ASHES OF THE TYRANT Giveaway!

 THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED! Thank you for participating! Winners will be announced shortly!

 

Okay readers: It’s 39 days until Ashes of the Tyrant can land in your hot little hands. That means….giveaway time!

Is she standing on a pyramid? Yes she is.

Is she standing on a pyramid? Yes she is.

What’s it about?
After the events of Fire in the Blood, Farideh, Mehen, Havilar and Brin head to Djerad Thymar with Kepeshkmolik Dumuzi at the behest of Mehen’s aunt, the Verthisathurgiesh matriarch, Anala. But what they think will be a quick stopover turns into something far more dangerous when Anala’s son turns up dead in the catacombs along with a dozen other young dragonborn.

Meanwhile Dahl Peredur is in Harrowdale, trying to find a way out of his deal with Lorcan, when a certain Zhentarim agent tracks him down, looking for lost information about an ancient site, The Master’s Library. As much as he wants to keep his Harper life separate from his family, a lost Zhentarim outpost and a family secret mean he won’t get that chance.

That’s…not a bad summary!
I know, right? I’ve been practicing since last year.

I would read that.
You can start with this sample chapter if you like.

I still have to wait 39 days for the book though. Why are you even bringing this up??I told you:  it’s giveaway time! You know what to do!

1   Make a comment on this post. You are going to have to leave an email address to do this, but that’s good, because if you win, I will have to have a way to contact you! It must be on this post at slushlush.com, or I won’t count it.

2  In your comment, tell me your favorite nonhuman fantasy race/species. Since Ashes of the Tyrant is where the dragonborn shine, let’s celebrate those peoples who aren’t just like us. They MUST be fictional, but you can draw from books, movies, comics, or TV, and they need to be nonhuman. There are lots of cool human cultures in lots of books, but that’s not this contest. Feel free to include links—we all love being introduced to new stories.

3  From the pool of comments, I will randomly select a winner who will get a signed copy of Ashes of the Tyrant Because at least 100 people have entered, I will give one winner signed copies of the entire Brimstone Angels Saga, and three winners copies of Ashes of the Tyrant!

If you’ve followed along with these giveaways before, you know that’s not all.

  • If we get to 300, I’ll add in something special:
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    That’s right! I made two! The scourge pendant auction went so well, I thought I’d offer up another. One winner gets the scourge pendant replica and a signed copy of Ashes of the Tyrant, two people get full series, and three people get signed copies of Ashes of the Tyrant.

  • One more level: You guys get this up to 500 entries and I’ll do all of the above, plus the annotated Ashes of the Tyrant. AND I’ll remember to take pictures of some pages. I loved doing this for Fire in the Blood, but I definitely underestimated how much time it took. Show me you really want it, and I’ll make time to do it again.

The contest runs through December 22. I will draw names and announce winners as soon as I can after that. You all should be aware I’m expecting a baby and due December 15th, so there’s a chance you might have to be a little patient as I might literally be in labor when the contest ends.  Only one entry per person, but please pressgang your friends. May the odds be ever in your favor, etc.,etc.

I’m panicking! I literally can only think of elves! Everyone will laugh at me!
Elves count! If you love ’em, you love em.

I already have copies of those books.
The nice thing about getting a signed copy of a book you already have is that it gives you a ready-made gift for someone else. Got a DM who’s gone above and beyond? Got a friend you know who would love some Realms novels but doesn’t know where to start? Got a Secret Santa coming up? Ta-da!

Get commenting! (And come back to check out other answers!)

Few additional questions:
If I buy a copy of the book through the esigning and I win, what happens?
You can choose to cancel your order, or have two books and be the coolest kid on the block.

If I won your last contest, am I ineligible?
Nope. Different book, different contest. The only thing that makes you ineligible to win is being me or a member of my immediate family. Because, come on. Especially, you, sister who is two books behind.

I am not from the US. Can I enter?
Yes! But be aware that I may need to choose a slower form of shipping to accommodate you in a way I can afford.

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186 Responses to ASHES OF THE TYRANT Giveaway!

  1. Isis says:

    Nav’i?
    Prismatic Dragon?
    stainglass golem?

