Novelty Book Contest Results
A big thank-you to everyone who entered my Win a Nick Daws Novelty Book contest.
I studied the entries over the weekend. It wasn't easy but, with a bit of help from Jayne, I've made my choices. The winner of 365 Ways to Wreak Revenge was Beverley, with the entry below:
I would love to win a copy of "365 Ways to Wreak Revenge" please. I live in a small cul-de-sac and for about a year now, my neighbours and I have been playing an unofficial version of "Needful Things" (think Stephen King) but without the blood and gore. I am losing miserably, and desperately need some hints to push me back in front. I thought I was in the undisputable lead when I turned my neighbour's satellite dish around, but was quickly overtaken by someone filling my water feature with bubble mixture. I have a clean path now, but no ideas for wreaking revenge!
And the winner of 365 Ways to Have Fun at Work was Holly with this entry:
There is a need to have fun, especially at work - after all, job satisfaction is the name of the game. And of course the battle of the plebs versus the rabble must continue. Paper clips and rubber band battles, or chase me round the table tennis table with a rubber stamp, don't quite seem up to the task these days, and even the wrap the colleague up in parcel tape and leave him in a wheelie bin prank is running a bit tame - we're in need of some craftier, zanier ideas to vie one side of the office against the other. For this reason I should like to win 365 Ways to Have Fun at Work. For as they say, laughter is the best medicine.
Many congratulations to Beverley and Holly. I will be in touch with Beverley via the email address she left. Holly, I'd be grateful if you could send me your postal address via my homepage at www.nickdaws.co.uk, so that I can mail your prize to you.
Commiserations to those who were unsuccessful this time. There were some deserving cases among the entries submitted, and I had to remind myself that the rules asked for the most amusing reason for wanting the books, and not necessarily for those who needed them the most! Even so, there were some good entries that just missed out - see the comments on my original post for all the entries - and I'm only sorry I didn't have more copies of the books to give away...
Finally, just a quick reminder that my course on How to Win Consumer Contests is currently available at a discount price, and should give you a winning edge in any similar competitions in future!
I studied the entries over the weekend. It wasn't easy but, with a bit of help from Jayne, I've made my choices. The winner of 365 Ways to Wreak Revenge was Beverley, with the entry below:
I would love to win a copy of "365 Ways to Wreak Revenge" please. I live in a small cul-de-sac and for about a year now, my neighbours and I have been playing an unofficial version of "Needful Things" (think Stephen King) but without the blood and gore. I am losing miserably, and desperately need some hints to push me back in front. I thought I was in the undisputable lead when I turned my neighbour's satellite dish around, but was quickly overtaken by someone filling my water feature with bubble mixture. I have a clean path now, but no ideas for wreaking revenge!
And the winner of 365 Ways to Have Fun at Work was Holly with this entry:
There is a need to have fun, especially at work - after all, job satisfaction is the name of the game. And of course the battle of the plebs versus the rabble must continue. Paper clips and rubber band battles, or chase me round the table tennis table with a rubber stamp, don't quite seem up to the task these days, and even the wrap the colleague up in parcel tape and leave him in a wheelie bin prank is running a bit tame - we're in need of some craftier, zanier ideas to vie one side of the office against the other. For this reason I should like to win 365 Ways to Have Fun at Work. For as they say, laughter is the best medicine.
Many congratulations to Beverley and Holly. I will be in touch with Beverley via the email address she left. Holly, I'd be grateful if you could send me your postal address via my homepage at www.nickdaws.co.uk, so that I can mail your prize to you.
Commiserations to those who were unsuccessful this time. There were some deserving cases among the entries submitted, and I had to remind myself that the rules asked for the most amusing reason for wanting the books, and not necessarily for those who needed them the most! Even so, there were some good entries that just missed out - see the comments on my original post for all the entries - and I'm only sorry I didn't have more copies of the books to give away...
Finally, just a quick reminder that my course on How to Win Consumer Contests is currently available at a discount price, and should give you a winning edge in any similar competitions in future!
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Nick at 2:01 AM 
4 Comments:
Congratultions to the worthy winners, Beverley and Holly.
P.S. Nick, you wouldn't happen to have a wood offcut of approximately 12.6mm thick you could send me to sort out my table leg as a consolation prize perchance? ;)
Hi Rob
Thanks for your generous comments about the winning entries. I'm sorry I couldn't award your highly original suggestion a prize, but I just couldn't face the thought of one of my beautiful books being torn in half and used to prop up a table ;-)
Could I suggest a local builder's merchant, or failing that last year's telephone directory?
Hi, Mr. Daws,
Congrats to the winners of your contest! You must have had quite a time making your selections.
Sorry I've been MIA of late. I missed putting my entry in because we had a family emergency, which turned out to be the biggest news story in our little town in ages! Just my luck, huh?
Here is what my entry would have been (so you can feel sorry for me because I have such miserable neighbors):
Not only would I love to win a copy of “365 Ways to Wreak Revenge,” but I believe to maintain my sanity, I need to. Let me explain.
For close to three years now, our neighbors to the west of us and my husband and I have been pulling what started out as “cute little pranks” on each other. As expected, competition to do the best prank set in and our neighbors started thinking up newer, more ingenious ways to “get their revenge.”
What began with our short-sheeting of beds, Saran-wrapping toilets and taping telephone receivers to their bases has escalated to their letting air out of our tires and becoming “peeping Toms.”
Don’t get me wrong—most of their pranks are fun and light-hearted. We just need some help turning the tide.
You haven’t given our neighbors your book, have you? Good. Then, please…WE NEED THAT BOOK! Thank you.
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Well, if you happen to find another copy of that book somewhere, I sure would love to become the proud owner of it! I promise I would give it a good home and it would never be lonely or cold again. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Cynde L. Hammond
"The Write Stuff"
Hi Cynde
Thank you for your comments. Sorry to hear you had a family emergency, and sorry too that you missed my contest deadline.
Unfortunately I don't have any other copies of the book to give away at the moment, though I can see that you might benefit from it more than most ;-)
Keep your eyes open in your local bookstore/drugstore, though. Lagoon sell a lot of their books in the US (I have to write them in US English), so you may well see one on sale!
And obviously, look out for more contests from me on this blog before too long.
All the best - Nick
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