...a copy of Chimera!

Welcome to the second of the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 13th. Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 30th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, avoiding the post office until that other winter holiday is over).

The second giveaway is for a copy of Chimera, the conclusion to the Parasitology trilogy. This is going to be a random number drawing, because I am about to leave for the airport. Please be aware that I am not guaranteeing US vs. UK edition: you're going to get whichever comes to hand when it's take to pack things. This means that if you're really dedicated to getting a book that matches the books you may already have, this is probably a bad giveaway for you. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Wednesday, December 9th.

Game on!

ETA: This drawing is now closed.

...an ARC of Chaos Choreography!

Welcome to the first of the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 13th. Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 30th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, avoiding the post office until that other winter holiday is over).

The first giveaway is for an ARC of Chaos Choreography, the fifth InCryptid adventure. This is going to be a random number drawing, because I am sleepy. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Tuesday, December 8th.

Game on!

ETA: This drawing is CLOSED.

Hello, happy people!

Tuesday (December 1st) will be the first of the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch, my now-annual "Seanan gives things away for thirteen days because why not" celebration, and I just wanted to issue a few quick reminders. Namely...

1. Each giveaway will have its own rules. Some will be US-only. (Most will honestly be US-only, because I can't afford to pay international postage at this time. More about this to come.) Others will say things like "your comment must include the word 'banana' to be considered a valid entry." Failure to precisely follow the rules of a giveaway will mean you cannot win. There is no wiggle room here, at all. This is partially for my sanity, and partially because when I give things away, the free stuff blogs tend to signal boost, and insisting that the rules be followed means that there's enough of a barrier to entry that I can be reasonably sure things are going to people who actually want them.

2. No, you do not need to follow this blog to win. That being said, each entry will say something like "the winners will be posted at X time, and will have until Y to contact me." Every time I do a giveaway, I have folks contacting me days after the stated time, wanting to know if they can still claim their prizes. I fully understand that life happens—I've been the late one before—but the timelines are firm. So if you don't follow this blog normally, I recommend checking in daily until all Hogswatch giveaways are over.

3. In the instances where I am willing to deal with the cost and complication of international shipping, I may say "you must pay postage to receive your prize." If you'd like to volunteer to pay international postage for a giveaway winner, please comment on that day's giveaway to indicate this. Make sure it's a first-level comment, and not a reply to a specific person. (If you're only willing to pay for a specific person, tell them in private, and y'all can work it out without me.)

4. All prizes have already been selected by me, but I will not be revealing them until the day that their drawing begins.

5. You can enter all thirteen days if you want to.

And that is all. First entry goes up Tuesday!

The votes (well, the random numbers) are in! Today's three winners are...

wenhaver
brennye
vulpes484

If you have won, please follow these steps:

a) Comment here, so I know you're claiming your prize.
b) Email me via my website contact form (www.seananmcguire.com).

Both these things need to happen within the next twenty-four hours for you to win. If I see a comment but receive no email, I will reply and we'll figure out another way for you to get me your address. This is a work-around for my current contact form issues. Hopefully the commenting step will be temporary.

It should be noted that the first comment selected by the RNG was ineligible to win, because it was someone commenting about the post itself, and not entering. Please do not comment on giveaway posts for any reason other than entering the giveaway. Had this comment not been left, and the exact same number come up, we would have had an actual winner. Our second winner won because of a discussion on one of the entries. Please, please, don't do this. It's not fair to the people who don't win to screw up the results by leaving unrelated comments on these posts.

Congratulations to today's winners!

It's time to give away a few more ARCs of A Red-Rose Chain. Because we're experiencing issues with the contact form right now, there are a few more steps involved in claiming a prize. Please read carefully.

Because I am broke from all that T-shirt mailing right now, and tired of spending over an hour on every visit to the post office—so both financial and mental health reasons—this giveaway is US only. I am sorry about that, and will try to have an international giveaway sooner than later. To enter...

1. Comment on this entry. Top-level comments only; replies to existing comments cannot win.
2. Indicate that you have a US mailing address.
3. Name your favorite Toby character.

...and that's all. Three winners will be chosen by our old friend, the random-number generator, on Tuesday, July 29th. Winners will then have twenty-four hours to get me their contact info, via my website contact form, and leave a comment on the results post, before their prize is forfeit. If I have received the comment but not the email within the twenty-four hour window, we'll assume a contact form glitch, and find another way to get me the necessary info.

