If it’ll help make up your minds, the fine folks over at greatbigsea.com have announced that you can preview the album in its entirety right over here. Go see if that inspires you, and if it does, come back and give me an entry! I’ve got only two entries at this point so chances of winning are very, VERY good. C’mon, folks, I want to hear from you!

Looking forward to seeing what other creative little snippets might show up on the post! And y’all should come over anyway and see what Jess and GutterBall have already submitted, ’cause they gave me some lovely little bits of prose, too!

If you’ve hung around my other blog or its LJ or Dreamwidth mirrors for more than five minutes, you’ll have figured out fast that I’m a raving fangirl for Great Big Sea, a high-energy Celtic/folk band out of Newfoundland. I love these guys with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. I particularly love them right now, because on July 13th, they’re going to put out a brand new album.

And this is where you guys come in! When they announced the album’s release date, they also released a shot of the cover art. The very first thing that popped into my head when I saw it was “gosh, that looks like the cover of a novel, I wonder what the story of those two people is!” And I want all of you to tell me!

You can see the cover art right here, since the album’s available for preorder on Amazon. Go take a look. Then come back and give me one of the following:

1. A hypothetical title for the novel this scene might come from
2. A caption describing the scene
3. A drabble-length description of the scene (that’s 100 words, for those of you not familiar with fanfic terminology)

Bonus points will be awarded for clever humor, use of any element of the Faerie Blood universe, or anything referenced in the titles or lyrics of Great Big Sea songs. Extra bonus points will be given for use of more than one of these!

The winner of the contest will receive either a copy of the album, a copy of Faerie Blood, or a copy of Defiance, their choice!

If the winner chooses the album, I will either buy them a copy directly off of greatbigsea.com, or else send a gift certificate to the vendor of their choice from which they may purchase it themselves. If the winner chooses a physical CD, I will require a snailmail address to which to send it.

If the winner chooses either of my books, I will provide an electronic copy of same in the format of their choice.

Here are the official rules and other important things you need to know:

1. I will accept entries up until the album’s release date, July 13th.
2. Please submit entries on the angelakorrati.com original post, NOT on the LJ or DW mirror posts. This is so I can track all the entries in one place!
3. Please enter only once.
4. I am the final judge for who gets to win!
5. Please keep the entries worksafe.
6. This contest is not in any way officially connected to greatbigsea.com, although I did contact them about it and received the blessing of their site admins. I am running this contest purely as an exercise of my fandom for the band, and will be buying the winner’s copy of the album at my own expense.
7. If you’re already a GBS fan and you plan to buy a copy of the album anyway, don’t let this stop you from participating! Albums make excellent gifts.
8. Ditto for if you already own either or both of my books!

(And oh yeah: if you haven’t heard GBS before, or if you want a taste of the new album to help you decide whether you want it, scamper up to greatbigsea.com and look for their streaming player. Three songs from the album are currently available there. The title track, “Safe Upon the Shore”, is my current favorite; it’s full of tasty, tasty harmony! Go check it out.)

My contribution for the tour is a new character snippet upholding the theme: what happens when Jude Lawrence meets her new officemate Kendis Thompson, and discovers that she’s coming onto a team with a lively sense of humor. (This is what Jude gets for having a birthday on April 1st!)

Hope y’all enjoy! I figured it was about time Jude should have a character vignette!

But she has! And she is Crime and the Forces of Evil! And her contest, wherein she’ll put folks into a drawing to win either a copy of her EP, a copy of my book, or a picture of our cats is over here. Check it out, and fear not, you can tell the Forces of Evil I sent you.

Announcement the second: Drollerie is participating in an auction for diabetes, being held by romantic suspense author Brenda Novak. Lots of tasty goodies are being put up for bid, stuff that should appeal to writers and readers alike, and it’s all for a good cause. If you’re interested in supporting this worthy endeavor, you can find out more over here. And if you want to see what Drollerie editor is putting up for bid, you can look here and here.

And last but most assuredly not least, announcement the third:

The winner of the What Should Anna Name Her Nook? poll is NOOKRONOMICON!

This means JGS is the winner of the poll! And since he elected to share his prize with Stickmaker, since Stickmaker built on his idea for the winning name, that means it’s a two-way prize split! Gentlemen, you may each have one of the previous listed prizes:

• Free electronic copies of both Faerie Blood and Defiance in the format of your choice
• A free print copy of anything Drollerie currently has in print
• A $25 gift certificate to the Drollerie Press bookstore

Please to contact me through appropriate channels to let me know what your choice is, and appropriate contact data to which to send your prize! Thanks all for participating!

1. If you’re reading this anywhere besides angelakorrati.com, please click through to the original post to cast your vote. As always, I’m putting it on my official site to accommodate non-LJ or LJ-site-like users who don’t have the ability to answer polls in LJ-style sites without being members of them.
2. Although this might be self-evident, if you want to vote, do please actually cast your vote in the poll. Votes cast in the comments will not count, and that also goes for votes cast in the comments of any mirrors of the original post.
3. All voters may cast up to three votes for their favorite choices.
4. The poll will remain open until midnight, March 1st, Pacific/Cascadia time.
5. The winner of the poll will be announced on March 1st, and will be given three days to get their contact data to me so that I can arrange to get them their prize! If I don’t hear from the winner in that time frame, I’ll move on to whoever was next in line with the vote count. (However, if that occurs, I retain authorial privilege to keep the original winning name for the Nook if I so prefer.)

And to review the prizes, the winner may have one of three things, their choice:

1. Free electronic copies of both Faerie Blood and Defiance, in the format of their choice. I have PDFs of both immediately available, and ePub for Faerie Blood. I can also get copies in Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, and Sony Reader formats.
2. A free print copy of any Drollerie Press book currently available.
3. A $25 gift certificate to the Drollerie Press bookstore.

Let’s get to it then, shall we? The poll is behind the fold, and is also now displayed on the sidebar of angelakorrati.com, so you can get to it either way! Make with the voting, y’all!

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Can you top ‘Peregrin Nook’? How about ‘Nookronomicon’? Get your ideas in before the official poll opens!

“What should Anna name her Nook?”

I shall accept nominations for the next two weeks, so you have until February 16th to submit your suggestions! On that day I shall open an official poll for voting, and the winner of same will receive one of the following, their choice:

1. A $25 gift certificate to the Drollerie Press bookstore
2. Free copies of both Faerie Blood and Defiance
3. A free print copy of the Drollerie book of their choice

So let’s hear your suggestions, folks! For convenience’s sake, if you’re reading this post on LJ, Dreamwidth, or anywhere else, do please click through to angelakorrati.com and drop your comments on the original post. Thanks and I look forward to hearing your suggestions!

ETA: LJ, Dreamwidth, or otherwise LJ-like site users, please do click through to the original angelakorrati.com post to leave comments with your nominations! I really do need all the votes in one place so as to better keep track of them all, and to also accommodate non-LJ users. Thanks all!