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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2009-07-15 08:10:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2009-07-15 08:10:00

Mood: geeky
Music: Counting Crows, "Rain King/Thunder Road."

ROSEMARY AND RUE giveaway #6!

It's July, it's a week to the San Diego International Comic Convention, and it's been a while since I posted a Rosemary and Rue ARC giveaway. These things aren't intrinsically connected, but my need for distraction makes them acquire a natural bond. At the same time, I feel the need to be more creative than my exhaustion is presently allowing. So here's the deal:

1) To participate, comment on this post with a suggestion for what the next ARC giveaway should be. Get creative! We've had a poetry contest and a LOLtest so far—is it time for round two? Is it time for a break-dance competition? "Conquer a nation, win an ARC"? Well, maybe not that last one. Try to make it something that people can actually accomplish.

2) Weigh in on other suggestions, if you feel the urge to do so.

3) Just before I leave for Comicon, I will select one of the suggestions to be ARC giveaway #7. The person who makes the winning suggestion will be the winner of this giveaway.

Game on!

Tags: giving stuff away, rosemary and rue, silliness, toby daye

pocketnaomi

July 15 2009, 22:32:39 UTC 7 years ago

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Since it's just before Comicon, have a Rosemary and Rue comic strip contest.

azurelunatic

July 15 2009, 22:38:37 UTC 7 years ago

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Interpretive dance. Either a video of the dance, or choreography notes.

silvertwi

July 15 2009, 23:19:02 UTC 7 years ago

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Pet stories. Funny, adorable, cute, whatever. Something one of your pets does or did, and the one Seanan likes best wins. Option to include pictures of the dearies?

...what? I have two cats and plenty of story-telling material.

palmer_kun

July 16 2009, 00:25:13 UTC 7 years ago

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Songwriting. Make it on the topic of faeries (but not fairy TALES) so that it's topical, but open to those without solid knowledge of the books.

Fanart/comic: Put up various images of Toby for reference and have people go at it. Bonus points for "Toby and the" or "Toby meets" style what-ifs

Icons: Easy, accessible and promo bait.

Or hold a guessing pool.

"How many _________ did Seanan get/do at Comic-con?"

Books signed, minutes slept, items of free swag acquired, cans of DDP consumed... stuff like that

kiarasayre

July 16 2009, 00:45:33 UTC 7 years ago Edited: July 16 2009, 00:45:57 UTC

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Scifi/fantasy/horror haiku contest! Close to poetry contest, but will likely result in more haiku about zombies, and if there's one thing the world needs, it's more haiku about zombies.

And of course I don't see the typo until my finger hits "post". Of course.

kyrielle

July 16 2009, 02:36:21 UTC 7 years ago

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Seconding (thirding? whatevering?) fan art, but suggesting a mixed-bag "any visual art form" - so people could draw, collage, paint, or take photographs of knit works, cosplay (admittedly hard to pull off unless you've ALREADY read an ARC), sculpture....

(Disclaimer: Suggesting this as a variation in case it intrigues. All credit to others originating the idea if so, because hi, I don't need to win this....)

You had to ask

amberley

July 16 2009, 07:48:23 UTC 7 years ago

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Best Cosplay as any character from one of your books! *TWO* ARCs if they successfully cosplay as the Aeslin Mice!

kat_merle

July 16 2009, 08:30:33 UTC 7 years ago

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Oh man its late at night so all the easy answers are taken. What about a recipe contest? What might Toby's favorite food, meal, drink, coffee etc be and how would you make it? This could include entirely fictional characters as well I would assume but you might get some interesting food ideas and your fans would have some new recipes to try out :)