Book giveaway contest!

Contest Closed

 

I still have signed copies of The Girl And The Stars and of Road Brothers to give away - so it's contest time again!

I also have a lot of my book 2's and book 3's, so if you win and you have another book in mind as a prize, we can probably do that instead.

Since my next book is The Girl And The Mountain this will be a mountain-based contest.

To enter, just send me a mountain-based entry. The default is a book mountain (not tower).

There will be a prize chosen from the 'best' entries in general. A prize chosen from the 'best' book-mountains. And three prizes chosen randomly from all the entries. 

Just send your entry in an email marked 'Book Contest' to me at empire_of_thorns@yahoo.co.uk

All entries will be posted on this page. 

Contest closes midnight GMT on Saturday 26th of September.

Winners = 10 (Rafael), 38 (Tracy), 41 (Dorian), 42 (Bryan), 53 (Peter)

 Entries

#65 Andrew

#64 Adriana

#63 Teresa

#62 Abhinav

#61 Megan

#60 Shane

#59 Naomi

#58 Mark

#57 Emma

#56 John

#55 Djerri

#54 Joshua

#53 Peter

#52 Luna

#51 Vesna

#50 Lynda

#49 Steve

#48 Shonnie-Lee

#47 Cearon

#46 Ileana

#45 Chris

#44 Lawrence

#43 Samuel

#42 Bryan 

#41 Dorian

#40 Ewen

#39 Kabir

#38 Tracy

#37 Zaid

#36 Gilad

#35 Jayden

#34 Rita

#33 Amanda

#32 Pierce

#31 Alex

#30 Ian

#29 Bastian

#28 Sethia 

#27 Helen

#26 John

#25 Thomas

#24 Mark

#23 Mike - chasing the random prizes

#22 Sean

#21 Tasos

#20 Guido

#19 Michael

#18 George

#17 Elton - Mount Wannaread

#16 Max - with possibly the max books so far...

#15 Helen - mountaineering books, no less!

#14 Gary

#13 Tammy

#12 Scott

#11 Tracey

#10 Rafael

#9 Sylvia

8 Kurt - a mountain themed haiku

High Beerentoppen,
Where Skilfar kneads with gnarled hands
To shape the Empire.

#7 John - a whole range!

#6 Kyle

#5 Smith

#4 Liz

#3 Melisande

#2 Lost

#1 Cesar

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My first text!

Perhaps it's a little late in the day for a writer and a scientist to have sent his first text, but there it is. Last week I sent my first ever text. I was in temporary command of one of my wife's phones (at the hospital where my daughter was having an operation) and a text came in that, if unanswered, would considerably inconvenience me - so I replied. Go me!

My embracing of technology is somewhat inconsistent - I got my first home computer (a ZX Spectrum) in 1982, but I don't have a smart phone and my very basic clamshell phone keeps getting cut off for "inactivity" despite having credit on it. To be fair, it does spend months uncharged in a drawer.

Basically I'm phone-phobic, which is the sharp end of my introversion. I don't like talking on a phone. You'll only find one podcast with me on it, and I've been invited to take part in dozens over the years. I'm not a social butterfly ... social cicada is more my speed - broadcast a lot of noise (online) and pop up in person once every seventeen years.

This is perhaps not the ideal configuration for an author. According to some sources authors need to network, press the flesh, and do business at conventions. In fact in a recent lawsuit one author was claiming that attending conventions was a vital part of his job. In my experience ... not so much.

We work with what we've got. Text is my medium, so perhaps in future I'll send more texts. But don't hold your breath!

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