Contest!

CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST!

    

Come enter my contest -- before Sunday night!  Win a signed personalized hardcover book plus a foxy little bookmark with Roo's picture on it!

In honor of the new covers of the OLD Ruby Oliver books -- 
The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, and The Treasure Map of Boys -- 
and 
to SPREAD THE WORD about how you should all read all three novels NOW so that you are ready for Real Live Boyfriends when it comes out Dec 28, 2010 -- 
 I am having a contest! 

It is super easy to enter. 

Write a SHORTY SHORT SHORT (hopefully witty, cringe-worthy or vitriolic) sentence or two about the most embarrassing or confusing moment you ever had with a member of whatever sex you are attracted to. Then post it, with or without explanation, on your Facebook, twitter, blog, formspring, or whatever. 

If you're on Twitter, tag is #RubyOliverBooks. (And I am at twitter.com/elockhart)
Please keep it PG-13.  People will read this who haven't made it through the mocha latte yet, as Roo would say. :)

Then ALSO POST YOUR ENTRY HERE in the comments with a link, if possible, back to where you posted it.
You have to post it here, too, or we (me and my fab assistant Tricia) won't find it! 

For example (and this is a true story, peeps, that I later appropriated for fictional purposes in The Boyfriend List):

Age 16. Went to see Tarzan: Legend of Greystoke and let boyfriend feel left boob for two hours. #RubyOliverBooks

or 

Valentine's Day. Boyfriend put used office phone swiped from work under my pillow for a gift. #RubyOliverBooks

That's a true story, too, sadly.

Contest ends Sunday night at midnight. Monday, winners will send me your snail mail addresses via email. Tuesday, prizes mailed out.

PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES

There will be ten winners  (as long as ten people care enough to enter!) and the prize is a signed, personalized hardcover  copy of Dramarama, plus foxy Real Live Boyfriends bookmark.  Dramarama is the book of mine you probably haven't read -- am I right?
 And it is like, THE BEST ONE, I THINK. 

More on Dramarama here. 

And if you've read Dramarama and you really want a different book, you can have that instead. It just will probably be a paperback.  I haven't got any Real Live Boyfriends, though -- so dream on in that department. 

Anyway, away we go!  I hope you guys enter. Ruby hopes so, too. 

xo
E

 

Comments

[Natalie Whipple]

Fun contest! My entry, posted on Twitter (@nataliewhipple):

8th grade. Boy: Will you be my girlfriend? Me: Why? I barely know you. Boy: *stares at my boobs*

I said no, by the way.

[Heather Hoag]

Trapped at his house on the boringest date ever I was informed, as he leaned in, eyelids half mast, that blonds really "dig him". Funny, I didn't. #RubyOliverBooks

I am trying to post to Twitter - twitter.com/heatherhoag

[Raelee]

I hugged my first boyfriend and he got too excited about it, if you catch my drift. It was only a hug and I wanted to die.

[Jeannette A.]

First kiss, age 18. Happened with first boyfriend after dating for 2 months. Pocahontas soundtrack was playing on my laptop. #RubyOliverBooks

http://jeannettosaurus.blogspot.com/2010/07/contest-entry.html

[Sara Blanco]

Here's my entry, on twitter (@LimberlostGirl):

Friend who's a boy, knowing I like him: Hey, guess what? I'm gonna date someone else, isn't that great?! #RubyOliverBooks

(Kind of ruined the party for me, not gonna lie.)

[Chloe Henson]

Boy broke up with me over IM;without reason. Took him over 2 years to apologize for it. #RubyOliverBooks

posted on Twitter (@dftbailoveyou)

[Hilary]

Road trip with my boyfriend, his car has no exhaust system. Our sentimental conversations are bellowed. #RubyOliverBooks

http://twitter.com/Iwanttheinsides/status/19830464580

[Anne]

Posted on Twitter (@StrawShort123)

13th birthday. Boy stares at me all through English class, then stands 20 feet away and asks me out via text message. #RubyOliverBooks

[Alison]

Boy repeatedly asks person to school dance. No one answers. I laugh at his misfortune. Realize I had been that person. Feel mortified...and never answer! :( #RubyOliverBooks

http://godancego.livejournal.com/46844.html

[Michelle]

When boys talk about you secretly do not look straight at them! #RubyOliverBooks

Posted on Twitter (@MooeyAndFriends)

[Genevieve]

Dramarama is the book of yours I've read multiple times and given copies of to relatives and friends. And you're right about it being awesome, as much as I have a soft spot for both Frankie and Roo, Dramarama is the only one of your books that's actually made me cry. (good cry, not bad cry.)

