Win Books For Australia Day… it’s so easy!
My blog is part of the Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop this weekend.
If you comment, you’ll have the chance to win an e-copy of The Shifu Cloth for Kindle or Kobo, and also an e-copy of the international fantasy award silver medallist A Thousand Glass Flowers for Kindle. AND by clicking on this link and visiting all the other listed blogs, you can have the chance to win remarkable books at each blog.
On this blog I’ll offer one Shifu for Australia and one for the rest of the world, and one Glass Flowers for Oz and one for the rest, so please list email addresses and locations with your most excellent comments and also, in respect of Shifu, whether you have Kindle or Kobo.
Entries close on Monday 28th of January and my winners will be announced here on Monday February 4th.
But what about Australia Day?
It’s our National Day. The day we celebrate being us, the weird and wonderful people we are. Relaxed fun-lovers, traditionally known for never taking ourselves too seriously. For believing in the value of mateship, of loyalty.
We’re at House and so for us, if the weather is good tomorrow, we’ll load the boat with a picnic and head off with family to Four Mile Creek or Chinamens’ Bay on Maria Island, to swim. (But the forecast says thunderstorms).
When we come home, I’ll walk the dogs and we’ll have a BBQ: lamb burgers, marinated lamb backstraps, potato salad made OUR way with everything from our veggie garden, a mango and mint salad, a peach and feta salad and to finish, that iconic Australian dessert we call a Pav (short for Pavlova). Coated in whipped cream and with berries from the garden.
We’ll tuck little Aussie flags in the Pav and maybe if we remember, we’ll think how lucky we are to live in this place – where the great outdoors is five minutes away and the beaches are the best in the world!
This is the list of blog participants for the above!
I’m in Australia with a kindle, and I would utterly love the chance to read 🙂 The covers are so stunning that I always have to pause to gaze at them for a while!
Good-o, KathArine,you’re the first and goodluck! Have a great Australia Day weekend!
You too! 🙂
The marinated lamb sounds awesome! Great giveaway. My giveaway is here: http://daystarz.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/australia-day-book-giveaway-blog-hop/
Hi there! The lambbackstraps are so yummy. Marinating in honey and mustard mix and then BBQ-ed on the much loved Baby-Webber. Good luck with the blog hop!
Thanks for a great giveaway! I am in Australia and I have a Kindle
Hi Shelleyrae, thank you for hosting/organising this blog-hop and you’re in the draw!
Entering with an Aussie address. The covers of those books are stunning and the food is luscious!
Hallo! Welcome to my blog. And thank you for the compliments on the covers. I’ve just marinated the backstraps ready for tomorrow and have made the glaze for the peach salad. It’s a Curtis Stone recipe from a good old Coles Supermarket free cookbook. Not to be sneezed at. You saute an onion in olive oil and add 2 star anise and a tsp of cardamom. Add rum, white vinegar and brown sugar, slice two peaches and render it all down quite a bit and then bung it in a food processor and you have this glorious glaze to pour over a few more peach halves whilst you roast them. Then add feta and mint to the salad and you’re done!
Hello, I’ve just been reading reviews of your books on GoodReads, they sound amazing. I hope I win, if not, I think I’d like to go and check out ‘The Stumpwork Robe’ anyway, it sounds amazing! my email address is: tracey_allen@iprimus.com.au from Melbourne, Victoria and I’d prefer Kindle copies please.
Hello Tracey, welcome to the blog. Thanks so much for the comments on my books. They are niche books and seem to have begun to attract a dedicated overseas readership as rewarding reviews are appearing on Amazon and also Goodreads from across the globe. So it’s wonderful to have you in the draw for the most recent two in the fantasy Chronicles and good luck! Have a great Australia Day weekend as well!
Hi Prue. I just popped in to say “Happy Australia Day” to you and your family. It’s rather hot and a little overcast in Canberra so we could end up with some rain later today, too. I won’t be entering in your draw as I already have your 2 books but “thank you” for tweeting the links for the competition. xKathryn
PS. I think I’ll have to change this avi very soon…..we no longer think it’s of Richard Armitage but another member of the same “Cats” cast in 1994! He has a similar look and build!!
