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.

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.