Win a signed, hardcover copy of THE INQUISITOR’S APPRENTICE!
UPDATE: The contest has closed! Thanks for entering, and the winner will be notified shortly. Come back again!
With starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly, Chris Moriarty’s debut middle-grade novel The Inquisitor’s Apprentice is one to watch.
You can win a signed hardcover of the book! It’s beautifully illustrated, and the endpapers–gorgeous:
All you have to do to enter is pick a number between 1 and 343 and post it in the comments. I’ll respond with a line from that page in the book. When we’re all done (12:00 midnight on Thursday), I’ll do a random number generator thingy and that person will be the winner. Be sure to include your email when you leave your comment so I can contact you if you win.
Come back and read all the comments, and you’ll get some awesome sneak peeks of this wonderful book!
[Oh, and if two (or more!) people pick the same page, that’s fine–if that page number is the winner, I’ll just do another random generator thingie for that page.]
Good luck!
10/18/2011 at 9:35 am
😀
I would like to pick 244, please!
Thank you!!
10/18/2011 at 9:39 am
Thanks for entering! Here’s a line from page 244:
“But won’t he get into trouble?” Sacha asked, thinking about the haughty housemaid.
10/18/2011 at 9:37 am
Is it geekily gauche to pick 42? Because I just did. We all know why.
gremlinstoolbox@gmail.com
10/18/2011 at 9:45 am
No, it is awesome, though my geek-buddy An O. will be along shortly and will be bummed that 42 has been taken already! 😀
Here’s a line from page 42:
Sacha was still asking himself that question when he stepped into the booking hall of the Inquisitors Division of the New York City Police Department.
10/18/2011 at 10:17 am
Not bummed! I am proud of my lesser-known numerical geekery! Also, I have an unhealthy fascination with subverting prompts and memes. (firtysevenfortysevenfortyseven)
10/18/2011 at 10:10 am
How about 46?
bevarcher at me dot com
10/18/2011 at 10:13 am
You got it! From page 46:
“The freak.”
10/18/2011 at 10:13 am
47! Star Trek geekery activate!
10/18/2011 at 10:16 am
*sigh* You probably don’t even know where your towel is.
From deck 47!
It was a small, dusty room shaped like a shoe box, and its only window looked out on a blank brick wall covered with a painted advertisment for Mazik’s Corsets and Ladies’ Foundation Garments: “It’s not Magic–it’s Mazik!”
10/18/2011 at 10:20 am
Maaan, well-equipped with a tricorder, a phaser, and a communicator, you don’t *need* a towel. 😛
Though deck 47 looks like it could use some airing out. Hopefully it’s not a holodeck. (Those things always go wrong, especially where mazik is concerned.)
10/18/2011 at 10:37 am
This book looks like fun!
How about page 9…
10/18/2011 at 10:52 am
It’s truly gorgeous. And now a line from page 9:
But the worst was the Inquisitorial Quotient (IQ) test: a five-hour multiple-choice ordeal held in an unheated basement and proctored by a bored-looking Irish girl who made it quite clear that this wasn’t her idea of a fun way to spend the weekend.
10/18/2011 at 10:51 am
247!
10/18/2011 at 10:56 am
Yay! Thanks for stopping by, Karen. From page 247:
Everyone else was hovering over the two of them as if Mrs. Lehrer were an unexploded bomb that no one could figure out how to defuse safely.
10/18/2011 at 10:57 am
I have heard so many fabulous things about this book! I’ll pick page 243.
10/18/2011 at 10:59 am
Steph, this one seems right up your alley. From page 243:
“Are we, um–I mean, are we going to get in trouble with the, uh–you know.”
10/18/2011 at 11:08 am
Page 66 please!
10/18/2011 at 11:19 am
🙂 Page 66 is a full-page illustration! But here it is, for your entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22581660@N07/6257339113/in/photostream
10/18/2011 at 11:26 am
Page 273, please.
10/18/2011 at 11:30 am
You got it! Thanks for stopping by to enter. From page 273:
“But then”–her voice sank to an excited whisper–“then there’s always the lone gunman who rides in over the horizon.”
10/18/2011 at 12:02 pm
ive heard so many good things about this book and i actually just requested it at the library!
page 188 please!
10/18/2011 at 12:43 pm
Thanks for entering, Alaina!
From page 188:
In fact, Sacha decided, there was something very odd in the way Rabbi Mendelsohn talked about God.
10/18/2011 at 12:13 pm
I will chose a very science fictional number: 334!
10/18/2011 at 12:44 pm
Excellent! From p 334:
“Pentacle Industries could use a fellow like you.”
10/18/2011 at 12:32 pm
Hello — How exciting! Page 22, please.
10/18/2011 at 12:46 pm
You got it! From page 22 (I love this line):
Then they listened to Mo Lehrer and Grandpa Kessler argue about whether Pentacle Stationery Supplies Indelible Ink was kosher or not–a thorny question because of the appalling rumors about what really went into it.
10/27/2011 at 4:58 pm
I like it! Thank you.
11/14/2011 at 5:49 pm
Will the rest of us find out what page won?
Thanks!
11/14/2011 at 6:34 pm
Oh! Yes!! The winner was Bev Archer. I just looked up her blog. It’s here:
http://mrsarchersbooknotes.d20blogs.org/
10/18/2011 at 1:11 pm
51, pls?
10/18/2011 at 1:36 pm
Sure! From page 51:
“The walking witch detector?”
10/18/2011 at 5:20 pm
32!
This book sounds awesome!
10/18/2011 at 7:57 pm
Helloooo! From page 32:
America was a new world, where none of the old rules applied.
10/18/2011 at 8:18 pm
183 is my number of choice!
