As I said in my last post, I recently had a small initial run of bookmarks printed to give away at signings. Now, since I’m not going on tour this year, I thought I’d give readers a chance to own a set by holding a little competition. And as a little experiment and to reward my followers in Pinterest, I’m going to be running the competition over there.
I have three sets of bookmarks up for grabs. So, if you’d like a set of bookmarks and have signed up to Pinterest, choose which of the quotes you like best, click on it and it will take you to the pin of it. Repin the pin. Pinterest will send me an email notifying me of your repin. I’ll put those emails aside and next Tuesday, 10:00 am Melbourne time, I’ll pick a winner.
I have no idea if this will work, as I’ve not seen anyone running competitions on Pinterest before. I couldn’t see anything that said it was against the rules. So no promises that it won’t all fall in a heap. If that happens… well, let’s play it by ear. If it works, well, I might do the same sort of thing in the future but with books as prizes. We’ll just have to see how it goes.
(UPDATE: And the winners are… Kate Hackett, Paola Rq and Paul John. Please email me with your address!)
love your work
You should do something similar to this on a blogging platform like Tumblr. Apparently giveaways are easy on there because you have people “reblog” the giveaway master post, then use a random generator that gives you the winners.
I considered Tumblr, but it’s too much like blogging. I already have a blog. And Tumblr doesn’t appear to have any automatic linking to the source like Pinterest does. For a social network to be of any use beyond personal collections of photos/text/whatever, it needs to create useful traffic flow. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen something awesome in Pinterest that I want to know more about or to buy, followed the link and ended up in Tumblr dead end. For that reason, I now won’t bother following pins to Tumblr, and I certainly won’t pin Tumblr pages.
Hi Trudi,
Just checking you’ve added my pinterest entry? Thanks.
Paul
Yes, and I commented, too.
Thanks for that.
Paul
darn I only just noticed this comp and I only have mobile access at the moment so I can’t join in, I’m really disappointed I didn’t check sooner.. to make things better, TTQ in 3 days here in London
ps. Cheeky, I know, but any chance I can have an autograph? Thanks.