Win a unique copy of Lost Gods
Too many people toss the word unique around without understanding its meaning. I don’t. And the word applies to a new contest offered up by author Drew Beatty.
He’s currently releasing Lost Gods as a free serialized audiobook. It will come out in print soon, and here’s where the contest — and the word unique — comes into play. As Drew says:
… for [this contest], I will make up three alternative covers [for the print book]. These [books] will be limited to ONE COPY EACH! So, if you win, you will be the owner of a unique, ONE OF A KIND copy of Lost Gods, signed personally to you from yours truly. So, you can have the only copy with Puck, Coyote or Kanene gracing the cover. I think that is pretty cool.
I will also name a character in the print copy of the book after you. Come on, that’s pretty cool (not one of the main characters, though. That would just be nutty.)
How Do You Enter?
Just email drewbeatty(@)gmail.com (remove brackets) with the link, image, or whatever proof you have that you have helped spread the word! For every link or effort, you get another entry in the contest. 10 links = 10 chances to win!
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Good on you, Evo, for standing up for the true meaning of “unique” (which is irreplacable when “unique” comes to mean “unusual” or just “something I want to draw attention to”).
Now, can I offer you an easy way to remember the difference between “its” and “it’s”?
Just substitute “his” or “he’s” into the sentence and use the same number of apostrophes. In the example in this post, “…without understanding his meaning”. So there is no apostrophe in “…without understanding its meaning”.
It’s important. (He’s important.)
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Shit. Fixed. That’s a mistake I used to make all the time, never understanding the rule. I learned it years ago, but by then the muscle memory of adding the apostrophe as I type was ingrained. I catch my self typing it all the time. Grumble grumble…