Writer's Grove
Sausage Fest Contest!
I do stuff when I feel like it. Usually I feel like it when I have reached an arbitrary number of readers going clickity-click on social media sites. I have 3,000 Likes on Facebook (thanks to Mindi and Pete Young!) and 1,692 birdies on Twitter. Those look like good numbers to me. So I should do some stuff! Or rather, give stuff away!
Here is the stuff I’m giving away to two Sausage Fest Contest winners: 1) A Sausage Fest pint glass 2) A Sausage Fest T-shirt in your size 3) A signed Sausage Fest poster and 4) An early, signed author’s copy of TRICKED. Aw yeah!
Wanna know why this is the best contest EVAR? It’s because you get to EAT YOUR ENTRY—after you take a picture of it. If you think about it, you really can’t lose! You get tasty nom noms and you might also win bonus book-related stuff from that Kevin guy. Best. Contest. EVAR.
So here’s how you enter: Cook something tasty with sausage in it, take a digital picture, and then email it to me with a caption. The caption should include a luxuriously written description of the food pictured, followed by your name. You can use a fake secret agent name if you want. I’ll post all entries into a gallery on my author Facebook page. It should look nummy like this:
One person will win in a Random.Org drawing, so you don’t necessarily have to be a great chef or anything. You could give me a sad picture of biscuits and gravy with one nugget of sausage in it and still potentially win. But one person will win because that person is frickin’ awesome. They’ll make a beautiful dish, take a beautiful picture, and write an amazing caption. And everyone will salivate.
I suggest that the sausage be plainly visible in the picture. Don’t just take a picture of a bun and some lettuce and tell me there’s a patty hidden underneath. We are celebrating sausage in all its tubular, greasy glory. It should be the focus! And yes, soy/tofu sausage is perfectly acceptable. We just won’t tell Oberon.
Also consider composition. Will there be drinks? Will there be origami? Dogs photobombing? Will there be playful visual double entendres?
Mostly I want you to have fun and enjoy entering. I hope you’ll experiment and create something tasty for yourself and the family. Become a gourmet foodie for a while. Life’s too short not to do something like this once in a while, you know?
Okay, let’s give this until February 29. That way you have a couple of weekends to work with. Please email entries to kevin @ kevinhearne.com. Have fun!!!
Oh, one more thing: I don’t have my author copies yet and probably won’t get them until April, so you’ll still have to wait until April to find out what happened to the widow and if Leif is going to make it…you just won’t have to wait until April 24. :)
