On the thirteenth day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...

1. Comment!

2. I am in the US.

3. I hope it is BPAL stuff.

4. I do not hope the prize is a poster.

5. Because I am a good person who always places my D&D dice with the highest number facing up in order to keep them happy. Only very bad dice are ever punished in the freezer.

1. It's time for Lovecraftian parodies of Christmas carols.
2. I have a U.S. shipping address.
3. A collection of "With Friends Like These" comic strips.
4. A live reptile. Sure they're cute, but shipping them is a nuisance.
5. It would make me happy.

1. Hello!
2. Canadian and happy to pay postage!
3. Wicked Girls CD!
4. One of the migrating spiders from California...
5. Because I am totally good at getting Jedi mind tricks to work on intangible computer programs!

I hope the prize is a custom haiku or limerick.
I hope it's not a custom sestina or villanelle -- I recall those forms being quite the pain in the ass.
The RNG should pick me because I am a strange attractor. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I am in the US but would be okay with paying postage.

One thing I hope the prize is: a copy of Wicked Girls because I don't have a copy yet.

One thing I hope the prize is not: a rabid Tasmanian devil to be placed in my trousers. (Confused?)

The RNG should pick me because of my love for mad music and crazt comedy.

I'm sad this giveaway is over... :(
I'm International with a US mailing address so no additional postage charge necessary.
I wish it was a signed copy of Rosemary and Rue. I really love that book.
I hope it's not a copy of the Winter Long because I already have a copy of that.
I wish the RNG would pick me because I haven't won anything yet.

Pretty please...

Thank for the giveaway!

I hope the prize is a hand-drawn picture of the characters in the October Daye series (I mean how cool would that be!) or a signed first edition of Rosemary & Rue!

I hope it isn't socks. lol

The RNG should pick me because I seriously need some happy news!

This is a comment and oooh a mystery item! *shakes the box to guess what's inside*

I hope that the item is another mysterious somehow arc copy of Chaos Choreography, cause the idea of that book still rocks my socks.
I hope that the item is not a box of venomous snakes, because I do not have anything to counteract the venom if I decided to cuddle them.
The RNG should pick me because, well... I'm not anymore special than anyone else, but I've never won an RNG before and I'd like to think I have a lucky number this time around.

Hello! I am in the US. I hope the prize is another copy of Chaos Choreography, because oh do I adore the Price-Healys, and I can't wait for more Antimony. I hope the prize ISN'T a copy of any of your other books because I already own them all. And the RNG should pick me because I am saying pretty pretty please with sugar on top.

I'm in the US!
I would love it if it was the first Indexing, or the fourth of either the Toby or Cryptids books, because that's where I am in those series.
I wouldn't like it to be the latest of anything, since I'm not caught up!
The RNG should pick me because it wants me to buy the rest of your books. ;)

So nice I didn't win A Red-Rose Chain kinda hope maybe it would be that or more signed Toby books. Since it's my all-time favorite series.
Hoping it's not a clown, since I would scream in terror and have nightmares.
RNG should pick me because I've been a very good girl this year *fingers crossed* and have eaten all my vegetables... I've also got blackmail photos of it so it should beware.

1. Hello.
2. I am in the UK and am willing to pay Intl shipping.
3. A copy of a Velveteen vs book.
4. Thomas, I hope this isn't an excuse for you to send Thomas on vacation! 😉
5. The RNG works through random selection. Random = Chaos. Chaos = Hisham, therefore I am!

1. Comment!
2. I am in the USA!
3. A book of yours I'd enjoy (I've been thinking about picking up the Incryptid series, because cryptids are awesome and I could use a new series by an author I trust, but I /know/ I really love the Toby books & would like physical copies since mine are all ebooks... especially A Red Rose Chain because Walther. So I guess an Incryptid or Toby book?)
4. Spiders. Because eep.
5. Because I am having the worst December and may be about to have my water cut off and could therefore use some happy. Not, mind, that I expect a random number generator to care when I make kicked-puppy faces at it, but it'd be nice to have something nice happen this month.

1. Commenting!
2. In the US
3. The full set of Parasitology books (A girl can dream, right?)
4. A poster. We are moving to a smaller place, and I'm not sure I have wall space left.
5. I am frequently random.

1. To enter, comment on this post.

And lo, it was done!

2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.

