Check it Out! Competition to win Celine Kiernan's Into the Grey
One of our favoritest authors in the whole wide world, Celine Kiernan, has a new novel coming out this month! Which means we’re going to have to interview her again soon (*hinthint* Celine). Into the Grey is a YA novel about a boy who is losing his twin brother to a ghost: ‘The scream was awful – a horrible desolate cry…the child led my unresisting brother up the path and further into the tangled garden. Out of my sight’. My name is Patrick Finnerty. I am fifteen and I’m losing my brother. A ghost is stealing him away. I know how crazy that sounds. But my brother, my twin, is going to die; I’m watching him die. No one else can see what’s happening. What can I do? The answers seem to lie within the memory of a dream – between this world and the next. Within The Grey. But I don’t want to go into The Grey. I don’t want to. I’ve seen what it’s like! In honor of the upcoming release, Celine is hosting a competition to win a copy of the book! You should head over to her blog and check things out. All she is asking for is a simple, up to 200 word, description of what it would be like to be a ghost! Sounds positively spooky. So go to it! For a recap of how much we love Celine and how wonderful she is, please feel free to check out our Interviews with her over here: The Skiffy and Fanty Show #28a: An Interview w/ Celine Kiernan The Skiffy and Fanty Show #28b — An Interview w/ Celine Kiernan (part two)
Children of a Factory Nation Short Story Contest (Anarchy Books)
The deliciously twisted Andy Remic recently brought this contest to our attention, and now we’re bringing it to yours. Make sure to spread the word: Jordan Reyne’s new album, Children of a Factory Nation, is being released September 2011 and follows a family who lived in Wales in the late 1800s during the Industrial Revolution. Like many alive in their time, they faced problems relating to difficult working conditions, poverty, and the tyranny of circumstance. This album constructs stories from facts known about Johnathan, Mary, their children Molly & Thomas, and grandchild Wynne. The competition is to write a short story surrounding any character or sets of characters from Children of a Factory Nation using Jordan Reyne’s lyrics or the facts about their real life counterparts as a starting point. The competition will be judged by Andy Remic, SFF author and co-owner of Anarchy Books, John
