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Far Out Fantastic Halloween Sweepstakes 2015

A witch's hat with a broom behind it and a bat hovering above the two.
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Update, October 31, 2015, 10:00 PM: Because the sweepstakes deadline has been extended (see below), the winner will not be announced until next weekend's blog post but he/she will be notified before that at the contact information they provided.

Update, October 30, 2015, 10:59 PM: The sweepstakes below has been extended to midnight, November 1 (PST)!




What do you get when you put witches’ brooms together with vampire hunters’ and witch hunters’ artillery? You get sweep stakes, or more like sweepstakes. That is, the Far Out Fantastic Halloween Sweepstakes that you can enter for a chance to win a big treat! No purchase necessary.

The treat: a three-book set consisting of a copy of the short fiction collection, The Fool’sIllusion, and two novels! This set approximately totals an original retail value of $33. All you need to do to enter is answer the question at the end of this post.

This giveaway begins at midnight on Tuesday October 27 and ends at midnight October 31, 2015 Pacific Standard Time.

Rules

Answer the question at the bottom of the post by using one of the two options provided in the giveaway box. For reasons of budgetary constraints on shipping and handling of the prize, participants must either reside or have a residential address in the continental U.S. Only 18 and older are allowed to enter. In order to avoid potential favoritism issues, family/relatives of contest sponsor (yours truly) are disqualified from participating.

Procedure for Selecting a Winner

The winner will be selected randomly and will be announced by 9 PM, Saturday October 31 PST here at the Far Out Fantastic Site. If it is discovered that the winner did not play by the above mentioned rules and/or conditions, an alternative winner may be selected and the prize will go to the alternative winner instead.

Use of Participants’ Information

Participants’ email and postal mailing addresses as well as other personal information will be used for purposes of selecting a winner and delivering the prize (to be delivered either by U.S. Postal Service or UPS); this information will not be sold or maliciously used. For more details about how your personal information is used, please visit Rafflecopter’s privacy section

Liability

Sweepstakes sponsor can assume no liability for loss or damages of prize in the mail that are beyond his control.

Good luck! And . . .

Until Halloween!

Question For Sweepstakes Entry: What is your favorite book to read or movie to watch around Halloween?

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Comments

  1. Not responsible for books lost in the mail - that's funny. It does happen though.
    Great contest.

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  2. It's rare. But you never know. If it gets lost in the mail the responsibility is supposed to be on the mail service, so we'll yell at them for it if it happens. lol Or I can get an uncle of mine to do it since he's a retired postman and so they can't fire him. lol

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