YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes – May Edition
Posted on | May 1, 2012 | 33 Comments
Welcome to my stop of the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes, a blog hop featuring over 50 debut authors where you can win prize packs including ARCs, gift certificates, swag, and more!
If you haven’t yet been to the Apocalypsies website, please click here to start from the beginning and read the complete rules. UPDATE: The race is now over. The giveaway winner will be announced tomorrow. Thanks for playing!
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THE WICKED AND THE JUST by J. Anderson Coats
1293. North Wales. Ten years into English rule.
Cecily would give anything to leave Caernarvon and go home. Gwenhwyfar would give anything to see all the English leave.
Neither one is going to get her wish.
Behind the city walls, English burgesses govern with impunity. Outside the walls, the Welsh are confined by custom and bear the burden of taxation, and the burgesses plan to keep it that way.
Cecily can’t be bothered with boring things like the steep new tax or the military draft that requires Welshmen to serve in the king’s army overseas. She has her hands full trying to fit in with the town’s privileged elite, and they don’t want company.
Gwenhwyfar can’t avoid these things. She counts herself lucky to get through one more day, and service in Cecily’s house is just salt in the wound.
But the Welsh are not as conquered as they seem, and the suffering in the countryside is rapidly turning to discontent. The murmurs of revolt may be Gwenhwyfar’s only hope for survival – and the last thing Cecily ever hears.
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Monkeys know how to party!
Bonus giveaway! If you could send one tweet to any person from history, what would you tweet and to whom would you tweet it? Comment on this post with your response for a chance to win a medieval monkey keg party magnet. Open internationally, but one entry per person, please. Winner will be drawn at random from among all unique comments by random.org.
The next milepost in the YAmazing Race is over at Kat Zhang’s blog – good luck!
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May 2nd, 2012 @ 4:30 pm
I would tweet Theodore Roosevelt.It would be more of a question.
Tweet would be:
“Your nickname was Teddy, so did you know your a bear?”
this was fun & your book sounds interesting!
May 2nd, 2012 @ 5:34 pm
i would tweet to jane austen and ask her who she based her heroines and heroes on?
May 2nd, 2012 @ 6:24 pm
I would tweet Andy Whitfield (not necessarily from history history but he passed away last year and thats some history lol) and ask him ” If given the chance would you continue to act in more action films rather than just a series on starz??”
May 2nd, 2012 @ 6:51 pm
oh my gosh that’s hard to decide! i would tweet marilyn monroe to find out what things were really going on with her. it would have to be interesting to hear what she’d have to say : )
May 2nd, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
@cleopatra Did you have any idea that your death would be used in so many crossword puzzles?
May 2nd, 2012 @ 7:13 pm
I would definatly have to tweet Edgar Allen Poe. I would have to tell him I love all of his work. I would definatly have to ask him how he truely died since his death was a mystery..
May 2nd, 2012 @ 7:28 pm
First of all, the book sounds amazing!
Secondly,
I would tweet Abraham Lincoln and tell him to skip the play!
May 2nd, 2012 @ 7:43 pm
Fun way to do your contest!
DaVinci: I’d ask if he ever thought his art and inventions would create the stir they have.
May 2nd, 2012 @ 7:46 pm
Jane Austen. Just love her and would like to hear what she wouls have to say about today!
May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:04 pm
first of all….oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh i cannot WAIT to read this book!!! I lived in Wales for a while, and I just did a dissertation on the Wars of the Roses in Medieval England. I am in LOVE with Wales and England and everything about this book! I heard you on authors are rockstars and cannot wait to read it!!! (it’s on hold at the library
Anyways, I would tweet Shakespeare and tell him that I’m a big fan of his work
May 2nd, 2012 @ 10:23 pm
I would tweet Van Gogh and tell him not to cut off his ear! Nothing is ever that bad!
May 3rd, 2012 @ 1:23 am
I would tweet to King henrey the eighth and tell hi to stop being such a womanizing ass!
May 3rd, 2012 @ 4:21 am
I would tweet the priests in charge of Martin Luther and tell them to just answer his questions so there was no split in the church!
May 3rd, 2012 @ 6:30 am
Fun question!
@shakespeare What was thy question again?
May 4th, 2012 @ 3:26 am
I would tweet Oscar Wilde and tell him that things are slowly getting better, and express my admiration for his work.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
May 4th, 2012 @ 7:22 pm
I would tweet J.R.R.Tolkien and ask him why he had to die before I was born
May 5th, 2012 @ 1:17 am
I would tweet Henry VIII.
@greatesteightest pop a xanax and chill out man.
May 5th, 2012 @ 6:57 pm
I’d ask Jane Austen to please go and polish up Northanger Abbey
pocketofbooks@gmail.com
May 5th, 2012 @ 7:43 pm
Hmm…good question. I would probably tweet Pablo Neruda (one of my favorite poets) and ask if he liked to tweet poetry.
May 6th, 2012 @ 1:47 am
If I could tweet anyone in history I would probably tweet whoever invented the internet (Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider, actually I think it was a group of people and not a specific person O.o) and thank them for inventing the internet so I could tweet them.
~Shannon
May 6th, 2012 @ 3:27 am
I would have to tweet to da Vinci and FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MONA LISA!
May 6th, 2012 @ 9:24 pm
@TitanicDeckHand You really shouldn’t have said that, dude.
pherlaithiel (at) gmail (dot) com
May 7th, 2012 @ 5:20 am
I’d tweet Ben Franklin and ask him if he could have come up with Twitter first.
May 7th, 2012 @ 10:11 am
@TheDoctor (Any point in history)Need a new companion?
May 7th, 2012 @ 7:28 pm
If I could Tweet any person from history, it would definitely be Marie Antoinette, whom I would ask to go party with and to borrow one of her dresses. You know, before the whole revolution hits!
May 7th, 2012 @ 9:57 pm
If I could tweet one person from history I would tweet Abraham Lincoln and tell him to stay away from the Ford’s Theatre on April 14th.
May 7th, 2012 @ 10:19 pm
Thank you for the giveaway chance. Love the sound of The Wicked and the Just.
May 7th, 2012 @ 10:35 pm
I think I would tweet Joan of Arc. She was such an amazing person!
May 8th, 2012 @ 1:47 am
I’d tweet Newton and tell him to wear a helmet…
May 8th, 2012 @ 2:42 am
If I could send a tweet to anyone in history, it would have to be Eliza Vanderbilt. This is because the late 1800′s – early 1900′s is my favorite time zone because of all the dresses & parties. I would have loved to live back then. The reason I picked Eliza was because a) We share our name, b) She was the eldest daughter, and c) She was very pretty, and very rich. I would have loved just to be her!
May 8th, 2012 @ 3:50 am
I would tweet JK Rowling – even though I can do that now – but on the understanding she would answer, I would ask her what advice she would give to an aspiring author?
May 8th, 2012 @ 8:51 am
Thanks for the amazing giveaway! I’d tweet to Leonardo DaVinci. Here’s what I’d say.
“Sup Leo. Hey, who’s that chick in the painting with the slightly-creepy smile?”
Mystery solved
Rabiah
iliveforreading AT hotmail DOT com
May 8th, 2012 @ 1:31 pm
I would tweet Einstein and ask him to be my math tutor