When I said Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press was phenomenal, it was not an understatement. He has also has graciously offered five copies of Kage Baker’s The Women of Nell Gwynne’s to Tor.com readers for our Steampunk Month giveaways! This book is sold out from Sub Press, so the winners of this particular title are even more lucky than your average randomly selected winner. Here’s the summary:
Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne’s. Nell Gwynne’s is far more than simply the finest and most exclusive brothel in Whitehall; it is in fact the sister organization to the Gentlemen’s Speculative Society, that 19th-century predecessor to a certain Company…and when a member of the Society goes missing on a peculiar assignment, it’s up to Lady Beatrice and her sister harlots to investigate.
Not sufficiently persuaded? Read the excerpt on Sub Press. Not enough? Read Kage Baker’s exceptional Ancient Rockets series here on Tor.com for a sample of her many talents. Still not intrigued? You’re broken; there really is no other explanation.
The Rules: To get this giveaway, all you need to do is comment (once—duplicates won’t count) on this post. The winners will be selected at random. You have until noon EST on Monday, October 26th, to comment here. Please check your e-mail on this day—you have 24 hours to respond before I select a new winner.
Torie Atkinson is dying to read this book. Can you tell?
I am leaving a comment.
Please!!
Sounds really great.
I’ve read a few of Subterannean’s latest novella releases (K.J. Parker and Connie Willis’ contributions) and I’ve been highly impressed by the quality of both form and content.
:) Great give-away!
That book looks amazing.
ohhh, shiny.
this is absolutely me leaving a comment. :)
Yeppers. That would be neat!
Sign me up! SubPress is awesome!
Yay, I love Kage’s writing…
Looks interesting!
oooooh this is so amazing !!!!
I’ve been wanting to read this!
Mmmm… purple.
looks really good..
sounds very interesting.
ping
Cool Beans
This sounds spectacular.
I would like.
Sounds wonderful. I’d love to win it.
I’ve been wanting this!
I’m in.
Far be it from me to pass up a shot at a Baker book I haven’t read.
Yes please!
Sounds stunning.
I have actually been looking forward to reading this.
Right on.
Sounds good
commenting
i love kage baker
One comment, as required. Please send one book.
oo, oo, count me in!
A cover to kill for. One can only hope the contents match.
Sounds pretty good.
Sounds great…
I’ve read this from the library, and would love to have my own copy!
Very much so, please.
Looking forward to reading this book. :)
This sounds like an intriguing premise. I look forward to reading it.
Ooo.. Steampunk! Yes please!
Looks good.
I could certainly use something new to read. Thank you!
I hope I win!!
oh pick me pick me pick me I love love love Kage Baker’s books!
This is on my wish list – would love a chance at a copy!
Very cool. Looks like a great read.
I’m a big fan of Ms. Baker… and this is one of the few books by her I don’t own yet! Count me in.
not very familiar with her writing. This looks like a good place to start
fun!
Another book that sounds like fun!
Count me in. I want to read this and can’t afford it.
Kage Baker is a great writer.
Add me to the list, please.
Torie is not alone in wanting to read this book!
This book looks excellent. I’ve really enjoyed Kage’s other work!
Commenting.
Looks interesting
Since my library unaccountable does not like Kage Baker, I would love to win this!
Phwoar! Yes please!
Me. Me. ME! please.
It’s such a pretty book.
I neeeeed this book.
I’d love to win this!
Count me in!
Kage Baker is a brilliant author with an exceptional penchant for easily digestible prose. Her book “The Garden of Iden” is particularly lush with description of setting and plot whilst being a breeze to read. I can’t wait to breathe-in “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s”!!!
Thanks for another great contest!
I am hoping to win a copy.
Tag.
Looks cool
Love Kage Baker !
Here is my comment i have read Kage Baker before and i really liked her book
WANT!!!!111!!1!111!
Comment left!
Please pick me! Please, please, please! I love Kage Baker’s books!
Thanks so much! The library doesn’t have this one.
I’ve found Kage Baker’s books to be quite interesting and would enjoy reading this one!
Awesome count me in please.
Kage Baker’s been on my “to read” list for years and this one looks like a phenomenal entry to the work.
This sounds intriguing. Consider this contest ENTERED!
Sounds very interesting.
Here’s hoping!
Spies, brothels and Whitehall?! Of course I want to read this!
i’ll take it
This sounds fabulous!
I am totally leaving a comment right now!
I’ve been a fan of Kage’s books for years, and I’d love to win this one.
Looks like a good story!
Awesome!
Comment, comment, comment! :)
A Kage Baker book giveaway? Wonderful!
please
Kage Baker, amazing.
pleaseprettyplease with corsets on top?
I’d love to read that!
I adore Kage Baker. Count me in!
It would be neat to be mailed a Kage Baker book…
Looks very interesting.
woohoo!
I’m all in favor of harlots!
books!
Enter me please!! looks like a good book~!
Looks good, sounds better, want!
