Book Giveaway – The Crimson Shield (again) (8/7/2013)
I thought I had a dead cert for the giveaway lined up for this week – a signed copy of Sarah Pinborough’s Charm, but apparently I have wait until next week when it actually comes out. BOO.
So if it has to be a book that comes out this week, then, as I discovered to my surprised, *I* have one of those. Yes, the King’s Assassin is now out in paperback. However, I’ve been offered a signed copy of The Crimson Shield. I was thinking of putting them both in the pot and letting people choose but then I was thinking I might not much like how that panned out… So: This week’s giveaway is a signed copy of the Crimson Shield by Nathan Hawke. Next week Charm (hopefully). Then maybe a set of the whole thief-taker trilogy.
According to the Goodreads description, Nathan Hawke doesn’t really exist and is actually me. I figured I’d best promote him then so here’s a link to the only review I can find.
I don’t really have any other news this week, at least not that I can share. Some more words. They happened.
Usual deal – comment on this post before July 13th and I’ll randomly select a lucky victim for a free copy of the book. Given that The Crimson Shield is (apparently) largely a book about blokes hitting each other with swords and axes, we’ll play Weapon Supermarket this week (first commenter has to come up with a weapon beginning with A (axe would seem a good start), second commenter has to point out a weapon beginning with B, etc). For Charm, next week (if I get it), we can play Rude Supermarket… 
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.
July 8th, 2013 at 6: 39 pm
Ooh signed copy… In that case must stick my name down
Arbalest
July 8th, 2013 at 7: 13 pm
Stop playing with the cloning machine! jx
July 8th, 2013 at 7: 14 pm
oh and, um, ballista
Curse you, brainfog!
July 8th, 2013 at 7: 58 pm
Nathan Hawke? Ok, I’ll play – Claymore – either the traditional version or the mine.
July 8th, 2013 at 8: 19 pm
Dirk – I really want to read this one:-)
July 8th, 2013 at 11: 44 pm
Enfield revolver!
July 8th, 2013 at 11: 48 pm
Flageolet! Oh, that’s a bean. Um…. FLAIL.
July 8th, 2013 at 11: 49 pm
Dammit! Can I change mine to FALCHION? Much classier.
July 9th, 2013 at 2: 10 am
Gorgonzola Grapple (these were the first two words that came into my head)
July 9th, 2013 at 8: 44 am
Herugrim – A sword from middle earth belonging to Theodain
July 9th, 2013 at 8: 44 am
Can people who don’t post actual weapons not get their post counted?
Hatchet. Both a small axe and a book by Gary Paulsen.
July 9th, 2013 at 9: 37 am
Probably somebody will choke to death reading this, but…
I take Captain America as my weapon of choice!!!
If I remember well on some X-men issue he’s called “Weapon I”, as predecessor of Wolverine (namely Weapon X)!
July 9th, 2013 at 2: 04 pm
I covet signed copies like a magpie covets shiny things! Would love to have another one to add to the collection especially as I was curious about this book!
July 9th, 2013 at 3: 32 pm
Erm…..don’t know what to say…..
July 9th, 2013 at 5: 32 pm
looks cool
July 9th, 2013 at 6: 17 pm
J- Javelin
July 10th, 2013 at 12: 28 am
Kan’t believe knowbody has kome up with Knife! There are many knaves with knives in fantasy & science fiction!
July 10th, 2013 at 7: 43 am
L for Lance, a longer spear
July 10th, 2013 at 10: 40 am
M for Mace
July 10th, 2013 at 10: 45 am
Nunchuk
July 10th, 2013 at 10: 49 am
O for Odachi, a type of Japanese longsword.
July 10th, 2013 at 10: 54 am
[P]itchfork
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 07 am
Q? Erm, a Quiver full of arrows?
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 09 am
Rapier!
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 09 am
And sad that my Q option got caught in the spam filter cause I went for Q weapons from Star Trek!!
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 14 am
Salawar
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 23 am
Q-weapons rescued from spam. And to answer the earlier question, I’ll take any weapon, obscure, comic or common, especially as we get to the trickier end of the alphabet, but a weapon there must be. Even if it’s an Angry Yak thrown by the Hulk.
July 10th, 2013 at 11: 28 am
Thanks for the spam rescue!
July 10th, 2013 at 12: 50 pm
Terminus Est – Severian tbe torturer’s sword
July 10th, 2013 at 10: 53 pm
Umbrella – thinking mainly of the Penguin from Batman here
July 11th, 2013 at 8: 01 am
Voulge – is a type of polearm that existed alongside the similar glaive in medieval Europe.The voulge was commonly used by the French, the ‘Hundred Years War’ proved many opportunities to show its strength.
July 11th, 2013 at 11: 01 am
Do defensive weapons count? Vambrace
July 11th, 2013 at 11: 05 am
War Hammer
July 11th, 2013 at 8: 34 pm
X-ray laser. As in the sort of laser you can’t see flashing through the vacuum of space. A bit like EVERY OTHER KIND OF LASER.
July 12th, 2013 at 10: 10 pm
Yari. Could make use as an awesome brochette, so it’s multi-functional. Hurray!
July 13th, 2013 at 1: 52 am
ZPU is an anti-aircraft gun. Who gnu?
July 15th, 2013 at 10: 11 am
Piero wins – weapon I: Captain America. For those alert to such things, the Gods of Random picked a different winner first but the comment didn’t have a weapon in it.