Apocalyptic Holiday Giveaway!

So... I’m having a little celebratory giveaway! I’ve had a lot of personal victories lately, not to mention a lot of good reviews (and quotes from Destroyer of Worlds popping up all over the place... like the ones down below the cover art) and, well... I have just have to share my joy… it is the season for that, right? 

So, I decided that it’s time for another giveaway!

To show my appreciation for all the love that has been shown for Dave, Destiny, Roger, Mireille, and Miri... the Destroyer of Worlds herself… and in celebration of the holiday season... I’m offering 10 free eBook copies, 2 $5 Amazon gift cards; 1 $10 Amazon gift card!

Here's hoping this will brighten your day... like so many things have brightened my days recently!

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All you have to do to be entered in the giveaway is post a comment on my Blog! (It really is just that easy.)

Can you enter yourself more than once? 

Why, yes, you can!

You can get more entries in the drawing by ‘friending’ or ‘liking’ or becoming a fan of my Blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads accounts. 

From RPG Eyecandy

If you do those as well each counts as an additional entry and ups the likelihood of being chosen!

Just post a comment with your account name on those sites so that I can verify your additional entries. An additional entry can also be gained if you add ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ to your to-read list on Goodreads.com! You can get an additional entry as well if you Tweet about the giveaway, or mention it on your blog or your Facebook.

How many entries can you have total? Let's look:

1 for a comment on my blog

1 for following my blog

1 for liking my Facebook page

1 for following me on twitter

1 for becoming a fan on Goodreads

1 for adding ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ to your to-read list on Goodreads

1 for tweeting about the giveaway

1 for mentioning the giveaway on your blog

1 for mentioning the giveaway on your Facebook

That could mean as many as 9 entries to win! It’s easy, and awesome!

If you've already done all the above, then post that in your comment, it counts!

There will be 10 winners selected, and posted on my blog on December 25th!

This contest closes at midnight on December 24th, 2013, so you should act fast!

Thank you all for being so supportive. I’m very happy to be able to give back to you all!

Links to my pages:

Blog: http://witlesslackey.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dennis-Sharpe/128559037179613

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Witlesslackey

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4808225.Dennis_Sharpe

***Update - 12/30/13***Winners Announcement***

Winners Announcement!

The Amazon Gift Card Winners are:

$10 Gift Card

- Melissa Tucker

$5 Gift Cards

- Julia Summers
- Shannon R


The Destroyer of Worlds eBook Winners are:

- Melanie M
- Gregory
- Misty Mickeletto
- Kim Gold
- I Miles
- Steve Weber
- R2
- Faeriegoth
- Daniel Pamperin
- Msqun

If the winners could drop me a line, I'll get prizes out as fast as I can.
Email me at:

DennisSharpe@DennisSharpe.com


Thanks to everyone who entered! I hope you all have a wonderful 2014!

-Dennis

A Review - Nothing O'Clock

I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars.

The Blurb: 

Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything… everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there’s only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them!

Author Neil Gaiman puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space in the eleventh and final story in the bestselling 50th anniversary series!

This eBook short is an amusing triumph for Gaiman, Doctor, and Reader!

What can I say about this bite sized adventure without sounding like I'm a gushing fan boy?

It's beautifully succinct and well told. What more can you really ask for from a 45 page genre fiction short?

Not a single word was wasted, anything added would have been too much. Gaiman has proven his worth yet again, and succeeded in giving us a tale of the Doctor that aches for the screen. Clearly he should pen more episodes of the series - and for what that's worth, give us more Doctor Who shorts like this one.

I can happily recommend this to fans of Gaiman, fans of Doctor Who, or any reader who wants a well told bite-size work of science fiction.

- Dennis Sharpe

Nothing O'Clock on Goodreads.com

Nothing O'Clock on Amazon.com (kindle)

A Haunting Memory

This piece is from (un)SPOKEN. It's been stuck in my head for a while now, as has my longing for another night... at the No Exit, or Heartland... Back on the North Side. For what it's worth, I hope you enjoy it.

Bohemian Parking Lot

With Lake Effect Snow

The acidic flavor of loss

Equal parts bile

And orange juice concentrate

The hazy outline

Of a conversation

With blinding noise

Providing the backing score

This is where the company parts

While the rain comes down

Like a million spears

Thrown by a tiny army of tribesman

Bent on the destruction

Of my temples, if not my soul

Awareness, I am alone

It slides upon me

Draped like a silk sheet

There’s a comfort there

However thin and less than insulating

It may be

The chill spills through me

One pint less and I could likely think

At least join one thought into the next

Without the abruptness

Of rough cutting reality

Inhale the blades of air, so cold

It’s frozen hair to my face in chunks

Adding weight to close my lips

I can smell the exhaust of the car

It’s gone but that’s still here

In the parking lot of Yabo’s favorite bar

This is where it happens

This is where I finally seize the day

Test the fragile bond of life

Throwing myself at its boundary full force

Tomorrow a new day dawns

With the dark heavy clouds

Likely still hanging thick over the L stop

I’ll rise, dress, and coffee myself

There may be enough ambition in me

To shave my face

And dress in worker’s clothes

Walking to my platform I’ll pass the scene

Of tonight’s miserable performance

Only the briefest of moment’s thought

Will be given over

Taken from my bagel and cigarette

The memory will be a haze

And not worth the effort to recall in full

I will force myself not to look into the window

Of the Evanston sandwich shop,

Where you worked

Nor will I look to my right as I pass by

That house where we met

Smoking on the porch over idle chatter

The kind only strangers make with other smokers

The whole of the time I’ve known you will be made

To vanish from my mind’s eye

I will tell myself this lie, until I can believe it

And then I will have died

Or the part of me I most admire will have

Buried under so many wrappers, cartons, and papers

In an alley refuse bin that smells of the rot

I will so keenly feel

But for now I will dwell

I die, as I imagine giving into

A frostbitten death by exposure

And paramedics trying to peel off

The ice solid layers that surround me

I die alone

Because I couldn’t stand to be alone

And so, have driven away those who

Truly matter most 



From (un)SPOKEN, by Dennis Sharpe
copyright 2010