Yay!
I want to read it too!
This sounds interesting, (make The Gathering Storm materialize into my hands… now!)
Oh cool, I really like the sound of this book. Maybe I’ll get lucky on this one.
Leigh
A new author to look out 4!
BOOK!!!!
Fantastic! I look forward to the read. :)
Over a hundred comments already?
Here’s mine.
Bill is Awesome.
That is all.
Totally yes!
For the win!
I’m dying to read this book too.
Coolness.
Neat
I can’t wait to read it.
looks like an interesting read.
Definitely one to add to the bookshelf.
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YES, PLEASE.
Please?
I’d read this.
Sounds like this novel is in good… company.
Want very much.
Oh! I want it. Thanks for the chance.
Cool…Sounds intriguing
I’d love a copy.
That book looks really interesting.
Commented.
Big Money, big money, no whammies!!
sounds right up my dark, foggy and zombie-riddled alley
sounds like a good read!
sub-t is the bestest
gimee please!?
new Baker? me wants. badly.
I do like free books.
Oooh, harlots.
Cover looks nice
I really need to read more Kage Baker.
more books! more books!
yes please!
Free books!
Yes please, count me in!
I try to buy everything company when I come across it. I missed this one!
yes please!
Sisters are doing it for themselves…and others. I’d like to know!
Me please!
I’m intrigued.
I want this one :)
It’s a hook
No it’s a rook
No it’s a puck
Nooooooooooooooo,
really it’s a book
I’m at Brazil, can I enter to win? ;)
Oh wow that book sounds fabulous! I absolutely have to try for it.
London is my favorite city and I like the Victorian Era.
And the story is mouth-watering.
Three reason why I want this book.
If Torie says a book is worth dying for then as hell it’s sure its worth reading :) Sign me up Torie :)
SOLD!!
Sounds fantastic!
How can I post if my hands are shaking with greed? …Oh, seems like I do manage somehow.
Yesyesyesyes.
Prerequisite for victory is participation
I want to win something! (that in my best spoiled kid voice)
Oh my! I REALLY need these for my winter reading library!!!!!!
Looks very cool. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love a copy.
Baker’s “The Empress of Mars” also has a nice stempunky feel to it (and I think some obscure publisher, Tah, Tur, something like that has the novel version). It also is a nice 1970’s-Mars feel to it, when we started getting really good looks thanks to Mariner and Viking and there was a bit of a Mars renaissance going on in SF.
yet another comment :)
I didn’t win the ring (sigh). This would be very nice consolation prize. Well, OK, I admit that for me this would be even better than the ring!
Wants so very VERY much.
I’d love to read this book.
Looks great.
interesting….
Definitely sounds interesting, I haven’t read anything quite like it. Consider me in!
This is the one I am destined to win.
Sounds like a good read.
Ooh, sounds fascinating!
My ex got me hooked on Kage Baker’s “Company” books. Never knew she did steampunk too! Would love to read this!
looks good to me!
Yet another adventure I’m willing to undertake… I’d love to have a copy.
Here I am!
Love the cover – looks fascinating!
One day I will lucky …
Sounds very interesting.
Ok i will read it if i win.
Oh yes, please!
Sounds very cool…I’m leaving my comment here
Sounds like a good book!
I’m persuaded!
Kage Baker wrtiting about Victorian/Steampunk era Hooker spys? Consider me sold!
Commenting.
Been reading a lot of Victorian-set murder mysteries lately. This sounds right up my alley. The topic and this cover is what caught my eye on facebook.
I am sufficiently persuaded… I would like a copy please.
pretty please,with sugar on top.
would love a copy
Please and thank you
Nell Gwynne was the mistress of Charles II as well as a famous prostitute and actress of the time…
Fabulous!
me me
Sounds interesting. Kage Baker is on my to-be-read list.
Let’s give it a try
Me too!!! I want a book!
I’ll gladly take one.
Does anyone ever win these?
@dulac3: I’m sure someone does, it’s just that so many people enter these contests that it’s relatively unlikely to be you or me who wins.
I still would like one.
Alea jacta est :)
Sounds good, sign me up.
Having read all her other Company books, and enjoyed them all, it would be real nice to have a shiny new one.
Subterranean Press rocks!
Please pick me! This is the only Kage Baker book I don’t have and you’re my favorite [living] author.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Sounds like an interesting book. Would love to read it! Too bad I can’t add it to my TBR pile as it is out of print.
Missed my chance this summer. Let’s see if there’s any chance at redemption.
I’d love to win this title!
If at first you don’t win, enter, enter again…
count me in!
This looks really good
Sweet googly moogly I am trying hard not to squee right now.
Sounds fabulous!
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Interesting
Would love to add this to my collection.
Kage Baker is an excellent writer…
Sounds like a great read! Sort of the Court of the Air style…
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Ready, willing & literate — count me in!
Excellent! I definitely want to read this!
Teacher! Teacher! Pick me!