Game on!

I still have not received mailing addresses for...

desolate_noir
mage_cat

Now, normally, this would result in a "well, you can't get your prizes now," and me either drawing new winners or putting the ARCs back into the prize pool. But at least one of these winners has indicated in so many words that they have submitted their info, which my PA has not received.

So please, if either of you sees this...

1. Go to my website contact form: http://seananmcguire.com/contact.php
2. Fill it out, including an email address where I can reach you with questions.
3. Select "Seanan McGuire" as the destination.
4. Include your full mailing address and LJ name in the body.

I can't do another giveaway until I know that the contact form is not losing mail.

Thank you.

Let's have some good and some bad together, shall we? First, the good. Today's winners of an ARC of A Red-Rose Chain are...

jillheather
desolate_noir
mage_cat

Congratulations! Please send me your mailing address via my website contact form (identifying which of our winners you are, since email addresses don't always give it away) to receive your prize! I must receive your information within twenty-four hours, or the prize is forfeit.

Now, the bad. Or well, the confused.

Look, y'all: rules matter. Sometimes they matter because without them you never get your stuff (see the above about sending your mailing info via my website contact form). Sometimes they matter because they're "filter rules"—IE, "are people paying attention to what I ask, or are they just here for the free stuff?" I've been featured on the "this person is giving away free stuff" blogs a couple of times, usually at Hogswatch, and you know what? It sucks. I love giving things to people who care. I hate giving stuff to people who just want it because it's free, or because they think it has good resale value (both things I have been told by folks who found me via the "free stuff here" lists).

So yeah. If the rules say "you must include the word banana," then you must include the word banana, or you cannot win. If the rules say "name your favorite book in the series," then you must name your favorite book, or you cannot win. There were several entries in this most recent giveaway that could not have won, even if the RNG had chosen them, because they did not follow the (very simple) posted rules. (To be clear, the RNG did not pick any of them, so I didn't have to choose between the rules and breaking someone's heart.)

Please, please, follow the posted rules. For everyone's sake, but especially for your own.

I have the ARCs of A Red-Rose Chain, and holy cats, this book is gorgeous. Like, so pretty. Of course, because I'm me, the distance between "look what I have look at the precious let me pet you, the precious" and "oh sweet Great Pumpkin get it out of my house" is about fifteen minutes and time to realize what I've just done to my storage space. So! Giveaway time!

Because I am broke from all that T-shirt mailing right now, and tired of spending over an hour on every visit to the post office—so both financial and mental health reasons—this first giveaway will be US only. I am sorry about that, and will try to have an international giveaway sooner than later. To enter...

1. Comment on this entry. Top-level comments only; replies to existing comments cannot win.
2. Indicate that you have a US mailing address.
3. Name your favorite Toby book.

...and that's all. Three winners will be chosen by our old friend, the random-number generator, on Tuesday, June 23rd. Winners will then have twenty-four hours to get me their contact info, via my website contact form, before their prize is forfeit.

Game on!

ETA: And we are closed.

It's time for some free fiction, and for the last story of the Johnny and Fran era. The year is 1945. Frances Healy, born Frances Brown, is gone, and the time has come, however little we might want it, to say goodbye to a friend.

With "Star of New Mexico," we close the book on Johnny and Fran, and look to the future. It's the end of an era. It's the beginning of something new.

You can download the new story now from the InCryptid short fiction page.

This also serves as your discussion post.

As an author's note, if you want the perfect song to accompany this story, download "Chasing Twisters" (the song, not the EP) by Delta Rae. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Goodbye, Fran. I'll miss you.

I am cleaning my living room, and I found more old ARCs! These are books that have already been released (mostly Pocket Apocalypse, since I was in the UK during the last few weeks before release, and that's when I usually really ramp up the giveaways), but are still good for craft purposes. So:

If you are a crafter or someone who enjoys making things out of paper, and would like to claim an ARC, please drop me a line through my website contact form. The ARCs themselves are free, but postage is $6 to US addresses (I will not ship a "chop this up" ARC outside the US unless you have a project special enough to justify the greatly increased postage costs; I've had people make paper roses for wedding bouquets, for example, which counts). Don't send money until we've corresponded, since I want to make sure I don't promise more ARCs than I actually have.

