Blog Entry: Pride, pics, and a giveaway
Entry posted on June 26, 2010, 4.15 pm
Categories:
A Most Improper Magick, Family, Giveaways, Photos
First, a piece of news that made me really happy. Remember how I said, a month or so ago, that my brother Ben's short story "Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" had been named as a notable story of the year by the StorySouth award? Well, now it's going to be republished in an anthology of the best Jewish SF/fantasy stories of the past decade.
I am really, really proud of my brother.
Second, this morning there was a knock on the door, much, much too early - but for a fabulous reason. The cover proofs for A Most Improper Magick had arrived! And ohhhh, they're beautiful. They're fun to touch, too! The gold-foiled bits are bumpy, and the shiny white bits feel really smooth against the matte cover...I spent way too long just stroking them, as you can probably guess. ;)
Here are the cover proofs hanging out on the lounger in our patio, enjoying the bright sunshine of our insanely hot summer. (Does the weather not realize that we are in Wales? What is it thinking????)
The best part is that my editor sent me three proofs of the cover. I'm going to keep one, probably to frame; I'm going to save another to give away at my launch party; but I want to give away the third one here, to one of you guys.
At first I was going to put all kinds of sensible conditions on the giveaway, like that you must retweet it or post about it or whatever. But then I thought: y'know, a lot of you guys have been reading my blog for a LONG TIME, some of you from all the way back in 2002 when the idea of me publishing a book - much less a trilogy - must have seemed like a crazy fantasy. (At least, it certainly felt like that to me, an awful lot of the time!) And that deserves something nice in return right now, without a lot of marketing-style fanfare.
So here's the thing. If you'd like a signed cover proof, just leave a comment here, telling me that you would like it. Then I'll use a random number generator to pick a winner on Thursday, July 1st, because that's exactly one month before the book will be published in the UK.
I can't wait. And thank you guys so much for hanging out with me along the way!
Note: This giveaway is now closed.