Presenting... The Fun & Games Giveaway!

Whenever you pre-order a book, you're giving the author a gift.

Seriously. Publishers and booksellers pay attention to pre-orders, big-time. (Authors, too. Show me a writer who doesn't track his Amazon sales rank like a wolf tracks wounded prey and I'll show you a writer who's unconscious and hooked up to life support.) If pre-orders are strong, everybody does a little happy dance.

So if you're pre-ordering my next novel, Fun & Games, you're giving me a gift. I'd like to give you a gift in return.

This summer I'm going to be traveling cross-country for the official "Fun & Games Across America Tour" (more on that soon). If you pre-order F&G at any time, right up until pub date (June 20th), I'll send you a personalized postcard from a random stop on my trip. Rest assured that I will choose the most tasteless and kitschy postcards possible from the creepiest, rundown roadside pit stops. (You're welcome!)

But that's not all. Five lucky winners will be plucked from the pre-order posse to receive one of these insanely fabulous prizes...

*A set of signed copies of my five previous novels (Secret Dead Men, The Wheelman, The Blonde, Severance Package, Expiration Date), personalized to your liking;

*A pulp fiction grab bag, straight from own library of vintage paperbacks (x2);

* A copy of Rockstar's smash hit video game, L.A. Noire (X-Box version);

* Or, finally, the GRAND PRIZE: the right to name a minor character in the third Charlie Hardie novel, Point & Shoot, which will be published next March. (And damn you if you choose the name "Bucky McFartLips.")

Sound good? Go ahead and pre-order from anywhere (indie stores, online booksellers, brick and mortar chains) and then fill out the handy form below. I'll take it from there. If you don't have a confirmation number, just leave that blank and email me some kind of proof at duane DOT swier AT verizon DOT net.

The five prizes are only valid for U.S. and Canadian readers only, unfortunately... but I'll send a postcard anywhere in the world. So really, everybody wins!