How to enter your cat in the Peri Reed Cat contest

The Witch With No Name is finally out in mass market!

To help celebrate, I’m having a contest to find Peri Reed’s cat.

Every good special task agent has a cat, right? Peri Reed is no exception, and I’ve intentionally left out any description of her cat in the first book,��The Drafter, so that you, the readers, can help me develop it. (More info on Peri and��The Drafter)

The photo chosen will be made into a cling that fits on the back of the freebie mock-up of Peri Reed’s glass technology phone. I hope to have two or three different clings available at signings so you can take the one you like best. But first, I have to find Peri’s cat.

So . . . send me a picture of your cat. Over seven days, I’ll post all eligible photos at the website for everyone to see, and then I’ll pick five for you to vote on to find your favorite of the week. I’ll do this for three weeks, and then have a final vote with the three cats you pick to find the ultimate Peri Reed cat.

The final winner will have their cat immortalized on the cling and win my undying gratitude as well as bragging rights.

Who is eligible?

 

I will accept photos from anywhere on planet earth or within orbit as long as it’s your or your relative’s cat. No lifting of pictures from the web as your own. I’ll be asking the five who win each week to send me another photo of their cat with an object I choose as proof of ownership. Kitties who have passed over the rainbow bridge are eligible, but if chosen, their owners might have to jump through a few extra hoops to prove ownership. I’ll also be asking the final winner to sign a release form giving me permission to use the photo of their cat for promotion.

Guidelines for best chance:

Because I’m using this for promotion, there are a few things I’m looking for. Adhering to them will give you the best chance for getting your cat chosen.

1. No gnarly backgrounds like legs, TVs, other cats/dogs, or clutter.

2. No people at all in the photo. I won���t even post them.

3. One cat in the photo, adult, no kittens. The book is at the printer, so no matter how cute, I can’t change it.

4. No identifying logos or brand names.

5. Make it something that a person would have on their phone. Cute is okay, but a picture of a sleeping cat has just as much pull with me as one playing with a mouse, maybe more.

6. Vertical oriented pictures rather than horizontal will get preferential treatment. Horizontal won’t fit well on the phone mock-up.

To send me a picture

I will be cropping photos to fit onto to back of the phone, which is 2″ X 4″ or roughly 5cm by 11cm, or 310 X 680 pixels exactly. If your picture isn’t resized or cropped to 310 X 680 pixels, I’ll do it for you, and you might not like what you see, so please try to do this for me. Please? Ple-e-e-e-ese.

Here’s a picture of the phone so you can see the size I’m looking for with a blah desert scene for a background.

Send pictures to my business address with both your first name and the name of your cat in the subject line, such as Jack’s Snookums, or Amy’s Mouseburger. If you can rename your cat’s photo with the same, that would make my life easier and be uber cool. But don’t sweat it. I’ll be posting pictures with your first name only and the name of your cat.

Send to:��kim_harrison@comcast.net

Please include your real name (first and last) in the email, and use a email that will be active and monitored for at least a month so I can get in touch with you if need be. ** This is important. It drives me nuts when someone wins and doesn’t bother to check their email to find out. **

If you send me something that’s 3000 pixels, my service provider might bounce it back to you, so try to resize it just for that reason alone.

There is no monetary gain from “winning” this competition, but I’m going to send the five weekly picks either a signed, first edition hard cover of��The Witch With No Name, or a signed, oversized trade paperback of��The Hollows Insider��as a thank-you, so please check your email on Mondays while the contests are running to see if you won so I can get your address.

(If you want to snag a signed, first-edition, blue butterfly copy of��The Witch With No Name,��or even a signed mass market of the same, without all the fuss, Nicola’s has them.)

 

Legal stuff

I will be asking the winner to sign a release form giving me rights to publish their cat’s photo. I will be posting all eligible photos here at the website for probably a year before I take them down. If you object to either, please don’t send me a picture. I’ll be posting pictures of your cat with your first name only.

There’s no monetary value to winning this competition, and the odds of winning depend on how many people enter as well as how much I like your cat photo and how well it fits on the back of Peri’s phone. Yep, it’s a beauty contest, but the ugly cat might win.

Let me know if you submit a photo and I don’t post it within a few days. Sometimes they go missing. But again, if there are people in the photo, I won’t post it.

Please enter only once per week so I don’t go crazy trying to resize and post.

And good luck!