I’m psyched to announce my silly little short story, The Coin Collector, has officially hit 500 downloads on Smashwords! Woo!
To commemorate this glorious occasion, I’m going to hold a little giveaway. It’s super easy, and the prizes are super cute. Remember how a few months ago I mentioned I’d printed out my short story in booklets to give away at street festivals?
Pretty booklets all in a row
The prizes for this giveaway are the left-over short story booklets! That’s right, folks — for the low, low price of leaving a comment on this post (in which you can say literally anything you want), you will be entered into the running to win a super exclusive print copy of The Coin Collector, signed by yours truly! I’m going to give away at least three booklets, and possibly more if I get a lot of comments (come on, guys, you can do it!), so get commenting!
So, to summarize:
How do I enter this super-awesome giveaway? Leave a comment on this post — anything at all will do! (extra points if it’s a haiku)
What can I win? An exclusive print copy of The Coin Collector, a hilarious short story signed by the author herself!
That’s all for today, folks. Good luck!
Unrelated media of the day:
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/AF2IwMC
Michelle Proulx - Author 
Congratulations from an author 🙂
Thank you! It’s just a little fluff piece I wrote, so I’m really happy this many people are actually reading it 🙂
You’re welcome…:)
You’re a winner! Email me your address (to michellishelli@gmail.com) and I’ll send you your super special signed short story 🙂
Congrats! Also, I always knew that’s what waiters did when you made that request.
Apparently I was doing it wrong when I was a waiter, lol.
I could never do that job. Too clumsy. Did the ice cream jockey and sandwich artist route though.
Fun! I was briefly a Quiznos girl, but I was really terrible at it because I could never remember what went into the sandwiches. Thank goodness university started back up and I moved away, lol.
Subway for me and I wasn’t allowed to use the cash register. I just made stuff. That and battled the raccoon to throw the garbage out. I wish I was kidding about that one. Psychotic bastard was always waiting.
Yahoo!!!!! No, seriously, congrats to you. I wish I knew how to break into success at Smashwords. The one book I’ve published there sold absolutely nothing before I pulled it off and went exclusive at KDP.
Well, I think it’s helping that it’s A) a short story, and B) it’s free — so no downside for potential readers if they decide to download it, since it costs them nothing 🙂 And thanks!
Yes … free always works.
Woohoo! Congratulations!!! 😀
Woohoo! Thanks!!!
That’s awesome! 😀
RIGHT??? It figures that my free short story is more successful than the novel I spent years and years laboring over, lol. Then again, it also helps that the short story is free.
You sold less than 500 of Imminent Danger? For some reason I imagined it’d sell like hot cakes. I am currently one third through and am enjoying it.
Well, that’s good to know! Yes, it hasn’t been selling like hot cakes, although I’m hoping that’s a result of assorted marketing blunders rather than the book being bad. For example, the ebook price was fluctuating wildly for the first few months, which was really weird and might have turned off readers. The cover is dramatic but doesn’t at all accurately reflect the book’s contents. It’s currently listed on Amazon under Romance>Fantasy and Children’s Books, because iUniverse can’t get its s**t together. Etc. 😀
If someone were to comment saying they didn’t want to enter, would that count as an entry?
And now I shall place the comment on my head, smile, and walk backwards from the room.
Luckily the situation you pose is purely hypothetical, as you didn’t explicitly indicate you are the one who doesn’t want to enter. Thus, you are entered! As for your hypothetical … I think it would count as an entry, but then they’d be taken out of the running immediately afterward, thus making the whole thing moot.
Sun on dog and man
Blossoms trodden into mud
A contradiction
Thanks to your haiku
I have reached enlightenment
Damn the elephants!
Wow!! That’s awesome. I’m so happy for you. In fact I feel so inspire, I’ll attempt to write a haiku. I just hope my feeble attempt does not end up being a sacrilege for all other haikus, ever invented 🙂
Haiku what is that?
Can’t remember all the rules
Hope I didn’t mess
Cheers
Beautiful haiku 🙂 You didn’t mess at all!
You’re a winner! Email me your address (to michellishelli@gmail.com) and I’ll send you your super special signed short story 🙂
Congratulations! I’m very impressed by your success and initiative! (I might not be eligible for the giveaway as I am out here in Australia, but I will look for your work on Smashwords!)
Australia’s quite far, isn’t it? Well, if you win, I’ll see what I can do about hiring some whales to swim the story over to you 😀
Congratulations. Keep up the good work, and don’t forget us little people when you become famous 🙂
Haha, no chance of that! And thanks 🙂
You’re a winner! Email me your address (to michellishelli@gmail.com) and I’ll send you your super special signed short story 🙂
🙂 Happy Dance time. Thank you Michelle, and email has been sent.
I got my copy last night, read it immediately and it was great. There was some really great nuggets of dialogue in that short story and i really enjoyed it. Thank you so much.
Awesome! Glad to hear it managed to get all the way to you 🙂 And obviously happy that you enjoyed it!
Also, sorry about all that Imminent Danger promotion at the end — I’d originally printed the stories planning on leaving them around town, in the hopes that someone would pick it up, read it, and then want to read more by me. Hence the hand-written note at the end. Feel free to ignore that note and hang onto the story 🙂
I love it! Here’s hoping you’ll soon blog about reaching a well-deserved 5,000 downloads. 🙂 Heck, why not dream big? 5,000,000 downloads. Yes, I loved that short story that much. 😀
5,00,000 downloads??? I think I might shoot for something a teensy bit more achievable. Like 501. No, wait, I’m past that already! 505! 510! Sky’s the limit!
You’re a winner! Email me your address (to michellishelli@gmail.com) and I’ll send you your super special signed short story 🙂
Actually I think I already have your address. Never mind!
Congrats on so many downloads – that’s brilliant! 🙂
Thank you kindly!!!
You’re a winner! Email me your address (to michellishelli@gmail.com) and I’ll send you your super special signed short story 🙂
Well done! Seeing as we’re sharing food industry job stories, I once worked in a bakery and confused the rack full of empty bread trays that were ready for setting out raw dough to go in the oven for the rack full of empty trays that had just come out of the oven. The hot ones make a really loud noise when you drop them on the floor. It’s hard kneading dough with one burnt hand…
Then there was the time I went to work in shorts after a day at the beach with no sunscreen on my legs. Couldn’t turn my back to the oven. It was like I was paranoid about it attacking me all morning, which it sort of was.
When I was younger, I didn’t realize you could put casserole dishes in the oven (I thought something had to be metal to survive the heat). So when I saw a casserole dish full of piping hot food sitting on the oven, I happily went over and grabbed the handles. As you can imagine, it didn’t end well.
My imagination is pretty bad but I can imagine that! Ouch!