Archive for March, 2009

THE PRETENDER’S CROWN contest/give-away

I have just received two early copies of THE PRETENDER’S CROWN. It is, in my ever-so-humble opinion, absolutely beautiful. In fact, it’s so pretty it makes me want to re-read it, which isn’t all that usual. :)

So! I have two copies. One must go on my Shelf Of Books I Wrote, but the other, I think, cries out to be sent into the world. So there will be a contest!

I will be the director. You will be the Casting Agents. The book will go to the person who builds what is to my mind the best complete cast for THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. The integral characters, therefore, are Belinda Primrose, Robert Drake, Lorraine Walter, Sandalia de Costa, Javier de Castille, Eliza Beaulieu, Marius Poulin, and Sacha Asselin. Bonus points for also casting Dmitri Leontyev, Rodrigo de Costa, Irina Durova, and Akilina Pankejeff. And I’ll be really impressed if you also cast Viktor, Ilyana and the gondola boy. :)

The parts don’t have to be cast with current actors, I wouldn’t say, or people at their current ages. That makes it more fun, I think. :)

Here’s the catch: I only have the one copy to send out, and this post goes out at mizkit.com, cemurphy.net, mizkit.livejournal.com, Facebook, and Myspace. I expect answers will come in from most of those places, so you might not see the winning entry wherever you actually do your own answering. I will, of course, post the winning entry here.

Let’s see. I’ll choose a winner (EDITED: deadline extended!) at noon EST on Tuesday, April 7.

Have at!

A FANTASY MEDLEY nearly sold out

If you haven’t ordered a copy of A FANTASY MEDLEY, which has an Old Races story by me along with stories by Kate Elliott, Robin Hobb and Kelley Armstrong (I still can’t help going ‘one of these things is not like the others’ when I see my name in that lineup), here is an important bit of information from Subterranean Press:

Headed into the out of print realm soon is A Fantasy Medley (edited by Yanni Kuznia), which hasn’t even started shipping yet! As I write this, we’re down to our last couple hundred copies of the trade edition, and the last 35-40 copies of the limited edition. It will only take a few wholesaler/large online retailer order to take care of the trade edition, and we expect the limited to go out of print about the same time.

You can place your order here, if’n you want one.

Minor publishing news

I have, as of a few days ago, delivered TRUTHSEEKER, first of the paranormal romance duology due out from Del Rey in late 2010. TRUTHSEEKER is the story of Lara Jansen, who always knows when she’s being lied to–and who is therefore somewhat shocked when the new man in her life confesses–truthfully–to being a prince of Faery.

I’ll be starting book five of the Walker Papers in about ten days here. Keep an eye on the site, because I’ll be auctioning off a “Tuckerization”–a chance for a reader to have his or her name in the book as a character name.

Appearances & Interviews

Upcoming Appearances
» On Friday 27th March, in association with P-Con, the Irish Literary SF Convention, Chapters Bookstore in Dublin will have Oisín McGann, Juliet E McKenna, myself, and Charles Stross doing a mass signing in the shop from 5.00pm to 6.30pm (after which we’ll all be going over to the Central Hotel for the convention’s opening ceremony).

» Phoenix Con (P-Con)
Dublin’s literary sf/f convention will be held at the Central Hotel, March 27-29, 2009. Hope to see you there!

Interviews
I’ll be participating in an all-week interview at Bitten By Books starting on March 10, 2009. Drop by and ask questions!

And a couple of Take a Chance interviews, one at Book Spot Central and another at Comicon.com. Please feel free to stop by and comment!

Take A Chance #2 hits the shelves!

After a slight delay, Chance #2 is hitting the shelves on March 4th! But to make up for the delay, #3 will be out March 11th. :)

And a handful of teaser icons from the second issue, as well, plus images from issue #3, all behind the cut!

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