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Still can’t get enough of Neil Gaiman? Here is your chance to win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade (trade paperback edition)!

SIGNED by Neil Gaiman

This giveaway is part of Avalon.ph (still) celebration of our 10th year online. We are one of the longest running online shopping websites in the country. You can read a quick history and timeline here.

Adventures in the Dream Trade is one of Neil Gaiman’s harder-to-find book locally. The book covers Neil Gaiman’s web log during the publication of American Gods, some essays, introductions, stories, poems and song lyrics.

Just how can you win this amazing signed book?

Complete this phrase: “Ten years ago……..”

Be creative, sentimental, funny or just be honest! Feel free to add images if you write your entry in your blogs. I reserve the right to disqualify tasteless entries.

So how to submit an entry?

Easy/basic:

a) Answering in the comments section below gives you one (1) point.

or

b) Answering in your blog, with a link back to this post gives you three (3) points. You must mention Avalon.ph in your blog entry. Note: one blog per person/entry.

On blog entries, I will award you one (1) extra point if I like your post. This will be purely based my personal discretion and I expect myself to be stingy with it.

Basically that’s it, you are now qualified to win this Neil Gaiman signed book.  But wait! Want to have more chances of winning? We are giving options to submit more entries that’s worth the effort.

Advanced:

- Twitter – one (1) extra point. You may also follow our Twitter account: avalonph. Twitter entries can be easily traced as long as you use the following tweet format:

RT @avalonph Win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade! Exclusive giveaway only on www.avalon.ph #avalonph

I suggest you copy and paste before you tweet. Helpful comments before RT is okay, the rest must be entered once and as is during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22). Please do not spam.

Sorry, no Plurk entries because their search system isn’t optimize to guarantee your entry gets counted.

- Purchases on Avalon.ph. For every valid purchase worth Php500.00 on Avalon.ph, you will earn one (1) extra point. This is valid during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22) and must already be paid/fulfilled before the end of the contest period. There is no limit to the number of points to be awarded.

I’m tempted to include a Facebook point reward system but I believe that’s too much already. However, I will deeply appreciate if you “share” the contest details once it is posted in our Facebook Page. If you are not a fan of Avalon.ph yet, here’s our Facebook Page link: www.facebook.com/avalonph. We also have giveaways exclusive to our Avalon.ph Facebook Page Fans so make sure you add us up.

This giveaway will run from August 26 until September 22, 2009, 11:59pm Manila time. Raffle is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers. Raffle will be through Random.org or other facilities that can handle random drawing.

Raffle winner will be announced before 12:00nn September 23. We will exert best effort to communicate with the winner within 5 days, but if efforts fail we will use our discretion in choosing a new winner either through a re-draw or pick #2.

As much as we want everything fair and square there might be unseen issues. Loopholes or oversights regarding rules- common sense applies!

So what are you waiting for? Good luck! Most of all, reminisce something in your life ten years ago!

www.avalon.ph

Avalon.ph will be giving away another exclusive item soon but we can’t decide which item to offer. Help us settle by voting!

Do you want to win:

Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman

Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman, Trade Paperback, hard-to-find locally

SIGNED by Neil Gaiman

or

Tori Amos signed photo, 8“x11”

Tori Amos Signed photo

Just comment “Tori” or “Neil” in this blog post, through our Plurk account or through our Avalon.ph Facebook Page.

One vote per person, everything will be tallied by August 10, 2009.

Tori or Neil! Leave a comment here, feel free to express yourself too.

Other voting sites:

Plurk voting: http://www.plurk.com/p/1f0zlp

Avalon.ph Facebook Page voting: http://bit.ly/Bld9a

Thank you very much!

There were 64 entries to the contest and the lucky winner of the Signed Neil Gaiman book is…

Read more…

This left my shelves a month ago, and I miss it. I strongly doubt I’ll have a copy again.

Neil Gaiman’s Snow Glass Apples chaplet, signed by the author. Nothing surprising as Neil Gaiman has been the most consistent top-selling author on the website.

Last few hours and the winner of the Interworld Signed book will be announced.

Make sure you have a valid entry! Good luck!

As we continue to observe our tenth year anniversary online, Avalon.ph will be giving away a hardbound Signed Copy of Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves. Copy is signed only by Neil Gaiman.

Just enter in the comments section your favorite Neil Gaiman quote. For verification and fairness purposes we will limit quotes from any of his published fiction or non-fiction books, or comic books.

We’re not going to make it complicated but make sure the quote can be verified, if necessary. It is not required but it would be more fun to read if you mention the source or character who said it. Only one (1) comment/entry allowed per person.

Blog about this contest with a link back to this entry gives you one (1) extra point PLUS I will read each one and the best post (my preference) will win a brand new Moleskine Pocket Plain Reporter Notebook.

Enter a comment/entry then make any online purchase on Avalon.ph and earn more points. Each item purchased is equal to 1 point. If your order has 3 items, you earn 3 extra points.

Avalon.ph Auctions is also doing a Php10.00 book auction on select titles concurrent with this post. This is the easiest way to increase your chances. The auction site may have different user IDs, only purchases under account avalonph will qualify as points. To avoid confusion just click on the given links.

Only orders made online between March 3, 12:01am to March 27, 11:59pm will be counted. All extra points will only be valid when orders are fully paid before March 29, 2009. Winner will be determined through Random.org, the drawing will be made anytime on March 30, 2009. Disputes or loopholes regarding contest rules- common sense apply. If you have any questions, contact us.

Contest is only open for those with a valid Philippine mailing address.

Good luck everyone!

“What power would HELL have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?” – Morpheus to Lucifer/Hell, from The Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 (Preludes & Nocturnes)

Note: Some personal Neil Gaiman signed book collection are posted on the website, you may click here. Some are priced not exactly to sell unless there’s a very good offer!

New Books Posted:

Shopping:

Wizards: The Quest for The Wizard from Merlin to Harry Potter (HB)
Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Match Wits with Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book
The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Hardbound)
American Gothic Tales (Edited by Joyce Carol Oates)
Dark Delicacies II: Fear
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (Hardbound)
The Business of Bullshit by Graham Edmonds
The Fair Folk (Elves/Fairies) Edited by Marvin Kaye
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Essential Edition)
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers (Hardbound)
Classic Nasty by Jack Murnighan
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just About Everything Else
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa P.
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007: The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation
The Science of Vampires by Katherine Ramsland

For Auction:

The Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
The Sandman: King of Dreams, 40 Collectible Postcards
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories (Out-of-Print)
The Town in the City by Jack Kerouac (1978 edition)
The Science of the X-Men (Out-of-Print)
Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology by Richard Reynolds
Hypermodern Chess: Games of Aron Nimzovich
The Science of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (HB)
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner
Fury by Salman Rushdie
The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific & Biblical
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion (Hardbound 1977)
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and The Supernatural (1981)
The Leopard by Guiseppe Di Lampedusa
Science Fiction of the 30′s (Edited by Damon Knight)
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jacques and his Master: A Play by Milan Kundera
The Wall: And Other Stories by Sartre
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Seven Theories of Human Nature by Leslie Stevenson
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Women on Women 3: Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis, Penal Colony & Other Stories