So first of all, I get home and see that I won the contest for Carl’s Once Upon a Time Challenge and will be the recipient of an Endicott Studio Tshirt and a signed Print from Terri Windling. How frickin cool! I chose Tree Woman and Child. I love that print. It’s beautiful. Congrats to Quixotical and Marina as well, two more winners! By the way…Endicott Studio is a wonderful thing and they donate to a lot of children’s charities and need money to continue to support themselves. I highly recommend that if you have a little extra, contribute to them. In return for your contributions you can get beautiful Terri Windling prints and Endicott Studio tshirts that are really cool!

Then, I got my grab bag from Subterranean Press. I ordered one of these $99 grab bags and was hoping that I wasn’t getting ripped off. I definitely didn’t get ripped off. 9 beautiful, mostly signed and numbered editions came very quickly worth over $450 dollars. Wow. Here’s what I got:

Charles Stross’ Missile Gap (Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
David J. Schow’s Havoc Swims Jaded (Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (This one’s gorgeous!)
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon by Simon (Signed, Limited, Numbered)
Kealan Patrick Burke’s Currency of Souls (Signed, Hardcover, Numbered)
Tim Powers’ A Soul in a Bottle (Signed, Limited, Numbered)
James P. Blaylock’s 13 Phantasms (Chapbook)
Peter Crowther’s The Spaces Between The Lines (Deluxe, Numbered, Hardcover)
Terry Lamsley’s Made Ready & Cupboard Love (Signed, Limited, Numbered)

Ready for this one……I nearly lost my breath when I saw it:

Mirromask by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean (Signed, Limited, Numbered, and BEAUTIFUL)

I know this book alone costs $125 because I thought of buying it (but couldn’t bring myself to since I already have the regular copy). I was blown away that they put this in a grab bag. All of the books sound great.

And finally, I also got an Email from booksprice.com offering me a free book. I chose Storm Front by Jim Butcher (The first in the Dresden series). They’re a really great site! I checked them out. You type in the book, cd, game or dvd that you’re looking for and they show you a list of different retailers and who has what for the best price. Great tool for us book buying addicts!

What a great treat of a day after complaining about losing all of my books yesterday! Gotta love that positive karma