Contest closing

Just a reminder to anyone interested in this year’s contest: the deadline to send me the URL of your Pinterest page is midnight tonight Pacific time (although to be honest, I may not actually get to all the boards until midday tomorrow…).  First prize is the iPad mini loaded with my books,and the five runners-up…

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An iPad mini that’s really loaded

Yes, the first prize in this year’s Bones of Paris contest is an iPad mini pre-loaded with my books. It’s an iPad, it’s an e-reader, it’s just gorgeous. The not-so-great news is, because Bantam Books is the sponsor, the iPad will only go to a US citizen. The really quite good news is, we’re also…

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Paris is so Pinteresting

In case you didn’t get the August News & Nonsense, there’s a really fab contest you need to know about.  You can win an iPad mini–yes, a real one, brand new–that’s been pre-loaded with my novels.  All you have to do is start up a Pinterest page along the lines of the one I’m doing,…

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Contest winner: “Clash of the Books”

Every year we run a contest celebrating National Library Week, asking readers to talk about their love for libraries.  This year I posed the challenge of explaining what “library” means,  to someone like a Martian—and said that there would be extra points if the essay/poem/etc mentioned Kate Martinelli, whose 20th anniversary 2013 is. I loved…

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Newsletter drawing

A last group of Garment of Shadows ARCs will go out to ten people on the newsletter mailing list.  We’ll do the drawing on Tuesday, so if you’re not signed up for the newsletter, you might like to drop in on the web site and stick your name here. Good luck!

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Wrap-up

Thanks to everyone who sent in a comment over the last ten days—and congratulations to the winners (although Betsy Chamberlin and Elizabeth Copley, you might want to check your email if you’d like an ARC because we haven’t heard from you yet!)  And actually, I apologize for inflicting the task of a daily comment on…

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Rome in Africa

Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Among other oddities of this extraordinary country, Morocco was part of the Roman empire.  As Hadrian’s Wall, between England and Scotland, marked the northern point of Rome’s West, the city of Volubilis occupied its south-western fringes.…

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The city gates

Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Fez remains a walled city, as it was in 1924 when Russell and Holmes walked its streets, as it was for the centuries before that.  Cars are kept out by the high adobe bricks, the population…

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A very local economy

Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. One of the fascinating things about Fez is the way the crafts of everyday life are created where they are used: need a shirt, a chair, a bowl?  They’re still made down the street,…

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Lyautey’s Fez

Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. In 1924, Morocco was a protectorate, under the administration of France to the south and Spain to the north.  The Spanish portion was, simply speaking, a disaster, with years of oppression that erupted into…

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