Any ARCs that are still unclaimed as of June 5th will be recycled, for the sake of my shelves.

The random number generator (RNG) has spoken, and the winners are as follows:

1. nakitamanomiko has won a copy of Sparrow Hill Road. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
2. guendolen_sama has won a copy of Parasite. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
3. marooux13 has won a copy of The Mad Scientist's Guide. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
4. carlammm has won a copy of Rolling in the Deep. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
5. saxtherapist has won a copy of Indexing. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
6. gwyd has won a copy of Indexing. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
7. alinore has won a copy of The Winter Long. [PRIZE CLAIMED]
8. ambelies has won a copy of Symbiont. [PRIZE NOT CLAIMED BY 6PM CUTOFF]
9. lyssachan has won a copy of Rolling in the Deep. [PRIZE NOT CLAIMED BY 6PM CUTOFF]
10. mercurialdragon has won a copy of Indistinguishable From Magic. [PRIZE NOT CLAIMED BY 6PM CUTOFF]

And now, the admin stuff:

I am posting this at 6pm PST on Monday, April 27th. I must receive an email with your full shipping address, via my website contact form, by 6pm PST on Tuesday, April 28th. If I do not, you will not receive your prize. This is non-negotiable. There is no margin for error.

Thanks to everyone who entered, and I'll see you next time.

ETA: My PA (Kate, in this instance) has checked the website email, and confirmed that she has sent me all the mail that was received. The last three prizes will thus not be awarded this time. Thanks to everyone who participated, and I will be sending out the seven claimed books either tomorrow or the next day, by Media Mail.

Thanks to the generosity of my readers, we are opening a second hardship giveaway. Note that this is a second attempt at the second giveaway, originally opened in February, and not a third giveaway. Sadly, no winners were drawn in the original second giveaway, because there were timing issues and sometimes I get overwhelmed. Anyway...

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 that is not listed below.
2a) Hell, feel free to list anthologies.
3) If you have a second choice, list that.
4) If you list a book which I have explicitly stated I do not have, you will be disqualified.

I cannot guarantee that I have any specific book "in stock," as it were, but I am happy to look.

Books that I can tell you for sure I do not have:

Rosemary and Rue
A Fantasy Medley 2
Ravens in the Library
Glitter and Mayhem

Books that I can guarantee I have:

Half-Off Ragnarok
Pocket Apocalypse
Indexing
The Winter Long
The Mad Scientist's Guide
Rolling in the Deep (two copies)
Indistinguishable From Magic (Cat Valente's essay collection)

I will choose ten winners on Monday, April 27th. They will have twenty-four hours to contact me to claim their prizes. This will be tightly enforced, as I leave for Orlando at the end of the week.

Shoot for the moon!

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!

Our hardship giveaway winners:

artofcheatery has won a copy of Parasite.
phoenix_singing has won a copy of The Winter Long.
jjmcgaffey has won a copy of Sparrow Hill Road.
starlingthefool has won a copy of Symbiont.
Tripp Potterfield has won a copy of Chimes at Midnight.

Please email me within the next twenty-four hours, using my website contact form, to claim your prizes.

But wait, there's more!

A few people asked me whether there was anything they could do to help with giveaways of this kind, because people are awesome. So. Here is my PayPal: delirium@xocolatl.com. If anyone wants to send me postage costs—roughly USD $5 per book, averaged out to include cost of envelopes and such (it's a little high for a paperback, a little low for a hardcover, so it all comes out in the wash), I will do another hardship giveaway as soon as I have $25 for postage.

ETA: Wow, no more postage costs needed! Opening the new giveaway now.

Okay: I just had cause to go through my bins of author's copies, and it's getting scary in there. Very, deeply scary. So! It's time for a 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 or Feed right now.)

I will choose five winners on Wednesday, February 4th. They will have twenty-four hours to contact me to claim their prizes.

Shoot for the moon!

And the winners are...

Brandon Bousman from Team Waheela!
magyck from Team Cuckoo!
Pamela Adams from Team Tailypo!

Despite their overwhelming majority in the comments, neither the Aeslin mice nor the Madhura were chosen by the RNG. Which I suppose is a good comment on the nature of randomness, even if it has me scratching my head over here.

If you won, please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to claim your prize. Thanks for playing, all; more giveaways to come.

