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!
Tags: discount armageddon, giving stuff away, incryptid
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antinomic

January 12 2012, 14:17:11 UTC 5 years ago

Because I once convinced you not to ignite the biosphere. No biosphere, no customers. So I essentially enabled all your future sales! (bows, accepts applause) Yes, I do think that much of myself. I'm even hard to take to myself.

adelheid_p

January 12 2012, 14:35:10 UTC 5 years ago

I'm just here to post a comment that I hope wins the random comment generator portion. I will be employing a time machine to generate the winning comment.

amazon_syren

January 12 2012, 17:17:21 UTC 5 years ago

Because I'm broke and I want a new novel and this one sounds glorious (who doesn't love ballroom dancing, snark, and non-human intelligences?)

jacylrin

January 12 2012, 18:11:16 UTC 5 years ago

Because I have given at least a dozen copies of your books to people as gifts.

Because my daughter is trying to put together a Toby costume.

Because the hermit crabs demand it ;-)

jsmassey123

January 12 2012, 18:20:25 UTC 5 years ago

I need it because reasons! And cats! And a new book to read! And I will eat a human child if I don't get it! And I don't like those! They give me gas, and you wouldn't like me when I'm gassy!

sirriamnis

January 12 2012, 19:31:52 UTC 5 years ago

I would love an ARC of Discount Armageddon because you are my hero and my inspiration for getting off my ass and getting my own novel finished. Thank you for being an inspiration.

springfield40

January 12 2012, 21:15:22 UTC 5 years ago

Because it would make my day

missingvolume

January 12 2012, 23:06:53 UTC 5 years ago

So I can read it and shelve with my growing collection of ARC's and signed paperbacks of yours. ;-)

gmrmoro

January 12 2012, 23:49:17 UTC 5 years ago

Me, me? Just Because? :)

ravenclawed

January 13 2012, 00:32:15 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  January 13 2012, 00:34:00 UTC

I'd love an ARC of Discount Armageddon because I love ballroom dance (thank you, Dancing With The Stars) and if I had decided to be a scientist, I know I would've been a cryptozoologist. Also, despite being generally a pacifist, I can appreciate the beauty of a well-made weapon. (Deadliest Warrior was one of my favorite shows. I just heard it's been cancelled and I am bummed.) After hearing about Verity and her family (and the mice) for so long, I'm dying to get to know them.

peachtales

January 13 2012, 02:14:34 UTC 5 years ago

Me please!

Beyond that, this is shaping up to be the first full paycheck (with possibly a few hours of ot thrown in!) since my marathon of being sick started in mid-September. Beyond that, lay Mars, Venus and Mercury. Beyond them, big gassy things, and what planets may have escaped my sleep-deprived maind. Beyond those, Pluto, and stranger stuff, all of it very cool.

roseeyedangel

January 13 2012, 02:15:44 UTC 5 years ago

I should get the ARC beacuse you are the kind of writer I want to be when I "grow up". Because I love your style, and your characterization and just how you put words together on the page and I cannot wait to read this new adventure!

alexiscartwheel

January 13 2012, 03:08:43 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  January 13 2012, 03:10:16 UTC

Dear Random Number Generator,

May I call you Randy? I know it might seem overly familiar, considering we've never met, but I feel like I already know you so well. (I mean in a completely non-creepy, cosmic connection sort of way, not a stalkery, I've-hacked-into-your-FBI-file sort of way. You get that, right? I knew you would.)

Anyway, Randy, I think that you and I could be really good friends. You see, Seanan wrote a new book (Have you read her books, Randy? Because they will blow your mind!), and she's giving away an ARC. Do you like cookies, Randy? Because I know how to bake some pretty delicious cookies, and they'd be all yours if you could help me out. All you have to do is select my number. Think about it.

Sincerely,
Your New BFF Alexis

P.S. If Seanan finds out we colluded to rig the randomly generated portion of her totally arbitrary giveaway, she might be less than happy, and if that happens she might come after you with a machete. Forewarned is forearmed.

Naima Eastmond

January 13 2012, 04:06:01 UTC 5 years ago

I would love to win because I am seriously going through withdraw. I need another Seanan McGuire book so bad that I recently re-read the entire October Daye series from beginning to end for the third time and found that I still adore them. I'm a huge fan of your writing style and in my book you totally rock.

purpledelphini

January 13 2012, 04:16:27 UTC 5 years ago

Because I love discovering new friends. Every new book and series I read is just that. Besides I love your October daye series and know that this one will be just as good.

amberfox

January 13 2012, 07:44:44 UTC 5 years ago

I can't be terribly charming from my hiding place under three blankets, and juts much too cold to get back up, so I'll place my hopes on the tool of Eris known as the Random Number Generator and see what happens. Stupid Texas yo-yo weather.

jqueasy

January 13 2012, 15:36:34 UTC 5 years ago

I need to win this books, so I can learn how to write something creative. Once I've learned to write, I can then write something creative on this post and then win this book.

max_alleyne

January 13 2012, 17:02:36 UTC 5 years ago

Because it will be the bacteria growing in the ideal petrie dish of my day: going to the hospital, cleaning wounds and playing with laryngectomies, washing my hands every ten minutes to avoid MRSA (which, according to my paranoid mind and the head nurse on my floor, I have almost certainly come into contact with), coming home and disinfecting more thoroughly than I ever imagined possible, and then checking my computer and seeing that hey! I won an ARC. Then I go to sleep while visions of germs and cryptids and ballroom dancing, well...dance in my head.

evrythgcnhapn

January 14 2012, 03:53:01 UTC 5 years ago

I really wants it! And i'm trying to cut down my book-buying (it's my only vise, i swear), and have been using the library a lot, but a free ARC would be mine for keeps!:) (although i also have to confess i paid full price for all of the Toby books out, but I ahd a gift card for the last 2 at least:P)

kitrinlu

January 14 2012, 08:25:31 UTC 5 years ago

Because I'm a former geneticist/mad scientist in the making, and I'm always in need of new role models. And because I'd happily sell a kidney to pay for international shipping.

And because I own all of your books and I've bought copies of most of them for my sister, and I may be slightly obsessed...

deire

January 16 2012, 01:24:50 UTC 5 years ago

I own numerous books on animal behavior and communication. I wanted to be a vet till I decided I wanted my patients to have to explain themselves if they bit me. If I could, I would so have a degree in cryptozoology and be hiking in to--CAREFULLY--observe the local unicorn herd. I'd bring a dart gun.

I want this book so I can be inspired about how this sort of thing might be done. And because it's no fun to play with some of the idea toys if nobody else does too.

deire

January 16 2012, 01:26:15 UTC 5 years ago

Also because Habibi Moonshine My Little Pony says I should have one.
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