Celebrating Half-Blood Release & A Giveaway

Yesterday was the release of Half-Blood, YAY!!! As most of you know it was pirated by someone  that was given an ARC. It shocked me as well as everyone else I know in the book/blogging world. The people that are doing this just don't understand (or care) about the hard work that the Authors put into their work. Jennifer talked about this on her blog & you can read that here. There is a blog hop going on right now for the release of Half-Blood, you can get the full list here. While I was browsing through some blogs on Sunday night/Monday morning I found Valerie's post & it got me thinking.

For three years, Alexandria has lived among mortals—pretending to be like them and trying to forget the duty she'd been trained to fulfill as a child of a mortal and a demigod. At seventeen, she's pretty much accepted that she's a freak by mortal standards... and that she'll never be prepared for that duty.
According to her mother, that’s a good thing. 
But as every descendant of the gods knows, Fate has a way of rearing her ugly head. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return—the Covenant. Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death… because she's being hunted by the very creatures she'd once trained to kill.
The daimons have found her.

Now bet your wondering why I have Daimon posted instead of Half-Blood right? Well, this is what started it, the Prequel to Half-Blood.

I don't know how many of you have read the e-version of Daimon: The Prequel to Half-Blood, or have it. I do personally on my Nook, but I thought 'wouldn't it be nice to have both Daimon & Half-Blood in print'. Then, my randomness kicked in & I purchased 6 copies to share with you!
I'm not part of the blog hop that is going on, I didn't want to intrude on that. I know that there are some copies of Half-Blood that will be won during that hop & just thought that it'd be nice to have a print copy of the Prequel to go along. I love the series (what I have read of it), I want to support the Author for all the hard work that she has done. We live in a technical world now & unfortunately there will always be those evil beings out there that will do stuff like pirate books, movies, music, ect. & the only thing that we as readers can do is support the author in any way, shape & form that we can.

I hope you enjoy what I am able to give to you all. This will be up for 1 week, so until 10/26/2011. I was going to use Random.org to pick the winners but was told by several people that it's way easier to do it through Rafflecopter...so I took the lazy way out & went through them.

-Shellie