Cross-posted from "Pop Sensation"
Welcome to "Pop Sensation"'s "PAPERBACK 250 CONTEST"
[see Contest Rules, below]
Welcome to "Pop Sensation"'s "PAPERBACK 250 CONTEST"
[see Contest Rules, below]
Paperback 250: Bantam 718 (1st ptg, 1949)
Title: Death Warmed Over
Author: Mary Collins
Cover artist: Gilbert Fullington
Contest Rules:
- Best comment or caption in 140 characters (or fewer) wins not only this book, but Paperbacks 251 and 252 as well.
- Contest will run from now until 8 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 3, 2009.
- One entry per contestant, please.
- Contestants are encouraged to submit entries as Tweets on Twitter (@rexparker), but emails to rexparker [at] mac [dot] com will also be accepted (please send any questions about contest to that email address as well).
- Keep in mind that a "character" is any single letter, punctuation mark, or blank space. Concision is your friend. But feel free to get creative with the abbreviations.
- Comments will be disabled for the duration of the contest.
- Winner and first and second runners-up will be announced by noon Friday, at which time the best entries (and possibly all entries, depending on how many there are) will be posted for all to see.
Your Panel of Judges:
- Me
- Maughta, creator of the fabulous blog for book cover lovers/haters, "Judge a Book By Its Cover"
- Michael 5000, creator of the fabulous blog for the dork lifestyle, "The Life and Times of Michael 5000"
Prizes:
- Grand Prize: Paperbacks 250, 251, and 252
- 1st Runner-up: two cool but very beat-up paperbacks from outside my official collection + 1 copy of the recent comic "Barack the Barbarian"
- 2nd Runner-up: one cool but very beat-up paperback from outside my official collection + 1 copy of the recent comic "Barack the Barbarian"
Best of luck, and tell a friend...
~RP
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