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Win a Copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Book: Seize the Night

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True Blood is coming closer and closer to the end of season 3 and the beginning of another excruciating 9 month wait for Season 4. It’s going to be hard, but there are ways to get through it after re-watching the previous seasons of True Blood over and over and talking with fellow fans here on TrueBloodNet.com.

One thing I’ve found very helpful in the wait for each new season of True Blood is to read other vampire books. In doing that, I’ve discovered many other amazing authors whose stories drag me directly into the worlds they have created. One such author is Sherrilyn Kenyon. She kindly donated 4 copies of one of her Dark-Hunter books, Seize the Night, to TrueBloodNet.com to be given away as prizes.

Just like True Blood, the Dark-Hunter series feature lots of action, wonderful romance, and sexy vampires. Each book tells the story of a specific Dark-Hunter (the good guys with vampire-ish characteristics in the series).  Seize the Night is the tale of Valerius Magnus, who was a Roman soldier in his human life.

This story is smart, well written, and a pleasure to read again and again. In fact, it is my favorite book in the Dark-Hunter series.

Four (4) lucky winners will be chosen to win a copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s book Seize the Night.

How To Enter For Your Chance To Win a copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s book Seize the Night.

  • In the comment section below answer the following question:  Vampires always come from historical times and places that we wish we could experience for ourselves. If you were a vampire, what time period would you want to be from? How would that affect what kind of vampire you would be? (Would you be kind, manipulative, etc?) .
  • Please provide a valid email address when you enter so we may contact the winner.
  • Comments must be posted no later then 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 21, 2010 to be eligible.
  • Four (4) winners will be drawn randomly from all eligible entries. The four (4) winners will each receive a copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s book Seize the Night.

Winners must respond within 72 hours upon notification.  Please check both your inbox and spam folders for the notification if you have been chosen the winner.  If the winner does not respond with the 72 hours time frame a new winner will be randomly selected.

For further information on the contest rules click here: truebloodnet.com/contest-rules/

Good Luck!

UPDATE: Congratulations to lovingvamps, tanya, Erika, and luvtrueblood05! You have been chosen as the winners of our Seize the Night giveaway! Please make sure that you check your e-mail and spam folder as well for our e-mail as we will need your complete name and address to mail of the prize to you. Thank you to everyone who entered!

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41 comments
Tonya Aber;e

I would have to say I would have liked to come from the eraof templar knights. I would probably say I would be like I am now, blunt and to the point. Compassionate.

cathie

I’d love to have been around during ancient Rome. I’d hope I was a nice vampire!

Heather

I would absolutely love to be a vampire from the days of ancient Greece! I’d convince the people I was a god of the night and have them build me a huge, amazing temple! It would be great. Of course, I’d also do my best to help them with their problems as long as it was within my realm of abilities. It would be great to be on top of the world in one of the most beautiful places!

Carla

I would want to be a vampire from the present, because i think all DH storys could happen in this time.And i would the kind 😀

Jennifer H

I would be from the 1800’s – where the world was changing. I would want to be knowledgable but adaptable and I think that I would have a slight chip on my shoulder to make sure that everyone was understanding the independent female.

Meredith Miller

I’d like to come from maybe the 1300 or 1400’s. I’d like to live in a time when life was simpler, with fewer people. I’m sure that would make me very appreciative for modern conveniences nowadays, but would probably be frustrated with the change in industry and noise and how that affects us.

Luvtrueblood05

I’m quite fascinated with the Tudor period during the reign of Henry VIII of England. Even with all the diplomatic conflicts and everything else in that era, being royalty would be exciting.

I would probably be asked to be the mistress or ‘Lady of the Knight’ so to speak, but it would be challenging to be a vampire and only a commoner, I would after all have to stay out of the light, so where better to rest during the day than in Dover Castle

Casey

I’d have to say I’d like to be from the Roman Era. My granddad claims that we can trace our ancestors back to that era (I’m not sure how he knows that…) but he has told me so many stories about that time period that I’d like to go back in time to see if it really was that way.

brenda ziegelmeier

i would like to have been turned around the turn of the century , all the new knowledge and discoveries. i would like to think i would be a nice vamp. dont like the idea of bitting anyone. well unless its my significant other, lol. already have sieze the night book, its a great and funny read. love valarius and tabitha great couple and great wit. good luck all

Nancy G

I would be a vampire in Victorian London and be the one who caught Jack the Ripper and cleaned up the place. I have always wished I could go back there to prevent what he did.

