Welcome by another weekend of celebrations for our 5 year anniversary 🙂
Lets do a paperback giveaway
We had some fabulous authors donating signed paperbacks for our giveaway.
What do you prefer a “real”book or an ebook? or is there an other reason why you like a paperback?
for me I love to collect a signed paperback from authors I have met at conventions I try to get one book of them as much as I can.
I love my collection but for reading I will turn to my kindle which goes everywhere I go ….
All the paperback prizes in this post are worldwide!
Authors Ari McKay are giving away a Signed Paperback of “The Herc’s Mercs Anthology”.
Ari McKay is the professional pseudonym for Arionrhod and McKay, who have been writing together for over a decade. Their collaborations encompass a wide variety of romance genres, including contemporary, fantasy, science fiction, gothic, and action/adventure. Their work includes the Blood Bathory series of paranormal novels, the Herc’s Mercs series, as well as two historical Westerns: Heart of Stone and Finding Forgiveness. When not writing, they can often be found scheming over costume designs or binge watching TV shows together.
Arionrhod is a systems engineer by day who is eagerly looking forward to (hopefully) becoming a full time writer in the not-too-distant future. Now that she is an empty-nester, she has turned her attentions to finding the perfect piece of land to build a fortress in preparation for the zombie apocalypse, and baking (and eating) far too many cakes.
McKay is an English teacher who has been writing for one reason or another most of her life. She also enjoys knitting, reading, cooking, and playing video games. She has been known to knit in public. Given she has the survival skills of a gnat, she’s relying on Arionrhod to help her survive the zombie apocalypse.
Authors Jeff Adams & Will Knauss are giving away a Signed Paperback of “The Hockeyplayer’s Heart”.
Jeff’ Adams’ written stories since he was in middle school and became a gay romance writer in 2009 when his first short stories were published. Since then he’s written several more shorts and novels, including some in the young adult genre, and he plans to keep writing as long as wonderful readers keeping picking up his books.
Jeff lives in rural Northern California with his husband of twenty years, Will. Some of his favorite things include the musicals “Rent” and “[title of show],” the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburg Penguins hockey teams, and the reality TV competition “So You Think You Can Dance.” If forced to pick his favorite book it would be a tie between Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” and David Levithan’s “Every Day.”
He’s the co-host of “Jeff & Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast,” which airs new episodes every Monday via podcast streaming sites and YouTube. You can get all the details at BigGayFictionPodcast.com
All the latest news on Jeff’s books, including signing up for email updates, are at his website: jeffadamswrites.com
Will Knauss is a child of the seventies. When he wasn’t twirling around on the playground (like Lynda Carter from “Wonder Woman”), he wrote stories and performed plays for family members. Enthusiasm for his theatrical presentations varied. Before becoming an author, Will’s work experience ranged from hotel housekeeper to retail clerk. While living in New York, he even worked as a Wax Museum tour guide.
In 1995 he asked the man who would eventually become his husband on a date. No Netflix and chill for them, though, remember, this was the Dark Ages (aka the midnineties). They went to an actual theater to see the John Carpenter remake of “Village of the Damned.” They have been inseparable ever since.
Each week, Will shares his love of gay romance fiction with the listeners of the “Big Gay Fiction Podcast,” a show he co-created with his husband and fellow author, Jeff Adams.
You can keep up with Will at WillKnauss.com and check out the “Big Gay Fiction Podcast” at BigGayFictionPodcast.com
Author August Li is giving away a Signed Paperback of “On Tinsel Wings and This Same Flower”.
August (Gus) Li is a creator of fantasy worlds. When not writing, he enjoys drawing, illustration, costuming and cosplay, and making things in general. He lives near Philadelphia with two cats and too many ball-jointed dolls. He loves to travel and is trying to see as much of the world as possible. Other hobbies include reading (of course), tattoos, and playing video games.
Author CF White is giving away a Signed paperback of “Kick Off”.
Brought up in a relatively small town in Hertfordshire, C F White managed to do what most other residents try to do and fail—leave.
Studying at a West London university, she realised there was a whole city out there waiting to be discovered, so, much like Dick Whittington before her, she never made it back home and still endlessly search for the streets paved with gold, slowly coming to the realisation they’re mostly paved with chewing gum. And the odd bit of graffiti. And those little circles of yellow spray paint where the council point out the pot holes to someone who is supposedly meant to fix them instead of staring at them vacantly whilst holding a polystyrene cup of watered-down coffee.
Eventually she moved West to East along that vast District Line and settled for pie and mash, cockles and winkles and a bit of Knees Up Mother Brown to live in the East End of London; securing a job and creating a life, a home and a family.
After her second son was born with a rare disability, C F White’s life changed and it brought pen back to and paper after having written stories as a child but never had the confidence to show them to the world. Now, having embarked on this writing journey, C F White can’t stop. So strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
I love my Kindle with all the ebooks. It is so much easier (and cheaper) to buy them, but nothing beats the feel of a paperback in your hands. Especially if they are signed by the author. That is a treasure.
I thought I would never give in to buying mostly ebooks, but reading ebooks makes it incredibly easy to have lots of books while traveling. I love having a paperback in hand though and signed paperbacks are absolute treasures.
I am real book hoarder, so the answer is obvious. I do prefer paperbacks, I own more than one thousand, and still growing (even though I do not have any space left in my place…). Because of the problems with space, I now buy most of my books as ebooks,, and then buy the paperback if I loved it (which happens very often… LOL)
Even though ebooks are really useful to me when I’m traveling, a signed paperback is especially meaningful!
I love getting signed paperbacks but most of my reading is done via kindle….so much lighter and I have a whole library in my hands
I need to hold my books in my hands. I have a Nook for short stories by my favorite authors that will never be in print. Signed books…..Oh Yes, Please!
I grew up reading books so I can’t remember a time I didn’t have a book in hand. While ebooks are easier to handle and less of a storage issue, paperbacks still appeal to me because I find it easier to flip through, I like the heft of it in my hands and it makes it easier to just turn the book over and look at the cover if I’m particularly taken with the cover art.
I do enjoy an actual book, but they don’t respond to a right page click very well!!! Ebooks however have allowed me to feed my reading habit big time!
I love my kindle and prefer reading on that, my second favorite is hardbacks, even though they are a pain to lug around, and then paperbacks. I love collecting signed paperbacks though.
I like paperbacks but it’s more useful to have ebooks that you can carry around anywhere.
Until 2015 I was of the opinion that it had to be paperbacks. Then suddenly there were a few books I wanted to read and which I only could get as an e-book. And then I got my e-book reader. Well, I can say that I still love to read paperbacks, but the majority of my books are e-books. I can hoard without clustering my home. I can read several books at the same time, while not at home, without having to carry several books. Love it.
Some books I still have to have as paperbacks, though.
I like my ereader because i can take all my books with me but i love paperbacks and i love signed ones so thank you for the giveaway chance 🙂