February 9, 2009

Win a book with you as the hero

     Win a book with you — or someone you choose — as the hero or heroine.
In conjuction with BookByYou, The Dalles Chronicle will give away three personalized books to our readers for Valentine’s Day.
     Winners will be able to choose from more than a dozen different novels, including romances, children’s books and a detective story. The ten different romances have settngs as varied as stock car racing to a reality TV show to science fiction to swashbuckling pirates to a new vampire novel.
     Each winner will be able to select the names for the three main characters along with 20-30 additional features such as nicknames, hair and eye color, body type, favorite restaurant - even including a dog or cat.
     Samples can be seen at BookByYou.com. Books regularly sell for $39.95 plus shipping.
     To enter: send us, in 25 words or fewer, the reason why you or your sweetheart, spouse, child, grandchild or friend should star in a book.
     There’s a very short deadline on this quick contest.
     Entries must be received by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10. Winners will be selected by random drawing, and will be announced Wednesday, Feb. 11 on the business page (page 4) of The Chronicle.
     Entries may be delivered to The Chronicle at 315 Federal St, The Dalles, faxed to us at (541) 298-1365 or submitted by e-mail to rnichols@thedalleschronicle.com.