Since there's always confusion, I wanted to clarify a few things.

Entering contests.

I do not require you to have an LJ account; if you have a Facebook or other ID that lets you comment here, that's fine. LJ may initially mark your comment as "spam." I manually un-spam all valid entries before I do the final drawing. The Random Number Generator I use is located at Random.org, and is as close to truly random as I can get. I manually count after getting the number of the winner. Secondary comments (IE, when someone responds to a contest entry) cannot win. If the number I draw comes up as a secondary comment, I either draw again, or I go to the next valid entry. This means that if I draw 25, and it's a secondary comment on 24, the winner is 26. So it's really, really best not to reply to other people's contest entries.

I make a post identifying the winners of any given drawing, and that's where my responsibility for outreach ends. You'll generally have twenty-four hours to contact me before you lose your prize. Please remember to check this journal on drawing days.

Following rules.

No part of any contest's rules is negotiable. If I say "tell me whether you're US or international and name your favorite fruit," any comment that doesn't contain all those aspects will be ineligible to win. I will draw another number, in that case.

Contacting me.

If you are contacting me to collect a prize, you must use my website contact form. It is located on my website, not on LJ. Contacting me via any other channel (LJ messenger, Facebook, emailing an old address that you think still works, asking my PA over IM), you will not receive your prize. You must email me.

I hope this clears a few things up, and I'm really excited to keep giving y'all fun stuff to have and enjoy.

...and the winner of a copy of Elbows and Antlers, by Avalon Rising, is mckavian!

mckavian, please email me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours with your mailing information.

Thanks for entering, everyone, and I hope that if you didn't win, you'll consider picking up some awesome music by Avalon Rising anyway!

It's time for my first Pocket Apocalypse giveaway! Hooray! This giveaway is going to be US addresses only; I'm still mailing T-shirts, and my post office workers are starting to mysteriously go on break when I show up, because of all the international packages. I know it's not fair, but I can't add more customs forms to the pile or they're going to close completely.

I will do open-to-international giveaways before the book is released, and I'm hoping to clear out more of the pending packages in the next week or so.

So, the rules for this one:

1. Leave a comment.
2. Indicate that you have a US address I can ship to. (You don't have to live in the US. You just have to have a US address.)
3. Name your favorite cryptid and why.

I will use the RNG to choose three winners on Tuesday, January 27th. But there's a twist! Only one person can win for each cryptid. So be honest! Name your favorite! Just be aware that the odds are lower for the Aeslin mice than for, say, the swamp bromeliads.

The field guide is here, if you need some help.

Game on!

As I get ready to return to the studio and get back to work on Saint of Thorns (probably coming out some time in 2016; the album for 2015 is Creature Feature, and we're laying out the liner notes now), it occurs to me that some of you may not know how awesome and incredible my recording engineer, Kristoph Klover, actually is.

Let's fix that.

I have one copy of Elbows and Antlers, the latest CD by the band Avalon Rising, of which Kristoph is a founding member. Celtic funk, folk rock, call it what you will, it's amazing. And I am giving this disk away to one lucky winner.

To enter...

1. Comment here.
2. If outside the US, indicate that you will pay postage.
3. That's all.

I will choose a winner via RNG on Monday, January 26th. If you're interested in checking out Avalon Rising before then, here's their website: http://www.flowinglass.com/

I highly, highly recommend all three available Avalon Rising albums, especially if you like my stuff, Vixy and Tony's stuff, or Talis's stuff.

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed copy of either Libriomancer or Unbound is...

kay_gmd

Please email me via my website contact form. I will be passing this email on to Jim, so he can determine which book you want and make sure you get the right inscription.

Thanks to everyone who entered, and if you haven't already checked out Libriomancer, give it a shot. It's available in paperback, and it's the doorway to a very big adventure.

This past Tuesday was the release of Unbound, the latest exciting adventure in Jim Hines's Libriomancer series. Jim is a good friend and a fellow DAW author, and I love his stuff. So...

It's giveaway time! To enter:

1. Comment on this post.
2. Indicate whether you are in the US or international.
3. If international, indicate that you can pay postage.

And that's all! Tuesday afternoon, our friend the Random Number Generator will pick a winner, and the magic will begin! I will send the winner's info to Jim, and they will be able to choose a signed copy of either Unbound or, if the series is new to them, Libriomancer.

