Ok so don't get excited, this is just a little blog competition - the BIG SUPERCOOL one is coming later so keep an eye out.
What THIS one is about though, is a book.
As you probably know, I own a lot of books.
So many that I have to keep a computer catalogue of them all, to make sure I don't accidentally buy books that I already bought and forgot about.
It's a good system, but even so, sometimes I still slip up.
Like this time.
I bought a book called "Heart Shaped Box", and it turns out I already have it.
So I'm giving it away in this competition.
I know it's just a book, but it's actually a really good one that I think a lot of you will like, otherwise I wouldn't bother.
It's a ghost story, written by "Joe Hill" which is the fake writing name of Steven King's son.
Here's the blurb:
Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals ... a used hangman's noose ... a snuff film.
An aging death-metal rockstar, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.
For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit.
He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts—of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more?
But what is delivered to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no mere conversation piece.
It's the real thing.
And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting—with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand....
If you win, it's something for free, so why not have a go, eh?
Competition is simple:
Write a script for a 30 second TV ad to sell a ghost.
Doesn't have to be the ghost from the book, so be as clever and creative as you want.
Best one (in my opinion) wins.
Remember it's for TV, so it needs visual directions as well as dialogue.
If they're any good, we may even grab a video camera and have a go at making them...
Competition ends....I dunno.....August 13. That gives you a month.
Get cracking!
July 13, 2008
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