Enjoy, and post your improvements or additions.
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Oh yeah, this greeted me when I got home.
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The Essential Why?
People ask; What does it take to get published? It takes a number of things. One is certainly, luck. It is almost certainly the smallest factor, but present. Finishing a novel is another, and by finishing I don’t mean simply writing until you toss in “the end”, but polishing the delivery, making vocabularies internally consistent and appropriately varied, making sure that rooms, cars and hair don’t change colors, brands or sizes from one chapter to the next and of course that you’ve spelled your each characters name the same way throughout the novel. There is of course the minor step of circulating a novel, of which any number of writers and agents have talked about before. But before each of those, and more importantly than any is why.
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So I'm going to do a contest that may be continued for other books but will give unpaid reviewers a chance to win free books. Who knows, maybe some day I'll even have a spiffy graphic to go with it.
So what inspired this contest? Well, a wonderful review on KingoftheNerds. It's a real readers review, it feels genuine, and get's exactly what's right about the book. Here is a highlight of the review;
"...Enge's clever writing really came to the fore as the novel moved on and turned it into something that was truly fantastic (::groan::). It's old school and new school, dark without ever being oppressive and yet somehow managed to keep an almost constant smile on my face. It's one of those novel that leaves you a bit crestfallen that it's over, not because the ending was disappointing (it wasn't!) but because you have to stop living in the world it crafted. The second book The Crooked Way looks like it'll be out in October and I for one can't wait to read more."
Great review, full of spoilers though so be careful.
Now, back to that contest.
I've decided to call it the Lunchpail Review Contest.
To enter:
- Write a review of The Blood of Ambrose somewhere online
- email the review, a link to it, and your contact info to: lunchpail@onyxhawke.com
- Entries must be received by 7pm ET May 21st 2009
The winner will receive a copy of This Crooked Way.
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The masterful James Enge was interviewed by the incomparable Sara M. Harvey for SFScope. You can see the interview here, and keep up with both of their exploits: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jamesenge & saraphina_marie assuming of course that you aren't already reading both of them.
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It seems like I can't go a single day without someone emailing me a link to something new on
James Enge's The Blood of Ambrose. Today is no different. I got a link to an interview on Tor.com with James. Enjoy.
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- Music:To Know You is to Love you - BB King
( What you read was the blatant reminder to preorder if you haven't, the subtle one is below the cut. )
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Pre-order and conquer!
(edited twice, once for a correction, ones to note the correction)
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Dominic Harman
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Finally! I saw the preview I wasn't allowed to share, and now, there is this cover final and one for all to look at. I tried to get a larger image into the post, but apparently Picsa, myself, and LiveJournal aren't a good mix.
Here's the Picsa link. And I'm sure you've all preordered already so I won't point out that large preorders make editors happy, and being happy makes them much more pliable when I twist their arms for additional books and better terms.
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This is a banner provided by the nice folks as Pyr for James Enge's The Blood of Ambrose.
Anyone who wants a copy to post elsewhere who can't get this one to work post a comment with your email, I have screened them for this post.
edited to you know, screen the comments...
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