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American Elsewhere, GIVEAWAY!
Posted on: February 13, 2013
Thanks to the wonderful folks at Orbit Books, I have an extra copy of Robert Jackson Bennett’s supernatural thriller (and mind blowing masterpiece) AMERICAN ELSEWHERE.
I absolutely loved AMERICAN ELSEWHERE, you can read my review here, and you can read an excerpt from the book over here at Orbit.
Rules for the give away:
1. to enter, comment on this post. when you sign in to comment, make sure you leave me your e-mail address, or a twitter, or some other way to get a hold of you.
2. give away is open to all residents of planet Earth. Orbit was kind enough to send me 2 copies of this book, the least I can do is pay for some shipping someone else can enjoy this amazing novel.
3. give away closes at midnight, eastern time, on Tuesday February 19th, and the winner will be announced and contacted shortly afterwards.
4. be warned. this book will completely blow your mind. I am not responsible if you get absolutely no sleep while you are reading this book, are late to work, or generally ignore your family while reading.
Vintage Sci Fi Giveaway!
Posted on: January 27, 2013
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Maybe you just read your first oldy moldy book, maybe you’ve loved classic, golden age, and vintage scifi for as long as you can remember. Either way, this give away is for you. Some of these I have duplicates of, others I don’t think I’ll read again, so I want to share them with my friends, and that means YOU!
The lucky winner gets all FIVE books! even better, this give away is INTERNATIONAL. You must be a resident (or visitor) of planet earth.
Behold the 1950s/1960s wonderfulness!
We’ve got:
Mission to the Stars by A.E. Van Vogt (1952)
Regan’s Planet by Robert Silverberg (1964)
The Case Against Tomorrow by Frederik Pohl (1957)
The Green Brain by Frank Herbert (1965)
The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (1968) I’ll be reviewing this one shortly.
Be aware, these are all older printings, which means they are in good (but not great or perfect) condition. Some pages are yellowed, there is minimal damage to some of the covers. Some have prices written inside or stamps from the used bookstores they came from.
How to enter the giveaway? Easy! Just leave a comment below and make sure in your WordPress sign in to put your e-mail or twitter or some other way I can reach you. This give away will close at midnight, eastern time, on Friday February 1st.
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Update, this giveaway is now closed, and the winner is:
aliasgirl
Congrats aliasgirl! watch your e-mail for subject line Vampire Empire Giveaway Winner,and enjoy!
Thanks to the friendly folks over at Pyr, I’ve got an extra copy of Vampire Empire, book 3: the Kingmakers!
this beautiful book needs a new home, and with as much attention as this series has been getting recently, I’ll bet there are plenty of folks interested. Not sure if this is for you? check out some stellar reviews of the first book The Greyfriar, and the second book The Riftwalker, and the brand spankin’ new third book, The Kingmakers!
Rules:
1. Enter by replying to this post. If you are not prompted by the WordPress commenting interface to enter your e-mail address, mention in your comment how I can reach you - twitter, e-mail, blog, whatever you are comfortable with.
2. this is an international give away. You must have a mailing address on planet Earth.
3. Give away will end at midnight, Eastern Standard Time on Friday, Sept 21. I will contact the randomly chosen winner via e-mail (or whatever other method they have provided me with)
Give away winners announced!
Posted on: June 2, 2012
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And the winners for last weekend’s VeryGoodBooks giveaways are:
The winner of Nancy Kress’s After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall is
Val
the winner of The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams is
Ines
and the winner of The Buntline Special and The Doctor and The Kid by Mike Resnick is
admiral.ironbombs
Winners – watch your e-mails for an e-mail from redhead asking for your mailing addresses.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and since i managed to come home from my travels with more books than I left with, I’m sure there will be more giveaways in the future.
give away two-fer!
Posted on: May 28, 2012
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Red will be home any day now, better make this last give away count. I should totally do a double. maybe two books that go together? two books with really sweet cover art that are a blast to read?
found ‘em!
today’s give away is for Mike Resnick’s wonderfully weird wild west steampunk adventures The Buntline Special and The Doctor and The Kid (ARC). Get entered in the give away by leaving a comment down below. See the rules below, and get your entry in!
Teh rules:
- you can only enter once in each give away, but you are highly encouraged to enter in more than one!
- Give aways are open to all residents of Earth, keeping in mind that shipping outside the US takes a little longer.
- all give aways in this weekend series will close on Friday, June 1.
it’s a give away weekend party!
