Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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A LOCAL HABITATION ARC giveaway #2!

It's time to get ready for the second A Local Habitation ARC giveaway of the season! Yaaaay! Now that we've all flailed around like Muppets on an electrified floor for a few minutes, here's the way this particular giveaway is going to work:

1. Get a camera.
2. Get a copy of Rosemary and Rue.
3. Get a pet.
4. Combine.

This contest, originally suggested by The Agent, is simple: take pictures of your pets (or the pets of someone else you know) hanging out with a copy of Rosemary and Rue, and submit them here. All pets are eligible. Cats, dogs, pythons, spiny African flower mantises, whatever you have and trust with your book, they're all invited to this party.

Be creative. Be dramatic. Have fun. Do not allow your Burmese python to swallow your book (it would be bad for the snake). Post your pictures here; after Thanksgiving, we'll open to voting, and winners will be selected. Winner #1 will get their choice of an ARC of A Local Habitation or a signed cover flat of A Local Habitation. Winner #2 will get whatever winner #1 didn't select, that being the way we roll around here.

Let me know if you have any questions, and game on!
Tags: a local habitation, giving stuff away, toby daye
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maniakes

November 26 2009, 21:18:15 UTC 7 years ago



These are abandoned, unfertilized eggs. No embryonic cockatiels were harmed in the making of this entry. Attempts to get the adult cockatiels to pose with the eggs have been unsuccessful.

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:41:44 UTC 7 years ago

Good to know!

fireriven

November 27 2009, 04:40:13 UTC 7 years ago

Can I have until 11:59 Friday night to post my entries? I've taken the pictures, but I need to resize them and I'll be at work all day tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

seanan_mcguire

November 28 2009, 17:12:22 UTC 7 years ago

You can have until Sunday.

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seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:42:09 UTC 7 years ago

OH THE EYES!

You have a fantastic Halloween kitty.

fullcontactmuse

November 28 2009, 14:37:19 UTC 7 years ago

Hopefully, you mean "end of day Friday" in the corporate sense. You know, by "8am on Saturday." :) Of course, this morning I find that someone already did my idea of cats with good reading tastes. Oh well, the Fuzzy Kitty is cuter. Never mind the fact that I'm biased. ;)


Doesn't everyone read in the sock basket?


Look, do I bother you while you while you're trying to read? Yes? That is entirely beside the point.

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:42:48 UTC 7 years ago

What beautiful kitties! Thank you!

silvertwi

November 28 2009, 18:20:23 UTC 7 years ago

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Meet Chaos, in sleepy-mode.

I took this with my laptop camera. I then had to have a friend fix it because I don't have any photo-editing program on this Mac that will make an image go mirror-image, and the entire photo was backwards. If I can get a better one sometime today, I will re-post.

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:43:10 UTC 7 years ago

OMG THE BLUE.

Such a gorgeous kitty.

wyld_dandelyon

November 28 2009, 19:49:03 UTC 7 years ago

There's several pictures on my facebook page, but this is the best one: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=168511&id=599461280&saved#/photo.php?pid=4675149&id=599461280

wyld_dandelyon

November 28 2009, 19:53:57 UTC 7 years ago

I'm afraid neither cats nor mollies were impressed by the picture-taking process. And I have no clue how to imbedd a photo in a comment.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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wyld_dandelyon

7 years ago

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Yay Extensions!

kittikins

November 28 2009, 20:46:37 UTC 7 years ago

I am back from my cross-country visit and once again near 1.) my copy of the book, and 2.) pets. More specifically, my friend's rabbits (one of which is mine in its infancy). I can't decide between the cuteness so...

First picture, I give you mound-o-bunny in the lap region, of which one is clearly visible. Mostly because it was 30 degrees outside and as much as two-week old Silverfox and English Angora love the book, they loved the crevasses my lap region provided more. Like my armpit, and butt.
Bunny and Rue

Second, in an effort to boost baby-rabbit IQ, book IN the nest box. Given the lack-o-crevasses, the book was suddenly much more interesting.
Rue in a Basket

And third, my favorite bunny in the world, Flour, and I hanging out reading. Yes, that is a rabbit, NOT a tribble, but only because tribbles do not elect a Princess and Flour has declared herself as Princess of the Rabbitry.
Flour and Rue

Re: Yay Extensions!

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:44:16 UTC 7 years ago

...I think Flour is quite right. Those are AWESOME rabbits.

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kittikins

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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Hoping these work...

exapno

November 29 2009, 03:44:18 UTC 7 years ago

Mai buk!
Kai

Think there are any dogs here? *sigh*
Rock has a book

You're not gonna take my book are you?
Rock reads

Re: Hoping these work...

