geekyThis is the first giveaway. It is open to all, with the caveat that if you are outside the United States, you must be willing to pay postage if you win. I am sorry about that, but I can't afford international postage right now. If that's cool with you, yay! If it's not, I really am sorry, and hopefully will win the lottery soon.
To enter, leave a comment with your location (US/non-US), and what super power you would have if you lived in Velveteen's universe. Winners will be selected via random number generator, BUT! If you don't include everything above, you cannot win.
I will randomly select a winner on Sunday, November 18th, so that I can mail the book before Thanksgiving.
Good luck! Game on!
November 14 2012, 17:56:38 UTC 4 years ago
I've often thought about (comparatively) serious superpowers I could have, like the ability to make anyone incapable of deception to or about persons for whom they have no empathy, which I could then employ upon the halls of Congress so I could sit back and watch the fun. Or teleportation, which would be really really handy when it came to visiting out-of-state friends and family. But in the Velveteen universe, that's not nearly fun enough. So...
I'm thinking The Editor, whose superpower would be to take any recorded medium such as television or film, and to basically change or improve it according to my desires. Photographer got the wrong angle? The pixels conform to my desire and choose a better, more dramatic angle, fixing the underexposure and color along the way. Camera op cuts away just before the dramatic kiss? Somehow, the kiss is back in the finished video of the play. Oh, and *always* pointed in the right direction to catch the amazing or hilarious occurrence. Bonus points for being so far under the radar that Super Patriots doesn't really notice it's there.