This is a great series. Lots of action and adventure, good diversity, and some of the most unique characters I've encountered in a long time. Highly recommended.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken for the last time this year, and the winners are...

serverwench wins a copy of Midnight Blue-Light Special
kymellin wins a paperback of Parasite
runiechica wins a MYSTERY PRIZE!!!

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize. I plan to start mailing tomorrow, so this is especially important right now.

Please be sure to include something to indicate who you are/what you've won, as I've received a few "hooray, I won!" emails that didn't include any identifying marks.

Whee!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a lovely new Wicked Girls poster is...

faecat

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Three more drawings to go!

...a MYSTERY!

Welcome to the thirteenth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. This is the last giveaway, and is numerically surprising. Surprise! Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The thirteenth giveaway is for a mystery prize. What is it? NO ONE KNOWS, NOT EVEN ME. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. Tell me one thing you hope your prize is not. Do not tell me what you hope it is; if you do that, you will be ineligible to win.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Sunday, December 27th.

MYSTERY PRIZE!

Game on!

Sorry for the delay! The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of days eight and nine are...

A paperback copy of Symbiont to...vincentursus
Wicked Girls on CD to...codevixen

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Five more drawings to go!

...a copy of the paperback edition of Parasite!

Welcome to the twelfth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The twelfth giveaway is for a copy of the paperback edition of Parasite. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Sunday, December 27th.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a copy of Chicks Dig Gaming is...

wenhaver

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Five more drawings to go!

...a copy of Midnight Blue-Light Special!

Welcome to the eleventh of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The eleventh giveaway is for a copy of Midnight Blue-Light Special. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Saturday, December 27th.

Game on!

...a Wicked Girls poster!

Welcome to the tenth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The tenth giveaway is for a copy of the lovely Wicked Girls poster. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Friday, December 26th.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a copy of the audio edition of Sparrow Hill Road is...

tsgeisel

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Six more drawings to go!

...a copy of Wicked Girls on CD!

Welcome to the ninth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The ninth giveaway is for a copy of Wicked Girls on CD. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Wednesday, December 24th. Sorry this one went up so late: I was out of the house all day, actually having fun. I regret nothing.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed, personalized copy of Oz Reimagined is...

bookblather

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Seven more drawings to go!

...a paperback copy of Symbiont!

Welcome to the eighth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The eighth giveaway is for a copy of the UK edition of Symbiont, which came out across the pond in paperback. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far. Because this would cost more to mail outside the United States than the value of the book, this drawing is open to US residents only.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. Indicate that you are in the US or have a US mailing address.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Tuesday, December 23rd.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed, personalized copy of Sparrow Hill Road is...

dragonsflame71

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Ten more drawings to go!

...a copy of Chicks Dig Gaming!

Welcome to the seventh of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The seventh giveaway is for a copy of Chicks Dig Gaming. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Monday, December 22nd.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed, personalized copy of The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination is...

professor

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Ten more drawings to go!

...a copy of the audio edition of Sparrow Hill Road!

Welcome to the sixth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The sixth giveaway is for a copy of the audio edition of Sparrow Hill Road, on physical CD. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Sunday, December 21st.

Game on!

...a copy of Oz Reimagined!

Welcome to the fifth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The fifth giveaway is for a copy of Oz Reimagined. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Friday, December 19th.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed, personalized copy of Half-Off Ragnarok is...

pameladean

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Ten more drawings to go!

...a copy of Sparrow Hill Road!

Welcome to the fourth of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The fourth giveaway is for a copy of Sparrow Hill Road. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate that you are willing/able to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Thursday, December 18th.

Game on!

The random number generator has spoken, and the winners of a signed, personalized copy of The Winter Long are...

melchar
nutmeg_44

Please contact me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours to provide your mailing information. All information must be received via my website to be considered valid. If I do not hear from you within twenty-four hours, you will no longer be eligible to receive your prize.

Eleven more drawings to go!

...a copy of The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination!

Welcome to the third of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The first giveaway is for a copy of The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination. This is going to be a random number drawing, because that's working well so far. Because this is a hardcover, this giveaway is open only to US residents and those with US shipping addresses. Mailing it internationally would cost more than the value of the book. I'm sorry, I just can't do it.

