Links and Book Giveaway

I feel like I got zero sleep last night, though I'm mostly conscious now so I must have gotten some. At some point I was woken up by a loud noise that sounded like it was inside the house. It sounded like a cabinet door slamming closed. I got up, walked around, didn't find anything. Troyce didn't hear it, though he did hear mysterious noises (talking and music) early this morning that I didn't hear. Clearly, the house is haunted and we just didn't notice before. Or something.

Links:

The Night Shade Books Holiday Countdown has an excerpt of The Serpent Sea on the Fantasy Book Critic Blog. It's chapter 7 so if you don't like spoilers, don't read it. It does have a brief three paragraph introduction that isn't spoilery, though.

Over 1000 books donated to Bastrop Friends of the Library in a drive to try to help replace some of the over 10,000 books from the library collections that were lost in summer wildfires.

Book Giveaway:

This book giveaway is for five autographed hardcover copies of Wheel of the Infinite. Comment on this post between now and 10:00pm (CST) or so tonight and I'll draw five winners tomorrow. (Winners will have to email me their shipping address so I can mail you the books.) This book is out of print, though it is still available in ebook (Barnes and Noble NookBook, Amazon US, Kindle UK, Kindle De, Kindle ES)

I'll do another giveaway later in the week for The Cloud Roads/The Serpent Sea.