Thursday, August 11, 2011

Davis Crossing Tour Contest

Grand Prize – Your choice of a basic Kindle or Nook

Many prizes to be won along the way, including books, posters, and audio books.

How to win: At the end of the tour, we will do a drawing from a pool of entrants. You will be able to increase your chances of winning by making sure your name is in the pool as many times as possible.

Timing: The contest will take place while the tour is going on - September 14 through November 30.

You will be entered once automatically just by becoming a follower of this blog. When you become a follower, we will put your name in the pool. If you don’t want to reveal your real name, use a code name. Everyone who becomes a follower on the blog needs to email me -- author (at) daviscrossing (dot) com -- to let me know you have done so along with the name you used to become a follower.

Feel free to become a follower now and enter the contest.

If you get someone else to follow the blog, make sure that person tells me that you referred him or her, and you will get two additional pool entries. That person also needs to email me -- author (at) daviscrossing (dot) com -- to get into the contest. If the person you referred refuses to say you referred him or her, we won’t be able to give you the extra entries. There is no limit to the number of followers you can refer, and each follower will be entered into the grand prize drawing. An additional bonus - You will get an additional three pool entries for every five referrals you get.

Anyone who buys a featured book from my website during the tour period will get his or her name entered three additional times for each book purchased. Just email me -- author (at) daviscrossing (dot) com – to let me know you did so. The featured books for the tour contest will be - Precisely Terminated, Diviner, and Third Starlighter.

Anyone who buys a featured book from somewhere else besides my website during the tour period will get his or her name entered three additional times for each book purchased. Just email me -- author (at) daviscrossing (dot) com – a photo or scan of the receipt to let me know you did so.

Anyone who comes to one of the tour bookstores will get his or her name entered five additional times plus three additional times for each book purchased at the store.

After each tour stop, we will post photos and videos on the blog from the event, and we will ask a question or series of questions about something in the photos or videos. If you email the correct answer -- author (at) daviscrossing (dot) com – you will get your name in the pool an additional time.

Each of these questions will be active only 48 hours, so be sure to keep up with the tour. All correct answerers for each question will be put into a drawing for a smaller prize that will be awarded at the end of the 48-hour period, and each prize will be announced when the question is posted.

In each video, we will also mention a code word that will be part of an encrypted message. You will need to collect all the code words and break the code, unscramble it, produce the meaning, and email the answer. Anyone who gets the decrypted message correct will get ten more entries in the grand prize pool.

This code-breaking algorithm is as follows:

The last letter in the first three-syllable word is the first letter in the decrypted message. The second to last letter in the next three-syllable word is the second letter in the decrypted message, and so on. When you reach the beginning letter of a word, start again with the last letter of the next three-syllable word.

For example, if the first three-syllable word is Royalty, the first letter in the decrypted message is Y. If the next three-syllable word is pollution, the second letter in the decrypted message is O.

Once you get all the letters, you will have to unscramble them to produce a three-word phrase that relates to one of my books. That is the phrase you will email to me.

Warning – Posting any answer on the blog as a comment will result in disqualification.

I am posting this early in order to see what questions might arise. Feel free to ask them so I can clarify the rules before the contest begins.

16 comments:

  1. How do we follow? Is there a button?

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  2. Yes, click on the Join this site button.

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  3. So it stinks for us if we never read Beyond reflections edge?

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  4. No, I explained the decryption method in the post. You don't need to read the book.

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  5. I bought Song of the Ovulum as soon as it came out; can I still use the receipt for an entry into the draw or would I have to buy it during the tour period?

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  6. Jenna,

    Song of the Ovulum will not be one of the featured books to buy to get more entries in the pool. There will be three: Precisely Terminated, Diviner, and Third Starlighter.

    I forgot to list the books, so I will edit the rules now.

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  7. Is Third Starlighter the book after Masters and Slayers?

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  8. Jenna, yes, Third Starlighter is the sequel to Masters & Slayers.

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  9. If I preorder Third Starlighter during the tour period, will that count for three entries?

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  10. Yes, Catherine, a pre-order for that book during the tour will count.

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  11. Is there a reason you keep showing your mileage?

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  12. Also, what series (and book) is 'the third starlighter' [from]? because there are 3 featured books and thats on of them.

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  13. Never mind my second question i found it! :)

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  14. We just show the mileage for fun. People might find it interesting.

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  15. Will you let us know when you've given all the words? And how much time after that will we have to unscramble the code?

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