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Book Giveaway -- MCDOUGALL-PLEASING STUNT contest #2!

  • Mar. 2nd, 2012 at 12:09 PM
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So, the paperback of Savage City is coming out, and I have a large cardboard box of books on my living room floor, and nowhere to put them. So I did a giveaway on Twitter -- you know, a fairly standard thing -- "I will give signed books to a random 4 out of the next 26 people to follow me!" It worked perfectly well. Books heading your way soon, winners.

Except, several of my existing followers turned wide and tearful eyes upon me and asked WHAT, SAVE YOUR SCINTILLATING WEB PRESENCE, DO WE GET FOR OUR YEARS/MONTHS/DAYS OF WEB-LOYALTY???

So FINE. Here is your chance. Perform a Sophia McDougall Pleasing Stunt and if I am sufficiently pleased, I will give you the book (by me) of your choice, signed and drawn on and whatever. You have until midnight, March 11th. Pretty much the same deal as here, you might want to check it out for inspiration. 

PLEASE ME AND MAKE ME WANT TO GIVE YOU A BOOK. You can please me by promoting my book in some way, you can also try to please me by telling me a joke or posting a picture of you gurning, if you're really good at it.  You must either comment here or link me to your SOPHIA-MCDOUGALL PLEASING STUNT  on twitter.

I will not be pleased by illegality or grossness, otherwise you make the rules. I will send the person who strikes me as the most delightful a unique signed, personalised book.



And if there are no McDougall-Pleasing Stunts, then it is I who will turn wide and tearful eyes on you and then where will you be?

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enname
Mar. 4th, 2012 04:21 am (UTC)
Ah, darn. I tell jokes badly, don't have a twitter and the two people I promoted you to, went and ordered copies of your books through amazon ... I somehow doubt they would approve of me posting their purchase receipts. Perhaps I shall have to go and see if I can fiddle with photos, or erm, just cede the floor.
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sophiamcdougall
Mar. 4th, 2012 11:46 pm (UTC)
You don't need a Twitter account at all! I did one Twitter giveaway, this is different. Fiddled photos are very viable!
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enname
Mar. 6th, 2012 11:26 am (UTC)
*writes date in diary because is so insanely busy it might just pass her by in a haze of fatigue, despite thinking about/having done something*

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enname
Mar. 10th, 2012 03:44 am (UTC)
Ok, so this sucks terribly, but one must go with what one has and that is not time for proper illustration. So it is definitely me mugging at you in cartoon format. I am, not terribly clearly, holding a copy of Savage City and a pen. Even less clearly, as a background I am standing beside a copy of a manuscript which is from c.200 AD. Written on papyrus, it is an example of the New Roman Cursive hand and is (You might have to trust me on this, and sorry about the blue pen notes.) the original bill of sale for a slave in Rome.

Romanitas.

New Roman Cursive
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sophiamcdougall
Mar. 13th, 2012 07:31 pm (UTC)
Enname, a winner is you!
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(Anonymous)
Mar. 11th, 2012 02:28 pm (UTC)
Clarke Award shortlist on Torque Control
How's this for a SMcD-pleasing stunt... done well before the giveaway was announced (therefore not motivated by desire for reward!)
Not only did I suggest that Savage City should be shortlisted but I said I wanted it to WIN! Great finale to a thoroughly brilliant trilogy. And as I read a library copy, a signed paperback edition will look lovely on the shelves alongside books 1 & 2!
@murf61
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