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ladybusiness2011-07-21 03:18 pm
helloladies) wrote in ladybusiness2011-07-21 03:18 pm
Giveaway: Free Stuff! Or, Books We Like Free (Sort Of) to a Good Home
What would a theme week be without a giveaway? Free stuff is great! We decided to take this opportunity to shove books we found interesting at you with no remorse, chain you to a couch and make you read them share a chance to send copies of books featuring lady authors out into the world.
GIVEAWAY, starring:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott
Kindred by Octavia Butler
QUALIFYING COMMENTS, a set of directions:
1. OpenID is for winners!
2. A comment from a logged-in Dreamwidth account.
3. An Anonymous comment, signed with your Name and URL.
4. An email sent to thisisladybusiness@gmail.com.
ENTERING, the rules for play:
1. To enter, please prepare a short book recommendation list (three to five items1).
2. Items should all be speculative fiction (bonus points for science fiction!2):
3. Each item should follow first two tenets of Lady Business: Stories written by ladies about ladies and Stories written by ladies about dudes.
4. Share why you like each title. No adherence to Lady Business tenet of tl;dr required; we're just nosy.
5. Post/email your list!
6. PROFIT!3
The giveaway will run through now to July 29th and end with us sending someone some free books and more importantly, end with lots of recommendations for us to drool over. This is awesome!
1 We're basically demanding homework. No shame.
2 These bonus points are not actually real and will be awarded in our hearts only.
3 No actual profit unless you win, although sharing lady-recs is very profitable in a mushy soul-warming kind of way.
GIVEAWAY, starring:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott
Kindred by Octavia Butler
QUALIFYING COMMENTS, a set of directions:
1. OpenID is for winners!
2. A comment from a logged-in Dreamwidth account.
3. An Anonymous comment, signed with your Name and URL.
4. An email sent to thisisladybusiness@gmail.com.
ENTERING, the rules for play:
1. To enter, please prepare a short book recommendation list (three to five items1).
2. Items should all be speculative fiction (bonus points for science fiction!2):
3. Each item should follow first two tenets of Lady Business: Stories written by ladies about ladies and Stories written by ladies about dudes.
4. Share why you like each title. No adherence to Lady Business tenet of tl;dr required; we're just nosy.
5. Post/email your list!
6. PROFIT!3
The giveaway will run through now to July 29th and end with us sending someone some free books and more importantly, end with lots of recommendations for us to drool over. This is awesome!
1 We're basically demanding homework. No shame.
2 These bonus points are not actually real and will be awarded in our hearts only.
3 No actual profit unless you win, although sharing lady-recs is very profitable in a mushy soul-warming kind of way.
Authors I like
(Anonymous) 2011-07-24 08:22 am (UTC)(link)Janny Wurts - her Wars of Light and Shadow series are dark and complex stories and has some interesting male characters. Her collaborative novels with Raymond E. Feist, the Daughter of the Empire series has an incredible intelligent and strong heroine. Personally I think the novels show more of Wurts writing style than that of Feist.
Katherine Kerr - her Deverry cycle is epic and weaves in a lot of Celtic myth. Her female characters are strong, complex and have depth. What I really like is that although it's sometimes hard to distance yourself from stereotypes and fantasy tropes, especially when it comes to female characters, Kerr's series is the first one I encountered where there is some sort of equality in the way female characters are portrayed.
Tanith Lee - writes beautiful and dark stories and I wish more people would read her work.
And although he's not a woman, Steven Erikson's Malazan series has some incredibly strong female characters. In fact, he treats men and women almost equally (most are soldiers) which is very refreshing (and still all too rare) in the fantasy genre.