Donate to the Virginia Festival of the Book and win prizes.

Help us; help yourself.

Purchase $16 raffle tickets for any of these four exciting prizes. Winners will be announced at the 8pm program, Saturday March 20, 2010 at the Paramount. You do not need to be present to win. The more tickets you purchase, the greater your chances of winning!

Please note, your raffle ticket purchase is not tax deductible. Of course, if you'd rather just make a donation (which is tax deductible) in honor of our "Sweet Sixteen" sixteenth anniversary festival, your support will help keep the Festival free and open to the public.

Online sales for raffle tickets have ended. You may still purchase tickets in person at the Book Festival information desk at the Omni until Saturday evening.

Raffle No. 1: Your name in a Mystery Novel

Virginia mystery author Ellen Crosby (The Merlot Murders, The Bordeaux Betrayal, The Chardonnay Charade, and The Riesling Retribution), will use your name for one of the characters in her next mystery.

Raffle No. 2: Win a custom website for your book, for yourself, or for your business

Abbott Media Productions will register your domain name, design and develop a website up to three pages, and provide hosting services for one year. Bells and whistles may be extra (flash animation, logo design, video, etc), but we do it all!

If you can’t wait until March, contact Abbott Media Productions at (804)417-6840.

Raffle No. 3: A basket of sixteen books signed by their authors!

Including:

Barkley, Brad and Hepler, Heather – Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
Bass, Jefferson – Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel
Brockmeier, Kevin - The Brief History of the Dead
Epps, Garrett - The Shad Treatment
Finley, Robert - The Accidental Indies
Jenkins, Carol and Hines, Elizabeth Gardener - Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Leepson, Marc - Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built
Lyons, Mary E. - Roy Makes a Car
Manning, Martha – The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy
Melman, Peter Charles – Landsman
Mudd, Roger - The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
Perry, Phyllis Alesia - A Sunday in June
Roy, Lucinda – Lady Moses
Story, Rosalyn - More Than You Know
Sutcliffe, Andrea – Steam: The Untold Story of America’s First Great Invention
Veeck, Mike - Fun is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career

Raffle No. 4: Critique of Your Work by a literary agent

Jenny Bent will read your query letter, a synopsis, and two chapters of your book (up to 50 pages). She will provide a written critique which will be given to you during the Virginia Festival of the Book.

After a fifteen-year-career in publishing, Jenny Bent founded The Bent Agency in 2009. There, she continues to represent both commercial and literary fiction, as well as humor and memoir, with three authors on the NYT bestsellers list since she opened her doors in March.