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The five lucky winners of Die and Stay Dead‘s recent Goodreads giveaway have all been chosen and notified. Congrats to Anna M., Karen Thompson, R., Alexa (not my wife), and Megan Applegate! Your copies should be shipping from St. Martin’s Press soon, if they haven’t already.

However, I feel bad that the giveaway only lasted five short days. That wasn’t much time for readers to hear about it and enter for a chance to win. So I’ve decided to run another Goodreads giveaway myself. From now until Sunday, October 19th, you can win a signed ARC* of Die and Stay Dead. And as a special bonus, I’ll also throw in a signed ARC of the previous book in the series, Dying Is My Business. Now you don’t have to worry about reading them out of order!

Click here to enter the new Goodreads giveaway. Good luck! And remember, you can’t win if you don’t enter, so get in there!

*ARC = Advance Readers Copy, also known as an Uncorrected Proof. It’s a bound edition of the book sent to early reviewers. It has the cover art and everything, but it may contain typos that weren’t corrected until just before the finished copies were printed.

I hit two more Barnes & Noble stores today to sign copies of Die and Stay Dead, one on the Upper East Side at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, and the other clear across town on 82nd Street and Broadway (with a lovely walk through Central Park in between). The picture above is from the Broadway store, where they actually had the book displayed on the New in Fiction table upstairs instead of just on the Fiction & Literature shelf.

But something remarkable happened while I was there. The bookseller working in the Fiction section recognized me from when I worked at that same B&N back in 1999! He even remembered that I used to own my own bookstore, and that I liked science fiction and fantasy! I was flabbergasted. Not just that he remembered me so well, but also that he was still there after fifteen years considering B&N’s normal turnover rate. It was one of those incredible small-world moments, on par with the time someone in college recognized me because we used to carpool together to kindergarten. Hand to God, that one really happened!

I must just have one of those faces that never changes.

Circle the wagons! This time, three of my brother and sister-in-law’s cats have surrounded their copy of Dying Is My Business. Four if you count my brother, whose legs are visible in the upper right, as another of my sister-in-law’s cats, which you should feel free to do.

(If your cats would also like to sit on a copy of Dying Is My Business, why not order one today?)

Not to be outdone, Francis’ brother Oreo has also become a big fan of Dying Is My Business.

I have a very big cat following.