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November 2014

November 21, 2014

Which Movie Captures Your Part of the World? Tell Me, and You Might Win a Great Book.

"This is really wonderful stuff. Thoughtful, unique, insightful, and funny. It's unlike anything I've ever...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

Winners of Auralia’s Fifth Anniversary Contest (Correction)

[UPDATE: I've just been informed that, due to a strange corruption of the file in...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

Raise a Toast Before the Deadline! (Deadline Extended to 9 p.m.)

I forgot to post a reminder over the weekend, so now you have until 9...

September 14, 2011

How to get a signed volume from The Auralia Thread for free…

Buy a book from The Auralia Thread from your local bookstore, and I'll send you...

July 2010

July 19, 2010

Name That Storybook contests.

You're invited to play a new game I've begun on my Tumblr site. (You have...

May 2010

May 08, 2010

Congratulations, Raven’s Ladder contest winners!

Okay, I'm running late with these photo contest results, but better late than never. Thank...

February 2010

February 12, 2010

Easiest Contest Ever?

Just type your name and email address into the Comments at Fanstasy/SciFi Book Review, and...

February 10, 2010

Last Chance: Win all three Auralia Thread books. Cast an Auralia movie.

Just a reminder... Today's the last day for you to enter the Raven's Ladder dream-cast...

February 04, 2010

The Contest Continues

Thanks to all of you who have emailed me, or contacted me on Facebook, with...

January 2010

January 15, 2010

Who would you cast? (Answer, and You Might Win a Prize.)

One of my favorite kinds of "wishful thinking" is to cast movies of my favorite...

January 13, 2010

Raven’s Ladder contest/giveaway!

Folks who have joined my Facebook fan page are reading the details on the first...

June 2009

June 24, 2009

Congratulations to Tyler Petty, Winner of the “Up” Review Contest!

It was a tough decision. I liked certain aspects of all three reviews that were...

June 22, 2009

An Elevating Contest: Looking Closer Readers Review “Up”

Okay, I'm going to pick the poster-winner on Wednesday. But these are the three considerations...

June 02, 2009

Review contest: A Poster is “Up” for Grabs

Review contest! Send me your 600- to 1200-word review of Pixar's Up. My favorite entry...

November 2008

November 12, 2008

Win an Auralia Thread poster!

So... I spilled the beans and mentioned that I have some glorious new posters for...

September 2008

September 21, 2008

New Auralia Thread Contest: Name the Site of a Meteor Strike

In the third book of The Auralia Thread -- Cal-raven's Ladder -- Cal-raven will venture...

August 2008

August 11, 2008

Winner of the Looking Closer review contest!

Many thanks to the writers who entered the most recent Looking Closer review contest! I'm...

June 2008

June 16, 2008

The Movie That Harry Can’t Tell You About. Plus: Win a Wall-E poster!

Is this the year that an animated movie will win the Oscar for Best Picture?...

February 2008

February 02, 2008

Winners in the “Cyndere’s Midnight” Contest

Thanks to everyone who submitted creative and frightening names in the "Name the Character" contest!...

January 2008

January 21, 2008

Name a Character in Cyndere’s Midnight!

So, there's this monster in Cyndere's Midnight, the sequel to Auralia's Colors... She's a nasty...

July 2006

July 03, 2006

I almost forgot… The Great Kid-Flicks Contest!

I need to resurrect this contest, because I nearly forgot about it. Looking back, I...

May 2006

May 16, 2006

The Great Kid-Flicks Contest

Imagine the folks at The Criterion Collection called you up and pose you this question:...

April 2006

April 17, 2006

Three new first-impression reviews: T Bone Burnett, Over the Rhine, Innocence Mission

THE TRUE FALSE REPORT I've just posted three new, short reviews on the Looking Closer...

February 2006

February 09, 2006

Half-Shot Contest #8: Your hint might be "Nick" or "Alexander"

What film is this half-shot from? Since Nick Alexander won our last contest, you'll find...

February 08, 2006

Half-Shot Contest #6 – winner!!

Congratulations, Nick Alexander! Pearl Harbor is, indeed, the film, in which Josh Hartnett plays Danny....

February 07, 2006

Half-shot #7 Contest

Since Danny Walter correctly identified the Mad Dog and Glory shot, your hint for this...

February 07, 2006

Half-Shot #6 winner – Danny Walter!

Danny Walter is, again, the winner of the Half-Shot contest, correctly identifying this shot as...

February 06, 2006

Half-Shot Contest #6: Your hint… "Wayne"

Since Wayne Proctor won the last Half-Shot Contest, correctly identifying a frame from The Unbearable...

February 02, 2006

Half-Shot #5 winner! Wayne Proctor!

Well, that took, what... a few minutes? Wayne Proctor was the one to recognize that...

February 02, 2006

Half-Shot Contest #5: An easy one.

What film is this half-shot from? Okay... the new prize idea is this: Get it...