Lioness ([info]elisem) wrote,
@ 2008-04-18 18:40:00
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psst! wanna help me out and thereby get a chance to win a prize?
So here's the problem: yesterday I heard somebody say, "Fourth Street Fantasy Convention? Oh, yeah, I heard something about... oh, wait, isn't that convention invitational?" Which, you know, it is so very not. Although it's been a little quiet on the publicity end, this revival of the legendary Minneapolis-based fantasy convention of decades back is cheerfully open to everybody who wants to get a membership, and I hope lots of people do, because I'm throwing this big party on Friday night, and Bear and Sarah and some other folks are going to read necklace challenge stories and other Artists' Challenge works, and the more people who are there, the better it'll be.

So here's the offer: if you publicise the convention in your LJ or anywhere else on-line, and link to the Fourth Street website or to my post about my party, and you send me a link (or post it here), I will put you in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate, to be drawn during the convention. Winner need not be present*. If you like, you can go ahead and tell people you're posting this because I am bribing you with this because I want lots of people at my party to celebrate and to hear Bear and Sarah and everybody read cool challenge stuff... and tell them that if they put up the link too, I will bribe them with a similar chance.

OK. That's what I want. Please? Help make my party (and the convention) a good big one!

Signed, a Lioness greedy for fun


* though if you are, I'll double the amount of that gift certificate!


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[info]wordweaverlynn
2008-04-19 12:12 am UTC (link)
I won't be present, alas. But I've linked it.

It sounds like a lovely con, and I'm sorry I can't be there. I'll be in a hotel room in Las Vegas, pounding the keyboard of my laptop all night while [info]alanbostick plays poker. Which will have its own charms.

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[info]batwrangler
2008-04-19 12:25 am UTC (link)
http://batwrangler.livejournal.com/440616.html

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[info]jenett
2008-04-19 12:27 am UTC (link)
I have linked. Though, as I say there, bribery not entirely needed.

http://jenett.livejournal.com/798790.html

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[info]sraun
2008-04-19 12:38 am UTC (link)
I did an LJ post here.

I hope I'll be able to afford to pre-order the chapbook!

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[info]aedifica
2008-04-19 12:51 am UTC (link)
Does it count if the post was friends-locked? If it does, I posted about it on Tuesday.

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[info]elisem
2008-04-19 01:08 am UTC (link)
Alas, doesn't count if it's friends-locked. It's all about the publicity.....

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[info]aedifica
2008-04-19 03:38 am UTC (link)
Then, motive split about fifty-fifty between the good of the cause and the stubborn desire to meet the requirements (since I started out to try to, by commenting here), I have actually unlocked the entry! *grin*

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[info]elisem
2008-04-19 03:39 am UTC (link)
WHOAH! Hokay, I am deeply honored! Thank you.

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[info]jillfelice
2008-04-19 02:06 am UTC (link)
I wish I could be there :(.

However, I will post in my LJ for you.

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[info]jillfelice
2008-04-19 02:09 am UTC (link)
Here you go: http://jillfelice.livejournal.com/115399.html

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[info]kalmn
2008-04-19 03:27 am UTC (link)
http://www.mooseparty.org/betsy/2008/04/so-are-you-going-to-fourth-street.html

i'll be there. as you know. :)

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[info]magentamn
2008-04-19 03:39 am UTC (link)
I did it here:
http://magentamn.livejournal.com/149955.html?mode=reply

And I probably want the chapbook - do you know how much it will cost?

Do you want me to bake brownies or something for the party?

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[info]elisem
2008-04-19 03:41 am UTC (link)
Wish I could, but it's a Food Event in Official Space, so it'll be through the hotel. (Which reminds me, I have to go out there and taste stuff a.s.a.p.)

However, I might have other tasks, if you feel volunteerish. Check with me in a bit?

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[info]elisem
2008-04-19 03:41 am UTC (link)
Right now, chapbook is looking like twenty bucks, give or take a couple. I should know a lot more soon.

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[info]fireriven
2008-04-19 08:43 am UTC (link)
I have pimped your ride promoted this glorious event I shall sadly be missing in my professional journal at [info]earthwalked.

Edited at 2008-04-19 08:44 am UTC

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[info]mcpye
2008-04-19 09:01 am UTC (link)
This is one of the times this medium creates a very split sensation in me. Very privileged and lucky and pleased to be a witness of, and sometimes a participant in, things going on that I'm interested in. Then also disappointed and/or sad and/or frustrated reading about events I couldn't possibly be part of.

OTOH, hearing the cheers and chanting floating over the wet, cold, dark evening air from the nearby sports ground right now, there are other events I'm quite satisfied to be missing out on.

Judging by my site visitation statistics, the chances of anyone finding out about this from me are vanishingly small, and those of them being able to attend go down towards sub-atomic. Still, at that level, strange quantum mechanical effects can take place. Who can tell? Who can tell?

Edited at 2008-04-19 09:58 am UTC

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[info]icedrake
2008-04-19 12:10 pm UTC (link)
Are you turning into one of those "get paid to blog" services? :)

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[info]elisem
2008-04-19 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Eeeek! Hadn't thought of that.


But then, I've traded people earrings for haiku for years, so it's probably OK.

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[info]icedrake
2008-04-19 03:16 pm UTC (link)
*grin*
Posted, by the way.

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[info]janetmiles
2008-04-19 01:23 pm UTC (link)
Has been linked. I hope it helps!

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[info]oursin
2008-04-19 02:53 pm UTC (link)
*Holds up her little hedgehog paw*: http://oursin.livejournal.com/836576.html

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[info]jonquil
2008-04-19 05:13 pm UTC (link)
Link here: http://jonquil.livejournal.com/700486.html

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You are an evil influence
[info]redbird
2008-04-19 07:14 pm UTC (link)
I am now considering the merits of Fourth Street, one of which is that there are non-stop flights NY-Minneapolis, which there aren't to Madison, Wisconsin. I have posted about this, with a link to the con website: http://redbird.livejournal.com/1037441.html

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[info]kayshapero
2008-04-19 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Not all the way from California, I'm afraid, but I've linked it anyway. Hope you have a LOT of fun - sounds great.

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Count me in
[info]janetwain
2008-04-19 11:40 pm UTC (link)
I'm game, I linked it.

I'm not sure how much it will help get word out, though.

Jane

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[info]scotia_girl
2008-04-21 11:56 pm UTC (link)
ok, it's posted publicly in my journal: http://scotia-girl.livejournal.com/482150.html

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[info]brooksmoses
2008-04-29 06:17 am UTC (link)
Linkified and advertisiated here!

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[info]avocadovpx
2008-05-15 11:52 am UTC (link)
Duly linked.

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[info]elisem
2008-05-15 11:54 am UTC (link)
Thanks, dude! (And I have been thinking of you a lot, because I am behind on my Potlatch Pact work.... Gotta get crackin'!)

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[info]avocadovpx
2008-05-15 11:57 am UTC (link)
Why, I was having a minor freakout about that subject last night.

(Calm again now, though. A nap and a sandwich, etc.)

Edited at 2008-05-15 12:05 pm UTC

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