You might have noticed the recent appearance of a little box in the sidebar headed “Newsletter”. Perhaps you’ve already typed in your email address to sign up, or perhaps you’ve just ignored it, thinking ugh, spam!
I hope you’ve done the first one; you’d have been quite wrong to do the second. You see, our first newsletter comes out next month. It’s a quick roundup of the month on The Fiction Desk, revisiting a couple of things you might have missed. There are extra odds and ends and mini-reviews, all in a neat little monthly “mark it unread and read it later” package.
Even if you don’t fancy reading yet more of my half-baked bookish opinions, it’s still worth subscribing, because each monthly newsletter will feature the chance to win a free book! For the first issue, Penguin have very kindly donated three signed copies of David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, a book which you just might have heard of if you’ve been online lately. This is a terrific book, and I’m excited that I’m going to be able to give some of my readers the chance to read it, free.
The November newsletter is going out on Wednesday, 4th November, so it you want to get it, and be in with a chance to win Legend of a Suicide, type your email into that little box in the sidebar. Just there, on the left, about two inches up. It’s quite safe, I promise you. No selling your email address or marketing from “related companies”; just a monthly newsletter and the chance to win great books…
Edit: The November newsletter has now gone out, so check your inbox if you’ve signed up. If you haven’t yet signed up, don’t forget to do so in time for next month’s newsletter, when there will be another chance to win books!
October 30th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Damn, I’ve just ordered a copy!
October 30th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Even better! If you win it too, you can read the copy you bought, and won’t risk bending the spine of the nice signed one!
October 30th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Great! Will spread the word and hope that one of my friends wins!