Saturday, October 11, 2008
Wicked Cool Winner!!!
Well, finally, I got all the little duckies in a row and picked a winner for my Wicked Cool contest.
Melissa Horn you are my wickedly cool winner. I've sent you an email, but if you see this instead, please email me your mailing address so I can get all your prizes off to you!
Labels: contest, Fantastic Good Luck, Winner
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
LOL Cat Contest Winner!
Margaret is the winner! (Selected by my sister), Margaret send me your contact information so I can get your prize winging its way to you!
If I don't hear from you by October 8th, I'll have to select an alternate winner and that would be so sad.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Cute or What? LOL Cat Contest!!
Today has been a strange day. My son is ill so I kept him home from his soccer game. I haven't had a free, quiet Saturday in forever. I felt like it was a weekday and I was home from work. I came out into the kitchen this morning to see this:
There's a LOL cat in there somewhere. So what the heck. Let's have a contest. I have this awesome glass ring and a glass pendant thingee that I bought at Art in the Park. Best LOL title entry gets them, k? Put yours in the comments to this post. I'll select a winner, say, September 30. Your odds of winning are good, there are only 6 of you regularly reading this blog. What is this cat thinking?
Speaking of contests, I have to wait on the Wicked Cool contest entries from Fresh Fiction before I can announce the winner and I think it takes them a month. Sorry for the delay. I will be announcing a winner as soon as I have those and have them processed, I promise.
Labels: contest, Helping Cat, writing
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
At The Cafe
Visit my blog post over at
Grand Central Cafe and find out how you could win a signed copy of
My Wicked Enemy.
Labels: Blogging, contest, shamless promotion
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Reminder! Contest!!!
Today, August 31, is the last day to enter my
Wicked Cool contest.I've added more prizes, like a book about monsters, some cool magnets, a graphic novel and other wicked cool stuff. All you have to do is sign up for my newsletter and you're in the running.
I'll be choosing a winner tomorrow...
Labels: contest, My Wicked Enemy
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
More catching up
Let me first say in a thoroughly heartfelt manner
Thank God it's the weekend. Can I have a big old
Weekends Rock! to that?
Weekends Rock!
I've started on the next historical. At the moment I'm calling it
The List but that is admittedly kind of lame. It's all I've got so far.
Been reading:
Finished
Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It was darn good. Now I'm reading
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist which is really quite good so far. The narrative voice is odd and very intimate. Kind of hard to describe. The narrator is having a conversation with another person, but you only get the narrator's words, interpretation and interpolation of the conversation. The other person is a total black box so far. It totally works even when, perhaps especially when, it slips into present tense which as some of you may recall is like fingers down a chalkboard for me. Very deft.
Taking the son to see the Narnia movie today. With luck he'll wake up before noon.
I'm going to the bookstore to get more
Sherman Alexie and maybe pick up another prize or two for the
Wicked Cool Contest which you should enter.
Also, just as a side note, if you email me with a question or request for a bookmark or both, make sure you provide a valid email address and that you've added me to your list of approved email senders. Because I absolutely reply to all my emails which you will not believe if you send me a bad email and it bounces. I always feel bad when that happens, and it does. Also, I can't mail you a bookmark without a complete address. Despite the astounding powers of my mind, I can't quess your city state or name, which helps when addressing an envelope. And, if you're requesting from outside the US it helps if the address is in English. Usually I can figure out that
Italia is Italy, but that doesn't mean the USPS will be as clever.
Okay, off to work.
Labels: contest, reading, The List
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Can I just Scream now?
I recently suddenly remembered I'd agreed to judge a contest and yeah, the entries were due back soon. So I spent Fri-through now doing that. I think I must get a pretty good taste of what it's like to read slush, except I have to keep reading instead of stopping when it's plain there's no hope. When I'm judging, I am as nice and constructive as possible, but when I'm done, it's like the niceness balloon just flat out pops. I'm venting here.
It's true you can tell if something's going to work from sentence 1. Editors and agents are completely justified in stopping after that. 98% of the time you can tell on page one.
This most recent batch had much of the same issues in common. I like to think that most of us go through life understanding there are rules. For example, the law has rules and even if we don't know specifically what they are, we mostly know there are rules. The police, airlines businesses etc have their own policies and procedures which they must follow. So why, for the love of Dog, do writers think they can make up their own policies or ignore the ones normal people must know exist? Suppose that you're a screener for the TSA. (that wasn't in any of the entires) Don't you suppose that TSA screeners get trained in a policy and procedure for dealing with suspicious people? So why on earth would you have a TSA screener ON THE JOB call some number they saw on a flyer in order to report a weirdo? I mean, why would a normal person think for even a moment that such an action is even remotely plausible? Why would you decide to base a novel on that premise? You don't get to make up your own rules for say, Family Law. I mean you just can't. Can. Not. Well I guess you can, but you won't get your novel published.
Suppose you have a character located in, say, the middle of a room, and another in the doorway and a third halfway between those two. If the person in the middle of the room can hear normal conversation taking place in the doorway, then logic tells you that they can also hear the normal conversation of the person between them and the doorway. That simply must be true. You cannot suspend the laws of physics for the convenience of your story. Can't!
Argh!Anyway, now I have to go shopping and then try to catch up with Xia. I'm behind now.
Labels: contest, writing, Xia
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Time's A Wasting!
The
Shards of Crimson release date is fast approaching. If you haven't entered the contest to win ALL the stuff you see in this picture, you're running out of time.
So what is this cool stuff? No insulting the photographer please. I admit my shortcomings. The picture on my website is bigger in case you want to go there to see more not to mention
enter right away! including, cool, awesome tattoos (the two flowery looking things on the white cards, those are the tattoos) The mug, the stakes. Gosh, my photo doesn't do the prizes justice at all.
So, as I say to my son, stop dawdling! Enter to Win!
Labels: contest, free stuff, shameless promotion
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