Lovely present and future readers of With Extra Pulp, It has been exactly one year since I began the treacherous and harrowing journey into the blogosphere. I’ve had many blogs since I discovered LiveJournal as a naive and, well, let’s face it, angsty fifteen-year-old, but this one lasted the longest. It’s my favourite.
To celebrate my One Year Blogiversary, I’m hosting a totally rad giveaway. It’s international, because well, I have too many Yanky-doodle and Pommy-licious readers to ignore. (Plus, according to GetClicky, some Google-strays from Sweden, Belgium and Spain. Rad.)
Prizes were picked based on books I read in 2009 that I loved, and zines, because not many people seemed to know what these are. Aaaaand, just because I love to pimp out Aussie lit journals, each prize pack will also contain an excellent new um, Aussie lit journal. The awesome folks from Kill Your Darlings have kindly sponsored this leg of the booty (Thanks Kill Your Darlings team!)
Awesomundo Prize Pack No. 1: Superheroes and Their Tight Tight Pants.
1 x Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
1 x Deadpool comic
1 x First Issue of Kill Your Darlings
As you all know, superheroes and supervillains are so cool it’s hard to find the words to describe just how cool. Soon I will be invincible looks like it was meant to be a comic book, but it’s not. It’s an entertaining novel. About superheroes. Me likey.
Deadpool goes in here because, um, I heart Deadpool. He’s such a smartarse. And compares himself to Ryan Reynolds (which is hilarious, if anyone saw a little movie called Wolverine: X-Men Origins). And then later, he teams up with Cable and they get some great banter going. So yep, you get a copy of an issue of Deadpool. Which one? You’ll have to wait and see.
Awesomundo Prize Pack No. 2: Dirty Stinkin’ Beats
1 x Howl by Allen Ginsberg
a few x Zines from Sticky
1 x Kill Your Darlings
I get made fun of for my *cough*small*cough* obsession with the Beat Generation. You can all shut your faces now, because I’m giving away a free copy of Ginsberg’s Howl and other poems. Put it on your bookshelf or next to your bed. It should impress potential lovers and friends (well, potential lovers and friends with street cred). Or you could, I dunno, read it.
This prize also includes a selection of zines from the Sticky Institute Zine Fair. Don’t think of it as second-hand. Think of it as “personally handpicked for this special prize by the ever so tasteful Elena”. Now, doesn’t that sound much better?
Awesomundo Prize Pack No. 3: Aussie. Sort of.
1 x Romeo of the Underworld by Veny Armanno
1 x handmade zine
1 x Kill Your Darlings
This one’s a little different from the others. I’ve picked one of my favourite reads of 2009, by one of my absolute favourite writers, who happens to be Sicilian-Australian. Romeo of the Underworld by Venero Armanno. This book holds fond memories for me. I bought it on a family trip to Maleny last year from a gorgeous bookshop that could’ve been straight out of a European film, with its wooden floorboards, and its lingering smell of toast. Except it was in Queensland wine country. So it is second hand, but in excellent condition (no doggy ears or post-it rips. Yippee).
And, because I’m sticking with the theme of this particular prize pack, you could also win a HAND MADE ZINE by yours truly. zomgwtfbbq. I’m only ‘sort of’ Australian (born overseas). Okay some people might feel like they’re getting ripped off with this last prize pack. It’s self-indulgent and self-congratulatory and not a little uppity. Why the hell would you want my battered and read book (I mean battered emotionally, not physically)? Why the effing hell would you want a crappy handmade zine by yours truly, the epitome of artistically-challenged? Because this particular prize has HEART. And HEART is the thing that wins Oscars and makes people cry and spreads the love. Gush time over. It’s not that bad a prize. Please don’t cry if you win this. It would suck big time.
Boring stuff, aka The Rules:
- Leave a comment answering the following question
Would you rather be
a) A half-titanium cyborg with intimacy issues?
b) a grizzly-faced poet whose words land him in court?
c) caught in a messy love triangle with your mate, a beautiful woman, and your Sicilian temper?
And then tell us why.
- Tweet* about this giveaway (+3 entries) (include URL in your comment)
- Blog about this giveaway (+6 entries) (include URL in your comment)
- Subscribe to this blog on RSS (+1 entry) (let me know in the comment if you are a subscriber)
- The competition will end on at 11.59pm AEDST (GMT+11) on Friday 19th March.
- Three winners will be selected at random and announced on Monday 22nd March
* Only your first tweet will gain you extra entries. Spamming is lame.
Good luck!
Sorry I couldn’t get this to you guys sooner. I drew the winners randomly using random.org and…
