Giveaway: The Internet is a Playground
June 23, 2011Hey, you! Yes, you. Not those other people. Screw them. This is between the two of us.
First of all, I wanted to alert you to the exciting news that we have begun updating the Let's Panic About Babies site once again, and will continue to do so. This week we have a delightful guide to summer camps. Is your child better suited to Camp Bleeding Fist, or Mario Batali's Camp Abbondanza? There's only one way to find out!
Secondly, I wanted to say: hey, we wrote a book. Perhaps you remember it? Well, it turns out, when you write a book, your work is not done. You have to keep selling it and selling it. And then selling it some more. Keep selling! No you cannot take a break. How dare you.
So I'm trying to think of ways I can tell the world that they need our book, and what better way than to ask you, my people, to help? NO STOP DON'T GO I HAVE CANDY.
(I do not actually have candy.)
Here's what I'm going to offer. I happen to have two copies of David Thorne's new book, The Internet is a Playground. And I am going to give one of them to one of you. Not both. I need a copy for me, sorry. If you're familiar at all with David Thorne's site, you know that he is probably the funniest writer on the web, a fact that makes me very angry. The book is even funnier, goddammit. I highly, highly recommend that you let me give one of you a copy.
(Full disclosure: David Thorne sent me a copy, because he is great, and then the publisher sent me a second copy because I think someone messed up, but I wasn't about to complain about it. He has not asked me to do this giveaway. I have my own ideas!)
To be in the running for this hilarious book, all I ask is that you do something to tell people about our book, and then tell me what you did in the comments. I don't require a grand gesture. Write a review on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Recommend it on Twitter. Mention it on Facebook. "Like" our Amazon page. Throw your copy out the window at someone's head and shout, "Read this, sucker!" For reasons you can I'm sure understand, I'd prefer it if you went the social-media route and not the hitting-people way. It can be whatever you like. Just tell me what it is in the comments. I'm using the honor system, here. I will not check up on you. That is how much trust I have. I am so trusting. Like a lamb. Lambs aren't suspicious, right? I don't imagine they are. I bet they don't even know what the honor system is. They just live it.
The only thing I ask is, don't give me some thing you did in the past, like, "I already told my sister to buy your book. Pay up!" I'm asking for a little something now. Just a little something.
Oh, and if you spread the word in more than one way, you can comment more than once. If you promote the book in ten different ways, you can comment ten times. There's no end to it.
Also, I will give you a bookplate sticker, specially inscribed to you, that you can put in your copy of Let's Panic About Babies. You have a copy already, I'm assuming. (I mean, you can put it in The Internet is a Playground, but I think we can all agree that that wouldn't make any sense.) If you don't, you can stick it on your shirt. And pretend I made you a custom t-shirt. I really don't care.
I will randomly choose a winner from the comments. Winners can be from ANYWHERE, none of that U.S./Canada nonsense. The winner will be announced next Thursday. Thank you in advance for your patience and for being the best, etc. etc.
Reader Comments (42)
Just posted a shout out on Twitter! Hope it helps sell that amazing book!
Just posted it on my FB!I'm trying to spread the love!
Just posted a shout-out on Twitter! Even advised it as a purchase for all those annoying men who say "we" are pregnant.
(Also bought it for a coworker a few weeks ago, but I know that doesn't count!)
I told my sister-in-law, who is currently panicking about her new baby.
Amazon reviewed! I'm disappointed by the people who gave it bad reviews because of the rude humor. I don't give their boring non-rude-humor books bad reviews. If I did, I'd never have time for anything else.
I did it! I shared on FB and I mentioned that I like your hair.
OK.
Someone funnier than you?
Actually?
This, I have to see.
I'll give him a shot.
What the hell.
tweeted and facebooked! Can't wait to wear my custom made t-shirt! :)
Lisa
I just wrote a 4 line jingle on my guitar! I haven't sung it for anyone yet, but I will tomorrow!
I will link on Facebook. Right. Now!
I just suggested to my cat that she might enjoy your book. (And I also told a pregnant friend that she might enjoy it.)
just told my husband and sister-in-law that i might have to put it on the baby registry along with let's panic...
Mheh. Twitter is cheap, and I'm sure your book is as funny as your blog. If I win, can I get a copy of your book, too? ;)
Is David the guy who had a post once where he talked back and forth with some crazy chick and as she got nuttier, he got funnier? She was missing a cat or a dog or something and the thing was so funny I wanted to end my life.
Please answer me in a private email because A. I am special and B. You know everything.
I think that you'd make a great guest on The Parent Experiment Podcast... http://www.adamcarolla.com/TPEBlog/
i bought it for a friend's baby shower, then kept it! i don't even have a baby! and i told my mother about how funny and smart you and eden are. are we on first-name basis? how about now? and i told my sister-in-law too.
Okay, I have a massive crush on David Thorne (I've told my husband, but he laughs his ass off at David's website too, so I think it's okay), and I would love to win a copy of his book. Seriously, if you go to my blog, the first thing you'll see listed in the sidebar under the heading "Things That Make Me Happy" (even before my children or husband) is 27bslash6.
Plan on me plastering this post with comments as I pester everyone I know to buy your book (a) because it's awesome and (b) because I really want a copy of The Internet is a Playground. And I just recommended your book to my cousin, who just had her first child a week ago.
I think you are equally hilarious as David Throne. Just saying.
I tweeted about your book (and his, too, if that matters!). Go Team Funny!
PS I'm in Canada, and so glad you're not doing that whole "continental US only" BS. There, I said it. I hate being excluded.
I keep forgetting to buy it for a friend of mine, so I just did! I pre-ordered a copy a while ago and have been telling everyone who'll listen since then. :)
Reviewed on Amazon!
I'm praying for your book. Twice.
I'm tweeting it right now, on my iPhone, with my feet. www.theundertoad.com
I'm also going to spread the love on The Mommy Network. (Do you know about this, by the way? It is sort of sadistically addictive and your cup of tea, in that, you will likely obtain much blogger-fodder from the desperate internet-addicted-house-moms who haven't mastered the guts to count themselves among the ranks of "mommy bloggers" but would, no doubt, kill to be one. At any rate, you can google it.
www.theundertoad.com
http://www.facebook.com/shortfatdictator
I shared a link to Amazon on my Facebook page because a) I LOVED the book and b) I'm hoping the chance at winning something next Thursday will make my week wrangling two and one year old boys fly by at a joyful and elation-filled pace. It's a foolproof plan really.
Posted a link on my Facebook page.