  2. Jimjar says:

    Gorons. Chilled out attitude, all the best tunes, having a great time rolling around the place. And they eat rocks – quite literally hardcore.

  3. Matthew says:

    Mind Flayers… you never know what they’re up to.

  4. José says:

    Devas. Or maybe Tieflings. Love the diversity they add to the world among humans.

  5. Fabio says:

    For me it’s got to be Tieflings!
    How can you not root for someone with such a tortured background?

  6. Ryan Hayman says:

    Dwarves!

  7. Steven F. says:

    Tieflings hands down. The orphans of the multiverse have got to be one of the best races to RP. They have built-in chips on their shoulders and trouble finds them.

  8. Ashley says:

    I find the draenai from WoW really interesting (confession: I had to google how to spell draenai haha). Second place definitely goes to tieflings!

  9. Mark Trotman says:

    I love the Drow! Why?? Well just because they’re Bad Ass!!

  10. Anders Enghoej says:

    I’ve always liked the Draenei from Warcraft. When I saw the Tiefling section in the 5e player’s handbook, I was instantly hooked, and started reading Brimstone Angels as my way into the Forgotten Realms.

  11. Charles Blake says:

    Because of Fari and Havi, I now love Tieflings. Other non human races I enjoy are the Drow, Illithids, and Dwarves.

  12. Jeremy Freeman says:

    I love the diversity of elves in the Forgotten Realms setting with moon elves being at the top. I’m looking forward to the new book and congrats on your forthcoming baby as well. 🙂

  13. Lawrence Cohen says:

    Dear Ms. Evans,

    How the heck did you manage to get a publishing contract with Wizards of the Coast? I’ve been trying for years, and I understand they fired all of their editors and canceled all novels. I have 3 Dragonlance novels completed, and I’m working on a Forgotten Realms novel. If you have an agent, could you please give me his or her contact info? Thank you!

  14. Rayketh says:

    Dragons.
    Just, always been absolutely in love with dragons in all their varied shapes and forms. When they’re greedy, capricious, and villainous, or when they’re noble, valiant, and courageous. That said, I’m very excited to hear more about the dragonborn and how they relate to and differ from dragons. There can never be enough dragons in the world.

  15. Jon P says:

    Tieflings. I always liked the idea of some of them being influenced towards a chaotic or lawful alignment by their heritage. Which I think is what you did with one of the characters in “Fire in the Blood”.

  16. Raymond Franklin says:

    My first love of non-human races in fantasy is elves, but I am also fond of tieflings. Erin has really brought tieflings to life for me, and her FR novels of the Brimstone Angels have made it easier for me to run NPC tieflings in our D&D game! Thanks Erin!

  17. Micha says:

    My favorite fantasy race? Its hard to just pick one, though I tend to have a fondness for the ones constantly depicted as evil, but don’t need to be. Minotaurs, demon variations (including tieflings!), dark elves, even non-evil giants. That said, if I chose just one?

    Snake people. Call them what you want – yuan-ti, serpent men, naga, gorgons, medusa, lamia. They all encompass the same thing. Stories almost always make them evil for some reason, but they have some pretty awesome stories when not constantly portrayed as trying to destroy something. Even Medusa was a primordial goddess of healing and protection before the Greeks decided to demonize her. Her visage was used to ward off evil, not hurt heroes. Even when she was killed, it was while she was pregnant with Posideon’s child.

    The snake folk always get a raw deal when portrayed, but started off as a fascinating and wonderous group of legends. I love the stories of uncovering their true roots after being told for so long that they were evil.

  18. Austin M says:

    Draenei from World of Warcraft. They’ve been through a lot.

  19. Dare says:

    Its always been DragonBorn. I love how each game setting and author shed them in new lights and new worlds. As a PC, I feel they are varied enough to prevent similar characters. Never a dull moment when the dragonborn walk in!

