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The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman: Giveaway!

Monday, July 7, 2014
 In The Magician’s Land, the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—on-sale from Viking on August 5—Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story be­gan, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him.

Along with Plum, a brilliant young under­graduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demi­monde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost for­ever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk sacrific­ing everything.

The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, and an epic of love and redemp­tion that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnifi­cent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.


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Author Bio:

 I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school, then I moved to New York City and started writing full time.
My first novel, Warp, was published in 1997. My second, Codex, came out in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel, The Magician King, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller as well. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book, The Magician’s Land, will be out in August 2014. The Magicians books have now been published in twenty-three countries and have garnered praise from George R.R. Martin, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Joe Hill, William Gibson, Gregory Maguire, Junot Diaz and many others.
Since 2002 I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine, and the New York Times described me as “among this country’s smartest and most reliable critics.” I’ve  written a dozen or so cover stories for Time, and my work has also appeared in the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal,the New York TimesSalon, Wired, Entertainment Weekly,  Lingua Franca and many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses, including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and as a commentator on NPR.
I live in Brooklyn with my wife, two daughters and one son, in a creaky old house.

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Spell Check *Free on Amazon*!!!

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Spell Check FREE   featured freebie   Spell Check Cover Spell Check by Julie Wright A skeleton is rattling its way out of the closet marked “FAMILY SECRET! KEEP OUT!” Allyson Peterson believes that being hanged by the Salem High Witches is the absolute worst thing that can happen. But when her powers, wrested from the trolls of ancient Sweden, manifest themselves, she realizes that a prank hanging by vindictive cheerleaders is the least of her worries. Ally accidentally sends her parents to the jungle to fight anacondas, turns her brother into a mute, and curses the entire cheerleading team with an illness that has no cure, proving that her spells need a little checking. Her Swedish grandmother shows up to help her through the worst part of all—surviving the Troll Trials and saving the guy of her dreams from a vengeance that has festered through-out generations. The power is in her, if she can just get the magic right.  

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Julie WrightAuthor Julie Wright Julie Wright (1972-still breathing) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She's lived in LA, Boston, and the literal middle of nowhere (don't ask). She wrote her first book when she was fifteen. She's written sixteen novels--nine of which are traditionally published. Julie won the Whitney award for best romance in 2010 with her novel Cross My Heart. She is agented by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger Inc. She has one husband, three kids, two salamanders, one dog, and a varying amount of fish (depending on attrition). She loves writing, reading, traveling, hiking, playing with her kids, and watching her husband make dinner. She used to speak fluent Swedish, but now speaks only well enough to cuss out her children in public. She hates mayonnaise.
 
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Taming Fate: Guest Post and Promo!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Inspired By...

I started writing Fate of the Gods a long time ago – more than ten years ago now! – so pinpointing my exact inspirations for the series gets more and more difficult with every release. But I can say that there are several authors (and particular books) which influenced me heavily as an author and as a person, and maybe they might do the same for you!

1) Somewhere around 1998, my mother’s friends gave me a copy of The Crystal Singer Omnibus, by Anne McCaffrey. That trilogy was a gateway to an incredible world of storytelling which captured my imagination for YEARS to come. In fact, I still to this day reread the Crystal Singer books, periodically. The adventures of Killashandra Ree and Lars Dahl just never let me go, and I went on to read nearly all of McCaffrey’s Pern books, as well as the Doona books, and a handful of others. If I had to point to one author as the major influence for my writing style, I’d point to Anne McCaffrey, and in particular, those well-loved Crystal Singer books.

2) About the same time, I started seriously reading Heinlein – I’d read Red Planet before then, and Podkayne of Mars also, but not any of his works for adults. One of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction, Heinlein tackled an incredible range of social and political topics in his novels. He gave me a taste for books with real theological and philosophical MEAT in them, and to this day, I can’t help but look a little oddly at anyone who says that genre fiction is fluff. Obviously they’ve never read any Heinlein! A few of my favorites included: I Will Fear No Evil, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Friday. And those books? They had a profound impact on young adult me, in addition to writer-me!

3) Fast forward 5-7 years, and I started reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan books. Shards of Honor is the space-opera-esque story of Cordelia Naismith, an amazing woman with incredible courage. Her star-crossed love story with Aral Vorkosigan is seriously awesome, and I recommend it times a million. Bujold is a great storyteller, her narration is pretty much effortless, and her characters are just a blast – primary, secondary, tertiary, they’re all compelling and well-drawn! On top of that, she also addresses social issues as the series progresses, and even though I don’t love Miles as much as I do Cordelia, I can’t get enough of the world she’s created. I like to think that reading her work helped me polish myself a little bit more as a writer, but...
Well, pick of Shards of Honor, and my Fate of the Gods books, and you be the judge!




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