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GIVEAWAY

Hello, Tumblr!

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.  

Prizes will be sent by UK second class or standard international post. Although I do my best to ensure that prizes reach participants in a good condition, I cannot be held responsible if they are lost or damaged in the post.

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A little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.

The Kiss of Deception

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GALADRIEL: Mithrandir, why the Halfling? GANDALF: I don't know. Saruman believes that it is only a great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay... Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid, and he gives me courage. —THE HOBBIT

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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.

Me Before You (Jojo Moyes)

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I'd rather mess up than miss out completely.

The Oxford Murders

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I wished I had the power to flip reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life was not a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a little hole in time.

Juliet (Anne Fortier)

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Darcy made no answer. He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation, his brow contracted, his air gloomy. Elizabeth soon observed, and instantly understood it. Her power was sinking; everything MUST sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing to her consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

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Hello! I'm from Argentina and I've just finished reading both The Bone Seasons and The Mime Order in less than 5 days! I find it amazing how imagination can flow sometimes and how you've researched and created this new world. I was wondering if you have a character you identify yourself with, and if you could choose a part to play in the movies, which would it be? Do you see Andy Serkis playing a role in the movie? I'm really looking forward to book 3!

Hello!

I identify most with Eliza, as she’s a Londoner and an artist, and in some respects with Jaxon, a fellow writer. I’d really like a cameo in the movie as a red-jacket at Nashira’s feast in The Bone Season. And I’d love that – Andy has actually said he’d love to play a Buzzer or Haymarket Hector, if he could choose any part!

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The Bone Season Series

The Bone Season’s blurb:

Welcome to Scion. No safer place.

The year is 2059. Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant – and under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing.

Elsewhere, however, there is a seat of power even greater than Scion. And they have a different design for Paige and her uncommon abilities…  

My thoughts:

I found these books by chance in a bookshop in Argentina. I just didn’t know what to expect of them, until I started reading them. I was inmersed in a completely different world, in a dystopian London. I could get into the head of Paige Mahoney, the main character, and found myself hooked from the very beginning. I couldn’t stop reading, and in less that 5 days I had finished both books.

I really think it is amazing the potential of this young author, because she could create this world and put it out so clearly that I could imagine myself a movie playing before my eyes. It is really amazing that Andy Serkis bought the film rights and I hope to see the movie soon (maybe with Andy as Jaxon Hall, mime-lord of I-4).

This series will have seven books in total and hopefully we’ll be able to have a look of the pamphlet On the Merits of Unnaturalness (if Bloomsbury allows it).

Samantha’s blog: http://samantha-shannon.blogspot.com

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato