Well, I promised you a surprise with regards to Steven Erikson and, well… here it is!

This giveaway is a collaboration between A Dribble of Ink and The Signed Page. The Signed Page was kind enough to provide me with five (5) Trade Paperback copies of Steven Erikson’s The Bonehunters and, best of all, they’re signed by Steve himself!

Unfortunately this contest is only open to those living in North America. I have to pay for the shipping out of my own pocket and, well… I’m a poor college student! I apologize to all of those who read my blog from outside of North America, I know there are a lot of you!

Also, just to clarify, the editions being given away are Trade Paperback, US copies of The Bonehunters. The one with the erm… beautiful Todd Lockwood cover to the left.

The Rules are simple:

• Go to The Signed Page and find the name of their newsletter (found near the bottom of the page)
• Send and email to bonehunters(no-spam)@aidanmoher.com [remove the (no-spam) thing!)
• Put “BONEHUNTERS” into the subject line
• Include: your Full Name & Mailing Address (North American only, please!) and the name of the Signed Page’s newsletter
• Let me know what corners of the Internet you roam and your screen names (Message Boards, Blogs, etc…)
• Enter only ONCE, multiple entrants will be disqualified.

And that’s it! Pretty standard stuff (in fact, I basically stole most of it from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist!) Steve doesn’t get out to do signings as much as other authors, so this is a pretty rare treat that fans of his surely won’t want to pass up! The lucky winners will be announced around the same time as the three-way interview between Steven Erikson, Ian Cameron Esslemont and myself! (Don’t forget that you can send in questions if you have them! Check this post for details!)

Good luck to everyone who enters!

   Thanks to Shawn Speakman (a good friend of mine, a terrific author and the man behind The Signed Page) I had the chance to meet one of Fantasy’s biggest authors, Steven Erikson. In fact, I didn’t only meet him, I spent an afternoon with him and Shawn and we had a good chance to talk about everything from Fantasy, to windy islands, to K.J. Parker’s latest trilogy (The Engineer Trilogy, it’s really good apparently!), to my own writing career, and even Pat from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist (Nothing but good things, Pat. I promise!).

   It’s obviously a pretty rare chance to sit down with a published author and be able to shoot the shit for a couple of hours. It’s an even rarer chance to do so with an author who many will argue is the finest in the genre at the moment.
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David Anthony Durham is giving away an audio copy of his latest novel, ACACIA: The War with the Mein, over at his blog. ACACIA is well worth the read… er, listen and entering the contest is as easy as signing up for his forum (where you’ll often find me laying down the law!) and entering in a thread there.

I’m confident to say that ACACIA was one of the biggest surprises for me this year. Durham crafted a terrific novel that tackles a lot of topics not often seen in the Fantasy genre. you can find my full review HERE and the interview I did with Durham HERE.

Check out Durham’s blog post about the contest HERE. Good luck!