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. Indicate that you are in the US/have a US shipping address.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Wednesday, December 17th.

Game on!

...a copy of Half-Off Ragnarok!

Welcome to the second of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The first giveaway is for a copy of Half-Off Ragnarok, the third InCryptid adventure. What better way to get ready for book four? This is going to be a random number drawing, because I am lazy. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Tuesday, December 16th.

Game on!

...two copies of The Winter Long!

Welcome to the first of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and December 25th (some other winter holiday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 29th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, still mailing shirts).

The first giveaway is for two copies of The Winter Long, the eighth October Daye adventure. This is going to be a random number drawing, because I am sleepy. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. That's it.

I will choose the winners at 1PM PST on Monday, December 15th.

Game on!

ETA: Multiple people have commented indicating that they'd like to start this series. Please, please do not begin this series with book eight. I know free stuff is awesome, and of course you can win without having read the first seven, but seriously, this book will not be half as good if you have no idea what's going on.

Hello, happy people!

Tomorrow will be the first of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch, my now-annual "Seanan gives things away for twelve days because why not" celebration, and I just wanted to issue a few quick reminders. Namely...

1. Each giveaway will have its own rules. Some will be US-only. (Most will honestly be US-only, because I can't afford to pay international postage at this time. More about this to come.) Others will say things like "your comment must include the word 'banana.'" Failure to precisely follow the rules of a giveaway will mean you cannot win. There is no wiggle room here, at all. This is partially for my sanity, and partially because when I give things away, the free stuff blogs tend to signal boost, and insisting that the rules be followed means that there's enough of a barrier to entry that I can be reasonably sure things are going to people who actually want them.

2. No, you do not need to follow this blog to win. That being said, each entry will say something like "the winners will be posted at X time, and will have until Y to contact me." Every time I do a giveaway, I have folks contacting me days after the stated time, wanting to know if they can still claim their prizes. I fully understand that life happens—I've been the late one before—but the timelines are firm. So if you don't follow this blog normally, I recommend checking in daily until all Hogswatch giveaways are over.

3. In the instances where I am willing to deal with the cost and complication of international shipping, I may say "you must pay postage to receive your prize." If you'd like to volunteer to pay international postage for a giveaway winner, please comment on that day's giveaway to indicate this. Make sure it's a first-level comment, and not a reply to a specific person. (If you're only willing to pay for a specific person, tell them in private, and y'all can work it out without me.)

4. All prizes have already been selected by me, but I will not be revealing them until the day that their drawing begins.

5. You can enter all twelve days if you want to.

And that is all. First entry goes up tomorrow!

10. It's December! That is...terrifying and amazing and lots of other things, but mostly, it's a huge relief, because I don't have anywhere to go for the rest of the year. Oh, I have a lot of local commitments, parties and appearances and a doll meet-up, but nothing that requires travel. I get to sleep in my own bed, snuggle my cats, and clean my house for an entire month. I am ridiculously excited about this.

9. A lot of folks are doing their holiday shopping right now, which is swell! I posted the holiday book buying reminder yesterday. You can also contact Mysterious Galaxy, in San Diego, for signed copies of Out of Tune, and for copies of Dead But Not Forgotten signed by Charlaine Harris, Toni Kelner, and a bunch of the authors (myself included). Support independent bookstores this holiday season.

8. Or maybe you're buying stuff from me, posters and T-shirts and the like. If you are, please use the PayPal option for sending money to friends and family. There are a few reasons for this. First off, I am still not a store: I am literally pricing things to cover cost of item + cost of postage. Having huge whacks of money vanish into PayPal fees makes this a loss, and means I have to start charging more to be able to afford to ship things. Secondly, you know how I always say "please send me your shipping info via this other channel"? I have found that people who chose "goods and services" are more likely to ignore that request, because they've already provided a shipping address, and if I were a store, I'd be able to access that data. Not a store. Cannot access easily. Please don't.

7. The new Pokemon game is not making me as happy as I wanted it to. I am sure I will enjoy the post-game, where it's apparently LEGENDARYPALOOZA, but I am not enjoying my Pokemon journey, and that makes me sad.

6. Thomas, who has always been an asshole, has taken his assholing to new heights in his glee that I am home. Lots of purring, lots of cuddling, lots of knocking things off shelves to demonstrate that he is still the boss of all he surveys. Thomas is going to be mittens if he doesn't cut this shit out.

