Novelist Joe Hill - author of "Heart-Shaped Box" and son of Stephen King - is doing something cool to support indie bookstores. As he says on his web site this week, "Okay, been thinking about this whole March-is-love-your-Indie-Bookstore month, and I realized trying to guilt people into going shopping with their local guy sucks. We don’t need guilt here; we need a contest. So here’s introducing March-is-love-your-Indie-Bookstore: The Contest."
All you have to do is buy something worth more than 99 cents at your local independent bookstore, save the receipt and send a photo or scan of it to him at: indie@joehillfiction.com, along with your address. Oh, and he's backdated the contest to March 1 if you're a save-the-receipt type.
Hill notes that cheating would be pretty easy, but "your soul will shrivel a little inside you, and you will find your luck turning unexpectedly sour," a threat one does not take lightly from the son of Stephen King. The winner gets a signed, slipcase edition of his novella "Gunpowder." There are other prizes being offered up too. Check his site for complete rules. And what makes this HubArts, you ask, aside from all Massachusetts' love of indie stores? Without breaching his privacy, I know Hill lives within an hour's drive of Fenway Park.
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