WIN A COPY OF AN AWARD-WINNING KIWI CRIME FICTION DEBUT!
I've decided it's time to run another Crime Watch giveaway, and in keeping with the Kiwi novel - international novel turnabout that's been happening here for the first four giveaway, now seemed a perfect time to offer you all another chance to win another enjoyable Kiwi crime novel.
As such, I'm giving away a brand new copy of Donna Malane's debut crime novel SURRENDER, which was released in New Zealand this month. I've spoken a bit about Malane and SURRENDER here on Crime Watch in recent weeks, but given the giveaway question, I won't say anymore right now. This Crime Watch giveaway is available to anyone around the world, no matter where you live (I will ship the prize internationally).
You may enter the draw by making a comment on this post, noting your full name and answering the giveaway question. The draw for the brand new copy of SURRENDER will be made at 5pm on Friday 8 October (NZT), so you have a little over a week to enter.
GIVEAWAY QUESTION
What is one fact or piece of information about Donna Malane or her writing?
HINT: You can read my Weekend Herald review of SURRENDER here, and my report on the Auckland launch of SURRENDER here.
Oh, and if for any reason you are having difficulty placing a comment on this blog, you can instead email me your entry, directly (name and answer to the above question). Please email to craigsisterson@hotmail.com
Good luck! I look forward to receiving your entries.
Craig - Thanks for hosting this contest :-). I'm very interested in winning a copy, so please put my entry into the drawing.
ReplyDeleteMy fact? Donna Malane has worked as a successful screenwriter.
Cool, I was looking around to see if I could buy a copy locally (answer = NOPE) so maybe I can win one by telling people that Donna's book beat out 507 other entries to win this competition.
ReplyDeleteHi Craig,
ReplyDeleteFabulastic! Donna Malone wrote and produced the telemovie 'Until Proven Innocent' based on one of New Zealand's most infamous real-life criminal cases. I've seen it and thought it was top quality - a brilliant, well acted drama.
Joanne Ganley
Craig,
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to find that the Pindar was awarded to an unpublished book, Surrender_. I thought awards always went to published works. Will this be typical of the Pindar?
Fred Runk
It was an award for an unpublished work Fred, like the Debut Dagger etc - but in this case the 'prize' was to get the best unpublished manuscript professionally edited, published and marketed etc.
ReplyDeletePindar largely does non-fiction, and contract publishes/layouts for others in the past...
Donna Malane said she often wrote passages of her winning entry while tucked up in bed.
ReplyDeleteDonna Malane has worked as a successful screenwriter.
ReplyDeleteThe total prize package that Donna Malone won was worth $35,000 and she is keen to write a sequel to Surrender.
ReplyDeleteHelen Kiker
hdkiker@comcast.net
I'd very much like to win the copy!
ReplyDeleteMy fact? She's 55 years old. She's in my age group, which makes me want to read her all the more.
It's her first adult novel.
ReplyDeleteWould love to win!
littleone AT shaw DOT ca
Craig,
ReplyDeleteFor an unpublished author then, the first prize, therefore, would almost be the ultimate prize.
Fact: Donna is a screenwriter.
ReplyDeleteAs for fiction, I'd love the chance to read her work.
gkw9000 [at] gmail.com
She is a screenwriter.
ReplyDeleteJudi Maxwell,Portland, Oregon
she's written the Girl's Guide to Rugby, and is very versatile. She writes YA and adult, and has written scripts for documentary, comedy, and drama shows.
ReplyDeletewould love to win,
gingercatranch at gmail dot com
Amy
Donna is making a big name in literature and I would love a copy of Surrender. My answer is that there were over 500 entries in the competition for which Donna won her award.
ReplyDeleteOne fact about Donna Malane or her writing: she's a Wellington television scriptwriter and producer.
ReplyDeleteCarol-Lynn Rössel
Winthrop, Maine USA
One fact, well she was born in 1955 (the same year as my second daughter), has been a television scriptwriter and is the author of books for young adults, and younger ones also, I believe.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to get her new mystery. Thank you
Zulema Seligsohn
Bronx, New York
She has written a young adult novel called Alien Time
ReplyDeleteAngela Sicely
Hamilton, New Zealand
The Author Ms Malane, is 55, and she spent the past year writing the novel.
ReplyDeleteLesley McIntosh
Oamaru, New Zealand
Donna is a Wellington screenwriter.
ReplyDeleteShirley Nienkark
boots9k at wowway dot com
Thanks for the introduction!
ReplyDeleteDonna Malane is a Wellington-based screenwriter and television producer.
Carol Fairweather
Alameda, CA USA
Ms Malane runs Wellington production company Lippy Pictures with writer Paula Boock.
ReplyDeleteWhile she usually writes in her office at home, Malane went to bed to create the world of her tough heroine, Diane, for the novel.
ReplyDeletemittens0831 at aol dot com
Fact: she was born in 1955
ReplyDeleteJohn Valentine
Dunedin
It's a crime fiction debut.
ReplyDeleteOwen Thompson
Manurewa
Auckland 1702
Pierre Malan
ReplyDeleteShe would take her laptop back to bed and create this little cocoon of a world that was separate from the rest of my world. (when writing)
Name:Leah Holmes
ReplyDeleteFact: It's her first adult novel