The Girl With the Blog Contest

Category: dribblings

okay kids, it’s like this:

to promote the U.S. release of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played With Fire, (sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Knopf Publishing (a division of Random House) has asked some bloggers to hold contests on they’re blogs (the contests are blogger’s choice) and they will provide the prizes for said contest. the prizes are a copy of The Girl Who Played With Fire and some temporary dragon tattoos.

all of this should have gone down back in May, i think, because the book came out in July.

they left me a comment in July about it and that’s when i signed up for the contest figuring why not? it could be fun. then i never heard back from anyone. i had to leave a phone number and an e-mail addy, but i didn’t hear either way if i was in the contest or not. so i figured either i had not responded in time, or that they went back and read my review of the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and figured maybe i wasn’t the fan they thought i was. (it was a good book, but since it’s this huge international best seller i thought it should’ve been better or at least less annoying than it was. still, i wanted to read the sequel.)

then, last week, out of nowhere a copy of the book was on my doorstep (the envelope had been ripped open and taped back together. shenanigans?) so hey, contest on! however, there was a note inside saying they were out of the tattoos and as soon as they get some more printed up they’ll mail them. i’ve yet to get the tattoos.

so it seems a bit slapdash and late, AND i’ve yet to receive the tattoos, but i figure i better go ahead and post this contest or they’ll think i was just trying to scam a free book out of them. which i’m not. i had the library order a copy and that’s the copy i’m currently reading. so if you win, know that the copy i send you is fresh and unread!

The Girl Who Played With Fire Contest

the rules:
i’m lazy and cheap, and i will only mail this thing as far as the continental U.S. (sorry Alaska, Hawaii, and Iraq!)

all you have to do to enter is make up a title/plot/book cover (your choice. or do all three, however far you want to take it) of a fake Swedish crime fiction book and e-mail it to me (fleegan at gmail dot com).

the funniest one wins. remember, i’m a sucker for clever too.

if they send the tattoos (depending on how many there are) the first place will get the book and a tattoo and the runners-up will get tattoos (once again, depending on how many tats there are.) yes, slapdash, but i’m working with what they give me.

since there are only about 6 of you who regularly visit this site, i see no real problems other than the fact that the 6 of you don’t read Scandinavian crime fiction and probably don’t care a thing about winning this book. but hey, maybe now’s the time for you to get interested in international crime fiction, yeah?

today is the 6th of August, so let’s say that the contest ends on the 6th of September 2009. yay!

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