybe reading Rampant made me change my opinion?
+1 Blog about this giveaway
http://todoesfacilsi.blogspot.com/2009/08/sorteo-rampant.html
+1 For the link of the video
sheere.dry@gmail.com
Team Zombie! Why not Team Unicorn?I just never saw the point Sorry! Unicorns must get fed up with that joke - maybe that's why they started to kill ?
I'm willing to be converted though (as long as I can switch back when The Dead Tossed Waves comes out okay?)
Yes I'm that easily bought
Re-Tweeted @Pagecrawler
andy341139@hotmail.com
Can't wait to start reading it! I love Diana's other books and expect nothing but the best from this story as well
I'm team unicorn. Zombies are just too gross.
Team Zombie all the way . . . :)
Though if the Unicorns are KILLERS . . . :)
seth.marsden@gmail.com
Team Unicorn for sure.
usignolc@yahoo.com
OMG okay I'm going to enter this one for myself and then give away my own copy. SIGNED COPY SWOON! Even if I am solidly on Team Zombie, thanks to a lifelong phobia of unicorns. Don't ask.
I tweeted about the contest (http://twitter.com/m_rooney/status/3557134785), and I'm about to put up a link on my blog right this second.
I could kick myself for being near a bookstore on Monday instead of Tuesday. I even tried to talk the clerk at Borders into giving me the book a day early. (I mean, I know it was back there somewhere, but she wouldn't budge.)
As a gal who once collected unicorns, I'm going to have sit on the Team Unicorn side. I can't wait to read a story that turns the mythology on its ear. =o)
I tweeted about your blog and the video @secsec1
not sure which team i'm on, but Pixie is team Zombie so i'll go with that.
secsec1 [at] gmail [dot] com
Tweeted both at @natashamheck
Blogged about both, as well.
I chose Team Unicorn since the creatures truly changed my life. Unicorns are one of the reasons why I love fantasy so much (and the subject of the first real novel I wrote that I am trying to get published). I was inspired by my favorite artist (and now good friend and Jedi Master) Sue Dawe. Her gorgeous unicorn paintings that lead my down the path I live now. Zombies are entertaining, but unicorns have really given me life in a lot of ways.
nheck@natashamheck.com
Even though there are more zombies out there, I have to go with Team Unicorn (runs away from the angry zombie armies!!!). Not necessarily Diana's unicorns, since they're frightening and, uh, eat people (duh), but I like the idea of unicorns as able to be equal to humans in intellect, determination, and--may we say--sense of humor. It's totally possible. I mean, unicorns are very much like horses in a way. Just give them the ability to talk and a horn, and we're golden.
I've also linked to this giveaway in my sidebar. :)
stephxsu at gmail dot com
I'm definitely team unicorn. I love them eventhough they're vicious :)
bunnybx at gmail .c om
I'm on TEAM ZOMBIE! I fell in love with the nasty dead after reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I'm looking forward to Woody Harrelson in Zombieland. I'll leave it up to Rampant to change my mind...
Oh! Forgot my email - celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/bunnyb/status/3559554351
bunnybx at gmail . com
Blogged: http://bunnymoney9.blogspot.com/2009/08/before-aug-ends.html
bunnybx at gmail . com
I'm not that much into zombies, so I'll say Team Unicorn.
I'm Team Zombie because I loved Forest of Hands and Teeth. :)
Bethany
I'm team Unicorns cause although I love your book and the zombie's I am dying to read Diana's book. :)
I blogged about it on my blog as well.
Team Unicorn! It all goes back to a My Little Pony, honestly, but at least it's better than Lisa Frank.
bitterpea(at)gmail(dot)com
I thought I would go with Team Zombie, especially, if the zombies were like the zombies in Fido. But then I realized that if I went with team unicorn, I wouldn't have to worry about decaying flesh. So Team Unicorn for me. :p
+ I've also left a link of your giveaway on my sidebar.
~ Popin
I am team zombie....i have always loved zombie movies and books! Your story was my first zombie book and i loved it! I always have been wanting to be a writer too and i really love your work and it inspires me. so team zombie!
re-
moore.liz62@yahoo.com
I was able to start a discussion board regarding the competition in "The Young Adult Books" group on Shelfari. Hopefully, this will drum up interest for both titles.
http://www.shelfari.com/groups/27718/discussions/139037/-The-Forest-of-Hands-and-Teeth-and-the-Rampant-Give-Away
Post a comment on Carrie's blog: +1
Blog about the competition:
LiveJournal +1/Blogger +1
Discussion Board link: +1
I haven't read any books about zombies or unicorns, but I gotta go with zombies. They just seem more like my thing. But maybe Rampant will change my mind, it looks GREAT.
shutupjessicasreading(at)gmail(dot)com
Jessica
Team Unicorn!
mdfitz85[at]yahoo[dot]com
Team Zombie. Only because I figure a zombie could end up turning a unicorn into a slavering member of the undead, but there's no way a unicorn's sticking a horn and hooves on a zombie. Always back the winning team. :)
alex.e.smith(at)gmail(dot)com
Please: team unicorn. Unicorns are majestic AND ferocious, whereas zombies are just undead idiots.
