Thats right. I have hardcover books! And they look pretty darn amazing. So what do you say we have a little contest? Here's how it's going to work . . .
The other day, I came across the illustration above while browsing The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things. Created at some point in the early 19th century, it's a map of a "Woman's Heart." Click the picture for a closer look and see if you agree--A Woman's Heart looks like an incredibly boring place to me.
So if you'd like the first signed hardcover copy of The Darkness Dwellers, (seriously--the very first), here's all you have to do:
Sketch a map of an IRREGULAR'S HEART. Then scan it or photograph it and send it to kikistrike@gmail.com before 6PM EST tomorrow (Sunday, January 13th).
This isn't a drawing contest, so don't worry if you're not the world's best artist. As usual, I'm looking for cleverness and humor more than anything else. Good luck!
18 comments:
I already have an ARC (no cool cover, though)
so I guess I'll have to sit this one out.
But, PLEASE do the How To Lead A Life of Crime on the blog. I will kill for that book.
Can I participate if I don't live i the US?
Liz: Where do you live?
Germany
It's tough, because it's sooo expensive to send books overseas!
ah, that's okay :)
The next Kiki contest will be for people in other countries! Maybe next week!
That's cool!
can u ship to canada?
Darn, I'm leaving for the class ski trip first thing in the morning tomorrow! I can't enter! Looks like I have to wait until the 22nd. sigh.
so only US citizens can submit an entry?
I will ship to the US and Canada for this contest. But I'll have a contest for countries outside North America soon!
I'm in sympathy with Kirsten's international postage plight. There was a disquieting incident a few years ago where I had to go to my local post office (where they STILL remember this!) to claim a bunch of manniquin heads with stamps plastered all over their foreheads, and addressed to me. I though that was bad, and then I learned these were POSTAGE DUE -- I had to pay ransom to the post office for inadequate postage noted in Singapore but to be collected from the recipient on delivery. The same correspondent had an unhappy, and apparently unbreakable habit of using aerograms (air letter sheets) as wrappers for letters instead of as the whole letter themselves (seriously, they said "No Enclosures Permitted" on all three flaps, how could you miss that?). Off to the post office to pay another 20 cents (difference between aerogram and letter air mail rate at the time -- it'd be twice that now if the USPS hadn't discontinued aerogram rates).
Robert in San Diego, the southwest corner pocket of the continental United States, where I have received airmail letters from Nairobi, Kenya THREE DAYS after they were mailed!
I indulge in overwrought rhetorical hyperbole as much as anyone, but I thought Pickles Picasso's "I will kill" for a copy of How to Lead a Life of Crime was an outstanding, self-referential example of that. At least, I hope it was a rhetorical flourish!
Robert in San Diego
I'm not entering this contest, but I can't wait to see the results. Love of dress? Seriously?
I mean sure, I want to look nice and not be an eyesore but its not a quarter of my entire life.
I'm going to make a wild guess at the areas for an irregular:
Curiosity
Adventure
Slyness
Love of coffee
Love of New York
Awesome contest!
Manniquin heads? I've asked my parents if I could send my friend in NC a banana. (jsut the banana. No package) I'm still going to try.
Augh! Is that a banana I see before me, all squished up in the sorting machines, except for the skin buried underneath a pile of Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes?
Please, Pickles Picasso, don't risk something soft in the mail, the letters and packaged that get mucked up might not be yours.
Robert in San Diego
I haven't thought of it that way. Hmmm. I guess I better not. (Not that I'm allowed to, anyway.)
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