  20. Jim Glass says:

    For me, I have been a fan of, and I know this choice has a lot of baggage attached to it, the drow. Since I first saw the entry in the Fiend Folio, I have been drawn to them and their Demon Queen Goddess. Drizzt was an icing on a cake that came years later. My newest favorite race, which really isn’t new, would be tieflings. Since their oigins As “human and…something else” in AD&D 2nd Edition to their newest incarnation in 5e, something about an outsider race, tormented and persecuted by their forbears.

  21. Redwolf says:

    Choose one? Argh!

    I suppose I’d have to go with demons. In D&D lexicon, also fiends, devils, daemons, baatezu, tana’ri, and yugoloths (depending on edition and such). The thought of beings so closely aligned with things like evil and chaos in a setting in which those concepts are not a matter of perspective, but primal, measurable forces has long fascinated me. They raise questions of whether they can fight such a nature. They raise questions of whether they are, in fact, necessary to to the setting in some fashion. Their mere existence makes a fantasy world a fantasy world rather than just historical.

    In turn, that makes tieflings, as hybrids of the fiendish and mortal, pretty interesting. That might be some of the original draw to the Brimstone Angels series, though I tend to think it’s the family and relationships between the characters that really hooked me.

  22. Brandon K says:

    Hi I loved reading all your books, I’m actually on my third reread of Brimstone Angels! Thanks for all your hard writing this series, I’ve enjoyed it a lot and now I can’t wait for Ashes of Tyrant to come out! Keep up the awesome work!

  23. John Dencoff says:

    My favorite nonhuman race in fantasy, it’s “high” or gold elves. I know, very basic and popular, but I’ve loved them since I first read Tolkien. Anyway, gotta also say I love your Brimstone series – great character-driven writing, very old school Realms but also very fresh! Can’t wait for Ashes!

  24. Torradin says:

    Honestly, it has been and probably always will be dragons. Because dragons.

  25. Randy Smith says:

    Gnomes, of course, they make great artificers and bards!

  26. Michael Fisher says:

    My favorite, when meaning popular, changes from time to time. Right now it may very well be the Tieflings, since my Wife just created a Tiefling Warlock.

    The one that has stated with me the longest and caused me the most wonder are the blue sphere martians from the short story “The Fire Balloons”.

  27. Elke W says:

    I very much enjoyed reading the “Toby Alone” books by Timothée De Fombelle. However, the little folk living in that tree as well as them living in the grass could be considered very much human indeed. So, if I have to choose a really not-at-all-human race/species, I have to say that I find the aboleths quite fascinating. But maybe that is because I really don’t know much about them and I’m left to wonder…

    I am looking forward to reading “Ashes of the Tyrant”. So far, I really enjoyed the development of the characters and the nice twists you readily employ to keep the story interesting. Kudos and thanks to the writer!

  28. Brittany Millard says:

    I like the Sylvari from GW2 but who doesn’t love hobbits?

  29. I love gnomes and Warforged. Brimstone angels convinced me to watch for more Dragonborn and Tiefling stories too. Eberron’s version of Goblinoids is a lot of fun too!

  30. Ashley Brandon says:

    My first love will always be Drow 😀 But I have quite the fondness for tieflings now, thanks to you Erin! I also love the Dunmer, from Elder Scrolls, those guys crack me up with their salty words. Thank you so much for giving us Havi and Fari, Erin. These books have gotten me through one of the roughest years of my life! <3

  31. Stephanie M. says:

    Tarutaru from Final Fantasy XI because they’re so tiny and chubby and cute and they all seem to have speech impediments.

  32. Jean-Francois Allard says:

    My favorite non-human race is DROW!!! Little was known of their culture until some books started coming out about them and I absolutely love them! But I must also nominate DWARFS. Something about them hearty people and the bond of community they have is exquisite.

  33. Mike Russo says:

    A few to name:

    The Presger from Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series.

    In Orson Scott Card’s Ender Saga, the Pequeninos, because they are also hilarious.

    Patrick Rothfuss’ Ca’thae in The Kingkiller Chronicles.

    I already prepurchased the audio book, but I’d like to give the whole series to my girlfriend, who is just getting her toes wet into fantasy, and has never opened a forgotten realms book, but she has agreed to do so, since I told her about your books and your characters. And maybe after that, we’ll spread them around her friends, so they can all see such vivid female personas. We’ll see!

