Kristen Callihan's Winterblaze, book 3 in her Darkest London series, is on many readers' must-buy-get-outta-my-way-no-really-move-it shopping lists this week, and to celebrate the release, she and her publisher, Hachette, have put together a really spiffy prize pack.
Here, have a look:
The winner will receive:
- 1 pink fan (this one can NOT be used for beheadings)
- 1 bottle of Sephora by OPI nail polish in “Shiny Dancer” (dark silver)
- 1 leather notebook (such as the one Winston used to tell his story)
- 1 sterling silver necklace and topaz snowflake pendant
- A set of the Darkest London books signed by Kristen Callihan
The items are all related to various characters in the series – and I rather covet that pendant.
Plus five runners-up will receive a complete set of the four books in the Darkest London series in digital format, including the prequel novella, which is digital only:
To enter, leave a comment sharing your favorite or funniest unexpected weapon (and if it's a fan, awesome!). I'll select the winners at random on Friday 1 March.
Standard disclaimers apply: void where prohibited. Open to international residents to the extent permitted be law. Must be over 18 and ready for some kind of battle to win. Measure twice, cut once. The film may have been modified from its original version to fit your screen. Do not write below this line.
Good luck!
Best stealth weapon: moldy gefilte fish. It’s best if you don’t ask too many questions.
Awesome giveaway – thank you!!
As a librarian, I love the unexpected magazine rack nom. You’re reaching for a magazine, innocently anticipating the latest issue of National Geographic, when suddenly – chomp! The top shelf devours your hand.
I know it’s been used more than once, the last time I saw it was an episode of “Bones”—the bedpan.
my favorite, though not funny, is in the movie Brotherhood of the Wolf, when Sylvia, the Pope’s Spy, does kill someone with one flick of her fan.
A baby’s diaper. Hold that in front of you in any crowded mall/library/waiting room and it’s like the parting of the red sea.
First of all, thanks for reminding me that Winterblaze is coming out.
A pencil and/or a pen. It’s a tie between those two and both are from two different popular films. The pen is mightier than the sword and all that.
A finger…Kung Fu Panda. 🙂 This is a wonderful giveaway!!
Unexpected weapon? Not funny at all, but my favorite was the ballpoint pen from The Bourne Identity.
What an amazing prize pack, thank you!! 😀 I just love weapons which look so unassuming and non-threatening: like a poisonous flower, or a parasol or walking stick hiding a dagger.
My favorite weapon I’ve actually used is a margarita tossed into the face of a complete asshat (and that’s the nicest term I can think of for him). Overall though, I have to go with Alexia Tarabotti’s umbrella.
Probably a frying pan, as in Tangled (the movie). Thanks for the giveaway!
Unexpected weapon? The first one to spring to mind is the toilet tank lid used in Zombieland.
Sonic screwdriver. Allons-y!
Pet hair on a finished wooden floor. Even more effective than a banana peel.
An unexpected weapon? The pen from Bourne Identity certainly is unexpected. Or perhaps a piano-wire garrote. Both would certainly take me by surprise.
Of course let’s not forget Eddy Izzard’s idea of the 1st Transvestite Brigade: Airborne Division. Because seeing a bunch of well armed blokes sporting fantastic makeup would be very surprising.
a nice cold shaken can of fizzy drink.
if it needs to be a weapon in a book, then the poisoned pages in the book in The Name of the Rose.
My grandmother once threw a biscuit at me because I was daydreaming at the breakfast table. A biscuit is priceless. 🙂
A corkscrew wielded by Patricia Arquette in True Romance.
A throw rug. My cousin was bothering me, I had just washed the rug and taken it out of the dryer, and I used it to smack him around.
I used to carry around a pinch of chilli powder. It’s not really funny if you think that it was a precaution when I was walking back home at night in case someone attacks me, but I still think it would have made an effective weapon 🙂
Roller skates is my favorite unexpected weapon. Doesn’t hurt that most of the younger generation really has no idea what they are now.
My brother is still traumatized from my throwing of a shoe at his head.
its always nice to have high heels lying around to protect you
My favourite weapon was in the movie Kiss Of The Dragon when the Chinese woman used the sticks that were holding her hair up to stab the guy.
Funniest-by far weirdest.. A tampon. Put a tampon in someones throat causing them to choke to death when it expands. Talk about being resourceful! I’ll bet 95% of this site have murder weapons in their bags!
I use my son to Liu Kang kick my enemies.
Usually his father when he’s being insolent. Which is often. 🙂
Hi ms. Callihan my favourite and unexpected weapon would be umbrella and a water bottle :). Congrats for the release of your new book . Cheers
My fav weapon: cutting wit! When that fails, then I guess I resort to throwing tomatoes 😀
I have seen lots of things, well read too. But funniest, drawing a blank now. There was that one movie where he killed someone with a carrot and I was all wtf?
Quad cane covered in pink puffy heart stickers.
This is a great giveaway! Hmmm…I would say that my favorite weapon is my honed-to-perfection, withering stink eye. I use it to slay my husband on a daily basis. 😉
Sorry, accidentally posted twice. Pls disregard this. I got too excited seeing the giveaway!
plot moppet charm offensive
Strangely enough it wad called Shoot’em Up. But yes there was a lot of carrot stabination.
Oh, the frozen roast from the short story where the murderess calmly cooks dinner for the police. I think it was Ellery Queen? But that would have to be my favorite, because letting the police eat the evidence is just too lovely.
A TV. One was used to kill a bad guy in the film Grosse Pointe Blank. In the same film another bad guy was killed with a pen and a political assasination with a fork was mentioned.
I love that film.
My favorite unexpected weapon is a nail gun, probably because so many idiots nearly off themselves using them every year.
My favorite unexpected weapon is a blanket sling shot, a la Linus from A Charlie Brown Christmas! 😉 Congrats on the release!
Oh, I think my favourite has to be Rapunzel’s cast iron skillet. The arms you would get from hefting that thing around!
My absolute favorite when it comes to unexpected weapons, is the wooden hairstick which Alexia used to kill a vampire (who tried to snack on her, even though he had not been properly introduced to her) in the very first chapter of _Soulless_, by Gail Carriger. Perhaps because I am very fond of wearing hairsticks myself… 😀