Posted on: May 27, 2012
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Red isn’t going to be back for another few days, I think it’s time for another give away, don’t you? Let’s see, what other goodies has she got that everyone is hankering to read?
a HA! Today’s giveaway is a gently read ARC of Mazarkis Williams’ non-western-world epic fantasy The Emperor’s Knife, even more valuable now that it’s sequel, Knife Sworn is scheduled to come out later this year.
See rules below, and enter to get your hands on a copy of this rare ARC by leaving a comment. you know you want it!
Teh rules:
- you can only enter once in each give away, but you are highly encouraged to enter in more than one!
- Give aways are open to all residents of Earth, keeping in mind that shipping outside the US takes a little longer.
- all give aways in this weekend series will close on Friday, June 1.
While Red is away . . .
Posted on: May 25, 2012
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ppssst! yeah, you there!
Red is away for the weekend, and imma gonna give away a bunch of her stuff! ok, not a bunch, more like a handful of verygoodbooks that she doesn’t have room for.
look for new give aways all weekend, enter yourself in the drawing by leaving a comment.
today’s give away is a gently read copy of Nancy Kress’s wonderful post apocalyptic novella After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall. blunt and heartbreaking, this is the kind of story that sticks with you. See Red’s review here.
look like something you might be interested in? Read the give away rules before, and get your entry in!
Teh rules:
- you can only enter once in each give away, but you are highly encouraged to enter in more than one!
- Give aways are open to all residents of Earth, keeping in mind that shipping outside the US takes a little longer.
- all give aways in this weekend series will close on Friday, June 1.
Everyone likes a give away!
Posted on: March 20, 2012
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everyone loves a give away, right?
and everyone wants a chance to win something really really cool, right?
of course I’m right!
Good thing my very good friend Bryce over at My Awful Reviews (twitter @myawfulreviews) is giving away a copy of Thief’s Covenant by Ari Marmell. Click HERE for more info, and to sign up!
blurb ganked from Amazon:
Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city’s aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy tale. Until one horrid night, when a conspiracy of forces—human and other—stole it all away in a flurry of blood and murder.
Today she is Widdershins, a thief making her way through Davillon’s underbelly with a sharp blade, a sharper wit, and the mystical aid of Olgun, a foreign god with no other worshippers but Widdershins herself. It’s not a great life, certainly nothing compared to the one she once had, but it’s hers.
But now, in the midst of Davillon’s political turmoil, an array of hands are once again rising up against her, prepared to tear down all that she’s built. The City Guard wants her in prison. Members of her own Guild want her dead. And something horrid, something dark, something ancient is reaching out for her, a past that refuses to let her go. Widdershins and Olgun are going to find answers, and justice, for what happened to her—but only if those who almost destroyed her in those years gone by don’t finish the job first.
Sounds pretty sweet, right? well, get your rear end over to My Awful Reviews and sign up for the giveaway, before he sends you some creepy Locke Lamora read along questions. 
might brilliant cover art as well.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Confusion give away for a copy of the Limited Edition of The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi. It’s a beautiful little hard-back novella, sure to please any Scalzi fan.
and the winner is. . . .
*drumroll*
Stephanie!
Congrats Stephanie, please watch your e-mail for a message from me.
ConFusion give away!
Posted on: January 24, 2012
- In: give away | John Scalzi
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Congrats! You survived my EpicConFusion posts, as full of geekery, author stalking and horrible photos as they were. (BTW, thanks for all the comments, I am slowly getting to respond to them. too slowly. it’s all twitter’s and my day job’s fault)
But you survived! You deserve a prize!
How about a hard cover Limited Edition of John Scalzi’s The Sagan Diary, with stunning cover art by Bob Eggleton?
here’s the blurb:
Fans of John Scalzi’s “Old Man” universe, prepare yourselves: there’s a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series’ most intruiging characters.
Subterranean Press is proud to present The Sagan Diary, a long novelette that for the first time looks at the worlds of the Hugo-nominated Old Man’s War and it’s sequel The Ghost Brigades from the point of view of Lieutenant Jane Sagan, who is a series of diary entries gives her views on some of the events included in the series. . . and sheds new light into some previously unexplored corner. If you thought you knew Jane Sagan before, prepare to be surprised.
If you’re a fan of his Old Man’s War series, you’d probably be interested in this. I’m interested in it too, but as husband and I both received copies, even if I give one away, I’ll still have one to read.
This contest will be open until the evening of Sunday, Jan 29th, Eastern Standard Time. It’s open to anyone living on planet Earth, however if you live outside the US the shipping might take a while.
Sounds great you say? How do I enter, you ask? All you have to do is leave a comment in this post telling me an author you’d love to meet at a convention. The winner will be contacted within a few days after the give away closes.
Good luck!
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