If you follow me - LizUK - on Twitter, you'll know that I've been raving about Mike Shevdon's urban fantasy offering: The Sixty One Nails these past few days. My new obsession clearly impressed (or scared, I'm not sure) Lee and Marc at Angry Robot and they approached us to run a fantastic competition.
To celebrate the publication of The Sixty One Nails (next week) Angry Robot are offering up the following competition:
One winner will win ALL of these lovely books:
Moxyland
Slights
Nekropolis
Book of Secrets
Angel of Death
Kell’s Legend
Winter Song
Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero
Sixty-One Nails
Slights
Nekropolis
Book of Secrets
Angel of Death
Kell’s Legend
Winter Song
Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero
Sixty-One Nails
How do YOU win all these cool books? Well, for a change we've come up with a challenge (insert evil manical and robotic laughter): write a 4 line poem about Angry Robot, it's authors or its books. Email your entry to us at: myfavouritebooksatblogspot(at)googlemail(dot)com. The competition is open WORLD WIDE. The competition will run for ONE week, closing date for entries will be 24th November 2009. The winning entry will be chosen by us, then published here at the blog and it will also appear on the Angry Robot website.
Lee and Marc will package the books and send it off to the lucky winner.
Edited: we're extending the competition as gremlins got into our google-account and we've been spammed to high heaven which means we've subsequently lost all entries, except for the one sent in by"edifanob". Please re-enter!
I'm in. Just sent my poem.
ReplyDeleteAre there limitations on who may enter? Any categories of people who are ineligible? (SFWA members, for example? Rhysling Award winners? Professional publication?) How many entries one may submit? Whether, if multiple entries are allowed, if they can be entered at one time or if each must be entered in a separate entry? Please clarify your rules.
ReplyDeleteThanks in advance.
Hi David - thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I didn't even think about clarification. This is meant to be a quick fun competition but I see exactly where you're coming from.
I'll quickly note the rules down.
Liz
Hi,
ReplyDeleteLee from Angry Robot here.
Not entirely sure why we'd want to discriminate against the groups of people mentioned, but for clarification:
If there is no rule stated, you can pretty much assume there's no rule.
So, anyone can enter any number of times (though, to be fair, the judges aren't likely to read through 150 entries from the same person due to boredom threshholds, etc, so put your best ones first). The judges reserve the right to read the first few entries by an individual then nip off to make a cup of tea, and forget exactly where they were on their return. If you are personally known to any of the judges you may enter (for fun) but you will not win, though we may buy you a beer as consolation when we next see you. How are you, anyway? It's been ages!
Actually, I'm going to amend the absence of rules by including one very special one:
Anyone may enter except the John Dunleavy who stole my pen in class when we were both 13 and the teacher wasn't looking. I've never forgotten that, and I was too afraid of you to say anything at the time, but who's got the last laugh now, huh, bully-boy? huh? huh? You're just going to have to *buy* the books! And all for one measly pen! Was it worth it John? Really? Was it? I suspect not...
Hi,
ReplyDeleteLee from Angry Robot here.
Not entirely sure why we'd want to discriminate against the groups of people mentioned, but for clarification:
If there is no rule stated, you can pretty much assume there's no rule.
So, anyone can enter any number of times (though, to be fair, the judges aren't likely to read through 150 entries from the same person due to boredome threshholds, etc, so put your best ones first). The judges reserve the right to read the first few entries by an individual then nip off to make a cup of tea, and forget exactly where they were on their return. If you are personally known to any of the judges you may enter (for fun) but you will not win, though we may buy you a beer as consolation when we next see you. How are you, anyway? It's been ages!
Actually, I'm going to amend the absence of rules by including one very special one:
Anyone may enter except the John Dunleavy who stole my pen in class when we were both 13 and the teacher wasn't looking. I've never forgotten that, and I was too afraid of you to say anything at the time, but who's got the last laugh now, huh, bully-boy? huh? huh? You're just going to have to *buy* the books! And all for one measly pen! Was it worth it John? Really? Was it? I suspect not...