Contest

[julesjones]

It occurs to me that I should mention that I'm running a contest on my mail loop at the moment. (I feel rather odd calling it a loop, since as far as I'm concerned it's a mailing list, but when in Rome...). If anyone who reads *this* communication channel feels the urge to try to win a choice of pocket massager, signed cover art print, or signed chapbook of one of my short stories, the contest's running until Thursday night. If I get my act together and do some pimping on various other lists, there will also be a prize draw for members of the announcement and chat lists this weekend that will include download of one of the ebooks as a prize option.

There's one announcements-only list, and one that is nominally a chat list, although it's been extremely quiet since I set it up, since I actually do most of my yacking to readers on my publisher's chat list. Unfortunately you'll need a yahoogroups account to join either list and to read the chat list, but I think I've managed to set up the announcements list so that you don't need to be a member just to read the announcements.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JulesJonesAnnouncements/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JulesJonesChat/

Which reminds me, must remember to pack some cover art prints for Worldcon...

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

And now the internal debate begins. To sign up for yahoo and get their spam or to let this contest go by...

[julesjones]

[grin]

The current contest doesn't require you to be a member -- it's one requiring that you answer a couple of questions about the book, the better to entice people to go and read the excerpt, and you should be able to see the questions on the web archive for the announcements list without giving yahoo anything more than the fact that your IP address looked at the page.

The draw for members - well, one of the things to do when I get a round tuit is set up a duplicate announcements list run from somewhere that doesn't spam. In theory I have a mailing list facility with my website. In practice I'm not sure how to use it. I will try to remember to prod the servermaster tomorrow and ask him.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I couldn't see the contest information/questions until I signed into yahoo after a long struggle to remember my password from the dawn of time.

[julesjones]

Bugger. And having gone to look at it while not signed in, I realise what the problem is. It's marked as an adult group, so Yahoo demands that you be signed in to prove your age before letting you look at it.

Sorry. :-( I'd set the group so that you don't have to be a member of the group to read it, but the net nannying means you still have to be a yahoo member. I will do some more prodding on getting a list set up from my website.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Figured it was something like that.