Friday, March 8, 2013

Book Beginnings & GIVEAWAY: Dry Rot, A Sage Adair Mystery


Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.

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MY BOOK BEGINNING



A fat raindrop smacked the back of his neck and slid down his spine like a cold knife edge.

-- Dry Rot: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery by S.L. Stoner.  This novel may be set in the Portland, Oregon of 1902, but that opening sentence described my walk this morning.

Dry Rot is the third mystery in Stoner's Sage Adair series, but is enough of a story to stand alone.  Here, Sage's adventure involves a  losing labor strike, a union leader framed for murder, a ragpicker poet, and collapsing city bridges.  The historic details show a wild and wooly Portland of an earlier age -- an age of hobo jungles, lumber camps, brothels, saloons, and corruption.

Dry Rot will be released in April.  Ask your local bookstore to order it for you or you can pre-order it on Amazon.  You can also sign up here to try to win one of two giveaway copies.

THE GIVEAWAY

This is a "leap-frog" giveaway. This means I have two copies to giveaway to Rose City Reader readers, and each winner will get to host another giveaway for an additional copy, thanks to the delightful book publicist, Mary Bisbee-Beek.

The contest is for readers in the USA and Canada and is open until Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 9:00 PST. There are five ways to enter and each one is worth a chance to win. To enter, do any or all of the following, but you must leave a comment for each one and you must put an email address in a comment:

1. Comment on this post. You must include an email address. If I can't find a way to contact you I will draw another winner. (1 entry)

2. Blog about this giveaway. Posting the giveaway on your sidebar is also acceptable. Leave a separate comment with a link to your post. (1 entry)

3. Subscribe to my rss feed, follow me on blogger, or subscribe via email (or tell me if you already are a subscriber or follower). Leave a separate comment for this. (1 entry)

4. Tweet this post on Twitter. Leave me a separate comment with your twitter user name. (1 entry)

5. Post this on a social network. Put it on facebook, post it on Google+, pin it on Pinterest, Stumble it, digg it, technorati fave it, or otherwise put it out there in the social network. Leave a separate comment with a link or explaination. (1 entry)

There are a lot of ways to enter (maximum of five entries), but you must LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT for each one or they will not count. I will use random.org to pick the winners from the comments.

This contest is open to entries from the U.S. and Canada only. The deadline for entry is 9:00 PM, Pacific Time, on Thursday, March 14, 2013. I will draw and post the winner's name in my Book Beginning post for March 15, 2013.

14 comments :

  1. I like the opening line. I have read a little about the early days of Portland (we lived there for several years) and it was a very wild place. This sounds like one I would like.
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  2. I'm fascinated by this period of history on North America's west coast - would love to get into this series!

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  3. I subscribe by email using my.newsletters(at)nncweb(fot)ca

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  4. I added this giveaway info to my Book Beginnings blog post
    http://www.exurbanis.com/archives/8803

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  5. Tweeted this at https://twitter.com/DebbieRodgers/status/310119370611363840

    Twitter handle @DebbieRodgers

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  6. I also posted this on facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/debbie.rodgers

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  7. Grrrr. My laptop decided to post my link before I got it entered correctly. It should be Bev@My Reader's Block (The Lady in the Morgue) and linked to http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2013/03/friday-memes.html.

    No entry, but thanks for the offer of the give-away!

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  8. That's a great sounding beginning - very descriptive.

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  9. Sounds like an interesting story; not too keen about the cover art.

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  10. This book looks quite intriguing. I love Portland but I'm not too familiar with its seedy past.

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  11. I'm also a follower of your RSS feed.

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  12. I added this book to my Goodreads and Amazon public wishlist/want to read accounts.

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  13. Thank you for the giveaway. Sounds really great. jtretin at aol dot com

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  14. Thank you for the giveaway. Sounds really great. jtretin at aol dot com

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