Want to win my entire backlist? Here's How.

So I'm one of those people who gets really excited about milestones, even those that may or may not be a big deal to other people. With the release of Out of Focus on August 2nd, I'll be reaching a significant-to-me milestone in my career:

The release of my 20^th book.

Seven as Lauren Gallagher, thirteen as L. A. Witt.

20 books. Holy Ned.

It's kind of a big deal for me, so, naturally, I need to do something to mark the occasion. By “do something”, I mean give away some books. In fact, I think I should give away a lot of books.

Here’s how it’s going to work:

1. Leave a comment containing your name, some way for me to contact you if you win, and the most outlandish, off-the-wall reason why I should pick you.

Get creative here, folks! Tell me you should win because your goldfish wears mismatched Birkenstocks, you have a complete set of coasters made out of Nobel Prize medallions, and you can belch the Sanskrit alphabet. The weirder the better.

2. There will be two types of winners:

a. Funniest comment

b. Random drawing

3. The more comments, the bigger the prize.

a. Prize for the Funniest Comment:

If the contest gets to 20 comments, the winner receives 1 ebook

40 comments – 2 ebooks

60 comments – 4 ebooks & 1 signed paperback

80 comments – 6 ebooks & 1 signed paperback

100 comments – 10 ebooks & 2 signed paperbacks

200 comments – 1 electronic copy of every book on my backlist

(including a short story anthology, for a total of 21 ebooks),

plus your choice of 3 signed paperbacks.

b. Prizes for the Random Drawing:

If the contest gets to 20 comments, the winner receives 1 ebook

40 comments – the winner wins 2 ebooks

60 comments – the winner wins 3 ebooks & a signed paperback

80 comments – 2 winners each win 4 ebooks & a signed paperback

100 comments – 2 winners each win 5 ebooks, 2 signed paperback

200 comments – 1 electronic copy of every book on my backlist

(including the short story anthology, for a total of 21 ebooks)

plus your choice of 3 signed paperbacks.

Rules:

1. Only legitimate, non-anonymous comments count, meaning there’s a name and valid e-mail address in the body of the comment. Putting Anonymous for your Blogger username is fine, but there must be a name and contact info in the body of the comment.

2. One comment per entrant; multiple entries will disqualify all of your entries.

3. Contest closes at midnight, August 5th, 2011 (Eastern time), and winners will be announced shortly thereafter. Winners will be posted on Twitter and this blog, and will be individually e-mailed. If you are selected, you have 72 hours to contact me or forfeit your prize. (If you will be unreachable via e-mail around the time of the drawing, mention that in your comment)

4. All prizes will be winner’s choice titles off my backlist, including Out of Focus; please note not all titles are available in paperback at this time, and choices will be restricted to currently available titles only. For the most up to date list of currently available titles, please visit the Books by L. A. and Books by Lauren on my website.

5. Number of winners is not cumulative. Meaning, if I reach eighty comments, there will be two winners randomly drawn plus the winner for best comment. I reserve the right to increase the number of prizes and/or winners at my discretion.

Now go forth and comment! And be sure to spread the word about the contest, because the more people who enter, the bigger the prizes.

Good luck, and thank you
to my publishers and my readers
for making this the most awesome job ever.