Cum ieri s-a incheiat concursul ce are ca premiu volumul Captiv in labirint de James Dashner, am intrat astazi pe Raffle pentru a face extragerea. Iar castigatoarea este:
Felicitari, Andreea! Astept un mail de la tine (pe adresa rox_tao@yahoo.com) pana saptamana viitoare, 14.06.2014, cu datele tale, pentru a-ti putea trimite premiul. In cazul in care nu primesc e-mailul tau pana atunci, voi face o noua extragere.
Cum in luna septembrie urmeaza sa se lanseze filmul The Maze Runner/Captiv in labirint, avand la baza volumul 1 din seria cu acelasi nume, scrisa de James Dashner, m-am gandit ca un concurs ar fi binevenit.
Asadar, multumita celor de la Libris – librarie online, aveti sansa de a citi aceasta carte inainte de a ajunge la cinema sa vizionati ecranizarea. Captiv in labirint este una dintre cele mai originale carti distopice pe care le-am citit pana acum, asa ca va recomand sincer aceasta lectura. Mai multe am povestit in recenzia pe care o puteti gasi AICI.
Pe site-ul Libris puteti gasi si alte carti online scrise de James Dasher, atat in categoria de carti in engleza cat si in cea de volume in romana.
Pentru a va inscrie in concurs, click pe linkul de Raffle de mai jos pentru a ajunge pe pagina cu formularul. Concursul se va incheia pe data de 5 iunie 2014.
Succes!
Una dintre autoarele romance care m-au impresionat de la primele randuri citite este Ioana Visan. Asa ca in momentul in care am putut participa la un blog tour organizat pentru editia omnibus a seriei The Impaler Legacy, nu am stat pe ganduri. Pentru ca Ioana scrie bine, povestile ei sunt surprinzatoare, originale si captivante si merita sa le descoperiti si voi.
Am rugat-o pe Ioana sa scrie un Guest Post despre un subiect foarte dezbatut in ultimii ani in lumea cititorilor: carti normale vs. carti in format electronic. Eu m-am amuzat descoperind aceleasi obiceiuri pe care le am si eu. Va invit sa cititi si voi raspunsul Ioanei si daca vreti, sa imi scrieti si parerea voastra despre acest subiect. Insa mai intai, iata datele despre editia omnibus a seriei The Impaler legacy si linkul de Rafflecopter, unde 10 cititori vor putea castiga aceasta serie.
The Impaler Legacy Omnibus by Ioana Visan
Book Description
In a world crawling with vampires, Romania is the safest place left on earth. Thanks to the Little Council, there hasn’t been a vampire on Romanian ground in over five centuries, until one day when Liana Cantacuzino is ordered to bring one in, covertly.
Enter Maximilien Hess, a thousand-year-old vampire determined to ruin the existing order of things. When all is revealed, Hess’s secret changes everything, and a reluctant alliance is formed because the alternative is much worse.
The Impaler Legacy Omnibus, a vampire saga like no other, includes:
The Impaler’s Revenge (novella)
Sweet Surrender (short story)
A Victory that Counts (novella)
Casualties of War (short story)
Order Restored (novella)
The Third Wheel (short story)
Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords | iTunes
About the Author
Award-winning writer Ioana Visan has always dreamed about reaching the stars, but since she can’t, she writes about it.
After fighting the apocalypse aftermath in “Human Instincts”, she played with shapeshifters in “Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks”, and then she dealt with vampires in “The Impaler Legacy” series, before tackling longer works like a fantasy trilogy and a science fiction series.
Aside from publishing short stories in various Romanian magazines and anthologies, she published a short story collection “Efectul de nautil” and the Romanian edition of “Human Instincts”.
She was awarded the Encouragement Award by The European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 2013.
Social Links: Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | Goodreads
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Print vs. eBook – What’s Your Opinion?
As a reader, my first serious encounter with ebooks took place about five or six years ago. There was one book that I just had to read, but it hadn’t been translated here yet and chances were it would take a while. Well, I wasn’t going to wait so I got it on-line. Mind you, I don’t even remember what that book was, however, what I do remember is going to bed with a headache after reading on the computer screen for half a day and my head still hurting in the morning.
I was reluctant to repeat the experience, but now and then I slipped and grabbed a book only to read for hours because I was bad at taking breaks while reading and still am. My tolerance increased in time, but it remained uncomfortable. Until I finally invested in an ereader. After that, that there was no going back for me.
