To celebrate the Jan. 21 release of the new epic fantasy novel The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick (a joint pseudonym for BCS authros Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms) and the M.A. Carrick short story “As Tight as Any Knot” in BCS #321, BCS is giving away two copies of The Mask of Mirrors.
The Mask of Mirrors and “As Tight as Any Knot” feature clever thieves running deft schemes to secure themselves and their futures, with a similar flair as Brennan’s caper tale “The Şiret Mask” in BCS #238 and podcast BCS 206 and in a world as gritty as Helms’s “A Screech of Gulls” in BCS #168 and podcast BCS 145.
One giveaway for The Mask of Mirrors will take place on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine, Thurs. Jan. 7. (The other is here on the BCS website in a post.)
The Twitter giveaway for the signed copy of The Mask of Mirrors will take place Thursday Jan. 7 on the BCS Twitter feed @BCSmagazine. It will run from 2 PM EST until 5 PM EST.
To enter, all you need to do is tweet what your favorite BCS story that features a thief or rogue or caper is. However you choose to define it. By any author, in any issue of BCS. (Full Rules are here, at the end of this post.)
To get you started, here are some thief or rogue or caper tales from past issues of BCS:
“Eyetooth” by Chris Willrich, BCS #314
“The Şiret Mask” by Marie Brennan, BCS #238 and podcast BCS 206
“Ill-Met at Midnight” by David Tallerman, BCS #128 and podcast BCS 110
“The Mermaid Caper” by Rich Larson, BCS #119
“Dragon’s-Eyes” by Margaret Ronald, BCS #9 and podcast BCS 007
“The Streetking” by Peter Hickman, BCS #160 and podcast BCS 139
“The Crimson Kestrel” by Leslianne Wilder, BCS #114
“Thieves of Silence” by Holly Phillips, BCS #21
“The God Thieves” by Derek Künsken, BCS #84
“The Jewels of Montforte” by Adam Corbin Fusco, BCS #44
“Pawn’s Gambit” by Adam Heine, BCS #41 and podcast BCS 037
“The Tinyman and Caroline” by Sarah L. Edwards, BCS #17, M
“Hence the King from Kagehana” by Michael Anthony Ashley, BCS #81
“Between Shifting Skin and Certainty” by Justin Howe, BCS #26
“The Sword of Loving Kindness” by Chris Willrich, BCS #1
Good luck!
Full rules for the M.A. Carrick The Mask of Mirrors Twitter giveaway:
You must tweet your comment on Twitter. Comments left anywhere else will not enter you in the giveaway.
You must include “@BCSmagazine” in your tweet. (This is so we can find it.)
Your tweet must mention the title of a work of short fiction that appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. Tweets that do not mention the title of a work of short fiction that appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine will not enter you in the giveaway.
You must tweet your tweet between 2PM Eastern Standard Time and 5PM Eastern Standard Time on Thurs. Jan. 7, 2021. Any tweets posted before or after that will not be eligible.
All entries will be entered in a random drawing to win the book.
Each person will be entered only once in the random drawing (even if you post more than one eligible tweet).
You must tweet your tweet from a valid Twitter account (otherwise we won’t be able to contact you if you win).
BCS will conduct the random drawing from all eligible entries. The winner will receive either a paper copy or digital ebook copy of The Mask of Mirrors, at the sole choice of BCS. Orbit Books will send the book to the winner.
BCS is not responsible for tweets that get lost or don’t show up under @BCSmagazine, or email addresses that get garbled or otherwise rendered unusable for contacting an entrant.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or Twitter or anyone else. Participants are providing information to BCS and Firkin Press and not to Facebook or Twitter or anyone else.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in this post or via our Contact page. Good luck!