Barnes & Noble has price-matched the Amazon offer for Sacred Games. So if you're a Nook reader then don't feel left out!
You can get Sacred Games for $1.99 here.
You can get Sacred Games for $1.99 here.
Sacred Games for $1.99 on Kindle
Sacred Games is a kindle monthly deal this month. That means if you're a kindle reader then you can buy it for the grand total of $1.99.
If political shenanigans and a sports murder at the ancient Olympics are your thing then this is the book for you.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
If political shenanigans and a sports murder at the ancient Olympics are your thing then this is the book for you.
"Corby integrates the political intrigue of the day with fair-play plotting and welcome doses of humor. Fans of Steven Saylor's Gordianus novels will be enthralled."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Sacred Games at Abbey's Bookshop
This is the sign outside Abbey's Bookshop today.
Abbey's is the über-wonderful bookstore, opposite the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. Exit the QVB on the non-George Street side, cross the road, and there you are.
Giveaways of The Ionia Sanction and Sacred Games
So here's the other reason I mentioned BookLikes the other day.
If you wander over to their Giveaway Page, you will find 10 hardback copies of Ionia Sanction and 10 hardback copies of Sacred Games to be given away to the US and Canada, and 20 ebooks of Sacred Games for the entire world.
If anyone would care for a copy, this is your chance! (You need to be a BookLikes member, needless to say.)
If you wander over to their Giveaway Page, you will find 10 hardback copies of Ionia Sanction and 10 hardback copies of Sacred Games to be given away to the US and Canada, and 20 ebooks of Sacred Games for the entire world.
If anyone would care for a copy, this is your chance! (You need to be a BookLikes member, needless to say.)
Casting Sacred Games
Third in Marshal's book blogs is My Book, The Movie, in which authors have a go at casting actors for their characters (without the inconvenience of needing the actors to agree...).
It's surprising how difficult this can be! Each time I have a go at it, I come up with a different answer. It's not so much that the characters have changed, but that perception of the actors changes over even a few years. Though looking back on it, I find I've cast Russell Crowe for Pythax in The Pericles Commission, and then used him for King Pleistarchus in Sacred Games.
For Diotima I had Rachel Weisz in The Pericles Commission, my wife Helen as Diotima in The Ionia Sanction, and now with Sacred Games I think I might have hit on the perfect Diotima. I'm rather pleased with my idea for Nico too.
It's surprising how difficult this can be! Each time I have a go at it, I come up with a different answer. It's not so much that the characters have changed, but that perception of the actors changes over even a few years. Though looking back on it, I find I've cast Russell Crowe for Pythax in The Pericles Commission, and then used him for King Pleistarchus in Sacred Games.
For Diotima I had Rachel Weisz in The Pericles Commission, my wife Helen as Diotima in The Ionia Sanction, and now with Sacred Games I think I might have hit on the perfect Diotima. I'm rather pleased with my idea for Nico too.