Something Like Lydia

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I’m Samantha Shannon, author of the Bone Season series. It’s time I did a giveaway, because Tumblr is fabulous and so are you.

There are three prizes up for grabs, with one winner per prize.

The prizes

Hardback prize: 1 x signed and personalised US hardback of The Mime Order

Paperback prize: 1 x signed and personalised UK paperback of The Bone Season AND 1 x signed and personalised UK paperback of The Mime Order

Audio prize: 1 x MP3-CD audiobook of The Mime Order, 1 x signed postcard 

Terms and conditions and stuff

To enter, follow me (sshannonauthor) and reblog this post. 

This is an international giveaway.

The giveaway ends on 30 August 2015 at 8pm (GMT). Winners will be informed within a week.

To select the winners, I’ll be numbering the entries and then using a random number generator.

The winners must be happy to provide me with their postal address.

All prizes are in the English language.  

Generally, when a manuscript of a book is turned into the publishing house, it on average takes nine to twelve months for editing and refinery. Grey was handed in to the publisher on June 1st, the day it was announced. Which means that, yes, its release is just over two weeks from its appearance, and, yes, it’s a collective decision to forego its editing because the fact of the matter is, people are going to buy it regardless of what its state is.

Anyways, my point is that it isn’t self published now and if you have the means and the resources to provide your buyers with higher quality work and you choose not to so you can make a bigger profit, that’s both lazy and insulting to every single one of your readers and customers.

In second year he favours hair that is the exact same shade of pale blonde as Victoire Weasley. Only Minerva McGonagall notices that the first moment his hair involuntarily takes shade is when the hat atop Victoire’s head calls Gryffindor.

Third year is the year of bubblegum pink hair. This brings a sad smile to some of the older professors who remember that shade of pink sported frequently by vivacious young girl many years ago.

Fourth year and he resumes the Weasley shade of red because it’s shy little Molly Weasley’s first year and there’s a distinct lack of red heads around.

Fifth year is when Dominique is sorted into Ravenclaw, and his little adoptive family is spread over three Hogwarts houses now, so he spends the first few months with varying colours of scarlet, royal blue and bright, sunshine yellow. Sometimes it’s a multi-hued mix of all three but then he develops an annoying habit of changing his hair to the vibrant house colour of whoever he’s talking to and forest green makes it into the mix.

In sixth year there’s an incident that leaves him unconscious in the hospital wing and his altered features slowly fade to reveal what he would look like without the ability to change his appearance. McGonagall stops dead in the doorway when she finds the spitting image of a young Remus Lupin laying passed out in the bed. Teddy cries when she tells him this, unable to consciously stop any alterations to see for himself. She promises to take a picture if it happens again and Teddy spends the rest of the year with sandy brown hair and amber eyes borrowed from the creased photo he keeps by his bedside.

Haruki Murakami (via thetinhouse)

Sent from my hot-air balloon

(via harperperennial)

Ha.

If you’re coming to #Sydney #SupaNova, make sure you visit the Penguin Random House stand. 

I have fantasy’d myself out apparently. I just can not stay focused on things and it’s driving me bonkers.

Help me out by sending recs? I think I need something totally different from my usual reads (ya, ya fantasy, general fantasy, classic lit, dystopian) so…