May winners
Congratulations to Katherine A (Telling Lies for Fun and Profit) and Stephen Winter (The Poison Throne) – I’ll be in touch!
June giveaway
Write Away, by Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George is one of the most successful writers of crime fiction in the world. Her twelve novels have appeared on bestseller lists in the UK, USA and Australia, and several of them have been dramatised by BBC Television as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. She has also written a collection of short stories and edited a crime anthology.
Now she shares this wealth of experience with would-be novelists, and with crime fiction fans. Drawing extensively on her own work, and that of other bestselling writers including Stephen King, Harper Lee, Dennis Lehane and many others, she illustrates her points about plotting, characterisation and technique with great clarity.
She also includes extracts from her own Journals – the diaries she keeps as writes each of her novels – and these give us an unprecedented insight into the creative mind, with all its highs and lows.
Bartimaeus: the Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
This month’s fiction giveaway is a YA fantasy, the first volume of a trilogy.
Bartimaeus is a wisecracking Djinni (pronounced “Jinnee” we’re reliably informed) unlike no other. Summoned from some otherworldly place to do the bidding of a pipsqueak trainee magician called Nathanial, he sets about his given task reluctantly but with aplomb.
Stroud’s fantasy world is familiar, yet fascinatingly different. It’s almost Victorian London, yet Magicians hold overall power and inhabit parliament. The writing is captivating, the story intelligent and mesmerising. It’s difficult to imagine a more scintillating collection of characters and situations. Unmissable. (Amazon review)
Same rules as always – only UK/EU residents may enter, owing to postage. Leave a comment below, saying which book you’d like (or either, if so inclined!), before noon (UK time) on the first Saturday of July. Please use a valid email address in the comment form so I can contact you to get your snail-mail address if you win (don’t put either in your comments, for security reasons!).
Good luck!
I would to read Write Away, by Elizabeth George. Please enter me for this giveaway.
Thank you,
CarolNWong@aol.com
Oh, I am sorry. I need to withdraw! I live in Texas.
Hi, lovely giveaway, thank you. I would love to read Bartimaeus. I love anything that is set in Victorian London and also love Fantasy. It sounds great.
I would love to read ‘Write Away’ by Elizabeth George. As a would-be crime writer, it might help me with the problem of red herrings
Hi. I would love to win ‘Write Away’ please.
Hi, I would love to read “Write Away”. My next project is a crime story and I need all the help I can get
That she’s sharing parts of her journal sounds really interesting.
Kapow!
I would love to read: Bartimaeus: the Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. It sounds really interesting.