Book View Cafe Wild Rumpus... er, New Bookstore Launch

[deborahjross]

For lo, these many months, the elves at Book View Café, beloved spouse among them, have been laboring to transform the ebookstore into something elegant and user-friendly, in which browsing means discovered very cool new books as well as old out-of-print favorites. Now it's done and up and we want all our friends/n/relations to celebrate with us.

To that end, we're giving our readers a chance to win the book of their choice free. There's a lot of hoopla about whether such events are helpful, but I hope this one will be fun. The point is to invite you to check things out. Who knows, you might find something you want. (And such a deal - 95% of the price goes to the author.) So here's the skinny:

BVC's spiffy new bookstore

Take a look around the store anytime up until midnight, June 8, and choose the book you’d like—all the books that are eligible for the giveaway are marked with a gold star. (Omnibus editions and a few other books aren't eligible.) Then come back here and leave a comment with the name and author of the book and why you want it, with the understanding that by entering, you give us permission to use your comment for publicity purposes - so be brilliant. When the promotion ends, I'll select a winner by a mysterious and entirely random process - which means I've written down a date and time, and whoever posts closest to it wins. If you’re the winner, I’ll send you a coupon for the book of your choice.

If you don't have an LJ account and are posting as Anonymous, that's fine. Just identify yourself as a person rather than a spambot.

In addition, to express my appreciation for your hanging around my place here, I'll select 3 other people (by a method identical to above) to receive either a 50% coupon for either of my ebooks (Jaydium or Northlight) or a mass market paperback edition of Zandru's Forge, A Flame in Hali, The Alton Gift, or Hastur Lord.

Want to enter more than once? Can't do it here - I'll get grouchy. Check out these other BVC author sites where you can enter for additional chances to win:

Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff 
Chaz Brenchley 
Patricia Burroughs 
Jeffrey Carver 
Amy Sterling Casil 
Laura Anne Gilman 
Lois Gresh 
Kit Kerr 
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Kelly McClymer 
Vonda N. McIntyre 
Nancy Jane Moore 
Linda Nagata 
Pati Nagle 
Steven Harper
Phyllis Irene Radford 
Patricia Rice 
Madeleine Robins 
Sherwood Smith 
Jennifer Stevenson 
Judith Tarr
Dave Trowbridge

Comments

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

So many good choices!

I'll go with a classic...Judith Tarr (aka dancinghorse's A Wind in Cairo. Don't have a copy of it anymore...

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh yes. I adored that book, and my paper copy seems to have gone walkabout.

[otana.livejournal.com]

I got your belated birthday present!

Your cards always make me smile, thank you so much. And hilariously enough, Boots had JUST gotten back from delivering some baby hummingbirds to a rescue in Lomita! We found a disoriented (probably concussed) hummer a few weeks ago and after some research took him to a rescue. The elderly couple running it were very passionate and Boots volunteered to be a driver to pick up hummers when people find them but aren't willing to drive over. So very appropriate! ♥

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Sarah told me about your hummingbird adventures, but I'd already sent the card, so the goddess of serendipity was at work! When I see a hummingbird, I think of how delighted you were to see them in real life.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to read Laldasa: Beloved Slave by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff because it sounds like an intriguing book.

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[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Maya's a terrific writer.