Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Katy Perry, "Hummingbird Heartbeat."

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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jhyanmar

January 11 2012, 19:38:11 UTC 5 years ago

Because I am a public school teacher at a small, rural, poor school that's K-12 in the middle of long-depressed logging country. I teach Geometry, remedial math lab for High School -and- serve as tutor for our two Calc kids who have to take online courses, math test prep for middleschoolers, History-- Pacific Northwest and US History this semester, World and US next-- while struggling with a slipped disc, utter back arthritis, a bad heart, asthma, and allergies. Because I point our geeklings-- and even here, believe me, they're there-- AWAY from Twilight (I'm on the Olympic Peninsula) and towards Lackey, Pierce, and for the ones who can handle the more grim work, Toby's. Because after struggling with kids who don't want to learn and live in an area where they have to fight tooth and nail just to stay at the same level of income as their parents-- and know it, so many have developed protective camo of the unpleasantly prickly emotional kind-- I need some gasp of fictional worlds or I'll go mad in this one. I need to read about the monsters in the shadows of makebelieve, or I'm going to start seeing them in the long dark of ancient trees and dying towns.

Plus my wife loves your work too and her birthday is coming up. I could totally give it to her as a pre-Birthday present, actually, if that would be acceptable under the terms of the contest; we call our working stress ties, at this point.