Jessie

I would want to be from the Renaissance era. That time has always seemed magical to me. I’d have lived through such difficult times that I would be both tough from my experience and also grateful for the modern world’s conveniences. I would also be very appreciative of men that exude the chivalry of that old world, even though I’d be plenty resourceful enough to take care of myself. 🙂

Lauren McIntyre

I would want to be from Ancient Rome. Around the time of Caesar. The Roman Empire was epic and a strange mix of barbaric and civilized. I think starting there and moving through all of my favorite historical events would be incredible. I would probably be a total know-it-all (done-it-all, seen-it-all). After that many years I’d be very detached from the world and I would surely need a very yummy human to help me reconnect. 😀 Preferably one who looks like Joe Manganiello! ;D

Lori V.

IF I were a vampire I guess the time period I would choose to be a vampire would be during the woman’s rights movement 1848 to the present. I know we are still moving but I think it would be nice to unite an army of followers male and female to help us get along a little faster. Without any cruel or harsh happenings of course. Would really put the meaning of GLAMOUR to work.

tanya

I would want to be a vampire in the future. I think it would be interesting to see what it means to be a vampire in a time where humans are the strongest they’ve ever been and live the longest thy have with tons of scientific and medical advances taking humans closer and closer to immortality. It would probably mean less to be a vampire, and there would be no need to be ‘different’ – you could live in a city with a big night life, drink blood alternatives and easily pass off as a normal human. I think this would cause an uprising against this assimilation, where vampires band together to preserve their history and heritage. I’d like to be a part of that movement 🙂
Hope I win this book! I am OBSESSED with books, and had a hard time surviving the True Blood drought between season 2 and 3… I tried another series but it didn’t cut it, I’d love to try this book!

billismine

Can I be from the time of the Roman Empire, and from Rome itself. A time when political debate rubbed shoulders with intrigue, debauchery, style, passion, art and fine architecture.

I would be a liberal minded vampyre with a passion for style and a flair for wild, abandoned sex!

Glada

During the roaring twenties. Time of the flapper, dance clubs, beginning of the jazz explosion, freedom from conformity, a period of rapid expansion in the area of the arts and technology. Had 2 amendments (US) the 18th (Prohibition) and 19th (women getting the right to vote) which impacted the country. I would be an easy going vampire who valued and enjoyed music, dance, arts, and freedom of expression.

Isis Nocturne

It is quite possible, HotBlooded. 🙂 Are you a member of Sherri’s BBS? When I was active there, I used the same name that I do here… If not, I’ve only been to Sherri’s Burbank, CA signings and Comic-Con… So if you’ve been there, it’s very possible that we have met. 🙂

HotBlooded

BTW, you can give my copy to the next person in line if I win. I’ve already got this book autographed..hehehe
Always squee when two of my favorite passions in life come together and share the same space.
Now I’m seriously scratching my head tho, because this means I must have crossed paths with you before Isis..LOL

Okay, back to the matter at hand:
I’d pick the Renaissance era and I’d want to be early to mid 20’s.

Darla

I haven’t pre-ordered No Mercy yet, but I can’t wait for it!

Yulei

I would like to turn into a vampire at the very beginning of the world. Then I can learn and see how the world developed. I will learn different languages and live with the local residents for practicing. I will spend several hundred years in a country and another in other places. Then my life life would end up like Godric.

Cheri

Greetings Isis…met you at Sherrilyn’s booth at Comic Con…got to meet her that day, a highlight of my life. Thanks for the chat…you totally rock, girlfriend!
Now…I would love to win any book of Sherri’s (although I will admit to owning more than one of several of them already…lol…so addicting..I would love to see Ash and Eric together…now that is my idea of a yummy sammich…lol..but, I digress.

Okie dokie…If I was a vampire, I would love to have been *made* in the early 1900’s and to then see the changes in the way human women were regarded at that time in the U.S. and how much things have changed in the 110 years since then…it would have been a stellar time to be a vampire because of the power of being immortal and female…unchained by those mortal restrictions around the turn of the century…My favorite of all those 110 years would have been the 60’s through the 80’s…and empowering time for anyone who was a little *different*…and I can picture a powerful Vampire living the high life in Haight-Ashbury, experiencing the freedom of the *love children* and blending in with the hippies and the so-called *freaks*… something tells me I would have fit right in and would have been welcomed among the humans …every trip was a good one during that time and I think I could have taken along many on my Vampire Magic Carpet…Peace,Love and Vampires, indeedy…xoxoxo

Joan Dunn

When I saw this, I was hoping it would be Acheron’s book (Ash and Tory). However, I only own one of these books in paperbook, but I am slowly accumulating them on my Nook. So far, I have read thru Book 6, “Seize the Night”. I would love to have a paperbook copy. The time period I would like to be a vampire in would be the present. I think Vamps love all the modern day technology, like cell phones and computers. I read a lot of historic romances, but I love vampire stories in present day.

