Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Can't tell a verb from a noun, they're the nicest kids in town.

Who wants an ARC of Discount Armageddon? No, really: who really wants it?

For this giveaway, we're going to mix and match effort with laziness. Comment on this entry with why you—yes, you—should receive an ARC of the first InCryptid adventure. Be creative. Be insane. Whatever makes you happy. On Friday, at noon PST, I will use our friend the Random Number Generator to select a winner. I will then read through the entries and select my favorite as a second winner. Yes, it's totally arbitrary. But it's also stated right up front, so I don't feel bad.

This contest is open to all North American residents without any restrictions, and to non-North American residents who either a) have a North American mailing address or b) are willing to pay me postage. I do apologize for that, it's just that I can't afford to ship a lot of stuff overseas right now. And now...

Game on!
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ambermoon

January 12 2012, 03:20:09 UTC 5 years ago

Because I am deeply wary of 'paranormal romance' as a whole, but am very much looking forward to March. (I will read zombie books because you wrote them. I will read romance novels because you wrote them. You have truly won my oft-cranky literary heart.)

tigrkittn

January 12 2012, 03:24:12 UTC 5 years ago

I should receive it because I've been shamelessly pimping Feed to everyone I know, and it would be karmically apropos! ♥

jillheather

January 12 2012, 04:04:44 UTC 5 years ago

Because it is your fault for talking so much about Thomas that I adopted a nice 7 year old Maine Coon mix (silver tabby too, though that was coincidental) who weighs twenty five pounds and sleeps on my face and cannot fit in my sink to drink from taps so he tracks litter into my bathtub every day when he jumps in to beg me to turn the water on.

Also because my other cats have eaten the covers of all your other books (not Mira's, thankfully, as those I have electronically and would probably be very bad for the cats, possibly including things like electrocution and heavy metal poisoning and me wanting to kill them for destroying my ereader) and they would, I know, love to keep up the streak.

anthimerian

January 12 2012, 04:24:44 UTC 5 years ago

I really, really want and ARC because it was discovered at the One Salt Sea release party that I am a leprechaun, despite Giles claiming that leprechauns don't exist (all part of our clever plan). Maybe I'll spot a relative in Discount Armageddon.

Also SO EXCITED FOR THIS BOOK, CANNOT EVEN SAY.

idancewithlife

January 12 2012, 04:33:08 UTC 5 years ago

Verity Price does everything Ginger Rodgers did--with a gun and talking mice.

I gotta read it!

amoonshower

January 12 2012, 04:38:58 UTC 5 years ago

I should win because today was a truly awful day at work. My hours got cut, other people's hours got cut, and two people I really like got fired. :( and it's 3 days before my birthday. And it's going to snow tomorrow. And I love your books, and will send pics of my cats and dog snuggling the book. And please.

logan_w

January 12 2012, 05:02:32 UTC 5 years ago

I have to rely on the RNG as I am too tired and its too late and my day was way too long to be clever. Pathetic maybe? I can do pathetic.

bakazaru7

January 12 2012, 05:19:19 UTC 5 years ago

Because getting an ARC would make this week (which has included getting rear-ended on the expressway and having my house broken into) considerably better. And omg it looks gorgeous and I'd love to get my hands on it as soon as humanly possible

eral375

January 12 2012, 05:24:00 UTC 5 years ago

A long, long time ago when velociraptors roamed the Earth a piece of pollen embedded itself in the nose of one of the fiercest and wiliest raptors. The subsequent sneeze blew raptor snot all over a tree that was then knocked over into a tarpit by a passing brontosaurus.

Fast forward several million years....

During an anicent Mayan ritual said velociraptor snot was raised from the tar pit on the petrifired remains of the tree. This served as an omen for the Mayan priest who declared that he had seen the future and the coming of three fuzzy gods who would be served by their talking monkey. The monkey would have great wisdom and would share it with the other monkeys in order to continue properly serving these fuzzy gods. This would be the begining of a new age and thus their calendar would have to start over.



netpositive

January 12 2012, 05:31:20 UTC 5 years ago

Because I am a total, complete, absolute mark for talking mice.

And BTW, yours will be the first ebook I have ever *preordered* for my Kindle, so a physical book I could lend to friends would be extra wonderful.

mneme

January 12 2012, 05:53:51 UTC 5 years ago

I should receive an ARC of the first InCryptid adventure because it's what I remember. See, back about 3 years ago, I got a copy the first InCryptid adventure in a book giveaway -- one much like this one.

Then...well, stuff happened, there was a war, things got really bad...but there was a last minute project involving an experiment time manipulation machine. As chief programmer, I ended up having the honor of hitting the button...and then, suddenly, it was the past -- New Years 2012. Only, I was the only one who realized that time had been changed -- the only one who remembered the horrible future we'd averted.

You know what I don't remember? I don't remember how the first InCryptid book ended. So I should get a copy, so I can finally reread it and have something left from the future I left behind.

tigertoy

January 12 2012, 05:54:42 UTC 5 years ago

My house is infested with mice who are apparently manifesting supernatural powers. They pass through mousetraps without interacting with them. I need some sort of extraordinary help here, and I understand Verity might be able to tell me something. But I'm concerned that the mice may develop nuclear weapons before I can buy the book through normal channels. The ARC could give me the chance to find the answer before it's too late.

charlietinpants

January 12 2012, 06:33:03 UTC 5 years ago

because... um. ALIENS IN FUZZY PINK SWEATERS EXIST

sasquatch1313

January 12 2012, 06:40:37 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  January 12 2012, 06:42:00 UTC

Because an ARC of Discount Armageddon might help me to resolve an issue of competing philosophies.

