Contest Contest: Be Creative, Win an ARC!
I'm so excited about my new book, I want to give away two ARCs of THE TOTAL TRAGEDY OF A GIRL NAMED HAMLET.
I've been brainstorming ideas for fun, different, creative contests...but I haven't come up with anything fun, different, or creative. Booo!
That's where YOU come in!
The plan:
Come up with a contest to help me give away TOTAL TRAGEDY!
The criteria: The contest must be fun and not involve me running all over the internet to tabulate entries.
My Crack Marketing Team (which consists of me and Fab Husband, plus a lucky friend or two) will read them all and choose one to implement on the blog. If we pick your idea, you win!
And if we don't, you can enter the contest that we choose to run for a second chance!
Simply post your contest idea in the comments below. Deadline: August 7th. On August 10th, I'll announce the winner and we'll post your contest. If you posted an idea in my Friday Five last week, I'll be including those entries--no need to write twice.
To help you out, here's the catalog copy for HAMLET:
To die or not to die of utter mortification . . .
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average,
happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean
scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia
and generally go about in public as if it were the
sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets
worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius seven year-
old sister will attend middle school with her-
and even worse when the Shakespeare project is
announced and her sister is named the new math
tutor. By the time an in-class recitation reveals that
our heroine is an extraordinary Shakespearean actress,
Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that
she-like her family-is anything but average.
In a novel every bit as funny as her debut, Erin
Dionne has created another eighth grader whose
situation is utterly unique-but whose foibles and
farces will resound with every girl currently suffering
through middle school.
Yay (or, as Hamlet's family says, Huzzah!) Let's see what you come up with!
I've been brainstorming ideas for fun, different, creative contests...but I haven't come up with anything fun, different, or creative. Booo!
That's where YOU come in!
The plan:
Come up with a contest to help me give away TOTAL TRAGEDY!
The criteria: The contest must be fun and not involve me running all over the internet to tabulate entries.
My Crack Marketing Team (which consists of me and Fab Husband, plus a lucky friend or two) will read them all and choose one to implement on the blog. If we pick your idea, you win!
And if we don't, you can enter the contest that we choose to run for a second chance!
Simply post your contest idea in the comments below. Deadline: August 7th. On August 10th, I'll announce the winner and we'll post your contest. If you posted an idea in my Friday Five last week, I'll be including those entries--no need to write twice.
To help you out, here's the catalog copy for HAMLET:
To die or not to die of utter mortification . . .
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average,
happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean
scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia
and generally go about in public as if it were the
sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets
worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius seven year-
old sister will attend middle school with her-
and even worse when the Shakespeare project is
announced and her sister is named the new math
tutor. By the time an in-class recitation reveals that
our heroine is an extraordinary Shakespearean actress,
Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that
she-like her family-is anything but average.
In a novel every bit as funny as her debut, Erin
Dionne has created another eighth grader whose
situation is utterly unique-but whose foibles and
farces will resound with every girl currently suffering
through middle school.
Yay (or, as Hamlet's family says, Huzzah!) Let's see what you come up with!