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So I’m sitting her in a big pile of books, and I’m thinking I should give a few away.
Hmmmm….
How’s about this?
You’ll post a little story to your blog, about a task/ job/situation/role for which you are thoroughly unsuitable (the FULL title of my book is “Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains OR the Search for a Suitable Princess”).
For instance, if I were entering the contest I might say, “I would make a thoroughly unsuitable vow-of-silence-nun, because I never shut up. Also I am Jewish.”
In addition to this little post, you’ll also ou’ also add a link to this post (by way of explanation) and the cover of the book (see above).
Then you will scramble back here and post a comment, to let me know you’ve entered the contest!
In a week’s time I’ll select the most entertaining story entered, and the winner will get a FREE signed copy of my book (in which I promise to write something REALLY unsuitable).
How’s that?
Let the games begin!
Gloria Whelan is the kind of writer who doesn't merely write stories, she inhabits them, creating imaginary worlds in places as far-away as Russia, China, India, Turkey, and Mali, as well as closer to her home in northern Michigan.
"When I find the world I want to ... live in," writes Whelan, "I have no trouble sitting down each day to the computer. My only worry is if I can communicate what I
