Contest Results

Okay, so the drawing didn't have the resounding success I'd hoped. Maybe the suggested prizes weren't attractive. *shrug* First time for everything, ya know.

Anyway, from the 6 lovely and wonderful unique commenters I've had over the past few days, the winner is...

Alex

Don't shoot me. I didn't do the drawing. It was totally blind. I just wrote names on pieces of paper, folded them very tiny, and tossed them to my daughter. All but one of them landed on her chair, and she picked the one paper that ended up on the floor. Alex's name was only in once like everyone else. Honest.

So, thus ends the failed drawing this time around. Maybe the next one will be better. Next time I'll have some other prizes - new fiction maybe or a free proofread of X number of pages. Something.

Alex? I'll talk to you later about your prize. (I promise it won't be a jacket with pretty buckles and it won't be a toaster.)

10000 Pageviews

I was just checking out my stats (btw, Google Analytics rocks), and I noticed I've reached 10 thousand pageviews. So, in honor of this momentous milestone, I'm going to hold a drawing.

Each new commenter between this post and my posting time on Friday, June 8th will be entered into a drawing for their choice of the following books:

On Writing by Stephen King

or

Agents, Editors and You from Writer's Digest Books

(If you're not interested in either, let me know and we'll work something out.)

Unfortunately, I can only ship to people in the United States. My apologies to my friends in the UK, and my visitors from all over the world. If you'd like to comment anyway, just let me know you're from another country, and I'll keep your name out of the drawing.

Thanks everyone who stopped by. I hope you keep coming back.

(Caveat: Because I run a bookstore, if the book you want comes up out of stock, you'll get a gracious apology and a comparably priced book from my store.)