  34. Mike Russo says:

    Oh I forgot to say, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! WHOOP WHOOP baby time!

  35. Ken Pheanis says:

    Duh tieflings! I’ve been playing a tiefling since 2003’s 3.5 edition of Dungeons and Dragons and expanded their mythology through my own character Sarlin. I believe that is one of the driving reasons I find the Brimstone Angels series so addictive. I also was thrilled to start a series from the characters beginning and witness their growth through their experiences and struggles. However I find your depiction of the hellish domains and the practices of the hierarchy quite phenomenal and disturbing. Especially the promotion or demotion of a hellish entity, quite chilling.

    Another series I feel deserves mention is Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series of books. I think Geralt and his fellow witchers fit the category of no longer being human but magically altered mutants. I suppose a lot of the characters in the book series can fit into the same category of other than human. Anyway I find the Witcher to be great reading that has a fantastic alternate view on some very common monsters and themes.

    Thanks for your outstanding work on the Brimstone Angels series and congratulations to the addition to your family.

  36. Jeremy Watson says:

    Air Genasi. I always picture them as this fly by the seat of their pants race. No real plan and a vague sense of the direction they should be going. Kinda of like Jack Sparrow and Doc Brown mixed into a whole race.

  37. Eric J. says:

    My favorite fantasy race would probably be the Maiar from Tolkien’s mythology. From their ranks came Melian, the infamous Sauron, Gandalf and the other Istari wizards, and the Balrogs.

    Thanks for the great books, and congratulations on the new addition to the family! (My wife is due this month as well.)

  38. Lukas says:

    The insidious and brilliant Drow are probably my favourite fantasy species, but I also love Tolkien’s magnificent Noldor in all their tragedy. It’s hard to decide.

  39. Scott says:

    Warforged hands down.

  40. Joe Crawford says:

    Does Owlbear count? If not, I’ll go with Drow.

  41. Charles a prater jr says:

    Love love love your books, thank you for being who you are.

  42. Matthew Gardner says:

    My favorite nonhuman race is Elf. This is not very original but in any game I play if there is an elf race I play it. I am always choosing elf or half-elf as my race in Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights 2.

    P.S. I am a huge fan of your writing and am excited for this new book 🙂

  43. Peter Smalley says:

    Half-anything is my favorite concept, but since I’m picking just one: half-elves.

    I am fascinated by bridges. Characters with one foot in two worlds are alternately pulled between them and able to unite them. This makes such characters among the most compelling and dynamic in all fiction. Who has never felt pulled in opposite directions? Who can’t say they’ve never really felt like they fit in? Half-bloods are instantly relatable because we know how they feel: constantly divided. But that is also a strength, and that makes them hopeful characters, as well as flawed.

    Best wishes for a fantastic book release, Erin, and congratulations on your new addition!

  44. Ronald Picone says:

    Satyrs!

  45. kyle says:

    The elves. All of them. Their diversity is only limited by your imagination.

  46. Todd Harris says:

    Drow!

  47. Jerry Hammers says:

    My favorite nonhuman race are Spriggans. They appear to be a humanoid about like a halfling. The unique feature of the Spriggan race is their ability to shape shift into the size of an ogre-humanoid at will.The last time I read a story about a spriggan, it was a guard for some forrest garrison and I don’t remember the book title. I like Spriggans the most, and also tieflings, drow elves and dwarves.

  48. Jon Leadbeater says:

    Dwarfs, hands down!

  49. Kris Lubbers says:

    Fey’ri from Forgotten Realms have always been my favorite race, shortly behind them are Tieflings. I have always loved a race mixed with a little demon or devil blood in them.

  50. Evan Pappan says:

    There’s so many to choose from it’s actually almost painful!

    I’d say my favorite really are tieflings, though. Not to be a suck up or anything. My first D&D character I made and am playing now is a tiefling bard, with a bit of a Robin Hood complex. Because of that, and to help with my immersion of the world prior to the game, my older brother (also the DM) shoved your books in my face! It worked though.

    I have a soft spot for a nigh-cultureless diasporic people with a chip on their shoulder.