Writer's Grove
The Iron Pet Contest
It’s time for us to have some fun together to celebrate the upcoming release of book five of the Iron Druid Chronicles! Are ya ready kids?
WHAT YOU CAN WIN: Five people (5) will win all five books in the series, signed, and postal gods willing, you would actually get TRAPPED before its release date. PLUS a very limited-edition pint glass emblazoned with the logo of Atticus & Oberon’s Beer Bonanza. Three winners will be chosen randomly, and I’ll pick two because of their excessive cuteness or badassery. I do have to keep this contest U.S. only—my apologies to the many spiffy readers I have in Canada and overseas.
HOW TO ENTER: Send me a picture by Samhain/Halloween of your pet “reading” any one of the first four books. Dog, cat, fish, lizard, horse, cow, whatever. HAVE FUN WITH THIS. Detailed rules:
1) You can be in the picture too. In fact, if you’d like to be reading the book to your pet, and they simply look attentive while you’re doing it, that’s acceptable too.
2) It doesn’t matter which book in the series you’re reading, just so long as the cover is visible in the picture.
3) Having your pet look at an e-reader won’t have the same visual impact, so we do need to use a paperback here. If you’d rather not buy one you can probably score one at your local library.
4) Send your picture as an attachment to kevin (at) kevinhearne dot com by Oct. 31. I’ll periodically post them to a gallery of entries on my Facebook author page so we can all enjoy the overdose of cute. (If you haven’t “liked” my author page yet, you can find it at http://www.facebook.com/authorkevin)
5) Please give me your name and the name of your pet(s) and where you’re from. When I post the pic on Facebook it’ll be your first name only, so it’ll read something like “Bartholomew from Alabama reads HOUNDED to his poodle, Fluffy.” If it’s just your pet in the picture that’s cool, I’ll just write “Fluffy from Alabama loves HOUNDED” but I still need your name in case you win. :)
6) If you don’t have a pet, I’m sure someone you know does. :)
Here’s a sample entry with three adorable wolfhounds! Note that this is not actually an entry—it’s just an example of what you can do. You don’t have to compete against this one.
HAVE FUN EVERYONE! CAN’T WAIT TO SEE ‘EM!
