My next book--Radio by the Book: Adaptations of Literature & Fiction on the Airwaves--is being published this fall. You can click on the link in my signature for more information about it.

So I am running a trivia contest with a signed copy of the book going to the winner.

The contest is open for 10 contestants. Questions will cover old-time radio, comics, old movies and classic television.

THE RULES:

Questions will be posted on Mondays and Thursdays around 3 pm Eastern time. These dates/times also act as a deadline for answering the previous question. Not answering counts as a wrong answer.

Every player is given his/her own individual question. Players MAY trade questions any time before the deadline. Both players must post that they are making the trade.

Players may research the questions. Yes, you may use Google to try to find the answer.

A player is eliminated when he/she has two wrong answers. (Not two in a row--just a total of two wrong answers.)

When we are down to one player--he/she wins. I'll send the winner a copy of my book as soon as it's published.

IF YOU ARE NOT PLAYING--feel free to kibbitz and mock the players, but please DO NOT post answers. (If you want to PM players with any information, that's fine. Just don't publically post anything.)

First come, first serve for signing up. If we have enough people interested in playing, I'll post the first questions this Thursday.

I'm in! Please sign me up.

Oooh...I'm divided here. Part of me wants to sign up but part of me feels I should support your sales by purchasing (I know - give a copy to someone else but I have to know someone who would be interested in the topic.)

Yes please.

I appreciate the thought, but please feel free to play if you think you'd have fun with it. (Besides, you buy multiple copies and give them away like candy if you want to support my sales. )

Reread my post - specifically the part in the parantheses - for my dilemma on that.

Okay, I'll play.

That's three players so far:

Ignatz Mouse

batfink

Rokk Krinn

You could always forgo the prize, of have an 'archival" copy for yourself.

*stands in the back of the crowd with his hand held high*

I wanna play

Pick me, pick me!

I call Portwaist Gunner. Oh wait, wrong game.

Rokk, you could also donate a copy to a library. Ask batfink!

That's 4 players signed up so far.

I will, by the way, run the contest with less than 10 players if we don't have that many people interested in playing.

I already intended to purchase a copy for our Library.

Sign me up.

I'll play......or else!