You can enter the giveaway here at Goodreads.
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Oct 1, 2014
City of Masks Giveaway
Mar 23, 2014
Giveaway – The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 8
What’s so great about this collection?
The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume eight and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents, including: Neil Gaiman and Joe Abercrombie.
With this volume the series comes to a new home at Solaris, publishers of Jonathan Strahan's award-winning original Inifinties SF anthologies and the and Fearsome fantasy anthologies.
Ok so how do I enter and is this one of those country specific giveaway’s?
First up, the giveaway is world wide, so my readers in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are welcome to participate as well.
To enter you just need to fill in a Google form from the link below. All I require at this stage is a name/ pseudonym that you use online and a method of contact (twitter handle or email). Only the winner will be required to forward on additional details for postage(ie Rebellion will need phone numbers for addresses outside UK and US, or where you use a PO Box address).
The competition runs from 23 March until midnight Australian Eastern Standard Time 20 April.
You can enter once only and the winner will be randomly drawn.
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May 9, 2013
Give away - The Machine Who Was Also a Boy (Pandora's Paradoxes 1)
It’s written by two aussie authors, Mike McRae of Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas fame and Tom Dullemond, whose past works include: The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy: Volume One and a short work in From Stage Door Shadows .
Pandora Robinson was confused. What made a belief true or false? What gave words their meaning? And was a lie still a lie if you truly believed it? Sometimes the world just didn’t make a lot of sense.
Answering questions at school was hard enough, but after meeting a most peculiar mechanical man and his silent young companion, Pandora faces the hardest question ever. Are we the same person today as we were yesterday?
From the lair of the Sphinx to the bowels of The Theseus, clues to the answer abound, but will Pandora be able to put them together in time to save an unlikely friend and still make it to court in time to stop them taking her away from her Dad.
The Machine Who Was Also A Boy is a middle school tale of puzzles, paradoxes and perplexing predicaments.
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Mar 24, 2013
Fablecroft Goodreads giveaways!
Fablecroft are giving away two of their latest click through the links to Goodreads and register in the draw.
Mar 14, 2013
Asymmetry give away
Feb 17, 2013
Scribe Book Giveaway - What’s your favourite AWW 2012 review?
If you participated in or just read some of the reviews posted for Australian Women Writers last year then this competition may excite you.
Scribe Publications are offering AWW readers a chance to win books by selected AWW authors in a special giveaway. All you need to do is to nominate your favourite review from the Australian Women Writers 2012 Challenge in the Literary and Classics, History, Memoir and Biography or Nonfiction categories.
Two entrants who nominate winning reviews, as well as the top three reviewers, will be invited to select a book by the following Scribe authors.
You will be able to vote for your favourite reviewer/reviews. And in terms of speculative fiction these folk have represented well:
and this chancer
Sean Adventures of a Bookonaut
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Oct 15, 2012
Fablecroft Giveaway - To Spin a Darker Stair
Fablecroft have a Goodreads Giveaway going for To Spin a Darker Stair featuring the writings of Catherynne M. Valente Faith Mudge and the artistic talent of Kathleen Jennings.
To enter in the Giveaway you can go here.
If you are impatient and flush with moola you can go here and purchase a copy.
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Sep 11, 2012
Pyrotechnicon Giveaway
It costs nothing to enter and it looks like a hoot.
I have a copy for review so somewhere in the next couple of weeks I hope to bring you some insight.
Cyrano de Bergerac: lover, poet, inventor, swordsman — man of ferocious blade and pretty talent. Now it can be told: his final, most daring adventure — a fight to the death against the dread Master of Secrets, with the life of his beloved Roxane in the balance.
Browne has already received praise from some quality peeps in Sci-fi circles:
‘A rich dessert of a novel, filled with finely crafted wit and adventure — Adam Browne has resurrected Cyrano in fine form. Delightful!’
Greg Bear — Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author
‘The title does not mislead. PYROTECHNICON is a literary cabinet of curiosities filled with lush imagery and exotic notions. A delicious concoction of swashbucklery and delight. Highly recommended.’Jeff Vandermeer — World Fantasy award-winning author of Finch
The book can be purchased in both Hardcover and ebook from the publisher.
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Aug 13, 2012
Win Besieged by Rowena Cory Daniells
This is a book I had to tell my wife to hide because I needed to get work done today.
Anyway, review coming up this weekend (probably). But in the meantime check out the competition running on Goodreads to win a copy or place it on your Booktopia wish list for when the next free shipping promo is held.
