Giveaway: The Incorruptibles (10/2/2014)
Writing. Day job. Writing. Day job. Blah blah. The Silver Kings is sitting at about 142k words and will grow to about 220k. I’ve seen the cover for Sekkrit Projekt and it’s cool and I wish I could share . . . but I can’t. Copy edits have started on The Royalist and my my, how two publishers from the same master stable can differ in their ways of doing things. I suppose the main news in the last couple of weeks is that there isn’t going to be any more Gallow from Nathan Hawke for a while…
…however, while being delivered this news, my editor parted with a copy of The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs, which I’m going to share with you just as soon as I’ve read it. I can’t say all that much about it – band of hired swords (well, guns, actually) escorting some dude in a boat into the badlands and then all hell breaks loose if I’ve got the gist of it. I’ve started reading it and it feels like a fantasy western – carbines, pistols, river steamers – and the writing is strikingly good.
This is an ARC and if my editor can’t spare another then I’m offering my own but only after I’ve finished reading it. I’ll try not to spill coffee all over it…
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. Recent winners, I have cleared my backlog – they’re all in the post!
February 10th, 2014 at 9: 30 am
I love the woodcut cover of The Incorruptables and your description brief as it is has piqued my interest.
Good luck with Secret Kings and I hope the Sekkrit Projekt becomes known soon(ish).
Have a great day!
February 10th, 2014 at 9: 38 am
Shame there will be a wait on Gallows and hope the day job doesn’t get you down too much.
Rabbit lovers will hate me but always liked how the word myxomatosis flows. I know its not pleasant but some words just work
February 10th, 2014 at 10: 35 am
I too love that woodcut picture! My favorite words are Antimony, Naptha, Chthonic, and agrimony (among a million others that I cannot think of off the top of my head) haha
February 10th, 2014 at 10: 58 am
I love the cover, it’s very Mark Twain meets Tolkein. My favourite words are agreeable, celestial and murmuration.
February 10th, 2014 at 1: 24 pm
Sounds like great fun!
Among my favourites are scrumptious, and felicitations.
February 10th, 2014 at 3: 40 pm
I am so freaking excited to see JHJ’s take on fantasy! My favorite word is kalopsia, the delusion of things being more beautiful than they are.
February 10th, 2014 at 8: 03 pm
Yes, please.
I have a great many favorite words, many of which I do not think of until I say them, and then I smile at how fun they are to say, such as fantabulous, or linguistic.
February 10th, 2014 at 8: 45 pm
Sounds intriguing!
A few of my favorite words are obfuscate, tenterhooks, and vertigo.
February 10th, 2014 at 9: 01 pm
Definitely one I’d read on the strength of the cover alone.
Favourite words (in French for the hell of it) are pamplemousse and vraisemblablement. The former is a joy to say, and the latter is a joy to get lost in half way through.
February 10th, 2014 at 9: 18 pm
Pick me! Pick me! Ever since Southern Gods and This Dark Earth I’ve been hooked on Jacobs’ work!
February 10th, 2014 at 9: 58 pm
Sent by accident without my words:
verdant
hogshead (early 80’s Wordly Wise vocabulary flashback!)
Stygian
telemetry
February 10th, 2014 at 11: 04 pm
Looks fantastic
February 11th, 2014 at 1: 26 pm
Love, love, love the cover. Favorite word of all time: kerfuffle!
February 11th, 2014 at 6: 47 pm
I’d love to read this.
Not really sure if I have a favorite word but here are some words from book titles that I enjoyed:
Harbringer
Forbearence
Juxtaposition
February 11th, 2014 at 8: 35 pm
Favourite words? Tricky. Every time I select three, I come up with another one that I want to fit in.
Rapscallion, skulduggery, deleterious
Or maybe paraphernalia or procrastination…There’s plenty more but I should probably stop there…
February 14th, 2014 at 12: 17 am
Think my word would have to be “lolloped”- just like the look & the sound od it….!
February 14th, 2014 at 12: 31 am
Sounds like an intriguing novel.
February 14th, 2014 at 12: 39 am
Damn, what a beautiful book. And the inside is supposed to be pretty good too! Fingers crossed! Favorite word? Let’s go with Incorrigible.
February 14th, 2014 at 12: 41 am
Chork – to make the noise that feet do when shoes are full of water.
February 14th, 2014 at 1: 27 am
I like words that become other words when you add/subtract an internal syllable. So, serendipity is a good one, because serenity. I like oblivious/obvious too. But I also like obsequious because I once won a spelling bee with it. Mellifluous just rolls off the tongue.
The ARC looks cool on the outside. How do you like the inside so far?
February 14th, 2014 at 2: 59 am
This one looks so good!
February 14th, 2014 at 6: 34 am
Off the top of my head, “cerulean”
February 16th, 2014 at 7: 09 pm
i really would love to win this i love reading too
February 17th, 2014 at 12: 47 am
I adore all of JHJ’s writing and am so looking forward to this one – would love a print of that cover. Anway, favourite words – have to concur with serendipity, also ethereal, gloaming, mithridate, luminous, flibbertigibbet, troubadour…
February 20th, 2014 at 4: 05 pm
Sloppy as they ever are with getting round to things, but the Gods of Random have chosen Martin. Thanks for all the words though – most interesting.
February 27th, 2014 at 3: 16 pm
sounds good. and wear and use on a book only gives it personality.