Right now, I do maybe 70% of my reading on Kindle. I get the books I’m interested in as soon as they’re released or as soon as I find out about them. It means I do most of my reading in English, but that’s good practice since I also write in English.
I still buy printed books. Whenever I enter a bookstore, I can’t leave empty handed. These days, maybe half of my purchases are printed issues of books I’ve already read. I see them on the shelf, remember how great they were, and I just have to have them on my own shelves. I’ll soon have to build new ones, but that’s another story.
The funny thing is I rarely get to open them. If I’m looking for a quote or want to re-read an excerpt, I go to the computer and browse the book there. It’s easier and faster. I’ve got the hardcovers of Dune series (elegant covers) and A Song of Ice and Fire (awful covers) published by Nemira, and I haven’t opened them even once. They’re too big and heavy to handle. But they sit there on the top shelf, threatening to bring everything down, and I see them every time I go to sleep and when I open my eyes in the morning, and it makes me happy to know they’re mine.
So, maybe this is the future of publishing. You read a lot of books on various platforms and only buy a printed copy of the ones you truly loved. At least this is what I’m doing.
As a writer, particularly a self-published one, I follow a similar approach. I released my first two titles, Human Instincts and Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks, only as ebooks because I was still new to self-publishing and I needed to learn how the whole process worked, but also because of their novella-length size I didn’t think there was enough material for a whole book. I was proved wrong when the Romanian edition of Human Instincts came out as it made quite a decent book so that’s something worth considering for the future.
The Impaler Legacy series with all of its three novellas and three short stories took an entire year to publish it. Again, I didn’t hurry with a print edition mostly because of the same reasons, but once it became clear that this was going to be a series, the idea of an omnibus edition, both ebook and paperback, became suddenly appealing.
Now, a year after the first novella in the series was published, The Impaler Legacy Omnibus is out as an ebook, and the print edition should be released soon too. And since I have better knowledge of how this side of the business works, I’m flirting with the idea of releasing printed editions of the novellas, The Impaler’s Revenge, A Victory that Counts, and Order Restored, too. I know it seems I’m doing things backward since readers will rather buy the omnibus edition, but you know what? I don’t mind. I love those covers, and I need to have them on my shelf.
Povestea domnitei Marina si a basarabeanului necunoscut este un roman in care se intrepatrund mai multe lumi, in care trecutul si prezentul se amesteca pentru a ne oferi o istorie fascinanta, aproape magica. Mi-a placut mult si abia asteptam sa aflu mai multe despre modul in care s-a nascut acest volum si despre persoana care a stat in spatele crearii acestuia.
Roxana Turcitu: Multumesc pentru ca ati acceptat invitatia la interviu. Pentru inceput, puteti sa ne spuneti ceva despre dumneavoastra, ceva care nu se regaseste in descrierile de pe internet?
Tatiana Niculescu Bran: Nu prea stiu ce se spune in descrierile de pe internet. In general, sunt atenta la blogurile dedicate literaturii si la eventuale recenzii ale cartilor mele, publicate de revistele literare online. Probabil ca despre mine nu se spune si ca sunt timida. Dar sunt.
RT: Cum ati inceput sa scrieti si ce v-a determinat sa alegeti acest gen literar?
TNB: Am inceput sa scriu literatura printr-o intamplare, presupunand ca exista in viata omului si lucruri intamplatoare… M-am repatriat in 2004, dupa 8 ani petrecuti la Londra, in urma unui concurs prin care am devenit… CONTINUAREA AICI.
La final de 2013, va multumesc ca mi-ati fost alaturi si in acest an! Din 126.000 de vizite pe blog per total, 81.000 sunt din 2013, deci aproape dublu fata de numarul de anul trecut, ceea ce nu poate decat sa ma faca extrem de fericita. Va multumesc asadar pentru sprijinul vostru, pentru cuvintele frumoase pe care mi le-ati adresat de-a lungul timpului, pentru prietenia voastra, pentru ca imi impartasiti adesea gandurile voastre si pentru ca reveniti mereu cu pareri despre cartile pe care le cititi.
Sper ca anul 2014 sa fie cea mai frumoasa poveste posibila pentru fiecare dintre voi, sa va aduca nenumarate vise implinite si multa, multa magie!
