Not only could they not retrieve ANY of the data from the hard drive, but after 3 hours of driving (roundtrip) to get there and 3 hours hanging out in town waiting for the new hard drive to be inserted (thank goodness for Apple care - at least it was free), we finally got home, I turned on my computer...
...and got that same old gray screen and bouncing question mark. AAAAGH. The computer is still broken.
Worse yet, we can't even get back to the Apple store for the next attempt until Wednesday...so I'll be stealing time off Patrick's computer for a while longer. Sigh.
But! To cheer myself up, I have decided that it's time...drumroll...to do my first Advance Reader's Copy (ARC) giveaway for A Most Improper Magick!
This giveaway is open to anyone in any country. All you have to do is let other people know about the giveaway, either by tweeting the following tweet, if you have a twitter account:
RT @stephanieburgis : Win an ARC of my novel A MOST IMPROPER MAGICK: http://tinyurl.com/yckky2q
...Or by mentioning it on your blog, using any phrasing you like, but making sure to link to this entry.
Then come tell me that you've done it, so I'll know to enter you in the drawing! You can either leave a message for me here on this journal entry or else email me through my website.
The giveaway will be open for a week, until midnight UK time next Monday, December 21st. One winner will get an ARC, plus an "Everything's Better with Highwaymen!" button and a postcard with the book cover; two runners-up will get "Everything's Better with Highwaymen!" buttons and postcards.
(And if you're debating about whether or not you want an ARC, remember you can read the first chapter on my website to get a taste of the novel!)
Yay! And I can't tell you how happy and worried and excited and scared I feel, all at once, at the idea of more people reading my book! ;)
ETA, December 22nd: This competition is now closed. Thanks so much to everybody who entered!
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but what a fantastic contest! sign me up please! i've retweeted about it on my twitter account @thestorysiren!
thanks!
And yay! You're entered in the giveaway. :)
http://hooton.livejournal.com/5126.h
Would love the chance to read and review your ARC. Thanks for the contest!
Colleen
celtic_aura (at) hotmail(dot)com
http://ravenedgewalker.livejournal.c
I cannot wait to read it by the way. and I have a couple of friends who are going to be gifted with it just as soon as I can lay my sticky hands on copies since I know they will love it and it will be a wonderful gift for them.
Also - you can probably arrange to have apple pick the computor up by courier, take it to their workshops to be fixed - when I needed my ipod done they managed a 4 day turn around - you could possibly book it via the apple support website.
good luck - I know the hideousness all too well, since the same thing happened to me and I lost a chunk of the final draft of my PhD thesis.
And that is REALLY good to hear about apple - what with the cost of fuel, repeating a 3-hour drive over and over again REALLY starts to add up financially....but OUCH! I can't imagine how frustrating it must have been to lose that chunk of your thesis!
RT on Twitter and now following you. I've very much need something wonderful to read and review.
https://twitter.com/PatEsden
Sam aka @FutureNostalgic from the blog of the same name
I retweeted! http://twitter.com/omgitswendy/status/66
I'm so sorry to hear about your computer woes! Hope it all gets sorted out soon.
I tweeted - http://twitter.com/peacelovevegan/status/6
Thanks!!
Brodie
hanging.by.a.moment_@hotmail.com
http://twitter.com/BloggersBooks :]
I retweeted your contest and have my fingers crossed.
And you are entered in the drawing. :)
Thank you for the opportunity to win an ARC!
I RTd your Tweet.
I posted about your giveaway:
http://rkcharron.blogspot.com/2009/12/s
:)
Did you know that A MOST IMPROPER MAGICK is available for preorder?
http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781
Happy Holidays,
RKCharron
@epistemophilia
I Tweeted:http://twitter.com/AmyAnneS
Also posted on:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=ho
http://socialfoundation.net/
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2863
http://twitter.com/justJoanS
Computer trouble is the worst! Hope yours is resolved quickly. =)
And thanks so much for the computer sympathy.
Also email. Even my daughter emails important homework/essays to herself now.
Good luck.
And hooray - you are entered in the drawing! :)
But don't enter me in the contest -- I'll be buying my copies off the shelf!
w00t!!!
Please enter us! Thanks so much! We hope to review your ARC!
jennlynn77@gmail.com
...and am sending recovery vibes to your computer. I hardly dare ask it, but will everything be lost if it's gone?