That being said.

Summer before 8th grade, I go to the movies with an older boy instead of my group of girlfriends like I told my parents. My dad apparently realized I was lying, and to teach me a lesson, came in and sat down next to me halfway through the movie just as cute older boy was about to go in for the kiss. Majorly humiliated, cute boy never called again.

http://twitter.com/Genevieve_Marie/status/19833209257

[Karl G. Siewert]

Tweeted this:

I once sang the Police song "Can't Stand Losing You" to a girl's answering machine. A cappella.

http://twitter.com/yoyology/status/19833209479

[Emily]

I once had a boy try to win me back the day after I broke up with him by delivering a "home cooked meal" to my house. Upon shooing him away and opening it I discovered that it was leftovers from macaroni grill dumped into a Tupperware container, we had been there last week!

[Suzanne]

End of 1st date with crush of 10 years. He went in for the kiss, so shocked I yelled in his face "not what I was thinking!" #RubyOliverBooks

Posted on Twitter @hopeinpink

By some miracle there was a second date. :) And I learned to not go out on a date when completely exhausted.

[Noelle Brake]

Posted on Twitter!

7th grade: Had a crush on my neighbor. We meet at lockers, I back up, putting dog poo from my shoe onto his binder #RubyOliverBooks

http://twitter.com/NerdetteTroll

[Monasconfidante]

Boy likes stomach, and biting. OW, I scream. Sorry! he says, but keeps biting until mom is home, and I clean up the blood. #RubyOliverBooks

First date: Adam Sandler movie. Awkwardly lean head on boy's shoulder for duration. Next day, stiff neck. "No idea why!" Parents laugh. #RubyOliverBooks

Twitter, @monasconfidante

[Timjnx]

I had been set up on a date with a 'nice girl', but before the date took place I met the 'love of my life'. But I couldn't contact the 'nice girl' to cancel. I couldn't leave 'nice girl' alone waiting for me in South London, so I made my excuses to 'love of my life' (prior commitment) and went on the date, bought 'nice girl' dinner and made small talk, but politely declined when she offered me her phone number. What a mess! Anyway 'love of my life' really was the love of my life, we married 6 months later and are still married 17 years on.

[Samantha J Smith]

I broke up with him. Two months later he showed up on hands and knees begging for me back ... one week later HE broke up with me.

[Ashley]

Grade 11 field trip; "secret" crush walks into exhibit... my friend, nudging me: "LOOK, IT'S DEVON!" No longer a secret. #RubyOliverBooks

http://twitter.com/asherz86/status/19841011724

[Katie]

boyfiend gave me 1 of those heart ncklaces that fit together.. he never forgave me for losing my half when i broke up w/ him

same boy...on/off again bf played billy joel 'just the way you are' to me on a field trip...as freshmen in hs. #RubyOliverBooks

posted on twitter @kayteebekt

[Basheemadory]

I don't feel like typing it again, so here's the link. :)

https://twitter.com/basheemadory/status/19842941506

[Suzanne]

You told me I was no supermodel, despite knowing I adored you. I forgave, and kissed you anyway. Goodness I'm dumb.

http://twitter.com/missximpossible

[Joli]

My 1st boyfriend was building up courage to really kiss me for the 1st time, I yelled at him to "Just do it already"

posted on twitter @Actin_up

[rumbleb3lly]

I found out that my very good looking and girlfriend of about two weeks was "involved" (wink) with someone else. It was my mom's boyfriend. I couldn't even make that up.

[rumbleb3lly]

Also forgot my Twitter
Twitter.com/rumbleb311y