Sheila

If I could be a vampire, and come from any time period, I would probally come from New Orleans in the 1800’s. I could be charming and witty one second and cutthroat and manipulitive the next if the need was there. All the charm and feminine whiles, underneath, attitude in 30 seconds or less.

Michel McDonald

I would like to be from 1920’s New York. Some time in the 1940’s I leave New York for New Orleans because I hear that creole humans taste better, something to do with all the crocs and crawfish they eat makes them taste tangy and the plantations make great homes to live in since they have bigger basements to sleep during the day… oh sorry, I was in the moment.

amanda cervantes

I would love to live during the age of the spainard exploration but as a mayan turned vampire. ithe reason is because of the history loss only I would know what happened to “My people” currently noone can trace what happened to them just theories. I would be angry manipulitive vampire because of the things other tribes did and aftermath of the discovery of north america. I would also be able to manipulate natives more easily since I would be one, and wiser because I would be witness to the beginnin of countries and maybe even I would have caused some of south americas coos.

Erika

Out of all the time periods that have been recorded in human history, I’d choose the peak of the Roman Empire, back when Alexander became emperor and conquered most of the known world. During this time, any Roman citizen would have been someone living in Africa, Greece, France, or Rome itself. I, personally, would like to be a Roman city girl living in the suburbs. Basically, someone living on the outskirts of town. This seems like the perfect set up to be turned into a vampire.

Because of how this day and age is so similar to the high times of the Roman Empire, I’d have to say that I’d be how most people assume New Yorkers are like. I’d be tough as nails, know how to get the job done, not afraid to get dirty, and smart and haughty enough to demand respect just by walking in a room. I’d like to be kind, but after living for thousands of years I’d have had probably enough of humanity. I would be forced into living amongst society (since humans are my food source, after all), and because of my affection for suburban life, I’d insert myself on the fringes of high society in major cities. I’d never noticeable enough to cause a stir if I disappeared. This would cause me to be a loner, a very lonely loner.

Pretty much, I’d be your typical female vamp. I’d be intriguing enough to draw you near, but intimidating enough to keep you at bay. And if anyone who’s curious would try to be brave and look past my hard facade, they’d see I just want some company from time to time.

connie ambar

I really would have liked to be in the era of 1700 or so but that if a very good class would have been very good manipulator with a great charm to seduce with my voice and my love to every man which I eat of course. have my weaknesses like any other vampire. seriously addicted to a vampire a little bad blood and katherine of the series “The Vampire Diaries” good but not so bad that if very playful. the truth I had been an excellent vampire at that time

lovingvamps

I would have to say I would love to have been a vampire in 1800’s England. There is something stirring about that time, when men were men and women could feel swept up by men. The men were so gentlemanly and women were put on pedestals. I think I would be a very sensual vampire not only fulfilling my needs but also the needs of my partners engaging in the release of our primal passions and stripping away the masks of civility to feed our needs. I would hunt the men down and strip them of their gentlemenly ways.

cindy

i would like to be with cleopatra. i would love to enjoy life being treated like a queen, so i guess that would make me a spoiled vampire lol

Deb G

Funny thing abut Past Lives is that you learn interesting things. Mind you Vampires I know not. Lycans I can relate to. Though I think the time when the earth was all fire and Dragons all in red and black, I think a vampire back then would be intriguing. Do they teleport like in Chey McCray’s books?? Are they the sexiest thing since True Blood or Acheron ?? I fear I have not seen True Blood YET.. It’s all my friends talk about. But, I would not share Val’s Roman upbringing, though the sexuality of that time period is erotic and free. No I fear Vampires bring to mind red and black, volcanoes and dragons in the air. Heat and passion with unlimited sexual boundaries. Just a love for life and the ultimate in giver of death. What I wouldn’t give to be in the arms of a Dark Hunter right now.

Sheila

If you are looking for some awesome Vampire reading to fill your days Susan Sizemore and her Prime series rocks. Amanda Ashley and Christine Feehan as well. But CH and Susan Sizemore both rock in that genre. That should fill your nine months quite well.

