Win! Company! Merchandise!
Doubleday
has made up some Company coffee cups and Mission
Statement posters and I’m allowed to give five away. This is
fantastic, because usually this stuff goes to uninterested magazine
editors already drowning in book-related collateral, and not to fans,
who would stab their own mothers for it.
It’s like this: Company is set within a fictional corporation named Zephyr Holdings, and Doubleday’s cups and Mission Statements have Zephyr logos on them. There’s no mention of me or the novel, which seems a little odd for promotional merchandise, but then it does make them even more cool and obscure.
If you’d like to win a coffee cup and Mission Statement poster, all you need to do is get yourself on my mailing list. You can uncheck the relevant boxes so you don’t get my blogs by e-mail, if you want: the important thing is that you be on that list, and have followed the instructions to validate your email address. Don’t join multiple times, or I’ll disqualify you.
On Monday January 9th, 2006, I’ll randomly select five people from the mailing list and e-mail them. If I don’t get a reply or at least a vacation autoreply within a few days, I’ll draw somebody else.
Thanks to Doubleday for making this possible! It’s very cool of them.
(Note: I know from experience that a bunch of you are going to write in saying how much you’d love a Company coffee cup and you once had a Snoopy coffee cup but it got broken and through some process I can’t quite follow only a Company cup will make your life whole again so can I please just slip you one on the side. But I’m sorry, I can’t: I only have five to give away.)
Update: To clarify, yes, naturally everyone already on the list is automatically eligible.
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Lapse (#86)
Location: Brisbane Australia
Quote: "You're adopted and we hate you."
Posted: 6501 days ago
Your a champ Max ;)
now, you mentioned Snoopy, but how about Thomas the tank engine?
...sorry, just had to be said...
Chris (#816)
Location: Quebec, Canada
Posted: 6501 days ago
The people who are already on are automatically entered, right? :)
Saban (#15)
Location: Northern Virginia, USA
Quote: "Well, you may not get hurt, but huff puff, you won't get loved either."
Posted: 6501 days ago
Now, my mothers irrational fear of knives and me can stay irrational.
She'll be pleased.
:-)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Quote: ""Toast sweat! It's the scourge of our time!""
Posted: 6501 days ago
Location: Washington D.C.
Quote: "Time not important, only life important"
Posted: 6501 days ago
Dryden (#840)
Location: Alabama
Quote: "Exciting Opportunity: This Space For Rent!"
Posted: 6501 days ago
Erin (#1481)
Location: Seattle
Quote: "Living is easy with eyes closed"
Posted: 6501 days ago
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Nate (#1064)
Location: Bowling Green, KY
Quote: "Once more into the breach, dear friends...."
Posted: 6500 days ago
Peter N.Bernath (#1041)
Location: Stockholm - Sweden
Quote: "Errr... Is that a tree growing out of your head? - Fallout 2"
Posted: 6500 days ago
The BIG question is, if it is possible to buy these elsewhere? If not, can I please create a website called www.maxbarrystuff.com and promote you and your books at the same time as I am selling valuable Max Barry merchandise? I'd sell 'em at nearly the cost of making them. I'd also ship worldwide. Don't know if I'd be able to accept credit cards though, but it's probably possible.
I'd only take 10% on top of what it costs me to make the merchandise, and Max will get 20% of that, so you will be helping a starving author and his family. As well as providing me with free Max Barry Stuff... ;) Who knows maybe we can also have random lotteries? Say a cup per 20 cups sold? ;)
Of course we'd have T-shirts, caps, mousepads (with Barrys weee little head on it) too, aswell as other merchandise that the fans request. Consider it a fansite, that makes the merchandise you want to buy. ;)
The only thing I need from you Max, is a big OK, as well as .tif (or high res) pictures to have something to print. Otherwise it'll be stickdeath.com all over again... (I can't draw at all, and it would result in stick portraits of you... Wait a minute, havn't you already done that?)
