Half a King Preorder Lucky Dip
Have YOU pre-ordered Half a King in the UK, or are you about to do so? Then you will receive a splendiferous hardcover containing an exciting fantasy adventure featuring vivid characters in an imaginatively realised viking-esque world. That’s guaranteed. But you will also have a chance of winning a once-in-a-lifetime-never-to-be-repeated-until-possibly-such-time-as-I-release-another-book opportunity.
Simply fill in the form here with an order number as proof of your purchase, and on publication day, July 3rd, an exclusive number of two, TWO, lucky persons shall receive tickets to meet me, that’s right ME, at the very top of London’s famous gherkin at Harper Collins’ summer party in August. You can exchange real words with me like the people that have already met me do. I might even smile, like this. But if that isn’t enough, there may be other trifling presences from the international fantasy publishing scene there, like, I don’t know, PV Brett, Robin Hobb, and some guy called George RR Martin. I can’t promise they’ll smile at you, but you never know, that is in your own hands.
As if that weren’t enough, we all know how frustrating it can be waiting for that next book in a series, especially when the first is this flipping brilliant, therefore the lucky winners will also receive advanced reader copies of the next two books in the series, Half the World and Half a War, posted to your door well prior to publication like those proper publishing, book selling and critical review type folks receive. But in case you’d rather have a spanking new finished hardcover edition, you’ll also get a hardcover of each book the moment they become available, all signed and dedicated and whatnot.
Truly, the gods shall have smiled upon you. And for a chance to win these wonderful things, all you have to do is the right thing, the thing you were going to do anyway, and that’s preorder Half a King. Hell, if you aren’t one of the lucky few, you still get a beautiful hardback containing an exciting fantasy adventure featuring vivid characters in an imaginatively realised viking-esque world. It’s a WIN WIN.
YOU LUCKY BASTARDS.
For some preorder options, I suggest you look here…
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