Crossing the Streams Contest 2014

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crossing_the_streamsOh, it’s on like Donkey Kong!  Streams will be crossed and Giant Stay Puft Marshmallowmen will tremble in their weird marshmallowman…sailor hats?  Yes, their weird sailor hats!

Sez you, “You blather, man!  What in the Hell are you on about?”

Sez I: “LOLWut? Oh. Uh, well, let me tell you!”

Crossing the Streams is a huge, multi-author, multi-book giveaway. Over a dozen speculative fiction writers have come together to create something very cool.  Some of you may be familiar with this concept, as we’ve run this once before, but for those who aren’t, here’s how it works:

Each individual author involved is running a contest on his/her own site. The specific details vary from author to author; the contest I run on my site might be very different than the one on Ari’s site, or Erin’s site.

But each contest has a few details in common. Specifically, each of us will select two winners from the contest on our own site. Each of those winners will receive one signed book, free, from the author whose contest they won. So, for instance, if you win here, you’ll win one of my books. If you win on Howard’s site, you’ll win one of his, etc.

But… that’s not the big prize. Once the individual contests have ended, all the authors involved will get together and choose one single “super-winner” from all the entries on all our sites combined. This one lucky individual will receive a signed book, free, from each and every one of the authors involved.

Meaning somebody out there’s going to win a lot of free signed books.

You can only enter each author’s contest once, but you may enter multiple contests. So you could enter here, on Matt’s site, on Jason’s site, etc. Heck, you can enter on everyone’s site, if you want. (And even if you aren’t selected as the “super winner,” you might win more than one of the individual contests. You never know.)

You can find a complete list of the authors involved, as well as links to their sites, below. But first…

How to Enter Paul’s Contest

Again, these are just the rules for my contest. The rules for entry on other authors’ sites might be very different.

But for me, it’s really simple. All you have to do is leave a comment to this blog entry (be sure to include an email address so I can let you know if you win).  In the comment, tell me which book of mine you’ll choose if you win.  That’s it.

I will then select ten of the entrants at random and use the teleportation circle in my basement to transport those so chosen into a steel cage on desolate, ruin-dotted OtherEarth.  Once there, you will be armed with an old athletic sock stuffed with bologna (or some other mutually agreeable processed meat product), and you must use said sock as a weapon in a fight to the death against the others. The last two left alive will each win a signed book and be returned to Earth to collect their prize.  And (and this is the big deal) you can keep the sock and the bologna! Easy!  And so, so worth it!

Or…since I suppose the death of eight people by way of lunchmeat sock bludgeoning might be deemed excessive by some, I guess I may instead just select two winners via random draw (and remember too that everyone who enters is also in the running for the random “super-winner” selection).

Entries must be received between February 19, 2014 and March 19, 2014.  Try to enter after that and you get the steel cage and bologna but…NO SOCK FOR YOU! 🙂

And that’s it for me.  Easy peasy.

Prizes: My two winners, and the super-winner, may choose any one of the following books.

The Hammer and the Blade, the first Tale of Egil and Nix (mass market paperback)TheHammer&theBlade(corrected)

A Discourse in Steel, the second Tale of Egil and Nix (mass market paperback)

The Godborn (hardcover or mass market paperback; your choice)

Deceived, a novel of the Old Republic (mass market paperback)

Riptide, a Star Wars novel (mass market paperback)

If you’ve got any questions, please feel free to ask.

The Rest of the Authors Involved:

As I said, there are over a dozen of us involved in this. You can find names, and links, below.

And hey, if you click on over to one or more of these sites, don’t just look at the contest page.  Nay!  Verily only rogues, rakes, scoundrels, and ne’er do wells would do such a thing! And while I ordinarily lurves me some rogues, rakes, and scoundrels, in this case I’d rather you poke around their pages and see if any of their work intrigues you. Maybe even buy a couple of their books.  Oh, and if you’re here from the site of one of my esteemed colleagues, and you’d like to know what you should purchase of mine…well, let me recommend the first Tale of Egil and Nix, The Hammer and the Blade, which is (through the end of February) available for Nook or Kindle for under $2 (Nook link; Kindle link).   Library Journal called it, “rollicking sword and sorcery after the fashion of Fritz Leiber” so it’s possible that’s it’s not terrible.  🙂

Thanks, and good luck.

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116 thoughts on “Crossing the Streams Contest 2014”

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  5. Huzzah, another year of Crossing the Streams! If chosen, I would choose the hardcover edition of The Godborn. And perhaps a sock full of blutwurst, if thrown into the cage.

  7. Would love the hammer and the blade. HAve heard good reviews for your books and have been meaning to start the egil series.

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  12. Mr Kemp,
    From your list there is only one missing from my bookshelf, and that’s The Godborn. So I think I go with that one, hardcover if you please.
    Kind regards,
    Frank

  14. I would love to get a copy of The Hammer and the Blade. Somehow I have ended up with a copy of A Discourse in Steel, but I do not have the first one.

  16. I would select Crosscurrent. And I would be okay with the lunchmeat battle, but I would insist on using blood sausage instead of bologna and a tube sock circa 1984 with wide red and green stripes

  17. The Hammer and the Blade! Ive read all your Realms work and love it! Ive only heard good things about your other books so here’s a good chance to check it out.

  18. Paulman, I’d really dig on a copy of THE GODBORN a la paperback. It’s the only one on the list that I haven’t grabbed, yet!

  19. As awesome as all your books are I would have no choice but to go with Egil and Nix in the Hammer and the Blade. That is a book that is so full of baddassery it should be outlawed in Most states, except the one I live in.

  22. Would it be to much to ask for some bologna as well to go with the free book, when I read I like to snack 🙂

  27. As we speak I am purchasing Hammer and Blade. Was on my wish list anyways, but that price is hard to beat!
    If I happened to win, I’d take Godborn hardcover (I’m reading Twilight Falling right now and loving every page!).

  29. I want to read all your books, but if I win I’d like to have The Godborn. The Twilight War books were amazing and I need more! 😀

  38. I’d choose “The Godborn” because 1) it’s a fantastic book which I waited years for and 2) my friend, equally as big a fan of the Cale stories, still hasn’t snagged a copy.

  41. Well this is nice. Since I finally caved and bought The Hammer and the Blade (before the $1.99 deal), I would enjoy a copy of A Discourse in Steel.

  45. I would take Decieved. I have not read any of your star wars books, unfortunately, and I would like to rectify that and end my shame.

  47. I am a veteran of the Tube Sock Wars from the 70’s. We used to stuff other socks into the long tube sock and my brothers and I would flail each other into submission. It was all fun and games until someone got knocked out. Then ambassador Mom put an end to the whole shebang!

    If I win, I would like The Hammer and the Blade. Then I will take my old copy and pass it along to someone else to get them hooked. A win / win situation for me and you.

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