5. I will be doing the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch again this year, beginning on December 12th and continuing until December 24th. The introductory post will go up on December 11th. The prizes, drawing times, response times, and requirements for each day are not negotiable; if I say "I must hear from you by X time for you to win," and you think you might not be able to check your email on, say, Christmas, I am very sorry, but I do mean it. I can't have people claiming prizes weeks after the drawing. I'm just not set up for that. But hey, I am giving away so much stuff.

4. I missed the October tip jar, which means we're running out of prioritized free fiction. I don't want to open a tip jar in December (holidays), but I may go ahead and do it in January. (Or we may have to pay for all the bodywork on Mom's car, in which case, I will not only open the tip jar, I will dance on freeways if that's what it takes.)

3. Oh, yeah: some asshole hit Mom's car on Thanksgiving night. The damage isn't massive, but she was parked at the time, and we didn't see it happen. Now we need to get the bodywork done to fix the dent on the side of her car, before rust sets in and everything gets buckets more expensive. Whee. (Yes, she has insurance, but the deductible is huge, especially if we can't produce another driver.)

2. I'm going to see The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County on Friday! I'm so excited!

1. Jean Grey is not dead right now and it's making me cranky.

That's my list. What's new with you?

Slasher Chicks shirts.

I have opened a new Slasher Chicks tank top sales post right over here. While I won't say with 100% certainty that there's not a shirt mistakenly shoved into a different box, so far as I am aware, the currently posted numbers represent all the remaining stock of this design. Once they're gone they're gone, unless I find a really good reason to reprint, and even if I do, that won't be happening for a year or more (probably more). So check it out! They're great, soft, fitted tanks, stretchy and comfy and cool.

But wait, there's more.

If you do decide to buy a tank top for yourself or as a Hogswatch gift, I will tell you to PayPal an email address, and ask you to send your mailing info via my contact form. What this means is that I need you to PayPal an email address, and send your mailing info via my contact form. My PayPal is connected to a very old email account that doesn't include a graphic mail client, and extracting shipping info from PayPal notifications is borderline impossible. Meaning I won't mail your shirt until I receive an email with your contact info.

More old ARCs!

I have some leftover ARCs of The Winter Long for the crafters and creative people of the world to claim and enjoy. Because they're heavy, I would prefer to only mail them domestically, as I will have to charge postage; basically, it would be cheaper to buy a new paperback and cut that up if you're in a country other than the US. (I say "prefer" because sometimes you really need an ARC for a specific craft. Like the friend in England who turned one of my ARCs into paper roses for her wedding bouquet.)

As I said above, I do need to charge postage this time, so it'll be $5 for an ARC to a US address, and postage to be determined for an ARC to anywhere else. I won't sign them; these are intended for craft use, not collectable use. Comment with your location if you want one.

Shirt status.

Still not on my doorstep.

Monster High status.

Looking for the entire Haunted Line, looking for all Gloom and Bloom except for Jane Boolittle, looking for Freaky Field Trip, not looking for Geek Shriek because fuck that line.

Cat status.

Puffy.

What's new and cool in the land of you?

Sorry for the delay—there were some technical issues—but here are the winners of a signed paperback copy of Parasite:

signy1
grassrose
belegwen
bayushi
themadfish

If your name is on this list, please contact me via my website contact form by 12PM PST on Friday, October 31st, to receive your prize. I will need a) a mailing address, and b) who the book should be signed to, if you want it personalized.

Happy Halloween!

The paperback of Parasite by Mira Grant is out now in the North American territories, and I'm celebrating with a giveaway!

Because Parasite was originally released in paperback in the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere, this giveaway is open only to American and Canadian readers. There will be additional giveaways for Symbiont once I have it (although due to cost of postage, I may do a hardcover giveaway in the US and a UK-edition paperback giveaway for elsewhere; I don't know yet).

To enter...

1. Comment on this post.
2. Include your country of origin.
3. If you are in Canada, please indicate your willingness to pay postage. I'm really sorry about this, I just can't afford it right now.

That's it. This is an RNG giveaway, and I am giving away five copies, because I need to make room for the incoming copies of Symbiont. All winners will be selected on Monday, October 20th, at 6:00pm PST.

Game on!