Solaris, Rowena’s publisher is also planning to release the next books in the series in the next few months, so no long waits for the rest of the trilogy(oops! Exile is already out).
For heavens sake its only $9.50 buy it now (ok I’ll stop gushing).
But seriously, damn fine dark fantasy.
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May 29, 2012
Cracklescape Giveaway
Margo Lanagan, yes that Margo Lanagan not the other one*, has written a collection for Twelfth Planet Press called Cracklescape. If you are lucky enough to be coming to Continuum 8 I hear that TPP are holding a Cupcake and Cocktail book launch on the Friday night at Continuum.
But if you are not coming and are a bit light on cash you could throw your hat in the ring for a giveaway.
The Blurb
A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man’s outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain.
These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers’ dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities.
The TOC
- Introduction by Jane Yolen
- The Duchess Dresser
- Isles of the Sun
- Significant Dust
- Bajazzle
The entry form:
*The evil Margo Lanagan from another dimension…no hang on is our Margo the evil one? Anyway you shouldn’t be reading this silliness.
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May 28, 2012
Win a copy of Epilogue on Goodreads!
The wonderful Tehani has organised a giveaway of the latest Fablecroft press production : Epilogue.
The Blurb
ep·i·logue: an ending that serves as a comment on or conclusion to what has happened.
Climate change, natural disaster, war and disease threaten to destroy all we know. Predictions of the future are bleak. But does the apocalypse really mean the end of the world? Is there no hope for a future that follows?
Twelve writers take on the end of the world and go beyond, to what comes next.
The TOC
- “A memory trapped in light” by Joanne Anderton
- “Time and tide” by Lyn Battersby
- “Fireflies” by Steve Cameron
- “Sleeping Beauty” by Thoraiya Dyer
- “The Fletcher Test” by Dirk Flinthart
- “Ghosts” by Stephanie Gunn
- “Sleepers” by Kaia Landelius
- “Solitary” by Dave Luckett
- “Cold comfort” by David McDonald
- “The Mornington Ride” by Jason Nahrung
- “What books survive” by Tansy Rayner Roberts
- “The last good town” by Elizabeth Tan
Now go enter dagnamit!
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May 22, 2012
Giveaway–Salvage by Jason Nahrung
You can go here and enter.
If you live in Melbourne and are going to Continuum 8 I believe that Mr Nahrung will be there with copies to sell and sign – details when I know for sure.
But if you are a fan of his work you can put in a pre-order here.
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May 21, 2012
Giveaway–Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren
You may enter here.
Of course if you are tempted to buy it you can go to the TPP site and put in a pre-order.
What the lucky so and so’s who have read it people are saying:
‘Every Warren story is a trip with no map.’ – Gemma Files
‘Her fiction shifts across genres smoothly and intelligently, never settling for the easy path… she doesn’t flinch.’ – Andrew Hook
‘As with most of the best horror writing … the power of Warren’s strongest stories comes from the mirror they hold up to our everyday practices and prejudices.’ – Ian McHugh
Not sure about short collections? Check out my reviews of other books in the series:
As you can see, I am a bit of a TPP fan.
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May 15, 2012
Win a copy of Haven Season 2
While you are there you might like to subscribe.
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May 9, 2012
Win a collectors edition of King’s - Through the Key Hole valued at $200.
Hachette is running a competition on their Facebook page:
Big Stephen King fan? Want the chance to win a limited edition hardcover copy of 'The Wind Through The Keyhole'? (RRP $200)? Comment below with your favourite Dark Tower character (and why). Best answer wins the limited edition. 3 lucky runners up will receive a copy of The Wind Through The Keyhole trade paperback (RRP $32.99). The winner will be chosen Friday morning at 9am.(Australian residents only) Good Luck!
So you have about a day and a half, go here to enter.
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Apr 10, 2012
Damnation and Dames Giveaway
In celebration of its release,there is a giveaway running at Goodreads. Click here to enter the draw to win a great collection.
Check out this post for the TOC.
If you really can’t wait you can order it from here
I am not a politician, you can trust me
I have been nominated to run in this years fan fund for the National Science Fiction Convention to be held in Melbourne.
If you appreciate the work that I do in Australian Speculative Fiction Fandom and you have a spare $5, you can vote for me here and help send me to the National Conference.
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Apr 8, 2012
Goodreads giveaway for Ishtar
I had actually gone out and purchased the ebook version from Smashwords owing, I contend, to subliminal messaging in Deb Biancotti’s post.
Ishtar is edited by Aussie editor Amanda Pillar, and contains three novellas written by Australian women writers.
