Book Giveaway: Dragon Queen (5/8/2013)
Nothing Can Hurt Me
Nothing Can Stop Me
Another week and so far I appear to be not dead and, in fact, largely better. The last couple of weeks have been spent largely on SF stuff again. There’s now a whole first draft for Empires: Extraction (working title) which may need reining in a little as I appear to have gone Michael Bay all over Docklands, Limehouse and parts of the City. Never mind, eh? The last few days have been spent making further revisions to the sekkrit project which is due for submission at the end of the month. I’m told I can talk about it next month. Otherwise I’ve been working on a Bulldog Drummond novella (see last week’s announcement), a good chunk of which is set in Docklands, Limehouse and parts of the City. This is confusing. The same pub, for example, appears in both. Captain Drummond keeps getting strange flash-forwards of the scenery of East London a hundred years in the future, ravaged by nuclear fire…
Cold Redemption (Gallow book 2) comes out on Thursday. Dragon Queen comes out in less than two weeks now and I have a few copies, a tiny precious few. Dragon Queen is my attempt to keep all the good stuff from the first series but with vastly more world building and character depth (hopefully sort of like The Black Mausoleum). So it’s not going to be quite the relentlessly fast roller-coaster of The Adamantine Palace but on the other hand you do get an entire last act that should read like Call of Duty: Dragon Warfare if I’ve done it right. There are some tasters here and here and I’ll put up another one on Thursday – and here it is. . .
You wanted to know more about the Taiytakei: here they are. And possibly they just made a very big mistake.
I have two copies to give away. One here and one on Twitter. Usual deal – comment on this post before August 10th and I’ll randomly select a lucky victim for a free copy of the series.
This week we’re playing Dragon Supermarket. So you need your comment to come up with something to do with fire and dragons and the comments have to be in alphabetical order. So for example, A is for Absolutely Run Like Fuck When You See One, B is for Burn, etc…
Anyway, to enter the competition, you have to play the game. You can enter as may times as you like but I’ll count the first two entries – the rest are just for fun and showing off. Extra points for humour and originality and just for once I’ll throw in an Angry Dragons mug if you make me laugh, smirk or otherwise amuse me.
Although, though no one has yet complained about how long it takes me to get to the post office and post things, it can take a while and if you live abroad then it can take even longer. Sorry about that, but they do get there eventually. Well, so far.
August 5th, 2013 at 9: 31 am
Another awesomely amazing addition about fiery reptiles to singe your bookshelves!
August 5th, 2013 at 11: 11 am
Ooh! Want! Want! Want!
August 5th, 2013 at 11: 20 am
Baby dragons are born by bitches. So what’s that (dragon) Queen like?
August 5th, 2013 at 11: 44 am
Cannons. Big enough to kill dragons
August 5th, 2013 at 2: 14 pm
Yes, please!
August 5th, 2013 at 6: 37 pm
D is for Death, from above
August 5th, 2013 at 8: 02 pm
Extreme prejudice (dragons kill with). Ironic how people asking for a book seem to be unable to read?
August 5th, 2013 at 9: 40 pm
I needs me more destruction to read!
August 5th, 2013 at 9: 48 pm
flames! that is all that is needed to reek chaos.
August 6th, 2013 at 9: 11 am
G for Good god its a dragon what the fuck do we do now
August 6th, 2013 at 9: 14 am
H is for the hell fire this bitch is gonna roast your chestnuts on!
August 6th, 2013 at 3: 41 pm
I is for ice, that naive dragon hunters think will be able to stop dragonfire. How wrong they are…
August 7th, 2013 at 6: 44 am
J is for juice, poisonous to dragons but like crack for Dragon hunters!
August 7th, 2013 at 9: 21 am
K is for Kamikaze. Otherwise known as: “Dragons! Charge!!!”
August 7th, 2013 at 9: 23 am
M is for Miles, the shortest distance I want between me and the geniuses mentioned in my previous post.
August 7th, 2013 at 3: 43 pm
oh yes please
August 7th, 2013 at 4: 04 pm
N is for Nimble — i.e. be bloody nimble or be a dragon’s dinner.
August 7th, 2013 at 6: 43 pm
O is for Oooooooooh shit the last thing you shout when attacked by a dragon
August 7th, 2013 at 9: 38 pm
I could fill this box with howmuch I want this and how I’d promise eternal loyalty and love etc etc but you know all that already so I’m simply goin. To put:
PLEASE CAN I HAVE ONE!?!
August 7th, 2013 at 9: 41 pm
And I fucking did it again -.-
P as in puny, what every human is to a Dragon.
August 8th, 2013 at 4: 13 am
Q is for quiver! What humans do when they see what is coming to claim them!
August 8th, 2013 at 12: 12 pm
O is for “Oh shit…”-standard response to seeing a dragon in the vicinity…..
August 8th, 2013 at 1: 31 pm
P is for “Pop out my Shotgun and start blasting.” Gotta gotta do something or, P is for “Pee my pants” like Kemir in, “Order of The Scales.”
August 8th, 2013 at 1: 51 pm
Q is for Quest. Dragons always seem to be the final boss at the end of a quest!
August 9th, 2013 at 4: 16 am
R for right order sequence, someone back there forgot L for look in the sky it’s a fiery dragon ready to reek havoc on that lone Red knight. See what I did there?
August 9th, 2013 at 9: 56 am
S for Shit that’s a fucking big dragon in the sky there !!!
August 9th, 2013 at 10: 40 am
T is for Talos the one TRUE god of skyrim. Other than the Daedra that is.
August 9th, 2013 at 1: 32 pm
U is for unknown amount of danger you’re in when you meet a dragon!
August 9th, 2013 at 4: 03 pm
V is for Vishmir’s cock but that’s a fucking BIG drag-
Please please please please PLEASE!
August 9th, 2013 at 4: 49 pm
W is for Wondrous and Wise, but also for Wrathful, Wreaking havoc from the skies. Couldn’t help it; I’m on a wroll!
August 11th, 2013 at 9: 46 pm
Y is for You have no chance at all against them and also for You should run immediately!
I’d love to get a copy, but I’m glad to see it’s coming out in a few weeks, regardless! Very much looking forward to this read.
August 12th, 2013 at 12: 23 am
Xebecs, sloops nor brigantines can outrun a dragon, no matter how the wind blows or how skillful the skipper.
Or…
Xeric deserts may have protected the Realm of Sand & Stone from marching armies, but against dragons, the terrain was no defense.
August 19th, 2013 at 12: 24 pm
Death from above gets it. Read the rules, people. Be a shame if the dice chose someone else first who sadly didn’t…