Both non-NorAm (Australia) and willing to pay postage for a nifty thing direct from one of my favourite authors.

3. Tell me one thing you hope the prize is. (ETA: Please only ask for things I might actually have. I can't give you a new job or world peace. I wish I could.)

Something said author finds both exceedingly nifty and yet able to part with. I cannot currently some up with anything more detailed than that.

4. Tell me one thing you hope the prize is not.

Having just an hour or so ago having finished Pocket Apocalypse I really hope it is not a Drop Bear (plenty of those here already), a werewolf, or, gods forbid, a werewolf Drop Bear. See difficulty rating: Haha, fuck NO.

5. Tell me why the RNG should pick you.

I'm stuck at home recovering from surgery and not really in anything more than mild discomfort, yet still unable to wear glasses (or sunglasses, and thus can't go outside during daytime), or headphones (and thus can't watch movies/TV easily on the computer, nor chat with friends.)

Basically, I'm not quite "Klytus, I'm bored!" but I can clearly see it from here, and I've already blown through A Red-Rose Chain, Half-Off Ragnarok and the aforementioned Pocket Apocalypse since Wednesday.

tl;dr: I would be immensely grateful should the RNG grace my comment with it's random beneficence.

Here I am, (1) commenting on this post, from (2) somewhere in the US, hoping for (3) something interesting or cool, so long as it isn't (4) a living or formerly living animal or thing too many legs, because (5) I could use something to break through the winter sads.

1. Thank you for all your Hogswatch giveaways.
2. In the US.
3. I hope the prize is a copy of One Salt Sea.
4. I hope the prize is not something you would rather have kept.
5. The RNG should pick me because my dog thought One Salt Sea was very tasty. It was so tasty that she just couldn't help herself and chewed the corner off.

1. Hello!

[There is no 2. because I live in the midwest]

3. So ... I have a bit of a story with this one. My wife, two daughters, son, and I moved to Indiana a few years ago. We dumb-lucked ourselves into an amazing house a bit over two years ago (real estate is cheap in Indiana, and we got lucky). I'd be happy to go on and on and on, but the short story is: it's 10 acres, 1.5 mies from where we work. The house itself is a Cape Cod with lots of bedrooms. There's a 2-acre field in back where I mow paths for the kids to play in (my older daughter designed them this year based on Little House on the Prairie). The kids have watched birds of prey do their thing just because it's a Tuesday. We really fell in love with the place, though, when we saw the stream the runs along the South side of our property. On the edge of ~6 acres of our woods (surrounded by more of the neighbors' woods), and the water is healthy and walkable. You turn over the rocks, you find caddisfly larvae. You poke in the rocks, you immediately find 450-million year old fossils (mostly Ordovician horn coral, lots of bivalves, etc.). It freezes over in the winter, and the kids get to walk down the stream to see the limestone seep. It's basically our own little Knowe, but we don't know what to name it. I study diffusion in biological membranes, but my wife nixed Membrane Manor for "obvious" reasons. Caddis Coral Cove seems a bit overblown as far as names go. My wife is a phylogeneticist, and studies birds of all sorts. She also studies ancient Indiana creatures, like the giant beaver (really! They were a thing, not just a bad line at a cocktail party!). Giant Beaver Downs doesn't quite seem like the right name either, somehow. So, deep in my heart, I'm hoping that the prize is "Seanan helps you name something!"

4. Something that's more effort for you than it's worth. Seriously, these things are amazing, and I'm just glad you don't burn out.

5. Because I've taught students how to write pseudorandom number generators! Perhaps one of them has written the one you're using, and has a soft spot in their heart for me?

1. This is a comment.
2. I am not international but would pay postage anyway?
3. I really hope it's a copy of one of the out of print albums.
4. Please do not let the prize involve spiders. That would be scary and off-putting.
5. It's been a really difficult year. I could use some cheer in my December. Right, RNG?

1. ) Comment
2. ) Not int'l
3. ) A shirt of some kind, or Chaos Choreography ARC.
4. ) Zombie plague. We're already sick here. Please don't make us the zombie virus vector. ;)
5. ) Because 666, that's why.

US Address
I hope the prize is a piece of jewelry made from the pages from an ARC.
I hope the prize is not something made from Alice and Thomas' shed fur.
The RNG should pick me because my birthday was on Tuesday, so it's my month!