Comments on: There Will Be Shenanigans

By: pedantic peasant

pedantic peasant — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:50:30 +0000

Love your writing.

How about the e-bay bid contest?

You set a particular time on Monday (like 11:59 PM) and the last poster at or before it “times out” is the winner.

You can even add all sorts of nasty codicils, like:

All posts must be over 10 words; or
All posts must be exactly 7 words; or
All posts must be exactly 122 characters (incl. spaces); or
All posts must include a post from a John Scalzi book ; )

OR . . .

All posts must be acrostics of
“Z-O-E-S-S-T-O-R-Y”, and only one word per line is allowed.

Or not …

Have fun, and thanks for the fun you’re giving us!

By: ColtCCO

ColtCCO — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:54:20 +0000

Most glowing review, maybe?

By: DG Lewis

DG Lewis — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:52:35 +0000

I think it’ll go to whoever doesn’t think about the contest.

I just lost.

By: Tinstaafl

Tinstaafl — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:46:24 +0000

Thanks…

Tins…

By: Barrett in Oregon

Barrett in Oregon — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:33:20 +0000

“How come you can’t get them(Tor) to release electronic ARCs?”

By way of answer, let me rephrase that question for you:

“How come you, only one of hundreds of authors under contract to a multinational corporation over whom you exercise no organizational control, can’t get said multinational corporation to embark on a new and (by it) untried business model, presumably by bypassing its several, intractable layers of legal and executive bureaucracy?”

Lol. Ok, I wasn’t really thinking about that part of it. Go work for Baen! :D

By: Harvey the Puca

Harvey the Puca — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:05:56 +0000

John,

May I please have a copy of the ARC of Zoe’s Tales

….Please
…
….
….and Thank you

Harvey the Puca….

By: Tully

Tully — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:38:25 +0000

An LOLScalvi contest?

By: The Pathetic Earthling

The Pathetic Earthling — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:53:27 +0000

How about an amusing and romantic story involving a pork product?

By: Annalee Flower Horne

Annalee Flower Horne — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:54:06 +0000

Or you could give it to a Whatever reader who just graduated from college. Bonus points if it’s their first graduation ever because they dropped out of high school. That’s kind of like becoming a father, right?

…Yeah, I got nothin’.

By: steve davidson

steve davidson — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:37:54 +0000

1. “How come you, only one of hundreds of authors under contract to a multinational corporation over whom you exercise no organizational control, can’t get said multinational corporation to embark on a new and (by it) untried business model, presumably by bypassing its several, intractable layers of legal and executive bureaucracy?”

Yeah. How come?

2. I suggest a contest that consists of the most convincing/humorous argument as to why the recipient should NOT receive an ARC of Zoe’s Tale.