If you're interested, send me an e-mail and we'll discuss the final details. The agreements can be signed by mail so the distance is no problem.
*Does the twist to show how happy he is, Max that is...*
;)
I've got first dibs on www.maxbarrystuff.com, so no one else steal it all right?
Chris (#816)
Location: Quebec, Canada
Posted: 6500 days ago
Otherwise, let us know when you get the site going. :D I'd love a JenGov t-shirt or something.
Zoomy (#1546)
Location: Outside Glasgow
Posted: 6500 days ago
Peter N.Bernath (#1041)
Location: Stockholm - Sweden
Quote: "Errr... Is that a tree growing out of your head? - Fallout 2"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Luiz Eduardo (#1601)
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Quote: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Søren Rune Nissen (#877)
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Quote: "What have you been reading the Gospel According to Saint Bastard? - The pope, as voiced by Eddie Izzard"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Hey, in this installment, watch me make an ass of myself and tell an established writer how to write!
"If youd like to win a coffee cup and Mission Statement poster, all you need to do is join my mailing list."
Could have been
"If youd like to win a coffee cup and Mission Statement poster, all you need to do is being subscriped to my mailing list.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Of course!
Søren Rune Nissen (#877)
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Quote: "What have you been reading the Gospel According to Saint Bastard? - The pope, as voiced by Eddie Izzard"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 6500 days ago
> and promote you and your books at the same time
I'd sure have no objections, if you think it's worth your time and trouble. But Chris is right: the artwork is owned by my publisher, so you'd have to talk to them about it. E-mail me and I'll hook you up.
metalbiteme (#1495)
Location: WALES UK
Quote: "Welcome to nowhere fast. Nothing here ever lasts."
Posted: 6500 days ago
:-)
Andrew (#1279)
Location: Texas
Posted: 6500 days ago
Rod McBride (#688)
Location: Gardner, KS
Quote: "www.MidwestRockLobster.blogspot.com"
Posted: 6500 days ago
I work for a promotional products manufacturer, but we don't do mugs, so it still has genuine charm.
Rob2Kx (#1125)
Location: Canada
Quote: "Anything for laughs even if it kills you"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Grace (#1225)
Location: Melbourne aka The Cliffs of Insanity
Quote: "I refuse to have a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed."
Posted: 6500 days ago
At first I got excioted. Merchandise! Excellent! Free! Even better! But then I saw the logo.
Has anyone noticed how completely dodgy that logo is? I designed better sutff in year 12 graphic design class... and I failed.
That's not to say I won't happily accept any free mcguffin that may happen to be flung my way (should I be so lucky) despite all my whinging.
But it ain't pretty. Or memorable. Even the colours are *gack* snotty. Doubleday ain't trying hard enough!
Can't wait for the book to come out though. I need to read something that combines humour with paranoia...
Paul (#104)
Location: Connecticut, USA
Quote: ""Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating. " --Brazil (1985 movie)"
Posted: 6500 days ago
Wow a coffee cup AND a promo poster? I'd definitely use the cup, and the poster would of course be added to the Max Barry shrine in the corner of my room ;)
I actually like the logo. Clean, simple, easy to remember and recognize. At least, that's what a [useless] executive charged with approving the logo might say as he's too busy eating another doughnut.
Peter N.Bernath (#1041)
Location: Stockholm - Sweden
Quote: "Errr... Is that a tree growing out of your head? - Fallout 2"
Posted: 6500 days ago
*stares at the monitor, waiting for the mail to pop up*
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Quote: "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
Posted: 6499 days ago
This also begs the question:
Why aren't you selling them on this site?
or somewhere.....to meet demand!?!
Why don't you get someone to produce them and sell them your self?
Why won't you listen to me?
I only want to make you rich....
and powerful
and change you
so you're too good for your friends
and tuna strait from the can
and hotels with out room service
and wire hangers
and you loose your edge
and then rediscover your self
and write the greatest book in all of history
and then lose it all again
when run on sentances become hip
and everybody flocks to me!
