Caption Contest, Part 1 of ???
06/29/2009 02:53 PM
BUG BOY hits stores in a little over three weeks. And here I am staring at a bunch of not-yet-available hardcover copies of it. What's an author to do?
I'll tell you what this author is going to do. He is going to have a caption contest! Now, I'd love to judge your captions (or have a panel of judges) and pick the best one, but that is just way too subjective and time-consuming. Anyhow, I'd love to get these copies out into the world ASAP so I am going to pick a winner at random on 7/6/2009.
Here is the photo you should give me a caption for:
There are 2 ways to win:
1) post a caption in the comments below (one caption per person please!)
or
2) point people toward my contest on your own blog/social networking site outlet and let me know about it here with a link. It's tough for me to track a Twitter tweet, so cut and paste your tweet in your comment, please!
And if you don't win this time around, have no fear. I plan on doing a different contest each week from now until BUG BOY comes out.
Hooray for Google Alerts
06/29/2009 12:37 PM
For those of you who are not familiar with Google Alerts, it is a free service of Google where they alert you when certain keywords or strings of keywords appear someplace on the Internet. I have Alerts installed for my name, book titles, etc. Google Alerts has helped me find reviews I might never otherwise have seen, like the one by the Assembly on Literature for Asolescents (ALAN).
Another fun thing you can do with Google Alerts is attract neurotic authors to your own blog. They're like hungry flies looking for that elusive lump of sugar. Here, watch:
Lisa Yee, author of Absolutely MAybe
John Green, author of Looking for Alaska
David Lubar, author of all the Weenies bookks
Barry Lyga, author of Boy Toy
Jordan Sonnenblick, author of Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
David MacInnes Gill, author of Soul Enchilada
Julia DeVillers, author of Liberty Porter
Let's see who responds first.
I also love Google Alerts because I get to learn about how I've done so many other noteworthy things around the globe. I am on lots of high-school honor rolls, have bowled plenty of perfect 300 games, am an accomplished swimmer, play college football and have been featured in some movie called the The Tulse Luper Suitcases (has anyone actually seen this?). So, rock on, Eric Luper!
New Author Pics
06/24/2009 05:43 PM
Chris Sawicki of Sawicki Studios comes through again with some excellent photographs. Here is a lo-res of one of my favorites:
Check out some of the others here! Methinks he turned me into a steampunk!
This just in...
06/14/2009 11:53 PM
It seems we have received a subspace communication from the Romulans...
Is this getting to be too much?
Whew... Starfleet Response
06/14/2009 11:45 PM
Thank goodness Starfleet is here to steer us in the right direction...