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Time for another opportunity to win my book, Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds. This is the same contest as last time, with slightly different rules, and you’re promoting a different link this time.  Today, the book went up at Amazon.com with book cover image and all.  This is the link you’ll be promoting.  (If you have your own Amazon Affiliates account, feel free to use your own code. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just use the link as I’ve given it.)

Here are the rules:

Promote the Amazon.com page for Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds. Here are several ways to do that:

  • Publish the link on your blog.
  • Share the post on Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, MySpace, or anywhere else you can think of.
  • Email your friends.
  • Get a megaphone and shout the URL around your neighborhood.
  • Get primo tickets for a football game this weekend, and bring a big sign that will end up on TV.
  • Harry Potter fansite forums and blog comments sections.
  • Any other creative way you can think of.
  • For more examples, see the comments from the last contest.

Once you’ve shared the Amazon.com page, come back here and tell us you did so, and which method you chose, in the comments.  Here’s the fun part: Your name gets entered each time you share the post in one way or another. To add even more incentive Facebook counts for 2 shares (your name gets put in twice).

Feel free to ask questions in the comments or by E-owl.

Deadline for entry is midnight EST on Friday, December 19. Winner will be announced Saturday.

Note: Please be sure you’re sharing the right page.  It’s the one linked here, not the present post that you are reading.  But tell us you shared it in the comments for this post.

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And the winner is…

by Travis Prinzi on December 2, 2008

The winner of the free copy of Harry Potter & Imagination is Arka!

Well done, Arka. It definitely paid to submit the link to so many different sources. Send me an E-Owl and I’ll make sure you get your autographed copy when it’s available.

Everyone else: Stay tuned. Another opportunity approaches.

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Well, you had to know it was coming.  This one’s going to be more involved than the first three, and it’s going to stay open for a couple of days.  The winner of this contest will receive a free, autographed copy of my book, Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds.  

Here’s how you enter.  Publicize the post, “Pre-order Harry Potter & Imagination.”  Any mode of publicity will do, but here are some suggestions:

  • At the bottom of the post, there is a “Share/Save” button. Several of these links are ways to share content: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc.  Any of these will do.  Most require you to have an account with them, but setting one up is usually really easy.
  • Email your friends.
  • Share the post on Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, MySpace, or anywhere else you can think of.
  • Get a megaphone and shout the URL around your neighborhood.
  • Get primo tickets for a football game this weekend, and bring a big sign that will end up on TV.
  • Harry Potter fansite forums and blog comments sections.
  • Any other creative way you can think of.

Once you’ve shared the post, come back here and tell us you did so, and which method you chose, in the comments.  Here’s the fun part: Your name gets entered each time you share the post in one way or another. To add even more incentive, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Facebook all count for 2 shares (your name gets put in twice).

Feel free to ask questions in the comments or by E-owl.  

Deadline for entry is midnight EST on Monday, December 1.  Winner will be announced Tuesday.

Note: Please be sure you’re sharing the right post.  It’s the one linked here, not the present post that you are reading.  But tell us you shared it in the comments for this post.  Confused?  Me too.  Good luck.

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Black Friday Giveaway #3: Beedle the Bard, Take Two!

November 28, 2008

And the winner is: Jim Beeghley!  Jim, send an E-owl, and I’ll get your copy pre-ordered right away!  The Final Black Friday Giveaway, coming right up!

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Black Friday Giveaway #2: Five Harry Potter Movies

November 28, 2008

And the winner, by random drawing is: Shane Deal.  Shane, send an E-owl, and I’ll get these shipped straight you!  Giveaway #3 coming right up!

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Black Friday Giveaway #1: Tales of Beedle the Bard

November 28, 2008

And the winner, by random drawing, is Dragonsinger!  Dragonsinger, send an E-Owl, and I’ll get your copy pre-ordered right away. Stay tuned for the next Black Friday Giveaway!

