Free Books!! Announcing The MindTweaks Comment Contest

My BookShelf Makeover has turned up a significant number of tomes in need of new homes.

Meanwhile, back on the blog, comments have tapered off.

I know, I know… it’s summer, and you all have lives, but I miss you, dangnabbit! Plus, the whole Reader Appreciation Project thing keeps spinning ’round in the back of my mind. I *am* appreciative, you know.

So I’ve been thinking…. Three Birds, One stone…

Then it hit me. No, not the stone, the solution.

We’ll have a Comment Contest!

Each week of August, I’ll wade through my thousands *cough* of comments and choose a winner. Some weeks the winner will be randomly pulled from a hat. Some weeks I may pick the most prolific, insightful, humorous commentor, or I may pick the person who started/carried on the best conversation.

“But what’s the prize,” you ask?

You didn’t really need to ask. It’s in the post title.

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Free Books!!

Yay.
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So here’s how it works:

1. At the beginning of each contest week, I’ll list 10 books off of my shelf. And lemme tell you, I’ve got some pretty dang cool books to offer. (At least I think they’re cool!)
2. During the week, you comment (leave a valid email address, please)
3. At the end of the week, I’ll choose and notify the winner, at my own discretion. Unless otherwise noted, the winner will be a random commentor, though I reserve the right to name additional winners.
4. The winner(s) get to pick one of the books.
   For Free.
   Including Domestic US postage costs.
   (International shipping is a bit pricey, but if you’re willing to cover the cost, I’ll be happy to see if we can work it out)

If the winner doesn’t want to take delivery on the book themselves (or doesn’t reply to my notification email) I’ll make sure the book gets “in the wild” to be found by someone else, ala BookCrossing.

At the end of each weekly contest, the remaining books will usually be placed for sale on Amazon, where you’ll have a second chance to pick up anything you really really wanted.

The contest isn’t active yet. I need to nail down the rules first and wanted to get your input first.

So what do you think? See any potential problems I’m missing? Have any suggestions? Just want me to get on with it so you can get your chance at a book?