Ada

Name: Royce Chadwick Year created: 1405
Current Year: 1920’s
Setting is the Rorring 20’s complete with flappers and handsome men. The beggining of the women’s movement. I would be a vampire born in the Highlands of Scotland and currently living in NYC in the 20’s. Just looking at the new style of women’s clothing would set me off, in a good way. I would be manipulitive only when warrented but always fair. A true old soul in a brand new wild era. Now place this old soul with old world ideas into the middle of a true women’s march where the women are hunted by evil. Let Royce try and defend them while they think that women don’t truly need men. He meets his match in Caroline, a beautiful sable haired, blue eyed fire craker that won’t let any man tell her what to do. She’ll wear breaches, and stand up to anyone who she feels has wronged the innocent. She leads a double life since her father is the state senator and expects his three daughter to tow the line. Two do but not headstrong Caroline. Royce is intrigued by her fire for life, exasperated by her strong will and out of his element in coping with all changes the 1920’s brings along.

thisoldbroad

From the same period as Jane Austin. Manners & courtesy were normal & expected. I know that’s why I enjoy characters from that period. It’s a shame these qualities are rarely taught any more, you only have to watch how many people don’t even consider giving up their seat to a pregnant woman or elderly person. I’d want to be a vampire with those qualities, and one who accepts nothing less from the people around me.

dawn

i would want to be back in the 40’s just modern enough to not make me crazy but back far enough that people would not be so leary of a stranger. I would be a kind vampire only kill the bad guys.

Dale Herring

if I was a vampire I’d like to been around the time during the Hitler’s reign,I would wipe out his entire ranks and torture him for years feeding off the SOB in a dark cave and when he would be close to drained I would remove his limbs,show an arm down his mouth , a leg up is Anus and the other arm and leg would be sticking through his chest. then I would hang his corpse proudly so everyone could see lol

Lornkanaga

Patricia Briggs’ “Mercy Thompson” books feature a shifter; have werewolves, vampires, the fae, and the occasional witch; and are just plain fun reads. Jim Butcher’s “Dresden Files” books have all of the above, and more. Caitlin Kittredge’s “Nocturne City” books have everything *but* vampires. Faith Hunter has two books about a Native American skinwalker who works for the vampires of New Orleans killing rogue vampires. And these are just a few writers I’ve been enjoying of late.

Sherrilyn Kenyon? Okay, I’ll check out her work too. It’s going to be a looong nine months.

Dennis Kleinsmith

If made vampire I would have liked it to have been right before the fall of the Roman Empire, a time when the nature of good and evil wasn’t believed to be so black and white, a time when entire civilizations were being established and destroyed within a mortal lifetime, allowing me to pass through time playing ‘the long game,’ not being forced to choose a path or nature, alowing my ethics to be situational, becoming the wise, reclusive, yet valued and much sought-after sage of the vampires.

Aparna

I have a lot of different times and places that I’d want to be from, but the one that jumps out at me is the early 1700s. Might be because I have faint visions of Anne Rice lingering around in my brain, but mainly because it was a scandalous time period, when all hell broke loose. You know, people indulged in what they wanted back then. Perhaps that’s where piracy came from. The fact is, if you were new to being a vampire – or, what we like to call being a “baby vamp” – back then, you’d have a much easier time trying things out (things that come with being a vampire, of course) without easily being caught.

In that sense, I don’t think I’d be the nicest vampire. I’m a pretty nice person, to be honest, but I think that, in that kind of environment, I’d be downright manipulative. Unless, of course, I had a reason to be completely kind and honest – as if to someone I cared deeply about. Of course, some things could alter that – who my maker is, what kind of baby-vamp-upbringing I’d get – but mainly, it’s the environment and the people around me that would shape my vampiric personality. Not a nice vampire. Just a vampire.

Isis Nocturne

I believe the next book Sherri’s releasing is Samia and Dev’s book… And I don’t know about you, but I preordered it months ago! 😀

Crystal

I would want to be from the early to mid 1700’s I think. I would love to see America just starting out and watch it grow. I’d like to think I’d be a kind vampire, until someone ticked me off at least 🙂

Darla

Seize the Night is hilarious. Val & Tabitha are awesome. Hilarious. Got my friend and her mom addicted to this series. Now if I had to be a vampire I’d kinda want to be like Sherrilyn Kenyon’s dark hunters. They have animal traits to them that make them seem like vampires, but they really aren’t. Well except for the fact that they burn in the sun. I would probably want to be like the character Samia, who was an amazon and pretty much takes crap from no one.