NOW CLOSED Vampire Haiku Contest - October 15 - October 31st

When Kimberly Pauley was at the La Vista Library I saw her speak which was lots of fun. Got to find out some of the background behind the books. One interesting fact that Mina's eyes in the second book were originally supposed to be green but the cover made them blue and it was cheaper to go back and change the color in the book versus the cover so thus she has blue eyes now. I was also able to get a set of signed books for myself and for one lucky person who wins this contest that I'll be having from October 15 - October 31st.

One set of books for me and one set for the winner of the Vampire Haiku contest, along with some cool tattoos and a bookmark.

Some examples as written by Brandy the tiny reverse vampire: 

 At night fangs we grow                  Sire by your hand

 Blood is the food that we seek         I awake to walk the night

 Scared men true fast food               Lead my thirst away

Blood gore fangs delight

Marks of the world of the night

Spared from mortal blight 

Haikus will be judged by me and my sister Brandy aka the tiny reverse vampire, we'll announce the winner on Halloween.

Here's what author Kimberly Pauley had to say about the contest, http://www.kimberlypauley.com/2010/10/15/vampire-haiku-contest-at-bibliognome/

Contest is open internationally, and only the best haiku will win.

Rules to enter:

1.) Haikus must be in 5-7-5 form.

2.) Write your haiku along with your name email address in the comments.  If you don't want to leave your email address leave your Twitter, or Facebook details.  Just make sure I'm able to contact you if you win.
3.) You don't have to follow the blog to win, but feel free to follow if you like what you see and leave any comments on reviews or posts that you find interesting.  :)
4.) Giveaway will end on October 31st at 11:59 PM. (Central Time) 

                            

Super Saturday

Today was great, got to see Kimberly Pauley at the La Vista Public Library.

 

This was a lot of fun and I got two sets of books signed.  So that means a contest soon for a signed set of books :)

The meeting was lot of fun with a bunch of questions getting answered and hearing some interesting info about the books.  Such as a little story about the Spanish version of Sucks To Be Me which has a footnote saying that one of the teachers names means Ms. Vagina (apparently tweeter is a slang word the author wasn't familiar with) this demonstrates well that things are not easily changed after a book is out in the world.  Even got to hear what the title of the third book if she gets to write it,  Sucks to be Moi. 

There was some great pizza to eat for lunch and then the writing workshop started.  The group there came up with a rather special story about an Asian girl and a boy with naturally blue hair who just happens to be gay and a half merman.  These two are on a quest to save the boys mother.  So a rather interesting story...

Then came the fun of the ticket drawing for prizes and the book signing.  I won another copy of the 2nd book, which is why I got two complete sets of her books signed.  :)  Also won another prize, a bag, which I traded for a cool signed poster which shows the cover of the first book.

Overall an interesting/fun time.  :)