'Tell-All' Poster Contest With An Awesome Prize Package!
Update: Random House is no longer accepting emails for free 'Tell-All' posters. They've already been deluged by requests and have sent out all the posters they had. Thank you for all for the interest. Now, once you get your posters in the mail, get out there and start hanging them up!
In order to continue to spread the word about Chuck's new novel Tell-All, Random House and The Cult are sponsoring a contest with a great prize.
THE PRIZE:
100 winners will receive a set of eight Palahniuk books.
Tell-All (hardcover)
Pygmy (paperback)
Snuff (paperback)
Rant (paperback)
Haunted (paperback)
Diary (paperback)
Lullaby (paperback)
Choke (paperback)
THE RULES:
To enter the contest, simply email Random House with your full name and mailing address. The first 200 people to email them will receive 5 Tell-All posters each (pictured above). It is then your job to hang the poster(s) up somewhere public and snap a picture of it. It's even better if you hang up multiple posters, but each person can only enter the contest once. If you can't find somewhere public, convince your local book store, library or even corner deli to let you hang the poster up. Just make sure you snap a picture of the poster hanging in this location.
You must then Tweet the picture to our Twitter account @chuckpalahniuk. Then email this same picture, along with your full name and mailing address, to Random House. The first 100 people to submit their pictures will win the set of 8 books. (and yes, your math is right: 800 books going to 100 people!)
WHAT NOT TO DO:
The rules may change halfway through, depending on the quantity of submissions we receive, but for now, your house or apartment does not count as 'somewhere public'. We want you canvasing your town/city and finding somewhere very loud and exposure-worthy to hang the poster. Just don't do anything illegal and do not put yourself in any sort of harm.
Also, do not just post the picture here, to our Facebook, or to our Twitter. You totally can, yes. But unless you actually email the picture to the Random House email address, your entry is not valid and will not qualify to win the prizes.
If you have any questions about this contest, post them here and we will try to answer them as quickly as possible.
Thanks, and good luck playing!
Comments
Ahhhhh!
This is *Fantastic!* ~
sent an email off right away...
Sure hope I get the chance to enter!
I dont have a Twitter account and honestly, dont want one... Is the posting of the pic on twitter a make it or break it part of the deal?
Hi.
I'm from Spain.
Can I participate?
If I can participate and I win...
Could the books might be in Spanish?
I just sent my pictures, but I wanted to double check to see if you guys got them. I emailed them to randomhouse and sent them to you guys on twitter.
Wow! How could you send the pix already ~
without getting the posters from Random House?!
Anyway ~ Congrats & Hope you win!
I got two posters a while ago when they were giving them away right before Tell All came out. Now I have one left.
I got email confirmation that I was one of the 200 to be sent posters... Will I also get an email confirmation if my picture submission is one of the first 100?
There was a previous Poster Giveaway, and you could also purchase posters...
There was also another way to get your hands on a poster, but I don't want to spoil a secret...
Same here, Mark... I got an email confirmation that my poster request was received. But I haven't gotten confirmation that they got my picture submission yet. Makes me kinda nervous.
Well I got the email that I will be getting the posters, I just need to think of very creative places to place them
how long will it take them to come in the mail?
I know we can only submit one photo, but could that one photo be a collage of all of the posters hanging in separate locations?
Sure.
Hi,
I was just curious, not wanting to spoil anyone's fun. Is there a waiver for people outside US? Or a pro rata share of the contest targeting non-US citizens? It's just common sense that people outside US are going to get their posters at a later date, no matter their willingness and ability to participate in the contest. I myself live outside the US and haven't yet gotten my posters in the mail - with the weekend coming that'll be most likely Monday when they hopefully arrive if they were sent in priority mail and some more 3 to 5 workdays if it's regular mail. So I'm just saying the contest should have addressed different citizenships at different paces, but it's just a thought, I'm ok with anyone winning. I don't need the books, I have purchased them both in print and as electronic books, but I reckon they make great gifts for my friends in a Palahniuk-themed party. So that's why I was here in the first place. Good luck everyone and enjoy your prizes!
