Ballad teaser and contest put on by Maggie Stiefvater

This is a teaser from Maggie Stiefvater's BALLAD, a novel involving homicidal faeries and kissing that's coming out October 1st.

He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my head and said grow rise follow – but by his strangeness. By his fingers, spread over the ground, holding something into the earth, by his shoulders, squared in a way that spoke of strength and unknowability, and most of all, by the great, thorny antlers that grew from his head, spanning the sky like branches.

Then he was gone, and I missed his going in the instant that the sun fell off the edge of the hill, abandoning the world to twilight.

Buy it here. Enter the contest at Maggie's blog here.
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Sounds like an exciting and enjoyable read, right? To enter the contest--Ballad content, Shiver prizes--simply post the teaser, the link to buy Ballad on Amazon, and the cover. Because Maggie Stiefvater is awesome, she provided the nice setup above in html format on her livejournal. In other words, all you have to worry about is copying and pasting. So go enter!