Hi Kathryn! Happy Australia Day! We’ve had a terrible day here weather-wise. Rain early on and quite cool and a then hard southeasterly which has turned the sea to a lumpy mess which means we didn’t get our boating picnic. Made up for it with walks on hidden beaches and a drive to the next biggest village with a coffee shop. I want to see you, Kathryn, friend from Canberra, as the avi… RA won’t mind!
Thanks for the giveaway. I’d love to read your books.
Hallo Benjamin. Pleasure to have you here and to enter you in the draw. Hope you are having a relaxing weekend. Cheers.
Thanks Prue for taking part in the Australian Day Hop
Absolute pleasure, ‘confessionsfromromaholics’. It’s wonderful to have found so many Australian book bloggers. Hopefully we’ll meet again as the year progresses.
Your day sounds absolutely heavenly. I hope it is 🙂
Yours too, Jenny. Cheers.
Trust you to feature food unavailable here!
I wonder if a tender young hippo would be as nice as that lamb?
I’m an Aussie who would love to read both books. The covers are fantastic.
hi Lynda. You’re in the draw. Great to have you aboard. Kindle or Kobo? Don’t forget ATGF is only available on Kindle. Thank ypou for the compliment re the covers, I shall pass it on to the graphic designer, another Australian!
I’m in Australia, and don’t have a kindle, though I gather one can download it as an app, which will do me! These sound fabulous!
Hi Catherine, pleasure to have you here in the draw and I’m so glad you like the covers. When I was shown them both, I was absolutely thrilled. The designer has real empathy with the story and what it is trying to convey. Hope you’re having a super weekend.
I’m in Australia.
I have a Kindle.
Not a BBQ in sight this year, just cyclones, floods and unbelievably tornadoes.
Still The Lucky Country though.
Guessing you’re in Queensland, Mary. It’s eye-popping weather this summer. We’d LOVE some of your rain. We’ve had a mere tiny 33 mls of rain since Dec 1st near Hobart which is where I am based and hence we are cracklingly dry. The farm is parched and its only good luck that we had such a wet winter and our waterholes are still full. Hope you’ve escaped any damage from the weather prevailing this weekend up your way.
As you say, The Lucky Country, wouldn’t live anywhere else. Good luck in the draw!
Thanks for the giveaway.
USA
Kindle
bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com
Perfect. Thank you for visiting and lovely to place you in the draw!
Thanks for the chance to win!
USA
Kindle.
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com
Hello, Natasha. Welcome and very good luck!
Hi Prue. I just wanted to see what sort of comments you were getting here – sticky-beak that I am! May I suggest you edit out people’s email addresses, just in case? Sorry..hope you don’t mind?
No kathryn, no you’re not a sticky beak and thank you for the suggestions. I asked for email addresses. For those that haven’t supplied voluntarily and if they win, then they will be contacted to provide same. All is above board and I’m sure all participants are regular bloggers/readers who have already decided a show or no show policy in respect of their email addresses. Cheers. Prue.
My Australia Day this year was very wet, we had pancakes due to the weather but it was still a good get together. I would not live anywhere else in the world.
Hi there Tracy. I agree, but then that’s why we live where we live as Macca says. Assuming you would like to be in the draw? Cheers and goodluck!
So ‘shifu’ is like ‘master cloth’? I’m in Melbourne and I have a kindle. (The water looks devine!) Prue, all the best, Joe Jeney
Shifu is the traditional Japanese name for a unique cloth made of paper strips woven with silk or cotton. There is research that says the samurai used it for sending secret messages across enemy territory. The messages would be written on paper, the paper shredded and then spun and woven with silk or cotton into a fabric from which a garment would be made. It was the PERFECT way to send messages. At the other end, the garment would be unstitched, the weave pulled apart, the paper rejoined, the message read. Tedious? Yes. Safe? Mostly. And in this case, the most perfect inspiration for the historical fantasy. Joey, you’re in the draw and it’ll be a very late draw as we have just spent a long, tiring but WONDERFUL day on the same water and I just have to eat and get my landlegs! Goodluck!