Month: April 2013

This post has been a little while in coming. Truth be told I hadn’t much expected it to ever happen – after all, ask anyone and they’ll tell you short story collections don’t sell in the UK. And yet here I am, with another lovely Larry Rostant cover to admire and my name on another book. Now they’re all special – you publish a book that isn’t special to you and it either will be your last or should be. Even for a professional author, each one remains a constant for a period of your life and should trigger an emotion as strong as the smell of freshly cut grass. Where you wrote the book, who you lived with or drank with – they’re all bound up with each one but God Tattoo encompassed most of my adult life as it turned out.

We are delighted to share with you a saucy, well on the borderline of saucy, reading from Sarah Pinborough’s new novella Poison.

Take a wicked queen, a handsome prince, a beautiful princess and a poisoned apple . . .

It’s Snow White, but not as you know her.

A wicked, delicious, sexy fairy tale perfect for fans of Once Upon a Time and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Listen to the extract below carefully and send along the answer to this question:  In the passage about when the sunlight glittered on the drops of water that clung to her skin, Sarah uses a simile to compare the drops of water to what ? It’s a tricky question but we have five beautiful signed copies to give away to five lucky winners! Send your answers to competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: POISON by 11.59 on the 25th April 2013. Good luck!

We are so excited for the publication of Dead Ever After, the final Sookie Stackhouse novel. But before we get to the finale we’re looking back at the entire series. Last summer we sat down with Charlaine Harris and filmed a series of interviews discussing the Sookie Stackhouse novels. We asked Charlaine to share a special memory with all her fans to help us say Farewell to Sookie.

So, without any further ado, let’s continue our countdown with Definitely Dead.

Missed our other interviews? You can watch them all here.

Dead Ever After will be available where all good books are sold on the 7th May.

Happy Wednesday! Today is your last chance guess our book and win a copy!

The Selkie.

This is the fifth and final image inspired by the character in an up-and-coming Gollancz novel.  Can you guess which novel? We’ve got five copies to give away! To enter send your guesses to: competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: Gollancz Character by 11.59pm 17th April 2013. Good luck!

Model: Kiera Gould

Image by Chloe Isherwood Photography and Karmic Design.

Makeup by Rachel Nicholson

Location scout: Yvonne Cunningham

With thanks to Evenlode Studio for props and costume.