+1 tweeted about RAMPANT (more than one time!)
+1 tweeted about killerunicorns.org
@tiffing
I am Team Zombie all the way. I just love all the drooling and moans and vacant stares. I do like Team Unicorn, though, and I wouldn't want to confront them in a face-off. They've got the teeth and the spike and the vicious neighs.
I'm definitely Team Unicorn! I've always loved unicorns - when I was little I used to wish for a unicorn every night! There is just something magical and whimsical about unicorns - well, not Rampant unicorns, but in general I suppose. :) I don't remember ever wishing for a zombie...
+1 tweet contest (@thehidingspot)
+1 tweet video (@thehidingspot)
Thanks for the contest!
grochowskis@hotmail.com
Team ZOMBICORN! Ok, if that doesn't count, Team Zombie :D Can't wait to read Rampant!
Chloe
lookaftermyheart1901(at)gmail(dot)com
Team unicorn. Zomibes are just....gross. lol. This is an awesome contest!
~Briana
thebookpixie[at]yahoo[dot]com
Team Zombie!!
infinitemusic19 at gmail dot com
I'd love to be entered! Thanks!!
Great Contest!
mark(at)greenfyr(dot)com
Team unicorns. Zombies smell. They really do.
I'm on Team Zombie, but flesh-eating unicorns might change my mind...
paradoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
I linked to the contest on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ParadoxRevealed/status/3595042618
paradoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
I linked to killerunicorns.org on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ParadoxRevealed/status/3595018149
paradoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
I am team unicorns. Thank Peter S. Beagle, the movie based off his book, The Last Unicorn and the awesome song has made me team unicorn.
+1I actually blogged about Rampant before it came out! Here is the link:
http://readingisthespiceoflife.blogspot.com/2009/08/waiting-on-wednesday_12.html
goodbooksandgoodwine(at)gmail(dot)com
tweeted @jooshanoosh
Team Unicorn!
Zombies are great and all, but who can go past killer unicorns; beautiful and deadly.
This is my post about this giveaway & also a link to the video
http://larissabookgirl.livejournal.com/9900.html
Thanks
I guess I'm Team Unicorn, because zombies scare me so freaking much! (But then again, I haven't read Rampant yet, so I guess they can be a lot scary too)
+1 tweeted the contest: http://twitter.com/tdlivros/status/3604224544
+1 tweeted the video: http://twitter.com/tdlivros/status/3604233406
juiceb0xx at hotmail dot com
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
Thanks for this chance to win this AMAZING book I have wanted to read this for so long!!!
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
Thanks for this chance to win this AMAZING book I have wanted to read this for so long!!!
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
I follow your blog & I sunscribe to your feed'
I have have to say I think I'm on Team UNICORNS!!! Would love to have one of these out in out Feild I would make Bank on tours!!!!
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
I twetted http://twitter.com/theblindcupid/status/3607891836
Shawna Lewis
weloveourdogs@juno.com
I tweeted the Video
http://twitter.com/theblindcupid/status/3607922519
I would have to say team Zombie! Will you please enter me in the contest! Thanks for the review and contest!
I'm gonna say unicorn, but I have never read a unicorn book. I'd love to be entered!
staera@gmail.com
Team zombie! :-D Cause yeah.. just am. Love unicorns, but zombies all the way!
Enter me in the giveaway!
bittahsweetharmony@yahoo.com
zombies, unicorns, zombies, oh my. Both of these realeases are on my wish list!
zenfoxflowerATyahooDOTcom
Ok, I forgot to decide, TEAM...UNICORN (in spite of Zombie week!)
I must of missed something 'cuz I don't get the team things. I do paranormal does that count for something?
I love unicorns but killer unicorns? Got to read this!
bookdragonslair at gmail dot com
Team Unicorn! Cuz they're pretty, duh. Even the killer ones, in their own murderous-y way.
+1 tweeted about giveaway
+1 and the video
(@xbellaxmiax)
Annabelle
dubeltake@aol.com
Team Unicorn! (Sorry Carrie) But the thing is...if I have to kill one, I'd rather kill a unicorn. Cause yeah, they're pretty, but at least they don't look like a human!
I'm definitely a team unicorn. I've loved unicorns since I was a little kid and zombies really creeped me out then. Thank you; I can't wait to read Rampant! (:
jenniferwang.usa@gmail.com
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