Pick me!
Yes please!
Pip-pip! :)
Ok, there are three reasons this is really cool. One, because I get to enter for a chance to win a great book. Two, I now have another new title to add to my ‘to read’ list. And the third is because I have no photographic or costumery talent and can’t enter the other contest posted today.
Wheeee!
I would like to read this, too :)
No comment.
Oooh! Sign me up. :)
Subterranean Press is something, isn’t it? Glad to see them getting attention.
Want!
A new genre for me. Should be a great read.
Want !!!!
Looks good!
And I comment once again!
You’re right. Sounds like a must read!
Yay
Joining the comment flood once again.
Just read this novella. It rather rocked :)
Chances down to 48 : 1. >;-)
love to win this
looks good
Just wanted to let you know, I’m not broken… well, maybe some things about me ARE broken… but my intrigue and curiosity are still intact.
Oh yeah… and I need more books too…
Really looks like a good book.
sounds like a great read thanks
Okay, this is truly irresistable. I love the Company novels.
i am a reader mverno@roadrunner.com
~drops her pebble~
been trying to get a copy of this book for ages …..
Oooh, this sounds really good!
Sounds very interesting!
Would love to win this one!
I am a recent convert to steampunk. Would love to try more.
I have never won anything in my life, so i hope i win this!!! thanks for the chance!!!
Looks so GOOD!
* fingers crossed!
Kage Baker is great. I’d love to win a copy of this book.
Do want. I love Kage Baker’s work!
I’ve enjoyed most of Kage Baker’s Company novels, and the little of her non-Company short fiction I’ve read; looking forward to reading this one.
Random post for the win
i totally want to read this one!
Having not read Kage Baker’s writing, I am interested in doing so.
Commenting!
I’m in!
I would love to read this!
Kage Baker? Oh yes, please!
Ooooh, secret societies and women of dubious virtue? I need to read this!
The excerpt was fantastic.
Not heard of this book, but it definitely sounds worth a look…
Sounds like a great book!
My kind of reading. jelly15301@gmail.com
I will be excited to read this book.
The plot sounds interesting; thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Looks interesting … whether I win one or not!
I really really want to read this book too.
Uumm! Steampunky yumminess.
OOooooo shiny
Would love to add this to my collection.
I would love to get this book.
This sounds very interesting. Sign me up and please… pick me!
sure!
Sounds interesting!
Consider this a comment.
You can’t win if you don’t enter and the odds are at least better then the lottery. Plus I need to read more steampunk!
A new book by Kage – excellent!
In case this is open to people outside the US, I’m entering, too.
I would love to win this, pick me!
Sounds great. I’d love to win.
bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com
Ooooh, I would love to win this book!
How could I not comment? Especially since the cut-off-date is my birthday. :)
I read the excerpt, and while several parts of it appeal to my feminist sensibilities, I’m a bit iffy on the writing style. I got the impression that the author was trying to rush through the introduction to get to the juicy bits in the middle, of which the preview contained none. The excerpt could’ve been an entire novel itself. Still, I can’t help being curious what the bulk of the story reads like, and I’d love to get my hands on a copy of this book.
Would love to read this.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com
I would love to read this book;)
If the depth of characters can keep to reality, without too much teenage testosterone fantasy, then this may be a hit.
Oh yeah.
Want it badly!
Nice Giveaway
Ooh! Shiny!
It’s been ages since I visited here, but a friend told me of steampunk month and so I’m back, rediscovering the site. It looks great so far. So much to read and catch up on, I’m sure I won’t make it, but I’ll love trying.
Would love to read. Pick me.
It doesn’t sound realistic. Who would believe a Courtesan to be a Mata-Hari? ;)
Winning would be nice.
Sounds like a great read, and I had not heard of it before. I’d love to read it!
sounds good
Great read, great contest!
The book sounds very intriguing … if I don’t get it (and it’s quite likely I won’t), I’ll have to put it on my eventual library list.
This book sounds really interesting. I’ve been enjoying steampunk month!
More SubPress books! And one by an author I’ve recently discovered at that. I’d recommend pretty much anything by Kage Barker, I’ve liked all that I’ve read so far.
Looks awesome!
Sounds like a great read, thanks for hosting!
I’d love to get a copy – Baker’s books are fascinating.
Thanks for the chance!
I would love to read this book. Hope I win.
I wanted to purchase this book, but missed out.
I’d love to read this! Thanks for the chance!
yes plz!
Please enter me into into the contest. Thanks!
Kage! Kage! Kage! Come back, Kage!
Oh, yes, I *do* so want that book.
Ooo :)
This sounds interesting.
Thank you for the AWESOME GIVEAWAY.. Please count me in :)
Yes, definitely on the ‘to read’ list.
indeed
Steampunk book= Yes Please
awesome giveaway, thanks!
I would love to win. Looks like a good book.
I would love to read this, thanks for the chance!
This looks Great!!
Nifty fancy :)
Yes please!