In celebration of her forthcoming book, Flesh and Fire: Book 1 of the Vineart War, author Laura Anne Gilman is giving away two hardcover copies of it, before she even has them herself.
But, as she says, “I’m going to make you work for it [hey, it’s a hardcover!]. But work of the [hopefully] fun sort.”
In order to enter the contest, you must “take one of the three options, and describe it… in the style of a wine review. Points for using an obscure but real wine term, more points for creating a term that sounds like it should be a real wine term. Lots of points of you make me want to run out and buy that vintage.” The three options are:
Fannish: The Star Wars Trilogy (original, as-released, Han shot first)
Political: Barack Obama (“I figured he’d have a sense of humor about this, and not send the SecSer after me—and if he did, it would just be publicity, right?”)
Personal: Gilman’s good friend, author Keith R.A. DeCandido (As she says, “What, you thought I’d let you take a shot at me? Do I look that nuts?”)
Deadline is 25 August. Entries must be posted as responses to this blog post, which also has full contest details.