My Name is Will: Giveaway (5 Winners)

Posted June 26, 2009 by shooting in Uncategorized / 81 Comments

My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield

Summary: A Tale of two Shakespeares…

Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of…Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs.Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The future Bard’s life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome… This, at a time when adherents of the “Old Faith” are being hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors.Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances.

Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the ‘Shakespeare’ each is destined to come… but the very course of history itself.

Now, I haven’t read this one yet but I hope to as soon as possible so that I can get a review posted for you all. However, at the moment, I am pleased to say that I’m able to give away some copies of this novel courtesy of Hachette.

To Enter: Leave a comment
Open To: U.S. and Canada only (NO P.O. Boxes)
Ends: Monday, July 6th (so don’t wait…enter now!)
Prize: 5 people will win a copy of My Name is Will.

EXTRA (leave a NEW comment for each entry and extra entry or I might miss one!)

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81 responses to “My Name is Will: Giveaway (5 Winners)

  1. I'm so excited to check this book out! And after I do, I'm totally passing it on to my sister (who teaches 9th grade English and introduces impressionable children to Shakespeare for the first time…as a living!).

    Thanks for the contest!

    celialarsen(at)gmail(dot)com

  2. Pam

    I've been reading good reviews about this book. It sounds so good – I'd love to read it!

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  3. I think this one looks really interesting…been hearing some buzz about it! Thanks for holding a giveaway!

    JHolden955 (at) gmail (dot) com

  4. Please include me in your giveaway.

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  5. Assuming I'm not too late, I'd love to win this! I'm especially excited that one of the heroes is a student at UCSC, my alma mater!
    +1 I follow. Thanks!

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