Author Post

This post has been a little while in coming. Truth be told I hadn’t much expected it to ever happen – after all, ask anyone and they’ll tell you short story collections don’t sell in the UK. And yet here I am, with another lovely Larry Rostant cover to admire and my name on another book. Now they’re all special – you publish a book that isn’t special to you and it either will be your last or should be. Even for a professional author, each one remains a constant for a period of your life and should trigger an emotion as strong as the smell of freshly cut grass. Where you wrote the book, who you lived with or drank with – they’re all bound up with each one but God Tattoo encompassed most of my adult life as it turned out.

We are delighted to share with you a saucy, well on the borderline of saucy, reading from Sarah Pinborough’s new novella Poison.

Take a wicked queen, a handsome prince, a beautiful princess and a poisoned apple . . .

It’s Snow White, but not as you know her.

A wicked, delicious, sexy fairy tale perfect for fans of Once Upon a Time and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Listen to the extract below carefully and send along the answer to this question:  In the passage about when the sunlight glittered on the drops of water that clung to her skin, Sarah uses a simile to compare the drops of water to what ? It’s a tricky question but we have five beautiful signed copies to give away to five lucky winners! Send your answers to competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: POISON by 11.59 on the 25th April 2013. Good luck!

Happy Monday! We’re excited to be kicking off this week with a competition!

The Ban Draoi.

This image is inspired by the character in an up-and-coming Gollancz novel.  Can you guess which novel? We’ve got five copies to give away! To enter send your guesses to: competitions@orionbooks.co.uk with the subject line: Gollancz Character by 11.59pm 8th April 2013. Good luck!

Model: Gabriella Howson

Image by Chloe Isherwood Photography and Karmic Design.

Makeup by Rachel Nicholson

Location scout: Yvonne Cunningham

With thanks to Evenlode Studio and No. 15 Costume & Leather for props and costume.