Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: Dar Williams, "This Was Pompeii."

Second hardship giveaway.

Thanks to the generosity of my readers, we are opening a second hardship giveaway.

What is a hardship giveaway? It's where I give away older books (not ARCs or just-released) to people who couldn't afford to buy them when they came out, and/or can't afford them now. It's an honor system: I believe that you will honor my intent, and only enter if you have a genuine need. Because T-shirt mailing is ongoing, this particular giveaway is only open to people with US addresses. I am so sorry about that, I really am, but a) I can't afford international postage (which is sort of contradictory to the whole "hardship" angle), and b) my postal workers will kill me if I add more international shipping right now.

To enter...

1) Comment on this post, indicating that you have a US address.
2) Tell me what book you are hoping to win. Anything I've written.
2a) Hell, feel free to list anthologies.
3) If you have a second choice, list that.

I cannot guarantee that I have any specific book "in stock," as it were, but I can sure look. (I can tell you for sure that I don't have Rosemary and Rue, Feed, or A Fantasy Medley 2 right now, although I do have When Will You Rise and Cat Valente's essay collection, for which I wrote the intro.)

I will choose ten winners on Monday, February 9th. They will have twenty-four hours to contact me to claim their prizes. This will be tightly enforced, as I leave for New York on the 12th. Please do not enter if you won a prize in the previous hardship giveaway, as we want to spread the love as far as possible.

Shoot for the moon!
Tags: be excellent to one another, giving stuff away
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nurseiris

February 6 2015, 04:51:17 UTC 2 years ago

In the US
First choice, Either of the Velveteen books.
Second choice, When Will You Rise or any other Subterranean Press book.


(Also who at Subterranean Press do I write a letter to to get them to let you publish "Rat-Catcher" on your website? I want to read it soooooo bad and it seems like everybody else wants to read it too!)

seanan_mcguire

February 6 2015, 14:28:23 UTC 2 years ago

No one. You write to no one.

I will absolutely not, under any circumstances, period, give away this story for free before the collection which contains it is fully sold out. That's unfair to the publisher who commissioned it; it's unfair to the other authors in the collection; and it's unfair to my future chances of placing stories in anthologies, which pays my bills.