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Your Chance to Win Four New Books

  • Dec. 29th, 2008 at 8:13 AM
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Want to win four free books from some of SF/F's hottest writers?



Joshua Palmatier ([info]jpsorrow), Diana Pharaoh Francis ([info]difrancis), Elizabeth Bear ([info]matociquala), and Jim C. Hines ([info]jimhines) are teaming up to give away copies of their latest releases! One lucky winner will receive autographed copies of Whiskey and Water, The Vacant Throne, The Stepsister Scheme, and The Black Ship.

All you have to do is answer the following questions. Send your answers to jpalmatier@sff.net.

The deadline is January 25. We'll take everyone who got the answers right, toss their names in a (virtual) hat, and draw a winner.

Answers can be found on the authors' web sites:

http://www.joshuapalmatier.com
http://www.elizabethbear.com
http://www.sff.net/people/di-francis
http://www.jimchines.com

Good luck, and please feel free to spread the word!

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1: What is the title of the first book of the German release of Joshua Palmatier's THRONE OF AMENKOR series?

2: What is the name of the five-year-old daughter who was killed by the Chorl in the excerpt of THE VACANT THRONE provided on the website?

3: What quote from Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Part 1 serves as the epigraph to Elizabeth Bear's INK AND STEEL?

4: What's the first sentence of Elizabeth Bear's ALL THE WINDWRACKED STARS?

5: Who attacks Princess Danielle in the first chapter of Jim C. Hines' THE STEPSISTER SCHEME?

6: Who is Jim Hines' favorite muppet?

7: CURSED BY SYLVETH was the original title of which of Diana Pharaoh Francis' books?

8: What are some of Di's favorite things, as mentioned in her website?

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(no subject) - [info]brownkitty - Dec. 29th, 2008 06:32 pm (UTC) Expand
[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:38 pm (UTC)
If he's not everyone's favorite, he should be!

(Screening this so that other entries still have to do the whole scavenger hunt ;-)
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[info]brownkitty wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)
That was actually a blind guess ;)

I don't intend to participate in the contest: if I want signed editions, I can buy them and stand in line at a con like other fangirls :) One of these years, I'm going to do just that :)
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:46 pm (UTC)
Good guess :-)

10 years ago, I thought signed books were the coolest thing in the world. I've got several I bought by mail (and never read), just because they were SIGNED BOOKS!

The novelty has worn off somewhat. I still like 'em, and I'll get 'em if the opportunity presents itself, but it's not a must-have thing anymore.
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[info]brownkitty wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:49 pm (UTC)
For me, the shiny that goes with a signed book is getting to meet the author, even if it's just for two minutes.

Most of the authors I've met, and all of the ones I've met in person, have been friendly and charming people.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
I've met a few exceptions, but for the most part authors seem to be pretty decent folks.
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[info]mela_lyn wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:19 pm (UTC)
Dude- I so need to win this contest! I have 3 of the 4 authors friended b/c I LUF you all!! Will put in my entry tonight!!
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC)
*I* want to enter this one! I've started both Di's series and Joshua's, and they're both good reads. And Elizabeth Bear is just nifty!

(You should friend all four, by the way. They're good folks ;-)
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[info]mela_lyn wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:25 pm (UTC)
Elizabeth is the only one I'm missing.

And ALL of Di's books are good. (I already have The Black Ship.) :) Of course, so are yours!! I have Josh on my TBR and now... now I have to look up Elizabeth! So excited!!

I'm REALLY dying to get my hands on the Step Sister Scheme.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:26 pm (UTC)
8 days and counting!!!
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[info]mela_lyn wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:33 pm (UTC)
Make time go faster, Jim!!
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:34 pm (UTC)
Well, if it helps, I'm told some stores are already getting copies in. You could always call the local bookstore and see if they've got it :-)

(My local independent store not only had copies this weekend, they had put them face-out. Woo hoo!)
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[info]mela_lyn wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:35 pm (UTC)
I'll have to call my sister. She works at Borders. I'll tell her to face them out... and hide one for me!!
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 29th, 2008 07:40 pm (UTC)
::Grin:: Thanks!
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[info]laughingfalcon wrote:
Dec. 30th, 2008 01:16 pm (UTC)
By the way, I finished "Too Many Curses". The writing is not as deep, shall we say, as the Goblin Books, but it has very, very good pacing. It is not pretentious and does not try to be more than it is. Because of this it is enjoyable to read. Fin.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Dec. 30th, 2008 09:06 pm (UTC)
There are times when light and fun is the perfect book. I need to check Martinez's work out one of these days...
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[info]laughingfalcon wrote:
Jan. 3rd, 2009 05:18 am (UTC)
"Too Many Curses" is close to being able to be read as a bedtime story over several nights. But by the time the child could listen to the themes they might be up to trying to read it. I read it much too late into the night, again, the really good pacing made it hard to put down.
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[info]mela_lyn wrote:
Dec. 30th, 2008 09:37 pm (UTC)
Sending my answers in just a moment! I'd better win!! ;) I NEED all these books!!
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Jan. 1st, 2009 08:38 pm (UTC)
Cool books...count me in!
louiseb130@aol.com
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