Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: stumped
  • Music: Moulin Rouge, "Elephant Love Medley."

Okay. Advise me.

I have a few more ARCs to give away, and I'm stumped. So how should I give them away? (Hint: saying "give them to me" will actually not endear you, unless you finish that sentence with "I do all the buying for a major bookstore" or something similar, and can present credentials.) Have you got a favorite review site? Have I missed a contest? Should I abandon them on BART cars? What?

Propose anything. I am open to the crazy.

EDIT: So it's said, the "abandon on BART cars" option was a joke. I won't do anything that involves releasing ARCs into the wild, outside the bounds of the standard social contract, with no idea where they went. Not okay.
Tags: giving stuff away, requesting things, rosemary and rue, toby daye
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Not To Be Taken Seriously.

sweetmusic_27

August 17 2009, 23:15:30 UTC 7 years ago

Tie three helium balloons to ziploc-encased ARCs, and launch them from tall buildings on windy days.

Put them in time capsules. Not your time capsules, other people's time capsules.

Make a Rosemary and Rue Reading Soundtrack challenge - a good playlist of >10 songs and >8 bands/artists would be nice.

Stand next to a Scientologist on a street corner and offer them as books written by a real author.

Give a copy or two to an all-used bookstore or 'library store' you like, who won't see copies of the Real Book for a few months to come.

Give two to a pair of super-secret spies who need a source for a book cypher.

Since the binding on ARCs isn't super-awesome and the book is coming out in paperback, get a Crafty Person to make the book into a hardcover Work Of Art, and then auction it for awesome purposes.

Re: Not To Be Taken Seriously.

tsukara

August 18 2009, 04:12:03 UTC 7 years ago

I like the soundtrack idea, personally, but then that's one of my creative outlets, so...yeah.

Do we get bonus points or penalized for using "Rosemary and Rue" on there? Or Seanan's songs? XD

Re: Not To Be Taken Seriously.

seanan_mcguire

August 19 2009, 14:29:47 UTC 7 years ago

I love you, because you are so weird. But the hardcover idea is also awesome.