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

[Sana Malik]

I fell up the stairs at school in front of my crush. He laughed. A lot.
http://twitter.com/Feltbeatgirl/status/19852875036

[Leeliiiseileen]

age13. boy dumps me because i was too nice. i burned the jacket he gave me then mailed it to him.#RubyOliverBooks
http://twitter.com/leeliiiseileen/status/19856970397

[Buzzinglikeneon]

My story is just to mortifying to post on Twitter, so I'm not entering the contest. But I did want to comment and say that not only have I read Dramarama, but I L-O-V-E-D it!

[Maria Abundis]

Age 14, freshman. What I thought was going to be a secret whispered in my ear turned out to be my first sloppy, wet kiss. #RubyOliverBooks

[Amanda]

Oh to be young and not in love again...here goes:

Posted on Twitter @Amanda_attheLib

1st bf-1st kiss with said bf, his response...so is that your first kiss or what? I dieeed. Obvs a very smooth operator. #RubyOliverBooks

[Valia]

Never had a bf. Fell in serious like with my best friend. He promised me the world. Three months later, I found out from his facebook status that he moved to Hawaii.

Is it wrong to want to slap him? lol

[Valia]

Oh and heres my twitter! I posted it there too :)

https://twitter.com/VLSimplicity

[Jessica]

Family cruise, impressionable age: DJ lures me into disco lounge. Introduced to European house music and slobbery kisses.

Posted on twitter: https://twitter.com/A_Sea_Change

[Erik Hahn]

got busted tag team dating...not off to the best start! I would be honoroed to have contributed to another of your books...1st was tounge first.

[Christine]

Gosh, this was forever ago. The time: 5th grade, last day of school. The place: right outside the classroom door. So I was closing the door when one of my guy friends runs up to me and asks me out. He got onto his knees and begged. I had the lowest self esteem possible back then that I thought he was joking. So, naturally, I just stared at him like an idiot until he walked out the other door to go to recess. When school got out, I acted like I hadn't heard him and asked him what he had said. He said it was nothing and walked away like I'd kicked his puppy. I felt like such a bitch.

[E. Lockhart]

Erik! You are awesome. :)
BuzzinglikeNeon -- Thank you!!

All of you, these entries are amazing. Also, my publicist tells me we can have another contest in September for ARCs of Real Live Boyfriends, aka Roo4, which doesn't come out until December.

[Timjnx]

Just realised that I was suppose to Blog this!
http://timjnx.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/elockhartscompetition.html

[Anju]

I really liked him... But I was too shy to tell him how I felt. So I wrote crazy stalker "I love you" poetry and shoved it in his locker anonymously.
He found out I wrote them
and
I haven't looked at him since.

[Anju]

I really liked him, yet I was too shy to tell him in person. So I wrote him creepy stalker "I love you" poetry and planted the poems in his locker anonymously.
He found out I wrote them
and
I haven't looked at him since.

[Anju]

Was I supposed to put my website on my comment?
http://blackheartlovesall.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-cant-do-it-anymore.html

[Jenna]

8th grade. Spring Break. First real kiss interrupted by parents and campers. Literally picked us up and separated us. #RubyOliverBooks

I believe, just for memory's sake, that there was also a cooler of water dumped on us to "cool the lustful fires." It was a church trip.

http://twitter.com/jltackett

[ben fine]

the first time i had oral sex, not only did i giggle all the way through it, when it was all over i asked if she would like a glass of water. She said," no she was fine," and i pressed the issue and said, "because if i had just done that, i'd really want a glass of water."

[Jenna]

Waited until 18 for my first boyfriend. He talked about making traditions. As soon as I didn't go as far as he wanted he started ignoring me. And I was the one who had to end it officially

[Sam M.]

While working at Subway, my neighbor's long-ago ex-boyfriend came in, had a chat with me, and left with my phone number. His best friend worked with me that night, and she knew I gave him a FAKE phone number.

http://www.facebook.com/sam.mattie

[evic]

Here is my tweet:
http://twitter.com/evico/status/20015345729

At least my date was polite but should of told me....

[Maddie]

I'm just going to post it here, because, why not?

So I’m in air cadets…and basically, I was asked out by this decent looking guy (though in retrospect…EW) and I said yes. That week, I hadn’t been in uniform, because I didn’t have a uniform. The outfits are disgusting…high wasted pants, tie, big bulky boots, hairnets, and honestly? Not a single person could look even slightly attractive in it. Anyway, we’d been e-mailing, but since we were 13 and didn’t even go to the same school, nothing happened. The next week at cadets, he dumped me because I wasn’t as pretty as he thought I was. First of all, jerk much? And secondly, the uniforms didn’t have anything to do with it? That SAME DAY, he asked out my best friend. This kind of reminds me of Jackson/Roo/Kim incident. Minus uniforms of course ;)

It's a little long. But god it was embarrassing.

[Joanna]

I posted mine at @joannazaleski :)

"#rubyoliverbooks I once got dumped because I was taking away from my boyfriend's world of Warcraft raiding schedule."

[Katiebell]

Went to meet the parents of my boyfriend of 2 months--their idea of fun was telling me stories about him using his poop as playdoh when he was little. I'm just not sure how little he was.

[Natalie]

Posted on Twitter (@ Thehoffette)

#RubyOliverBooks
May 30th. Finally, FINALLY made out with The Boy. Commence the celebratory cartwheeling. Cue ripped shorts. -facepalm-

[Natalie]

hmm...I'm assuming that since it's already August 2nd where you are, the contest is over, but since it's only 10:33 in here in southern california, I figured I might as well try my luck ^-^