{"id":3796,"date":"2025-06-10T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:53:59","slug":"corvus-author-copies-future-giveaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"CORVUS author copies & future giveaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look what made it in yesterday\u2014my author copies of CORVUS, second installment in the Frontlines: Evolution series, out on August 19th.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll probably do the traditional giveaway again, but I think that a few changes are necessary. During the last giveaway, I had several of the international deliveries returned to me, incloduing one where the customs service of the reader\u2019s home country levied an import tax and the reader was unwilling to cover it. For every refused delivery or wrong address return, I get to eat the cost of shipping (which is over $20 for a paperback to most international locations), and the returned book is personalized and can’t be sold or given to anyone else. Add to that the current tariff situation, and sending books internationally is too unpredictable and expensive for me right now. I already cover the shipping, and I generally take a full day to personalize the books, package them, and haul them to the post office. Having to figure out customs duties or tariffs and then potentially eating them myself is just not something I want to add on top of everything else.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a non-US-based reader, I know that this may be disappointing, but I am not a millionaire and I don\u2019t have support staff. Until the tariff and international shipping situation changes, I\u2019m going to have to curtail the scope of the giveaways and limit them to the U.S. and Canada. Sorry about that, and I hope things will change before the next book release so I can include international readers again without rolling the dice on setting $40 on fire with every padded envelope I send out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look what made it in yesterday\u2014my author copies of CORVUS, second installment in the Frontlines: Evolution series, out on August 19th. I\u2019ll probably do the traditional giveaway again, but I think that a few changes are necessary. During the last giveaway, I had several of the international deliveries returned to me, incloduing one where the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-contests-and-giveaways"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6e7Ft-Ze","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markokloos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}