Here’s the description lifted from Smashwords:
This novella collection is powerful, sexy and very, very deadly.
'The Five Loves of Ishtar': Kaaron Warren
Follow the path that the goddess Ishtar takes through the eyes of her most devoted worshippers, her washerwomen. Sharokin, Atur, Ninlil, Shamiran, Ninevah and Ashurina share in their goddess' loves, losses and triumphs, as kingdoms rise and fall in the Land of Rivers.'And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living': Deborah Biancotti
In modern-day Sydney, male prostitutes are dying. Their bones have turned to paste and their bodies are jelly. As Detective Adrienne Garner investigates the deaths, she finds rumours of strange cults and old gods whose powers threaten her city and, ultimately, her world.
'The Sleeping and the Dead': Cat Sparks
Dr. Anna remembers little of her life before the war, merely traces of the man she used to love. When three desperate travellers rekindle slumbering memories, she begins a search that takes her to Hell and beyond. A search for love and, ultimately, enlightenment.
The collection has been nominated for an Aurealis Award. If you’re keen on reading good speculative fiction, or you are at a loss for works to read for the AWW2012 challenge you can:
Enter in the Goodreads giveaway here or if you simply can’t wait, shoot over to Smashwords and pick it up. Ishtar is only $5.95
“I sing for my supper, cause it makes me feel so good”
I have been nominated to run in this years fan fund for the National Science Fiction Convention to be held in Melbourne.
If you appreciate the work that I do in Australian Speculative Fiction Fandom and you have a spare $5, you can vote for me here and help send me to the National Conference.
Monies raised go towards this and subsequent years funding.
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Mar 23, 2012
In Fairy Tale news…
Police have broken a child canniblism ring headed by the mysterious B.B. Wolf and a Ms Rapanzel formerly of Tower View road has been indicted on several charges of smuggling low cost hair extensions.
Meanwhile Fablecroft Publications are on the cusp of releasing To Spin A Darker Stair. They are running a giveaway on Goodreads:
To Spin A Darker Stair features stories by Catherynne M. Valente and Faith Mudge, and is illustrated by Kathleen Jennings.
The ABC’s Re-enchantment project – Fairy Tales for grown-ups
The ABC has also been running snippets of their Re-enchantment project which takes a rather mature look at various fairy tales, examines their origins and themes – great for fans of fairy tales, or Lanagan-esque reinterpretation.
Here’s a snippet from the data on Hansel and Gretel:
The children are e sacrificed in part out of murderous resentment and in part to ensure their parents survival … Even when a tale half-heartedly exonerates one or both parents of malice by implying that abandoning the children is the lesser of two evils, the children are left to fend for themselves because parents have been too incapacitated to provide. One way or another, the parents are to blame and begin to emerge at the least as monsters of negligence.
Maria TatarThe stepmother will not be the self sacrificing, all giving mother of romanticised poverty; she has been reduced to her darkest instinctuality and she will abandon her children as a matter of survival; it is her life or theirs.
Jacqueline SchectmanChildren were abandoned throughout Europe from Hellenistic antiquity to the end of the middle ages in great numbers … Parents abandoned their offspring in desperation when they were unable to support them, due to poverty or disaster; in shame, when they were unwilling to keep them because of their physical condition or ancestry (e.g. illegitimate or incestuous); in self interest or the interest of another child, when inheritance or domestic resources would be compromised by another mouth; in hope, when they believed that someone of greater means or higher standing might find them and bring them up in better circumstances; in resignation, when a child was of unwelcome gender or ominous auspices; or in callousness, if they simply could not be bothered with parenthood.
John BoswellIn the 1690s, at the height of the worst demographic crisis in the seventeenth century – at a time when plague and famine decimated the population of Northern France … corpses were found with grass stuffed in their mouths and mothers “exposed” the infants they could not feed so they got sick and died.
Robert Darnton
The site is flash heavy and contains videos and interviews with experts. It’s well worth dipping into.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/re-enchantment/
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Mar 12, 2012
Reign of Beasts! Giveaway
Tansy is giving away a copy of her final book in the Creature Court Trilogy, get thee to Goodreads now.
You can read my reviews of Book 1 & 2 here and here
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Feb 2, 2012
BAD POWER Give away
I reviewed Bad Power as part of the Australian Women’s Writing challenge at this post
If you really like the sound of the book and can’t wait to win it. It is available from Twelfth Planet Press in paperback and will soon be available as an ebook. is now available as an ebook in epub format.
Bad Power paperback link
Bad Power Epub link
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