All right my darlings... as my autumn equinox gift to you all, I'm launching a contest.
For those of you who haven't met her yet, I'd like to introduce you to Donna Morrissey. (If you have already been introduced to Donna's work, you are welcome to join in too.)
I am offering a copy of Sylvanus Now -- already ordered for you in trade paper -- to some lucky person.
All you have to do is write something about writing. Easy right? It doesn't matter what. It could be why you write or why you don't, something about the business, the importance of written language, the lost art of letter writing, why you hate communicating through email... whatever. You don't have to be a self-described writer to enter either.
Minimum: 250 words; maximum: as long as you'd like (within reason; let's not get crazy.)
Contest opens right now and closes on September 29, 2007 at midnight (Atlantic time)
All entries will be posted.
All entrants will have their names dropped into a hat and drawn on the 30th. If you win, I'll email you and you'll have to provide an address where I can send you the book.
Please send your entries to me at ideas.chg.world@ns.sympatico.ca. (This is an old account I don't use, so only your lovely entries will go there.)
In case you need further enticement, here's some information on Sylvanus Now, copied from Penguin.
"The time is the 1950s, and the place is Canada’s Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks. Sylvanus Now is a young fisherman of great charm and strength. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport.
"Set against the love story of Addie and Sylvanus is the sea, the Great Mother that is on the cusp of cataclysmic change. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take."
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Shortlist 2006
Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award: Winner 2006
Atlantic Book Awards - Booksellers' Choice Award: Winner 2006
So get writing, have fun and Happy Equinox!
Colleen
For those of you who haven't met her yet, I'd like to introduce you to Donna Morrissey. (If you have already been introduced to Donna's work, you are welcome to join in too.)
I am offering a copy of Sylvanus Now -- already ordered for you in trade paper -- to some lucky person.
All you have to do is write something about writing. Easy right? It doesn't matter what. It could be why you write or why you don't, something about the business, the importance of written language, the lost art of letter writing, why you hate communicating through email... whatever. You don't have to be a self-described writer to enter either.
Minimum: 250 words; maximum: as long as you'd like (within reason; let's not get crazy.)
Contest opens right now and closes on September 29, 2007 at midnight (Atlantic time)
All entries will be posted.
All entrants will have their names dropped into a hat and drawn on the 30th. If you win, I'll email you and you'll have to provide an address where I can send you the book.
Please send your entries to me at ideas.chg.world@ns.sympatico.ca. (This is an old account I don't use, so only your lovely entries will go there.)
In case you need further enticement, here's some information on Sylvanus Now, copied from Penguin.
"The time is the 1950s, and the place is Canada’s Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks. Sylvanus Now is a young fisherman of great charm and strength. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport.
"Set against the love story of Addie and Sylvanus is the sea, the Great Mother that is on the cusp of cataclysmic change. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take."
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Shortlist 2006
Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award: Winner 2006
Atlantic Book Awards - Booksellers' Choice Award: Winner 2006
So get writing, have fun and Happy Equinox!
Colleen
1 comment:
Hi Colleen,
I'm enjoying your blog, which I found through both Stephen and Richard's blogs.
No way will I ever suffer from orthoriexia nervosa! I have my Hershey habit well under control, sort of, although Reece's Peanut Butter Cups are another story.
My Tarot card is the Sun and I'm a Gemini-phobic Pisces, (take that, Stephen) (just kidding) so in some mystical way, you and I balance each other.
See you again.
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