{"id":537,"date":"2009-03-27T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-04-20T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:29:15","slug":"celebration-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/celebration-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration! Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-542 alignnone\" title=\"20090327adfbooks\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090327adfbooks.jpg\" alt=\"As Darkness Falls books\" width=\"284\" height=\"189\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s plenty to celebrate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s autumn here, a beautiful season with just a hint of cool in the air;<\/li>\n<li>Mother&#8217;s Day is coming up, and I have a wonderful mother (hi, Mum!);<\/li>\n<li>Dark Country is written, currently in the copy-edit stage, and the cover is beautiful;<\/li>\n<li>As Darkness Falls is selling steadily, and I have my first royalty statement with a figure at the bottom in the positive territory;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve received some wonderful positive feedback, reviews and emails from readers about the book &#8211; thank you!;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started on book 3;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll probably have covers for the UK and German editions of ADF soon;<\/li>\n<li>and As Darkness Falls will be out in the B-format edition and on Australian shop shelves next week!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To celebrate all of that, I&#8217;m giving away <strong>three<\/strong> As Darkness Falls prize packs &#8211; each containing a signed copy of As Darkness Falls; three 5&#8243;x7&#8243; Australian wildflower photos taken by DH and I, suitable for framing (frame not included); a handwoven bookmark; and some chocolate. (Because there should always be chocolate, right?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-544 alignleft\" title=\"20090327flowerphotos\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090327flowerphotos.jpg\" alt=\"20090327flowerphotos\" width=\"153\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090327flowerphotos.jpg 201w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090327flowerphotos-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><br \/>\nA perfect gift for yourself, or &#8211; if you already have ADF &#8211; for a special mother or friend.<\/p>\n<p>The contest will run until April 19th, and I&#8217;ll draw the winners on April 20th. Prizes will be posted during that week, so should arrive in good time for Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>To enter, simply fill in the form below, before 19th April. All entries will go into the prize draw. As long as you live on this planet, with an address a postal service delivers to, you&#8217;re eligible to enter. But please enter only once!<\/p>\n<p>As an extra &#8216;thank you&#8217; to my supportive readers,\u00a0 if you&#8217;ve reviewed ADF, or mentioned it on a blog, or added it to your LibraryThing\/Shelfari\/GoodReads library or wishlist, or otherwise supported the book in a public forum, let me know on the entry form, and I&#8217;ll give you an extra entry in the prize draw \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As usual, because I respect your privacy, I won&#8217;t sell, give away or otherwise do anything nasty with your email address.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This contest is now closed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s plenty to celebrate: it&#8217;s autumn here, a beautiful season with just a hint of cool in the air; Mother&#8217;s Day is coming up, and I have a wonderful mother (hi, Mum!); Dark Country is written, currently in the copy-edit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/celebration-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}