April 28th, 2009 / 5:05 pm
Author News & Contests
‘A Jello Horse’ Contest
True HTML Giant Matthew Simmons will release his first book, a novella, in May from Publishing Genius, fantastically titled ‘A Jello Horse,’ the inversion-politics of which already have me bubbling.
In the spirit of this soon forthcoming title, Matthew is running a contest at his blog: The Man Who Couldn’t Blog, in which you can one of a very limited run of hardback copies of the book.
Please do indeed:
There’s some pinball in A Jello Horse. I dated a girl who liked to stand very close behind me when I played. We were sort of dancing. And sort of not.
When the book comes out, I will be getting a very, very small number of hardcovers made. I will not be selling them, though. I will be giving them away. Let’s have a contest.
SEND ME IMAGES OF YOURSELF PLAYING PINBALL. Or someone playing pinball. A pinball image of some sort. Just one of your own. I am going to collect them, rate the quality and ingenuity of the photo and create a sort of lottery. My favorite photos will receive higher scores and more chances to win the lottery and win a hardcover copy of A Jello Horse. I will post the photos (or whatever you do…an image, you know? Drawings are acceptable. Little movies, too) on the blog unless you don’t want me to. I will pick winners the last week in May. So send them before that. Provide links to huge files if you have huge files.
There will probably be two winners. I may add other prizes, too, for photos I really, really like. Honorable mentions
That’s it. Send them to
happy cobra books
at
g
dot
com
(Remove the spaces from happy cobra books. Just one word.)
Can’t wait for this one. Take some pictures. Get with the game. Do a win.
Tags: a jello horse, Matthew Simmons
I feel bad that no one commented.
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Stunned silent.
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yay matthew simmons, hip hip horay, three cheers for matthew simmons
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cool contest. Cool book title as well
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i’m going to enter this contest
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i like the book cover and title of the book a lot
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I’m just trying to figure out how to get a pic of myself playing pinball…because I want to enter the contest!
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[...] He’s running a contest. Read about it here. [...]
Very cool, Matt and Adam.
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I meant Matthew and Adam
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I feel bad that people commented because I felt bad that no one commented.
It’s very difficult to be me. But even more difficult to know me.
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April 29th, 2009 / 9:50 pmJimmy Chen—
haha bro you are neurotic!
i love you
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See, asking for a picture that people can’t take in their own home, preferably with their webcam, is asking for a high drop-off rate. I don’t even know where to find a pinball machine, let alone how to orchestrate a picture of me playing one. Okay, fine, I don’t even know what pinball is. See? You forced my hand.
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April 29th, 2009 / 8:24 pmpr—
Does Max Fish still have them? If they don’t, I may cry.
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April 29th, 2009 / 10:20 pmMatthew Simmons—
A link.
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heh. I own a pinball machine. William’s Earthshaker 1989. I like my chances with this contest.
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April 29th, 2009 / 10:21 pmMatthew Simmons—
I remember that table. Yes, this is an advantage.
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