Giveaway! First 3 Books of Janny Wurts' "The Wars of Light and Shadow" Series!

Years ago I became acquainted with author Janny Wurts when I read the fantastic series she wrote with Raymond Feist (my favorite of the Riftwar Saga), so when Voyager Books contacted me and offered to let me giveaway a few of her books-- I jumped at the chance. And now, I have the first three books of "The Wars of Light and Shadow" series by Janny Wurts to giveaway to one lucky winner.

The Curse of the Mistwraith

The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow, and Lysaer, Lord of Light. Arithon and Lysaer soon find that they are inescapably bound to a series of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well, there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith: between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world—its harmony and its future—in their hands.

The Ships of Merior

The half-brothers Arithon, Master of Shadow, and Lysaer, Lord of Light, have defeated the Mistwraith and dispersed the fogs that smothered Athera's skies. But their victory comes at a high price: the Mistwraith has set them at odds under a powerful curse of vengeance. The two princes are locked in deadly enmity, with the fates of nations and the balance of the world's mystical powers entangled in their feud. Arithon, forced out of hiding, finds himself hounded by Lysaer and his mighty army. He must take to his natural element—the seas—in order to evade pursuit and steal the initiative. However, his efforts are impeded by outside magical factions, not to mention a drunken prophet sent to safeguard his life, but who seems determined to wreck his cause by misadventure.

The Warhost of Vastmark

Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbor town of Merior to find that Arithon's ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the Master of Shadow has disappeared as if into thin air. Meanwhile Arithon and the Mad Prophet Dakar are traveling on foot through the treacherous Kelhorn Mountains towards the Vastmark clans, there to raise further support for his cause. But raising a warhost is a costly business. Is it mere coincidence that Princess Talith—Lysaer's beautiful, headstrong wife—is taken captive and held for a vast ransom by a master brigand? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict. And in the background the Fellowship of Seven Sorcerers and the Koriani Enchantresses watch and plan, and wait.

Sounds like some great summer reading doesn't it? If you'd like to get your hands on all THREE of these books, simply enter your information into the form provided on the page and I will pick a winner by Wednesday August 12th. Please include your address-- I promise I will delete all entries after the contest has ended and will not use your personal information for any purpose other than making sure the prizes get to the winner. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Open everywhere.

Good luck!

**Contest Closed**

Giveaway! "Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates" by Brian Lumley

I'm baaaack! And I bring gifts! Thanks to Tor Books I have a copy of Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates: and Other Tales From the Lost Years.

Harry Keogh, the first Necroscope, is arguably Brian Lumley’s greatest creation. In the Necroscope series, readers saw Harry learn to use his powers to talk with the dead and travel instantaneously to any point in space and time. They saw him take arms against the evil, twisted, metamorphic alien vampires who sought to feed off humans and enslave mankind. They saw him suffer a great personal loss and then recover his family, and later his humanity, through a new love. And they saw Harry wage the grimmest battle of his life—against the vampire he himself was becoming!

Even after Harry’s story was done, Brian Lumley continued to write books about Harry’s legacy—the other Necroscopes who inherited his weird talents. But Harry himself would not go quietly into that darkness that lies beyond an author’s imagination . . . and now Brian Lumley has written three new novellas about Harry and his supernatural adventures, which are published for the first time in the United States in Harry and the Pirates.

Doesn't that sound great? To enter, just enter the field below and I will randomly pick a winner by Tuesday August 4th. Make sure you fill out all the fields or I cannot accept the entry. Please no multiple entries at the same address-- I will disqualify those entrants as well. Open everywhere.

Good luck!

**Contest Closed**

Winner! "Nebula Awards Showcase" and "Gamer Fantastic"

I have randomly picked a winner for my latest short story contest featuring the "Nebula Awards Showcase 2009" and "Gamer Fantastic" and the winner is--

Carrie Beduhn: Grand Rapids MI

Congrats Carrie!

