I’m going to give away two mass market paperback copies of Blackbirds.
Er, first, though, watch that video up there — Book Show Book Show! I’d not seen this show before and thought it brimming with a foamy head of hilarity. And of course Danny was kind enough to review Blackbirds with equal dollops of hilarity-foam (at around the 6:15 mark).
Oh! And you can hear me talk about the book (and roadkill, profanity, elk masturbation) here.
Finally, come by the Doylestown Bookshop! Friday, June 22nd. 7pm. ‘Cause I’ll be there signing!
Okay, back to the giveaway.
I’m giving away two copies.
You’ve two ways to get one of these copies.
First way: in the comments below post your own “famous last words.” No more than 50 words, please. Your deathbed saying can be poignant or hilarious or sad or weird or whatever. My favorite will get a copy of the book. Only enter one such comment, please. If you start posting a bunch of entries, I’ll delete you and I’ll do donuts on your lawn in a garbage truck.
Second way: tweet the following —
I’d kill for a copy of BLACKBIRDS, by @ChuckWendig. Would you? http://bit.ly/LEkUP1 #carpetnoodle
That hashtag is key. So is the link (which takes folks to this very page). Only tweet this once, please.
I’ll choose someone randomly from the tweets.
You have until 9AM EST on Friday (6/15) to get in your entries.
You may enter each once time only — and yes, you can enter both.
I’ll pay for shipping if you’re in the United States.
Internationally, the shipping is on you, my friendly little ducks.
Timothy John Whitcher says:
When I first read about your signing, I thought it said “Cause I’ll be there SINGING!”
I got excited there, for a second.
June 14, 2012 — 5:01 PM
arizela says:
Famous last word(s): “No, really. It’s perfectly safe…”
June 14, 2012 — 5:59 PM
Mike Herman says:
“LSD…STP…what’s the big difference? Yeah, gimme some of that.”
(True story)
(I’ve already read Blackbirds)
June 14, 2012 — 7:25 PM
Julie Perrine says:
I told you and you didn’t believe me. Nobody get’s out alive!
June 14, 2012 — 7:35 PM
Steve Foland says:
That wasn’t so bad.
June 14, 2012 — 7:43 PM
Diana Cayton says:
I would call some close family member over to me, and say “I’ve been stockpiling money my entire life. I have over million dollars saved up. You’ll find it in the-” and then die. One final cruel, cruel prank.
June 14, 2012 — 7:55 PM
Keisha says:
Life didn’t go at all as I expected, and that’s okay.
June 14, 2012 — 8:29 PM
William Pepper says:
“Tell Chuck I buried the treasure under the-” *sound of ferral donkeys trampling.
June 14, 2012 — 8:38 PM
marie gilbert says:
“Zombies? Really?”
June 14, 2012 — 9:39 PM
Mike Manz says:
My last words will almost certainly be, “…ah, fuck.”
If I win (I know I won’t win, I never win) just send me an e-version of the book as I live in China and can’t afford the shipping. It would actually be cheaper to just buy the ebook than to ship the paper one. Maybe I should just go buy the ebook.
June 14, 2012 — 10:32 PM
Ding says:
“Marco!”
June 14, 2012 — 11:08 PM
Thom Marrion says:
It all makes sense now, the killings, the sightings, everything. It’s not at all what we think it is and I know who is behind the whole thing. I know how to stop it. All we have to do is-
Thom being brutally slaughtered by the Whatever It Is while everyone else runs screaming.
June 14, 2012 — 11:14 PM
Elias Cresh says:
I don’t care what you do with my “grave.” This deathbed is all that matters, and as you can see, it’s adorned with the finest of Amarillo whores, a mountain of well-used Bolivian white, and a nearly finished case of Irish whiskey. All that other stuff…. you can keep it.
June 15, 2012 — 12:27 AM
hagwood says:
Never mind the wallpaper, if the company doesn’t go, I go.
June 15, 2012 — 3:03 AM
RC Cross says:
An atomic mushroom cloud blooms in the distance.
“fuckin’ lovely.”
Flips it off before being vaporized.
June 15, 2012 — 5:21 AM
Sue Conradie says:
Well, that was pretty close to what I’d originally ordered, except for the heartbreak, the grief, the regrets. Also, I said “double gins”. not “double chins”’.
June 15, 2012 — 5:31 AM
Paletta says:
¿You want to take my life? ¿Destroy my life’s work? ¿Drink from my blood? ¡Traitors! ¡Usurpers! ¡Murderers! ¡The land of Ken belongs to the egyptians!
June 15, 2012 — 6:46 AM
Mitch Marty says:
“I know it’s a tall order, but the only thing I want at my side right now is a pitcher full of silence, and you never learned how to keep your mouth shut.”
June 15, 2012 — 8:43 AM
Krista Grothoff says:
Don’t try to tell ME I should be excited about the 72 virgins waiting at the end. You’re a GUY.
Shit.
June 15, 2012 — 9:02 AM
terribleminds says:
AND DANIEL SWENSON WINS IT.
I could not stop laughing at: “Try jiggling it.”
Daniel, do email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com, won’t you?
— c.
June 15, 2012 — 9:23 AM
Trinity River says:
I already read Blackbirds. It was good and very creepy. You gave Stephen King a run for his money with this book.
June 15, 2012 — 10:17 AM
Daniel Swensen (@surlymuse) says:
Yes I will! Thank you, and I’m glad you liked. Had a blast reading all of these, too.
June 15, 2012 — 10:55 AM
Wulfie says:
If I were a geek I’d be able to figure out how to subscribe to your blog via email. But I’m not a geek. I don’t see a subscribe here, Chuck. If there were a subscribe button, Chuck, I’d have seen this post and maybe, just maybe, out done Daniel’s jiggling and won the book. Or maybe there’d have been a tie and you’d have given us both one. But NOooo, Chuck! There’s no subscribe…unless it’s invisible to my total non-geekness. So I missed the opportunity to even try for the win. DAMN YOU CHUCK!
Congrats, Daniel. Good one.
July 2, 2012 — 7:52 PM
Kristie says:
Here lies Kristie, she had a review copy of Mockingbirds that she could not read because she did not have a copy of Blackbirds, and thus she wasted away.
August 7, 2012 — 9:33 PM