Why won't you let me do that for you?
Alex Weston (#1794)
Location: James Madison U. Virginia, USA
Quote: "Max(x) is awesome"
Posted: 6499 days ago
Michael (#1299)
Location: Northern California
Quote: "Chugachugachoochoo"
Posted: 6499 days ago
Unfortunately, it really sucks, so I decided not to put it up here. OK, actually, I'm far too lazy to compose a jingle, as that would be something like... work... or something.
Oh well. I do agree with Grace (#1225) though, thats some fairly hideous logo I'm afraid. Ohh Halloween colors! Makes me want corn candies though, which I guess is something.
Still, be awesome to have one of those mugs. Good luck everyone.
Greg Karber (#1568)
Location: gregkarber.com
Posted: 6499 days ago
But can he be bought? Aye, that's the question.
Phill Sacre (#1822)
Location: London, UK
Quote: "Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows."
Posted: 6499 days ago
Bony Tony (#1343)
Location: United States
Posted: 6498 days ago
Joseph (#1825)
Location: Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA
Quote: "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels."
Posted: 6498 days ago
Miles (#1833)
Location: UK
Quote: ""Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what's for lunch" - Orson Welles"
Posted: 6498 days ago
What's that? Randomly selected? Oh. All right then.
But seriously: Jennifer Government is one of my favourite books ever and I played Nation Sates for a long time. And Max's posts really are entertaining and witty.
Location: Brossard, Qc, Ca
Quote: "Smile, Tomorrow Will Be Worse... - Murphy"
Posted: 6498 days ago
Just kidding, lets pray to "The god of random" (Which is a paradox since if there is a god, there shouldn't be things as random, nor non-random things... oh... I think my brain crashed...)
James Heath (#1846)
Location: Nottingham, England
Quote: ""I've done it before and I'll do it again - I'll F***ing Kill Google!" - Steve Ballmer"
Posted: 6497 days ago
We'll fall down like a ton (metric, that is) of rocks on anyone who dares sell such on Ebay! A ton of frenzied Max Barry fans, that is.
M. Kilbain Lazer (#1709)
Location: Holland
Quote: "I guess we're awesome"
Posted: 6497 days ago
Gregory Rubin (#72)
Location: Seattle, WA
Quote: "SSIMB!"
Posted: 6497 days ago
Luiz Eduardo (#1601)
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Quote: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
Posted: 6497 days ago
He didn't ask this... he didn't ask this...
David (#1848)
Location: Texas
Quote: "Delighted!"
Posted: 6496 days ago
Colette (#324)
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Quote: ""The good Earth â we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy" -- Kurt Vonnegut"
Posted: 6495 days ago
Kristen (#1157)
Location: Jersey
Quote: "Insert quotation here."
Posted: 6494 days ago
Location: Hobart
Posted: 6490 days ago
Location: Racine, WI
Quote: ""The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost"
Posted: 6487 days ago
The publisher owns the images that publisher places on the books, but the publisher would not own Max's image, nor do I believe the publisher would own famous quotes from any of Max's books, so...
You could do a site with products that have Max's picture and his awesome quotes.
Whatever that may be...
(hmmm, it's late and I'm still at work, perhaps I should go home and lie down.)
Peter N.Bernath (#1041)
Location: Stockholm - Sweden
Quote: "Errr... Is that a tree growing out of your head? - Fallout 2"
Posted: 6487 days ago
Adam Messinger (#1124)
Location: Kansas, USA
Quote: "www.adammessinger.com"
Posted: 6460 days ago
Adam Messinger (#1124)
Location: Kansas, USA
Quote: "www.adammessinger.com"
Posted: 6460 days ago
Also, I just now read this from the Chapter One sample: "Perched at the top [of the building] is the word ZEPHYR and the corporate logo, which is an orange and black polygon of foggy intent."
Gud (#228)
Location: Melbourne
Posted: 6455 days ago
Thanks,
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