As you can probably guess from this post, I'm back from vacation and ready to get back to blogging. Be on the lookout for some new giveaways to get the week started!
Thanks to everyone who entered.

Giveaway! "Wireless" by Charles Stross

Thanks to Ace Books I have a copy of Wireless by Charles Stross to offer for giveaway.

Book Description
Prolific novelist Stross pauses to collect short stories that have not (yet) been stitched up into his longer work. Stories that move the U.S.–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage. He also pays homage to his literary forebears, combining Lovecraft and the Iran-Contra scandal (The Colder War) and bringing in Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould as characters. Though individual pieces are well-done and deservedly popular, the collection has an overall sense of early drafts and reworkings of other pieces, as with Trunk and Disorderly, a P.G. Wodehouse–on–Mars test run for 2008's Saturn's Children.

To enter, just enter your information into the form below and it will be automatically sent to me. Fill out all the fields or I cannot accept the entry. If you make a mistake on the entry (wrong name, address etc,) just send me an email at sqt1969(at)gmail(dot)com and let me know and I'll make sure the entry is still good. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Open everywhere. Contest ends Wednesday July 29th.

**Contest Closed**

Free Stuff!

~Quick list of giveaways for you all to check out~

My friend & contributing reviewer Jim Haley has a copy of The New Space Opera, including stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Sean Williams, up for giveaway.

Lauren over at Shooting Stars Mag has an interview with author Alex Bell and a copy of Jasmyn up for grabs.

Book Junkie has her Hot Summer Nights Part Two contest up. Lots of prizes being awarded here.

SciFi Chick's contest featuring Tanya Huff's The Enchantment Emporium is almost up, so be sure to get your entries in quick. She also has 5 copies of Laura Resnick's The Purifying Fire for 5 lucky winners too.

SciFi Guy also has 5 copies of The Purifying Fire, as well as 5 copies of Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey AND 3 set of Carey's Felix Castor series. He also has a copy of The Highwayman by Michelle Hauf for grabs.

The Clarity of Night blog has a really cool short story contest going on. Write 250 words and win yourself a $50 gift card from Amazon.

Debbie's World of Books has 5 copies of One Scream Away by Kate Brady for those of you who like some suspense.

Winners! "Conspirator" by C. J. Cherryh and "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson

Sorry for the late announcements, but I have the winners of my overdue contests.

The winner of "Conspirator" by C. J. Cherryh is Michelle G

and the winner of my second copy of "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson is Fokxxy

Congrats to both of you!

Thanks everyone for your patience while I try to get back on track.

Short Story Giveaway! *Contest Closed*

It's that time again..Time to pass on some short stories. Thanks to Penguin Books I've got some short stories to pass on to a lucky winner.

Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Edited by Ellen Datlow

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: “The pulse of modern science fiction.”(New York Times Book Review)
This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award-winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

and
Gamer Fantastic, Edited by Martin H. Greenburg and Kerrie Hughes

Let the games begin!
These thirteen original stories by veterans of the fantasy realms take role-playing games and universes to a whole new level. From a teenager who finds a better future in virtual reality; to a private investigator hired to find a dying man’s grandson in the midst of a virtual reality theme park; from a person gifted with the power to pull things out of books into the real world; to a psychologist using fantasy role-playing to heal his patients; from a gaming convention where the real winners may not be who they seem to be; to a multi-layered role-playing game that leads participants from reality to reality and games within games—these imaginative and fascinating new tales will captivate both lovers of original fantasy and anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of role-playing games.


I'm changing my entry format. Sadly, I have had too hard a time getting a hold of some winners lately and I'd like to avoid that in the future. Just enter your info in the form below and the entry will be sent to me automatically. I will randomly pick a winner by Thursday July 16th. Be sure to leave a valid address--if you win I will mail the books right off. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Open everywhere.

Good luck!

**Contest Closed**