Firefly Rain Twitter Giveaway
So, Tuesday April 6, 2010 is the official on-sale date for the Gallery Books trade paperback edition of Firefly Rain. And Tuesday April 13, 2010 is the official on-sale date of the videogame Splinter Cell: Conviction. What do these two things have in common? A lot of words written by Richard Dansky. To celebrate that fact, Rich and I will be giving away some stuff to our Twitter followers, so tell your friends who like books and videogames - and swag - that they might want to start following us.
How will this work? Well, Rich will be locked away working on a video game for this whole launch period, but before then, he and I worked out a series of clues that you, the intrepid followers, get to solve. Each of the 8 days, I will post a clue with the hashtag #ffrgiveaway. Retweet it around. Each person can then respond using the same hashtag with the answer to the clue given in the form of a question.
Oh, didn’t I mention that Rich is also in the try-out process to appear on Jeopardy? He is, and I think this will be good karmic help for him. Also, given that Jeopardy loves categories, all of these clues and answers relate to music from Rich’s “soundtrack” that he listened to while writing the novel. It’ll help to remember that the book is a Southern Gothic, and that Rich and I are both...eclectic in our musical tastes.
Anyway, the morning after I post the clue, I will collect all of the correct responses and randomly select one of those respondents to receive an autographed copy of Firefly Rain and some swag, which Rich will select. The final day, the 13th, the videogame will be a copy of Splinter Cell: Conviction.
All prizes will ship after Rich returns from crunch, which will give plenty of time for the winners to let me know where to ship them and their game platform of choice.
Note that the contest is completely my idea and I reserve the right to change the rules just because I feel like it without even a moment's notice. If you don't like it, don't play along. Neither Simon & Schuster nor UbiSoft are sponsors or otherwise involved in this, so forget about bugging them if you don't like how I play the game. Got it. Have fun. I will be.
The Soundtrack:
Down South - Tom Petty
Copied Keys - Kathleen Edwards
Old Country Country - The Raphaels
Danko/Manuel - Drive By Truckers
I Won’t Back Down - Johnny Cash
The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
This Too Shall Pass - Bruce Hornsby
Boy Inside the Man - Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
Poor Man’s House - Maura O’Connell
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Ghost - Eastmountainsouth
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Southern Accents - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Desperadoes Waiting For A Train - The Highwaymen
Tornadoes - Drive By Truckers
The Lighthouse’s Tale - Nickel Creek