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October Giveaway #1: Where the Deep Ones Are

October 19, 2008

The first of two spooky October giveaways is here!  With special thanks to revgeorge, this first giveaway Where the Deep Ones Are, a parody of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, written by a Lovecraft fan.  Here’s the description:
Renowned Mythos aficionado Ken Hite retells H P Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” through this parody of [...]

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Caption Contest Poll

September 17, 2008

Update:  Forgot to mention – This poll will automatically close at 7am, EST, on Friday, September 19.  Get your votes in by then!
Here it is!  Two rules:

Don’t vote for your own.
Don’t vote more than once.

That’s it!  The winner, by popular vote, gets the free copy of the 10th Anniversary Sorcerer’s Stone.  
Glad to see all [...]

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Tonight: The Hog’s Head Closed for Repairs 1-2 Hours

September 16, 2008

Update:  It appears any work by Bluehost is done.  I’m having trouble figuring out how to put the poll in the post (I think Matthew knows how to do this?), so I’ll get the poll for the caption contest giveaway up sometime tomorrow.  ~ TJP
I got a note from my host this morning that the site [...]

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And the Winner is…

August 31, 2008

Chelsea!  Congratulations, Chelsea.  By popular vote, you win the August giveaway caption contest.  Send me an E-owl, and I’ll arrange for your Harry Potter Bookplates to be shipped!
Here’s the picture again, with the winning caption:

“You’ll have to BUY MY BOOK for all the details but yes, the fight started when I grabbed Gambon by the hair… did [...]

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August Giveaway Vote

August 29, 2008

All submissions are now in for the caption contest.  Your job, faithful readers, is to vote on the winner of the Harry Potter Bookplates.  All submissions are posted below the break.  You vote by sending an E-Owl with your pick.  You have until midnight EST on Saturday, August 30, and the winner will be announced [...]

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August Giveaway: Harry Potter Bookplates

August 23, 2008

by Travis
Do you lend people your books and never get them back?  Do you love Harry Potter?  Harry Potter can help you solve your problem.  Enter The Hog’s Head August Giveaway and receive 5 packs of Harry Potter bookplates (4 packs are 18 count, 1 pack is a 12 count).  These bookplates let you personalize [...]

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Free Audiobooks: Giveaway Details

July 2, 2008

by Travis
As I announced yesterday, The Hog’s Head is giving away three free audiobooks in the form of Brilliance Audio’s “The Myths Collection.”

Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth: What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them?  Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors [...]

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Reminder: Enter Giveaway Contest!

June 3, 2008

UPDATE:  Because of an unforeseen schedule conflict, I can’t record PubCast #52 tomorrow.  I’ll record Thursday, which means the deadline for entering the Giveaway contest is now 7AM EST Thursday, June 5.
Just a reminder to enter the giveaway contest for the BBC radio dramatization of The Lord of the Rings.  Please note: Signing up for Twitter [...]

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Giveaway – BBC Radio Collection: The Lord of the Rings

June 1, 2008

by Travis
UPDATE: Notice contest deadline date and time changes below.
We’re going to try to do giveaways here at the Hog’s Head at least once a month.  This one’s really exciting: a dramatized BBC production of The Lord of the Rings.  Matthew wrote about this a couple weeks ago.  Here’s a wikipedia entry for the production, and [...]

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Free Book Challenge Changed

March 24, 2008

OK, so either no one wants a free book (which I can’t imagine), or no one wants to have their recording broadcast on the podcast.  So I’m changing the free book challenge:
You have till 7AM EST on Tuesday to just leave a comment on this post.  Any comment.  I’ll put them all into a hat, [...]

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Book Giveaway

March 19, 2008

Update:  Book Giveaway changed.  Just leave a comment in this thread to enter to win. 
I told you I’d be giving away a free copy of Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. I’m going to make entering the contest very simple: leave me a voicemail. The most creative or funny voicemail wins [...]

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