~ Bethany Powell or oh_gingersnap, who is having a fouled-up time trying to log into any of the options, though she has accounts on ALL of them
How exciting, I like the twist on this contest. 😉
10/18/2011 at 8:42 pm
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by here. From page 183:
“He might come home one night and find the dybbuk sitting down at his dinner table with his family.”
10/18/2011 at 8:19 pm
68 please!
10/18/2011 at 8:44 pm
Sure thing! Here’s a line from page 68:
A few years ago he’d narrowly escaped death at the hands of bomb-throwing Wiccanists.
10/18/2011 at 9:04 pm
I’m going to be strangely boring and pick the first page! (Does the book actually start on page 1? Don’t most novels start on 2? Either way, first page, please!)
10/19/2011 at 7:23 am
Hey, I had a winner once who chose page one! So here you go:
People said there were more human beings per square mile on New York’s Lower East Side than in the Black Hole of Calcutta, and Sacha thought it must be true.
10/19/2011 at 12:29 am
Could I please have something from p. 138?
10/19/2011 at 7:26 am
This was the time of night when you wanted to be in a warm, noisy, lamp-lit kitchen–not out here where shadows seemed to reach out of every alley.
10/19/2011 at 9:42 am
Spooky! Thanks! (ALWAYS prefer those warm, noisy, lamp-lit kitchens to almost any alternative……) 🙂
10/19/2011 at 7:12 pm
AND a kitchen with a feather bed in it!
10/19/2011 at 12:43 am
I like even numbers except for 7, 11, and 13. I’m having a difficult time choosing. Hmmmm, how about something that increases geometrically like 248.
10/19/2011 at 7:27 am
Sounds logical to me! From page 248:
“It’s all right,” she said in a dull, hollow voice that sounded like it was coming from somewhere deep underground.
10/19/2011 at 1:30 am
How about a line from page 12?
10/19/2011 at 7:28 am
Definitely! From page 12:
But Grandpa Kessler was snoring happily in the big feather bed that filled up the rest of the Kesslers’ kitchen.
10/19/2011 at 7:17 am
I choose page 1 please 🙂
10/19/2011 at 7:29 am
You got it! From page one:
And you could feel the shivery static charge of their magic–both the legal and the illegal kind.
10/19/2011 at 8:46 am
47
10/19/2011 at 8:50 am
Hi, Rob! Thanks for entering. A line from page 47:
Amidst the avalanche of paper stood a desk so clean that it was hard to believe its owner worked in this disaster zone of an office.
10/19/2011 at 4:38 pm
Hi
If this is international I’d like to pick page 53 If it’s not that’s okay really I don’t mind (sob!)
10/19/2011 at 7:11 pm
Sure it’s international! From page 53:
In a city like New York, charm was cheap.
10/19/2011 at 5:23 pm
That sounds cool. I pick 156
10/19/2011 at 7:10 pm
It’s a pretty cool book. From page 156!
“How can you be such a cad?” she demanded, squaring off against Paddy with her hands on her hips.
10/19/2011 at 8:39 pm
I choose… 99!
10/19/2011 at 9:39 pm
Thanks for entering, Eugene! From page 99:
Going to Coney Island with Inquisitor Wolf, on the other hand, was a somewhat different experience.
10/19/2011 at 9:04 pm
Page 171 please!
10/19/2011 at 9:41 pm
You got it! From page 171:
“So,” Shen said when the introductions were over, “the student returns to the master.”
10/19/2011 at 9:21 pm
242, please!
10/19/2011 at 9:42 pm
Thanks for stopping by! From page 242:
“I’d rather die!”
10/19/2011 at 11:13 pm
137, please 🙂
10/20/2011 at 10:34 am
Hiya Jordin! Thanks for stopping by to enter. From page 137:
No, Sacha decided, the only way out of this mess was to keep his mouth shut, and help Wolf catch the real killer.
10/20/2011 at 11:02 am
It looks like page 167 hasn’t been picked, yet. Also does it seem as if people are picking number with 7 in them more often than not?
10/20/2011 at 11:08 am
It is weird how many similar numbers are being chosen! And here is a line from page 167:
The shopkeeper’s entire family seemed to live around the courtyard, along with a flock of unusually lively chickens.
10/20/2011 at 9:16 pm
This is such a great idea! p.288. Please and thank you!
10/21/2011 at 7:34 am
Hi Devin–thanks for entering! From page 288:
Summoning a dybbuk had seemed like a good idea (sort of) in broad daylight.
10/21/2011 at 1:45 am
Nice illustrations. It seems like an interesting book! I will pick 155. I hope no one else has already chosen this number! 🙂
10/21/2011 at 7:36 am
Sure thing! From page 155:
Paddy turned his bright blue gaze on Sacha, and though he was still smiling, he didn’t look nearly as friendly as he had just a moment ago.
10/26/2011 at 2:40 pm
Well Hi I put the page in goodreads but I will put it in here too!
Page: 337
10/26/2011 at 2:41 pm
Oh and queen.jade09@hotmail.com
10/26/2011 at 3:15 pm
Thanks for entering! Unfortunately, the contest ended last week (see first line of blog post). But do stop by again; I’ll be running another contest next week or the week after.
11/13/2011 at 3:05 pm
33
rujman@live.com
11/13/2011 at 3:06 pm
I posted it on oct 24th, in goodreads, it took me a while to realized i was supposed to do it on this page, lol 🙂
11/13/2011 at 9:40 pm
Well, rats! Do come back this week–to this blog–if you’re interested in winning an ARC of Winterling. Starting on Tuesday, ending Friday. Cheers!
11/25/2011 at 12:40 am
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11/25/2011 at 1:48 am
Thanks so much for entering, but this contest ended a while ago. DO come back and visit again, though, because I’ll be giving away more ARC’s and books soon.