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2009, 06:44:34 UTC 7 years ago

Lovely!

stealthcello

November 29 2009, 09:45:06 UTC 7 years ago

Hi Seanan -- here are my entries (assuming that family members are permitted to enter the contest!):

Here is Wills, Alice's great-great grandfather. He probably has no plans to read the book, but even so, obviously doesn't intend to share it with anyone else.
Wills & HIS book

And here's Alice's six-week-old baby brother, Earl Grey, who clearly has designs on the book himself:
Earl Grey & HIS book

catvalente

November 29 2009, 22:00:04 UTC 7 years ago

Ah! So cute!

.../any/ available? It's such a perfect time to bring a kitty home, I'm not going anywhere for months and months...

sweetmusic_27

7 years ago

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batwrangler

November 29 2009, 15:37:50 UTC 7 years ago

Puccini says, "Read this book!"

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seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:54:38 UTC 7 years ago

Happy puppy mop!

batwrangler

November 29 2009, 15:45:19 UTC 7 years ago

Zipper says, "A perfect diversion for the descriminating chinchilla."

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Moar pix.

silvertwi

November 29 2009, 17:50:18 UTC 7 years ago

OMG so cute! I love chinchillas. Their fur is just so soft!

batwrangler

7 years ago

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idancewithlife

7 years ago

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batwrangler

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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cloudyblue

November 29 2009, 17:55:57 UTC 7 years ago

Like me, my dog also loves to curl up with a great book on rainy days... or any day, really.



seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:55:12 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, what a sweet face!

ttamsen

November 29 2009, 19:48:08 UTC 7 years ago

Okay, you'll have to squint a little, but they're the first elements of the present-day velociraptor army, being indoctrinated for eventual Seanan command. The blonde one's name is Buffy. :-)


chickens,rosemary and rue


chickens,rosemary and rue


chickens,rosemary and rue


chickens,rosemary and rue

seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:55:39 UTC 7 years ago

CHICKENS!

You, sir, rock me.

jacylrin

7 years ago

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ttamsen

7 years ago

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batwrangler

November 29 2009, 20:03:58 UTC 7 years ago

"When does she turn back into a fish?"

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kittikins

November 30 2009, 00:42:18 UTC 7 years ago

Most excellent!

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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batwrangler

November 29 2009, 20:12:04 UTC 7 years ago

Flamel says, "Delicious!"

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Moar pix

deakat

November 29 2009, 20:36:56 UTC 7 years ago

I had no idea that there was an orange-snake-shaped hole in my life until this very minute. What sort of snake is she/he?

batwrangler

7 years ago

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Pern's modeling debut

vincentursus

November 29 2009, 21:36:46 UTC 7 years ago


Negotiating her modeling contract.


Pern considers this book droolworthy! Literally.

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seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:56:14 UTC 7 years ago

KITTY!

Tiger Jack and Kaylee Represent!

talkstowolves

November 29 2009, 23:17:42 UTC 7 years ago

Entries, at last!

Kaylee is clearly not amused she's expected to wait three and a half whole months for the sequel to Rosemary and Rue:



Just to drive it home...
Kaylee: impatiently awaiting A LOCAL HABITATION since September 2009.



My fandom crosses faerie with Shakespeare with cats with roses. What.



No witty lead-in required for this one, honestly:



Okay, that's all I'll post! Promise! Although there's a gallery over here should anyone wish to see the rest of the pictures. ;)

Re: Tiger Jack and Kaylee Represent!

seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:56:40 UTC 7 years ago

1) These are lovely.

2) I always forget what a gorgeous kitty Kaylee is when I haven't seen her for a while. So lovely.

exapno

November 30 2009, 01:30:51 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  November 30 2009, 01:31:38 UTC

Intriguing...
Kazza

Ooooh! My book!!!
Moxy's find

Don't have book 2....guess I'll have to re-read this one
Moxy reads

seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:56:56 UTC 7 years ago

Lizard face is AWESOME.

jacylrin

November 30 2009, 03:11:51 UTC 7 years ago

Hera (the Hermit Crab) and Rue -- the shot I was planning to get all along


Lucciana and Rue (Lucci is my sister's cat, named after Pavarotti, for her love of, um, singing)


Lulu and Rue (my stepfather's cat - an action shot!)


And last but not least (especially in the by pound category), Arf and Rue (Arf Baisch, King of the Dogs... and yes, that's what his tags say... blame my husband). The inaction shot, as it were :-P

seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:57:24 UTC 7 years ago

All of these are great, but let's be honest: I love it mostly for Hera. What a cool shell!

jacylrin

7 years ago

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Just under the wire!

snowcoma

November 30 2009, 14:14:10 UTC 7 years ago

Here is Aloysius snuggling my copy of Rosemary and Rue :









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seanan_mcguire

November 30 2009, 19:57:48 UTC 7 years ago

Snakey goodness!

I love that Toby's face is being constricted.

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dr_zrfq

7 years ago

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