With excitement building about what promises to be another stellar fall for CanLit, we're launching a contest today that will run till August 31, 2014, and which will see winners receive a bounty of the year's best new fiction.

All you need to do is:

• Tweet us a pic of you in the company of your Canadian-authored summer read, and tag it with #49thSummer;

OR (for those who are camera-shy)

• Tweet us a pic of that same read in a heavenly summer setting (looking glorious on a patio table? nestled in white sand? sidling up to a chilled glass of wine?), tagged again with #49thSummer.

This will automatically enter you into our draw to win five books from our 2014 Fall Fiction Preview. The five books will be the winners' choice.

There will be three winners, and we'll announce them in the first week of September.

Snap away!