A: Serialism - The belief that living life in a neat, orderly, and sequential fashion is essential to personal happiness and well being.

B: Surrealism- Chocolate frog hopscotch mountebank.

C: Cerealism- The belief in living life the way your Rice Krispies tell you to.

My current answers are:

A- Never
B- Pink charley horse
C- Why, yes! Yes I do.

What is a poor fuzzy brained Sasquatch to do? Help a cryptid out, won't you?

-The Sasquatch

randomreader_05

January 12 2012, 07:50:39 UTC 5 years ago

Because after being brainwashed by Super Couponers, I'm up for anything at a discount, even if it is Armageddon.

vanpham88

January 12 2012, 08:02:03 UTC 5 years ago

I should receive this arc because I love EVERYTHING you write, including your holiday greeting!I know I'll love this new book as well, SUPER EXCITED...March 6 feels so far away! On a side note, it would be awesome if you did a book signing in Southern California! ;) *hint hint*

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supersniffles

January 12 2012, 08:58:02 UTC 5 years ago

Mousies! Demonic mousies!!! I will teach my pet mousies to worship you as a god, I will name them all Seanan, I love mousies more than anybody else, therefore, I deserve the first InCryptid before the others :)

asthecrowfly

January 12 2012, 09:13:40 UTC 5 years ago

Because I am touring and traveling, which is the grown up way of saying 'I am homeless and it has been disguised in the grown up clothing of being a traveling artist/journalist.'

Because I need something to read at bus stops while trying to stay out of the rain.

Because I've had my heart broken three times in 2012 already, and words soothe heartbreak.

Because I could use a good story to crawl into, because a good story, unlike the bottom of bottles, will feed a soul.

And because I'm a tiny pink haired freelance journalist who loves to read because it is better than candy or anything.

joecoustic

January 12 2012, 10:51:16 UTC 5 years ago

Well, I would love to win this more than I can find words for right now. I'm still recovering from a wonderful GAFilk and trying to come back to my normal life routine and feel, at the moment, clueless as to any intriguing captivating reasons, so I'm sort of hoping on that Random Number Generator to gift me this. I can add that I'd really really love to have this ARC, not that this is anything that will make me unique in these comments *lol*. :)

fadedbluejeans

January 12 2012, 11:00:48 UTC 5 years ago

ME ME ME ME, I WANT IT, ME!

Because I squee'd loudly in a hostel in Dublin over the cover the day it was revealed. Because I nearly dropped my (then new) iPad on the floor in my mad joyous scramble to attempt to show my friend the thing of wonder that I was squeeing over, and then fell all over myself doing the most flaily description ever of what the book was actually about.

Because this morning, before this contest was announced and by sheer coincidence, I was talking one of my workmates into reading the book when it comes out (I have already made her buy the Toby books).

Because it is the pinkest book ever, and I am the pinkest person ever, so we match. (Seriously. The only person with more pink stuff than me is Barbie.)

Because up until last weekend I had a wreath of singing mice hanging on my front door, which I really wish I had pictures of right now. I wanna meet the Aeslin mice.

Because (and I may have mentioned this already) I WANT it. More than anything. And if I have to wait much longer, my friends may kill me just to shut me up about how much I want this book.

palmer_kun

January 12 2012, 11:01:52 UTC 5 years ago

I've always loved the mice...

alitalf

January 12 2012, 11:54:39 UTC 5 years ago

On the plus side, I think I have read everything of yours which is available to me in the UK, and enjoyed it all. It is not believable that, if you gave me the ARC, I would not be thrilled.

I must be fair; you already gave me a book, the pre-publication copy of One Salt Sea from which you were reading. From that point of view, maybe I don't deserve yet another gift.

However, going for the sympathy vote, in the last week I have learned I have a heart condition (atrial fibrillation) which is not life-threatening for at least a decade or two, and maybe not then, but does cause tiredness, and is making me feel rather sober, if not knurd, until I come to terms with it. To say I would really like something to distract me and cheer me up is not an exaggeration.

jlsigman

January 12 2012, 12:40:45 UTC 5 years ago

I would love a copy, because I am unemployed, uninsured, can't afford to buy it new, and my library likely won't have a copy for months.

Also, I have a Maine Coon who is not nearly as intelligent as your's. Maybe if you send me something a bit will rub off on him. ;-)

scholarinexile

January 12 2012, 13:16:07 UTC 5 years ago

Because there's a godsdamned chupacabra living in the woods behind my house, and at night we can hear is screaming as it eviscerates groundhogs on my patio. We're pretty sure it's engaged in a proxy war with the troll under the bridge in the park via the panthers that were supposedly extirpated from Pennsylvania in the 19th century, but my only contact in the affected area is Sasquatch, and he's not returning my calls. Most advice columnists and home-and-garden magazines seem reluctant to publish my letter asking for help in resolving this, so I figure your book is the best chance I have at getting meaningful information on what to do.

Also, because at least two of the statements in the first two sentences of the paragraph above are absolutely true.
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