Her Slackerness Posts Blurb It!! Winners...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Her Slackerness Posts Blurb It!! Winners...

Obviously, this is not Sunday evening. Obviously, I deserve limb-rending, etc. But you're all feeling so benevolent today. I can feel it. To the winners!!

Thanks again to everyone who entered...

Honorable mentions go to the following:

Truest: jamiekswriter at 10:08pm

"Jack Reacher is Worth Dying For"

Appeals to my bibliophilia, not to my sensitive feet: LQQ at 5:46pm

"A man with sewage between his toes saves democracy forever more."

(The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby)

A *complete* catalogue of every one of the visceral reactions I experienced while reading the Avery Cates books: Patty Blount at 8:55am

"Jeff Somers' heart-pumping sci-fi series will make you cringe,

gag, gasp and beg for more."

And now! The Winners!!

Funniest Blurb goes to:

Sprunty at 1:34am!!!

"NUMB questions how much abuse a suit can take."

(NUMB by Sean Ferrell)

Best In Show/The Pick-Up-iest Blurb goes to:

Pamela Cayne at 11:55am!!!!!!!!!

"A dark and tangled tale that will keep you up late reading, scared to turn off the light."

(BANISHED by Sophie Littlefield)

This was such a fun contest. Thanks for entering, and your patience as I got this up!! Sprunty and Pamela, send me an email and we'll set up your chats!

6 comments:

Patty Blount said...: This was great fun. Can we do another one soon?; January 11, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Cacy said...: Congrats to the winners!

I second Patty.; January 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Meredith Barnes said...: I think we definitely can. There were some *great* blurbs in there. Too many to mention!!; January 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM
suzie townsend said...: Congrats to the winners!; January 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Pamela Cayne said...: I am beyond tickled (and a little bit frightened--I've never Skyped before!)

Thanks for an awesome contest. It was fascinating to try and blurb a book in under 20 words--really makes you stretch your mind.; January 11, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Liana Brooks said...: What a fun contest. I love the sentences. Congrats to the winners. :o); January 12, 2011 at 9:42 AM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Confessions

Tuesday, January 11, 2011