Post by HeddaGabler on Mar 30, 2023 19:25:40 GMT
Just received Richard Chizmar’s The Girl On The Porch. Pleasantly surprised it was signed.
I got this with a credit I received by entering a month long promotional thing Richard did. After a friend let me know I could enter by mail, (because I don’t twit or facebook) I checked it out. And I hatched a plan. I bought a pack of blank cards.
Every day was a new giveaway, but each post card had to be postmarked EACH DAY. You couldn’t just send a month’s worth of post cards all at once.
So, stuck in the house because of COVID, bored out of my ever loving brains, and very last minute, I started painting a portrait of Richard Chizmar surrounded by items from his books/covers.
Because I had to get the first postcard out the very next day, i didn’t have the kind of time I wanted. But maybe that’s what made it so hilariously bad, but fun. Each postcard was part of the puzzle. Part of that huge portrait.
Each post card had some random bullshit comment. And every day, I walked into the post office with a new piece of the puzzle to get from one coast to another. Faithfully trying to blend one card into the next, letting it dry and then sending it out, I never got to see it fully done.
About 2 weeks after contest ended, I contacted Mindy at Cemetery Dance and asked her, “did anyone play with me?” And the bigger question, “did you get them all?” I expected some to be missing. That’s 26 individual cards sent every single day (except Sundays). I was a girl on a mission.
She had not opened the mail, but she did right then and she put it together and shock! They got every single post card! I was tickled. She took a photo for me so I could see how it turned out. Just dumb fun to enter his contest. I had a blast! I would share, but can’t get the photo here.
Thanks for my gift, Richard. I can’t wait to read it.
I got this with a credit I received by entering a month long promotional thing Richard did. After a friend let me know I could enter by mail, (because I don’t twit or facebook) I checked it out. And I hatched a plan. I bought a pack of blank cards.
Every day was a new giveaway, but each post card had to be postmarked EACH DAY. You couldn’t just send a month’s worth of post cards all at once.
So, stuck in the house because of COVID, bored out of my ever loving brains, and very last minute, I started painting a portrait of Richard Chizmar surrounded by items from his books/covers.
Because I had to get the first postcard out the very next day, i didn’t have the kind of time I wanted. But maybe that’s what made it so hilariously bad, but fun. Each postcard was part of the puzzle. Part of that huge portrait.
Each post card had some random bullshit comment. And every day, I walked into the post office with a new piece of the puzzle to get from one coast to another. Faithfully trying to blend one card into the next, letting it dry and then sending it out, I never got to see it fully done.
About 2 weeks after contest ended, I contacted Mindy at Cemetery Dance and asked her, “did anyone play with me?” And the bigger question, “did you get them all?” I expected some to be missing. That’s 26 individual cards sent every single day (except Sundays). I was a girl on a mission.
She had not opened the mail, but she did right then and she put it together and shock! They got every single post card! I was tickled. She took a photo for me so I could see how it turned out. Just dumb fun to enter his contest. I had a blast! I would share, but can’t get the photo here.
Thanks for my gift, Richard. I can’t wait to read it.