Now onto this week's celebratory giveaway to help get the word out.
Yep, you've guessed it, I'm a total fan-girl, but you don't have to take my word for how great the Felix Castor books are, check out this review of Thicker Than Water at Falcata Times or this one at My Favourite Books. Then leave a comment here to enter the giveaway to win your choice out of the five Felix Castor books including The Naming of The Beasts*** along with a signed copy of The Cold Kiss of Death or The Sweet Scent of Blood.
BREAKING NEWS - Orbit have generously donated books 1 - 4 of Mike Carey's Felix Castor series for The Naming of The Beasts giveaway so there will now be two lucky winners. First winner chosen by Random.org gets their choice of either books 1-4 [Felix Castor] or their choice of one of the five Felix Castor books including The Naming of The Beasts*** along with a signed copy of The Cold Kiss of Death or The Sweet Scent of Blood. Whoo Hoo! Thank you to Orbit for their excellent extra prize!
So what do you have to do to win? - Just leave me a comment telling me your favourite or scariest demon from fiction, TV or film. Contest ends end of day [anywhere] Wednesday 8th July 2009.
1 comment = 1 entry
Follow me = 1 entry [see here for info on the extra' thank you giveaway' for followers]
Please help me spread the word about the release of The Cold Kiss of Death and the giveaways with a mention of the giveaway on your blog/live journal/myspace/facebook/twitter/etc [post the link to the mention into the comments again] and win yourself more entries into this week's giveaway :-) 1 link = 1 entry
Which means you could end up with more entries into the metaphorical hat, so what are you waiting for? Get posting and linking!! Good Luck!!
x/posted to my blog: leave a comment here or there.
Watch Mike Carey read from The Devil you Know
Follow me = 1 entry [see here for info on the extra' thank you giveaway' for followers]
Please help me spread the word about the release of The Cold Kiss of Death and the giveaways with a mention of the giveaway on your blog/live journal/myspace/facebook/twitter/etc [post the link to the mention into the comments again] and win yourself more entries into this week's giveaway :-) 1 link = 1 entry
Which means you could end up with more entries into the metaphorical hat, so what are you waiting for? Get posting and linking!! Good Luck!!
x/posted to my blog: leave a comment here or there.
Watch Mike Carey read from The Devil you Know
* The Cold Kiss of Death is set around All Hallow's Eve, so forget about the July sunshine, go and buy it now [pleeeease :-)] and give yourself an early Hallowe'en treat!
** Beautiful prose that I wish I'd written *sigh*
*** If you choose The Naming of The Beasts I'll get the book to you asap, but I currently can't guarantee it any earlier than its publication date, so unfortunately it won't arrive until September. My own book will be posted out to the winner straight away :-)
Winners of The Eternal Kiss giveaway are here
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All the best for COLD KISS OF DEATH when it comes out.
And yes, me and HP are best buds (I wish) *grin*
My favourite demon is Rule from Christine Warren's The Demon you know. He's very sexy and gives the usually evil and ugly demons a whole new image...
Dunno if he classifies as a Demon but he has Green Skin, Horns and Red Eyes. He is Lorne from the tv series Angel. Lorne was born as Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan in the demonic dimension of Pylea. Lorne, as he prefers to be called, wasn't like his fellow Deathwok clan demons, bloodthirsty "champions" constantly undertaking quests against evil. He is a gentle soul who does not share his kin's prejudice against humans (or "cows" as they are called in his world). Lorne would rather flirt with the female demons and enjoy life than train to be a fighter. He also enjoys beauty, art, and even music, which was difficult, considering his world had no music. Lorne refused to train his innate mystical senses to learn to hunt beasts and is considered the shame of his clan. In 1996, Lorne happened upon a dimensional portal and was sucked through it. He landed in Los Angeles and discovered music and culture like he never imagined. Lorne learned to hone his mystical senses to read people's auras, but found it easiest to do so when they sang, baring their souls. He opened up a karaoke bar on the same spot that he arrived on Earth, an old abandoned building. Lorne contracted the Transuding Furies to cast a sanctuary spell on the spot, which stopped any demon violence from occurring on it. He named the bar "Caritas," the Latin word for "mercy." Caritas became a success in the morally ambiguous Los Angeles underground scene. To most who visited the bar, Lorne was simply called "The Host." He later states he didn't use the name "Lorne" in this dimension, because his striking green skin prompted people to make Lorne Greene jokes (Balttestar Galactica and Bonanza anyone??????).
About a month after filming the last episode of Angel, Andy Hallet, the actor who played Lorne suffered a dental infection which spread through his bloodstream and to his heart, leading to a cardiomyopathy, for which he was hospitalised. Although he recovered, his heart muscle and valves were weakened and he found himself easily fatigued afterward. He did not return to acting (except for a voice part in the animated film Geppetto's Secret), but pursued his music career and frequently appeared at media conventions for Buffy and Angel and for science fiction and fantasy in general. Five years after his first heart problems, (and at least three additional hospitalisations), Andy died from congestive heart failure on March 29, 2009.
He was only 33.
Lemmy
And it was such a shame about Andy Hallet *sigh*
I think my favourite demon might be Lough, (sp?) from the Morgan Kingsley series, but I have to agree with the people who said Algaliarept. He's so much fun - I'd hoped we would see more of him in the most recent book, but it does look promising for the next one.
Blogged about the competition here: The Book Bundle
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