The Tainted Realm
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Huge Goodreads Giveaway for US Readers
My US publisher, Orbit Books, is currently running a huge Vengeance giveaway on Goodreads.com. 100 copies of the trade paperback are being given away to coincide with the release of Book 2 of The Tainted Realm, Rebellion in the US. The closing date is March 10 and, with so many copies available, your chances of winning are excellent. Enter from here.…
ABC Radio Interview with Mary-Lou Stephens
A couple of weeks ago I did a long radio interview with Mary-Lou Stephens of ABC Radio, Sunshine Coast. The interview was broadcast yesterday and you can listen to the podcast on ABC Digital here: http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2012/12/ian-irvine-the-tainted-realm-rebellion.html?site=sunshine&program=sunshine_cooloola_coast_drive Mary-Lou has done a huge number of author interviews. You can find links to all of them here: http://pinterest.com/missymarylou/books-interviews-and-reviews/ (click on the link below each image). Her…
The Next Big Thing
Zena Shapter, http://www.zenashapter.com/blog/?p=5403, has kindly tagged me for the Next Big Thing chain blog that's going around at the moment. Thanks, Zena. Helen Lowe also asked me, and thanks to Helen too – http://helenlowe.info/blog/ Here are my answers. What is the working title of your next book? It's Rebellion, Book 2 of The Tainted Realm trilogy. Where did the idea come from for…
Win Copies of Rebellion
I’m giving away another 2 copies of the Aussie trade paperback of Rebellion, plus a copy of the Rebellion audiobook on CD (19 CDs, 26.5 hours of mystery, magic, adventure, terror and tragedy), and anyone in the world can win. To enter, just go to my Facebook Author Page, Like it if you haven’t already, then enter via the Promos…
Mapping The Tainted Realm
I love maps. I've got hundreds of them in my office, plus oodles of atlases and books of ancient and historical maps, geological maps, bathymetric maps, atlases of history, atlases of space and the universe. Any fantasy novel that doesn't have at least one map – and some of my books have had many pages of them – feels deficient.…