Book Giveaway: Goblins or Libriomancer

[jimhines]

About two weeks ago, I received my author copies of the Science Fiction Book Club editions of Libriomancer and The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer.

This makes me happy for lots of reasons. Many of the books on my shelves came from the SFBC, back when I was younger and there was no way I could afford full-priced hardcovers. And then I found the SFBC. Five free books at sign-up? Reduced-price omnibus editions? Sweet! This is how I first discovered authors like Robert Asprin, Fred Saberhagan, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula LeGuin, even Asimov and his Foundation Trilogy.

So I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate this milestone, my first books to make it into the club, with a giveaway. And since the stress-o-meter has been running rather high lately, I’m gonna go with something happy and hopefully simple for this one.

All you have to do is leave a comment and tell me about one of the best things that happened to you in 2012.

I’ll pick one commenter at random next week and send them an autographed copy of the SFBC edition of either Libriomancer or The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer. Their choice.

This isn’t a U.S.-only contest, so anyone can enter.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

Comments

[georgmi]

The SFBC introduced me to lots of great authors when I was in high school. I tended to buy the omnibus editions, because four or five books for the price of one! (Yeah, I don't think anybody was surprised that I ended up with a degree in Economics.) But what omnibuses! Asimov's Robots and Foundation series, Asprin's Myth Adventures and the Sanctuary books, Zelazny's Amber, Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and that's just off the top of my head. Some of those I've had to replace, because I read them until they fell apart. (The flip side to cheap Book Club editions is that they're cheap Book Club editions. :) )

[azurelunatic]

When I was very small, I wanted to work in an office. My father told me that in the school offices, everyone said that the principal ran things, and she did run the school, but the secretaries ran the office.

When I was much older, I fell into LiveJournal, and into Suggestions, where the developmentally practical met users' dreams, and rough feature specs got hammered out.

Last February, I was brought into the User Experience department of a tech company as their administrative assistant. This was after a long unemployment, and it is the union of my childhood dream job with my adult one. I am so happy.

[mmegaera]

One of my books received its (and my) first-ever print review. Now my mother believes I really am a writer, even though I'm e-only and self-published [g].