Bookninja has been celebrating their fourth year of existence with a contest. Submit a photo of yourself reading their site, or posing with their logo, and you could win a t-shirt. It may sound silly, but if Saskatoon author Leona Theis is a proud ninja, maybe you could be too.
I bet a bookninja tattoo would win easily. Then again, maybe a t-shirt isn't quite worth a tattoo. Hold off on that until they turn ten, when I'm sure they'll be giving away ninja-branded iPods.
Previously: Welcome Bookninjas!
Categories: Authors, Fun, websites, Saskatoon, Contests and Giveaways
HarperCollins Canada is launching their "Pop Culture" email newsletter with a contest. Subscribe to their newsletter and you could win a "Pop Culture Prize Pack" consisting of one signed copy of Warren Ellis' new book, Crooked Little Vein as well as a limited Crooked Little Vein t-shirt! Also included in the pack is Neil Gaiman's Stardust, Scott McCloud's Making Comics, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and My Dead Girlfriend by Eric Wight.
If you're worried about spam, don't be- the newsletter is actually quite informative for pop-culture vultures. So, even if it is clever marketing, it's clever because its pretty good.
Categories: buzz, Fun, websites, Book Clubs, Contests and Giveaways
It's been a couple days now, but thanks to Bookkninja George for his brief but kind words the other day, and welcome to those of you who found us through him.
Categories: Site News, websites
In an age when the boundaries between truth and fiction appear increasingly untrustworthy and problematic for readers and publishers alike, author has been ordered to pay $350,000 in legal fees to a production company, Antidote International Films, Inc.
According to the Guardian , Albert defrauded the company by selling it the screen rights to "an autobiography that was really fiction."
The autobiography claimed to tell the life story of author JT LeRoy, who overcame his troubled past as a cross-dressing male prostitute by writing fiction.Over the next 10 years, LeRoy built up a sizeable following. In 2006, it was revealed that JT LeRoy was really the fictitious creation and alter-ego of Laura Albert herself. Albert testified that LeRoy was a "veil" that allowed her to communicate with the outside world; on numerous occasions, she went so far as to don a wig and pose as LeRoy for signings and interviews.
Categories: websites, movies
Whichbook.net is a new way to find books to read:
Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.
Basically, you use a bunch of description sliders, and it generates a likely list of books. It's based on records from public libraries in the U.K. Canadian availability will vary.
Via Beckyb.
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