I mailed out the last of the prizes from the Fan Art Contest today, along with a bunch of other signed books to various places all over the world. It feels good to have that out of the way.
So of course I’m starting all over with this new contest to win a Desert Spear ARC see details here. There have been lots of great entries today. Have a look:
AJ from Florida and I became pen pals while he was serving in Iraq. He’s apparently living next to Jurassic Park, and provided a little photo story:
Marc from Michigan thinks he can snag the prize by capitalizing on the cuteness of his son Dylan. He may be right:
Then we have Dave-Brendon from South Africa. Dave was one of the very first people to read an advance copy of The Painted Man in the summer of ’08, and he wrote to me immediately and interviewed me for his website. I think it might have been my first review ever. Dave is proud to own three out of four formats of the Voyager edition:
Last but not least we have two-fisted Ken from Arizona who runs the blog Neth Space. He is shouting at Robert Stanek, who I seem to recall has a penchant for doctoring himself into other people’s photos:
Posted on December 15, 2009 at 12:15 am by PeatB
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Entries in the Desert Spear ARC Contest are starting to pick up speed. Here’s what came in yesterday:
Shhh! Aussie Brian doesn’t want anyone to know he reads at work:
German Iris is well protected as she reads. I love her room. The neat orderly bookshelves of her comics and fantasy novels remind me of my own collections.
French Jess got so scared of the demons she warded her closet and started reading in there:
Aussie Emily took The Painted Man to the desert to set the scene for the new book:
Texan Mihir cropped himself out of this photo, but I love it anyway. It really looks like the Painted Man is just strolling down this dark road at dusk:
Remember, the contest will go on for some time, but the best entry to come in by this Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, gets a copy for Christmas!
Posted on December 14, 2009 at 12:52 pm by PeatB
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Two entries in the Desert Spear Arc Contest so far. The first was Elijah from here in NYC, who sent me his entry within hours of my announcing the contest:
The next day this beautiful and eerie submission came from Emily:
Emily didn’t specify where she was from, but since she has the TPB edition, I am guessing she’s from Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa.
I was thinking that the slow response from the rest of you is due to a lack of urgency in the contest timing, so I decided to spice things up a bit. So far I have three advance copies to give away, but there’s no rule that I have to give them all out at once. So let’s say that while this contest will continue for some time, the best entry submitted by this coming Friday, December 18, will have an advance read copy of The Desert Spear sent out Fedex priority on Saturday the 19th, hopefully to arrive in time for Christmas/New Years.
Please include a full mailing address with all entries. I promise not to share any information online except your first name and country of origin.
Happy Holidays.
Posted on December 13, 2009 at 3:20 pm by PeatB
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Wait, we already have a winner:
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 4:14 pm by PeatB
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German readers, may I announce Der große Basar, my expanded collection of short stories set in the demon world! It will publish May 1, 2010, just a month after Das Flustern der Nacht. It will include the two Arlen novellettes, The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold, as well as deleted scenes from Das Lied der Dunkelheit and other goodies.
Check out the amazing cover:
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 1:09 am by PeatB
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