Pick me! Contest

I am pleased to announce the Pick me! Contest featuring real prizes.

I won a year subscription over at LibraryThing with a photo I submitted months ago. (I was a runner-up, but I still feel like a winner.) The judging of the book stack photo contest coincides with the advent of gift memberships. I've been trying to decide which of my friends would love LibraryThing most. Many of my friends are book lovers and many are computer/internet type geeks but which one has that special touch of compulsion that will make this gift as cool as I think it is? Like I said, tough call.

So I've decided to hold a contest. I asked Tim, the creator of LT, if I could upgrade my prize from the One Year membership to the Lifetime and it seems a little complicated. Plus, I think everyone should love LT as much as I do. So I decided to give the One Year Membership and throw in a Lifetime Membership too. My gift to you, the loyal or chance visitor to CB.

I hate when I see a contest where I would love to win the prize but don't have a good story or joke to enter with. So I've made mine pretty simple and everyone who enters has a chance.

Pick me! Content Rules:

1. Write a haiku about your personal library, a favorite book, or the holidays. Using the contemporary English definition of the haiku, all submissions should use three lines written in 5-7-5 syllable format. Poems must be in correct format or they will not be counted as valid submissions.
2. Post it in the comments to this post or email it to me before Midnight Thursday, December 22, 2005.
3. I will pick my favorite haiku to receive a Lifetime Membership to LibraryThing.
4. I will then take all the remaining entries and randomly select one to receive a One Year Membership to LibraryThing.
5. I will post the winners on Friday, December 23. I will need email addresses to transfer the prize. If you already have a membership you may re-gift the prize.
6. All the Judge's decisions are final.

If you want to triple your chances of winning, the first place winner, Lucy Tartan, is holding two different contests to give away her prizes. (via LibraryThing blog)

P.S. I swear I was planning to hold this contest before I read about Lucy's, my only proof is an email I sent to one of the other winners yesterday. Not that you care, but you know, I'm just saying I'm not a copycat. At least not with this.

Comments

[Karen]

Cool - I don't think I've written haiku since high school, but I'll give it a go.
fun idea!

[Trackrick]

I do have a lot of books, though I've never really felt the need to catalog them. Nevertheless, I like doing haikus, so here's one off the top of my head.

Fiver sees much death.
So rabbits find safer place
on Watership Down.

[Trackrick]

Another one:

Lunar colony
stages a revolution.
Independence now!

[Trackrick]

Another one, this one referring to The Perfect Mile (the previous one referred to The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress)

Roger, John and Wes.
Milers that want to break 4.
Who will do it first?