Since July 1 is on a Tuesday this year and I like to include two weekends for releases, I am going to have the challenge run from Tuesday, June 24 to Saturday, July 5. That means there will be 12 releasing days instead of the 10 from previous years.

Last year there were 773 books released. Can we do better this year? I hope so.

The rules are as follows:
1. Books written by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants count. (If you want a good resource for Canadian books check out Ibis3’s bookshelf.)

2. Books set in Canada even if they are not written by Canadians count
These Kathy Reichs’ books count:
Deja Dead
Death du Jour
Deadly Decisions
Monday Mourning
Cross Bones
Bones to Ashes

3. Books must be wild-released but I will allow OBCZ releases as well. Also I am allowing any books sent to MP Anthony Rota which will go to Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. The address for sending the books (and mail to MPs is postage-free) is:
Anthony Rota
730 Confederation Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

4. Anyone can join. Please post here to register and indicate if you are Canadian or not as there will be prizes for both Canadians and non-Canadians.

5. There will be prizes distributed as follows:
a)Prize for most books released in Canada
b)Prize for the most books released outside of Canada
c)Prize for best release location
d)Prize drawn at random from the Canadian participants
e)Prize drawn at random from the non-Canadian participants
f)Prize drawn one month after end of challenge for best catch
g)Some just because prizes

Since 2008 is the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables some of the prizes will be Anne memorabilia