Winner: Winds of Khalakovo Giveaway

With the help of Random.org, I picked a winner for my extra copy of The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu(Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound). The winner is:

Maria from Iona, Greece.

Congrats Maria!

Winner of The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham

With the help of Random.org, I picked a winner for my extra copy of The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham (Book Depository, Powell's Books, Indiebound). The winner is:

Zoe from Carterton, UK

Congrats Zoe!

Winners: Wild Cards I Giveaway

With the help of Random.org, a winner has been chosen for Wild Cards I edited by George RR Martin for giveaway (Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound).

The winners are…

Angela from Mattapan, Massachusetts

Matthijis from Almere, Netherlands

Luke from Inman, South Carolina

Joe from Ripon, Wisconsin

Cleveland from Omaha, Nebraska

Congrats to all the winners!

Winner: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

With the help of Random.org, a winner has been chosen for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound). The winner is…

Laura from Vero Beach, Florida

Congrats to all the winners!

Winners of 10th Anniversary Edition of Gardens of the Moon

Anyway, enough about me. With the help of Random.org, winners have been chosen for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (US, UK, Canada, Indiebound) from the good people over at Transworld. So the winners are…

Shellie from Scottsdale, Arizona
Kevin from San Francisco, California
Michael from Egelsbach, Germany
Philip from Olathe, Kansas
Maria from N. Ionia , Greece

Congrats to all the winners!

Winners of the Fantasy Firsts Contest

With the help of random.org, I have the winners for the Fantasy Firsts contest curtesy of Tor. Each winner will receive a copy of The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (US, UK, Canada, Indiebound) and Mistborn: Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (US, UK, Canada, Indiebound).

The winners are

• Oren D. of Herndon, Virginia
• Mark J. of Grenada Hills, California
• Joel J. of Spring City, Utah

Contrats again to the winners and thanks again to Tor for sponsoring the giveaway. With only 17 entries, the odds on this were pretty great.

News and Winners Announced

Well, I’m seemingly hopelessly behind around here. I review pretty much every book I read and I generally only read one book at a time. A quick glance over at the Currently Reading widget shows 4 books. Well, I’m really only reading one right now – Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson (US, UK, Canada, Indiebound). I’ve finished the others, but still need to right reviews for them. I got behind with work and personal travel last month, almost got caught up, and then got really busy again. Dust of Dreams is a huge book (just shy of 900 pages in hardback), so I’ll probably get caught up before I finish reading it. And maybe I’ll find some spare time for other posts, but we’ll see.

Anyway, enough about me. With the help of Random.org, winners have been chosen for the WIND BAGS OF DUNE giveaway…err… the giveaway of two copies of The Winds of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert (US, UK, Canada, Indiebound) and 5 string Winds of Dune bags from the good people over at Tor Books. So the winners are…

Winds of Dune bags:

• David from Toronto, Ontario
• Linda from Burford, Ontario
• John from Winder, Georgia
• Ric from Cutler Bay, Florida
• Bill from Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Signed copies of The Winds of Dune:

• Jeff from Fitchburg, Massachusetts
• Andrew from Toronto, Ontario

Congrats to all the winners!

Winner of the Brent Weeks Contest

With the help of random.org, I have the winner of a copy of the first two books in Brent Weeks’ new epic fantasy The Night Angel Trilogy – The Way of Shadows (US, UK, Canada) and Shadow’s Edge (US, UK, Canada). In the world of randomness, the winner happened to be the last entry - Luke from Fisher, Australia.

I suspect that he may have entered on November 2nd when the contest ended on the first, but it was still November 1st here in Arizona when the entry was received. I am amused by the subtle strangeness of that. Thanks again to the slight error over at Orbit that made this contest happen.

Winners of Amber and Blood by Margaret Weis

With the help of random.org, I have the winners of a copy of Amber and Blood by Margaret Weis that I had up for grabs. Congratulations to Gustav from Lund, Sweden, Buddy from Gauteng, South Africa, Zsolt from Gyomro, Hungary and Antoine from Roslindale, Massachusetts USA. Thanks again to the folks over at Wizards of the Coast for making this happen.

Winner of The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock

With the help of random.org, I have a winner of the copy of The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock that I had up for grabs. Congratulations to Teresa W. from Toledo, Ohio. Thanks again to the folks over at Pyr for making this happen.

Winner of River of Gods by Ian McDonald

With the help of random.org, I have a winner of the copy of River of Gods by Ian McDonald that I had up for grabs. Congratulations to Chris M. from St. Catharines, Ontario (I prefer not to give out last names due to privacy concerns – i.e. it annoys me a bit when my full name gets out on the internet). Thanks again to the folks over at Pyr for making this happen.

Stay tuned for future giveaways – I’ll be announcing a giveaway of The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock (my review) a bit closer to its publication next month.

I’m a Winner!

I finally won one of these on-line book contests/drawings! Thanks to Pat over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist for setting up the contest and bringing numerous opportunities to get free books. The book I won is His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, previously published in the UK under the name Temeraire – yep, apparently we Americans aren’t good enough for such a complicated title, but I digress. This book has gotten good reviews from Pat over at Fantasy Hotlist, Jay at Fantasy Bookspot, and many others. I'm looking forward to reading this book and its sequels, Throne of Jade (release later this month), and Black Powder War (release end of May), in the near future.

Thanks again, and I look forward to reading and reviewing it here.

Edit: The review is here.