Final Draws of Great Giveaway

Two draws for this final month of our Great Giveaway.

For the standard monthly giveaway, we have a winner by the Twitter name @Yorkmum. If she claims the prize within a week she will receive signed copies of Page Dancers, Knorrasky: The Deception, and Onet's Tale

For the special giveway, only drawn from newsletter subscribers, the winner is Kate Blackham. We have emailed her and if she claims within a week, she will receive the same prize as @Yorkmum, with the addition of a signed copy of The Devil Came East, the crime thriller.

Both winners have claimed their prizes.

Congratulations to all, and thank you to all who participated. We were impressed with the turnout.

Gerry Huntman
Chief Editor
IFWG Publishing

Two Titles now published

Today we are pleased to announce the publishing of two titles:

Paula Boer's The Okapi Promise

A wonderful adventure set in Africa, including photos.

click here to purchase

and Gerry Huntman's Guardian of the Sky Realms

a Young Adult fantasy adventure, set in fantasy worlds, but also in a number of countries around the globe.

click here to purchase

Elizabeth Lang's The Empire

Here is the front cover of Elizabeth Lang's science fiction novel, The Empire, out next month. We are very excited by this title, as it isn't a run-of-the-mill epic scifi - while it is epic in backdrop, the story is strong in characterization and intrigue, and delves deep into human fragility... as well as strength.

Stay tuned for the release date very soon.

eNovella to be released in December 2010

MF Burbaugh is an exciting author who has joined our fold. We are publishing a science fiction novel of his in January next year. However, we were entranced with a novella he also wrote and just had to publish it - it is called Circle of Seven and is whimsical and very exciting. It has elves, gnomes, fairies and much more, and yet it has battles in space. It would be unfair to say much more... just watch out for it, and do yourself a favor and buy it!

It is a very readable 42k in word count and because of this, this will be the first of an uncommon number of books that will only be published for electronic readers.

His bio/blurb page can be found at: http://ifwgpublishing.weebly.com/bio-mf-burbaugh.html

The Weekly IFWGP Q&A

Here's a little something for you guys to get involved in!

As of this Sunday, this blog will be host to a weekly writing Q&A, courtesy of me, Esme Carpenter, and your burning writing questions. Having problems with characterisation? Lost the sparkle in the long-haul? Or just not sure where to start? Wondering how we at IFWGP started writing, or where we get our inspiration from?

Send me your questions at esmecarpenter@ifwgpublishing.com, and every Sunday I'll pick the best ones and answer them right here on the blog. Then, from your comments, we'll be able to help each other answer those tricky questions.

So get sending me your queries, and I'll get answering them!

EC

EDIT: Okay, I misspelled the e-mail address, so we'll restart the questions and get them answered next Sunday! Apologies!

The Second Story Quest Short Story Contest

We are pleased to announce that we have a winner and four finalists for the second Story Quest Short Story Contest:

Winner - J C Martin - The Critic - an unusual short with a touch of horror in it.

(in no particular order), Finalists:

Imran Nazar - The Harness - a solid, hard-Science Fiction story.
Amanda Crum - Water For Sunshine - a Science Fiction story with a moral undertone.
Darren Moore -  Freeman's Toll - a Fantasy story in a believable medieval setting.
Steve Gepp - Rejection - A highly original, supernatural, post apocalyptic story.

Congratulations to all, and we look forward to publishing their stories in SQ Magazine!

Winner of Second Great Giveaway

Twitter, blog, newsletter and Facebook entries were combined (including older entries), and the lucky winner for the 1 November 2010 draw is a follower on our blog, who_leo (Florida).

We had lots of entries again, so thank you!

Remember, those who entered are still in for the last draw, and those in the Newsletter get the bonus draw on the same date, 1 December.

IFWG Publishing Team

Our Kindle Catalog

For those of you who are interested, here's a link to our Kindle collection at Amazon. Really good value here.

IFWG Kindle Store

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