Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Ian's 3rd Aussie/NZ Goodreads Giveaway


For the record, here are the winners of my third book giveaway on Goodreads, which ended on March 3, 2012. I gave away 3 copies of the Australian trade paperback edition of Vengeance, and Australian and NZ readers were eligible to enter.
The winners were:

Andrew Van (NSW)

Myra White (TAS)

Jessica Wang (NSW)

Winners are chosen randomly by Goodreads. The winners will be sent their books shortly.

US, UK, Canadian and other international readers, don't despair. I'll be running giveaways for you on Goodreads later in the year. 

To find out more, or to check, rate or review any of my books, go to http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/153703.Ian_Irvine



Posted by at No comments:
Labels:

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The iPad 3 Competition Winner

Over the past five weeks I've been running a competition on my Facebook author page, http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author where the prize is an Apple iPad 3 16G Wi-Fi.

The competition was open to Australians only (for legal reasons – such competitions are illegal in some countries) and was run under NSW government permit LTPS/12/01180.

The competition rules can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author?sk=app_139229522811253.


There were 1693 entries. Here's how it was judged. I downloaded all the entries into a spreadsheet, deleted 18 invalid entries (ie those not from Australia), deleted my own test entry, and ended up with 1,674 valid entries, numbered from 1 to 1674.


I then obtained a random number sequence from 1 to 1674 using the Sequence Generator at www.random.org. The first number in the sequence is the winner.


That number is 318.


And the winner is John Ryan, who has been notified. Congratulations, John.


Commiserations to everyone else. But never fear, I'll have more competitions running shortly at http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author.


Thanks for entering, everyone.


Posted by at 2 comments:
Labels:

Friday, March 16, 2012

2nd Aussie/NZ Goodreads Giveaway

For the record, here are the winners of my second book giveaway on Goodreads, which ended in early February 2012. I gave away 3 copies of the Australian trade paperback edition of Vengeance, and Australian and NZ readers were eligible to enter.
The winners were:

Ju Kim (NZ)

Ben Richards (Aus)

Rachel Clemente (Aus)

Winners are chosen randomly by Goodreads. The winners were sent their books in mid-February 2012.

I'm currently running a third Vengeance giveaway for A-NZ readers, which ends April 3, 2012. To enter, please go here:

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/22021-vengeance

US, UK, Canadian and other international readers, don't despair. I'll be running giveaways for you on Goodreads in April 2012 and later in the year. To find out more, or to check, rate or review any of my books, go to http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/153703.Ian_Irvine



Posted by at No comments:

Monday, March 5, 2012

500 BOOKS IN 300 DAYS – WEEK 40


I've been running this weekly competition on my Facebook fan page since January 1, 2011, and it'll run well into 2012. Most weeks I've been giving away three of my trilogies and quartets, signed, except for breaks where I've given away iPads. If you'd like to enter the current iPad competition (Aussies only, for legal reasons), go here: http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author/app_10339498918




Total number of my books won so far: 406 + 29 (people who've earned 3 Honourable Mentions) = 441.

The last competition was the all-audiobook competition.

WEEK 40 QUESTION – What's the worst excuse of all time? The cleverest, funniest, most moving or wittiest entries win. No knowledge of my books needed. 



 


First Prize – The View from the Mirror audiobooks on CD, 91 hours of listening, signed.

Second Prize – The Vengeance audiobook on CD, 26 hours, signed.

3rd Prize – The Vengeance audiobook on MP3CD, 26 hours, signed. 

There were 58 entries this week. 

Winners 
 1st, Pamela Maddocks, 2nd Ward Bond, 3rd, Esther Walls.       

Honourable Mentions (get 3 HMs and you also win). 
 Lej Parton, Michael Potter, Matthew Elric Romeo, Toby Johnson, Victoria Proctor.   

The complete list of winners for 2011– 2012 can be found here: http://www.ian-irvine.com/winners.html 
Posted by at 1 comment:

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

500 BOOKS IN 300 DAYS – WEEK 39


I've been running this weekly competition on my Facebook fan page since January 1, 2011, and it'll run into 2012. Most weeks all year I've been giving away three of my trilogies and quartets, signed, except for breaks where I've given away two iPad 2s. 

Stay tuned: there could be another iPad comp in 2012.




Total number of my books won so far: 406 + 29 (people who've earned 3 Hon Mentions) = 435.

WEEK 39 QUESTION – If you had a cameo role in an Ian Irvine book, what role would you play and how would Ian kill you off, torment you or use you to make the main characters suffer? The cleverest, funniest, most moving or wittiest entries win. No knowledge of my books needed. 



 



First Prize – The Song of the Tears trilogy, signed.

Second Prize – The Grim and Grimmer quartet, signed.

3rd Prize – Vengeance, signed. 

There were 24 entries this week. 

Winners 
 1st, Tony Mansfield, 2nd, Patrick Chaffin, 3rd, Dave Dray.       

Honourable Mentions (get 3 HMs and you also win). 
 Anna Tipton, Danny Charles Daines, Ricky Henderson.   

The complete list of winners for 2011– 2012 can be found here: http://www.ian-irvine.com/winners.html 

Posted by at No comments:

Sunday, January 15, 2012

500 BOOKS IN 300 DAYS – WEEK 38

I've been running this weekly competition on my Facebook fan page all year, and it'll run into 2012. Most weeks all year I've been giving away three of my trilogies and quartets, signed, except for breaks where I've given away two iPad 2s. 

Stay tuned: there could be another iPad comp in 2012.




Total number of my books won so far: 397

To enter this week’s comp, go here, http://www.facebook.com/ianirvine.author, Like my page (unless you already have) then enter from the Promos tab. 

WEEK 38 QUESTION – What should Nish's New Years resolutions be (or if you prefer, Frodo, Llian or Harry Potter)? The cleverest, funniest, most moving or wittiest entries win. No knowledge of my books needed. 



 



First Prize – The Vengeance audiobook on CD, signed.

Second Prize – The View from the Mirror quartet, signed.

3rd Prize – The Well of Echoes quartet, signed. 

There were 40 entries this week. 

Winners 
 1st,  Karl Mersh, 2nd, Tony Mansfield, 3rd, Sue Knight.       

Honourable Mentions (get 3 HMs and you also win). 
 Duncan Anderson, Michael Davis, Dave Dray, Toni Louise Clark, Alistair Geddes, Grey Dw    .     

The complete list of winners for 2011 can be found here: http://www.ian-irvine.com/winners.html 

Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)