Kindest regards,
Octavian
I don't know for sure,
but this was on Palahniuk's Twitter
on the 25th:
2) This contest is U.S. based only. (don't groan at us. that's not our rule)
(Unless the rules have changed...?)
Good Luck, Everyone!
Yeah - I missed that one single tweet and the above rules say nothing about the contest being US-based only. What's more, I got the confirmation mail that the posters were going to be shipped to me. I'm not holding a grudge against anyone, just raising an issue - hoping there's an answer to that. You can beat many things, but not geography. And indeed, good luck everyone.
Hi Octavian,
If Random House is indeed sending you the posters, then you're eligible. I'll confirm this with them though. Standby.
what's the email address you send the pictures to? is it the same email address that notified me i'd be receiving the posters?
When we send the photos, should they be attached to the e-mail or do we just provide some sort of link to the photos? I haven't gotten my posters yet even though I received an e-mail so I'm kind of nervous.
Hi Scott
its really great to see my sons poster in a book store
cheers!
Are you Chuck's mom?
lungsxlocked I haven't received my posters yet, either...I'm getting pretty nervous, as well.
No I am the artists mom x
Is there a reason I haven't received my posters yet? I got a confirmation e-mail...
did it say how long it would take for shipping? Maybe they're still in the mail?
No, they didn't. I'm just getting really nervous seeing all the retweets on twitter, ya know? :-\
I sent an email to the email address that sent us the confirmation that we were receiving the posters. Is this the right email address? Please let me know asap, as I want to make sure I'm in. I tweeted it right before I sent the email. Thanks.
Will the 100 winners be notified at all?
I've counted dozens of #tellallposter tweets already. Having not received yet my posters, I am not giving up hope. But still, the contest's flaw is that it is not geographically mapped US only and people who were selected as the 200 poster&havoc disseminators live in different parts of the world. I still wish everyone the best of luck to make it in the first 100, but I have my doubts about the concept of the contest itself. If it's global, then participants should be granted the same opportunities. Or split the contest into two US and non-US contests with different timings. Internet is a great mighty thing and allows us to communicate seamlessly irrespectively of distance and timezones, but once we switch off our computers it's still distances and timezones that keep us apart. So I'm just saying, I am glad I made it in the first 200, received my notification and all, but that was 13 days ago. Even regular mail takes less to be shipped from US to Europe.
Hermosa Beach Pier Los Angeles CA
This seems kinda goofy. It should be the 100 best locations the poster got hung up and then have a cut-off date for entries.
You should have to do a little more than just walk outside the front door and staple it to the first telephone pole you see to win EIGHT books.
Oh yeah! Just got a confirmation email that I'm one of the winners! That is so extremely awesome...
I was one of the 100 winners and received a package from Random House that included all of the books I was supposed to be receiving except the hardcover Tell-All. I e-mailed the e-mail address that said I was one of the winners but haven't gotten a reply back yet. Did anyone else come across this problem anywhere or experience it themselves?
same problem here.
Saaaaame here.
I was all excited opening it, and then Tell-All wasn't at the bottom.
I am hoping that I didn't just get ripped off..
I called customer service and they told me to reply to the email that told me I won, so hopefully that will do it.
TO be fair, no ones really getting ripped off being that the books were free in the first place. But still i do understand the gripe.
5 weeks tomorrow. The contest is over as far as I can tell. No posters in my post, no message of apology from Random House - that they overlooked the address in my initial mail or reconsidered it altogether at a later stage. That really settles it, I think. Congrats to the winners.
I won the books but same gripe about not getting the copy of Tell-All. Hopefully they respond to my email.
so...who won it?
They just responded to my e-mail, and they said they're sending Tell-All separately..
So anyone that is worried, s'all good.
Yeah, the paperbacks and hardcovers ship from different warehouses. Don't anybody fret!
What if every first print copy of Tell-All sold out and they were like 400 bucks now for being so rare and the only thing they could send out to people was just crappy 4th printings or something.
It would be fine because a hardcover copy is all that was mentioned, not a first printing.