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Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner SA for snagging a free copy of The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Alchemaster’s Apprentice by Walter Moers. The first three books set in Zamonia—the mythical land created by the genius of Moers, whose work has been compared to J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silverstein—have achieved raucous critical acclaim and created hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans here and all over the world. Now Moers returns with a fourth “relentlessly whimsical” fantasy (Library Journal). When Echo the Cat’s mistress dies, he is compelled to sign a contract with Ghoolion the Alchemaster. This fateful document gives Ghoolion the right to kill Echo at the next full moon and render his fat, which he hopes to brew into an immortality potion. But Ghoolion has not reckoned for Echo’s talent for survival and his vast ability to make new friends.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by The Overlook Press. The Overlook Press is an independent general-interest publisher, founded in 1971. The publishing program consists of nearly 100 new books per year, evenly divided between hardcovers and trade paperbacks. The list is eclectic, but areas of strength include interesting fiction, history, biography, drama, and design.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, January 8 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner JSPAD. Try your luck again with Billy Lombardo’s The Man with Two Arms in the new Free Book Friday.
Would love to have it!
I loved The City of Dreaming Books, it would be great to read another Moers book.
Love trying different/new authors! Give me a chance!!
Never heard of it, but definitely curious.
I enjoy reading all sorts of books/stories. I love seeing what others have to say and how they can weave ideas. Let me read this one and add it to my library.
Yes please!
I have a spot waiting for this great book!
I would love to read this great book. Thanks.
Sounds great, I´d like to give it a try
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I don’t know what you’d call my
“website”. but I’d like to get a free book from you! I love to read all kinds of books, mostly about people from other cultures in present day more than historical settings. I travel a lot, and like to see the areas the characters have in their lives.
Rita Joanne Brock
Sounds great – please include me. Thanks!
Hey I saw the thing you did at TRT book club!! I thought I would check you guys out. Glad I did!
Thanks so much for all of the giveaways!
Sweet–thanks for stopping by!
put me also into the hat….would luuuv to win the book….
Can’t overlook The Alchemaster’s Apprentice…raucous critical acclaim. I’m in. Oh, and I’ll review it with my happy face on.
This would compliment my copy of Captain Bluebear nicely
Love your site! Put my name in the hat as well… thanks!
I would love this book!
Douglas Adams is one of my favorite authors — If Moers is anything like him this will be a great book.
Would love to find a series that matches to Rowling’s!! This sounds like it could be it. Please enter me. Thanks so much!
I’d love a chance!
yay for free books!
This book sounds fascinating! I’d love to be the one to win it. My e-mail is waugh.deb@gmail.com.