
Do you want to win a signed first edition of The Lighthouse Keepers my new Y/A novel? You do? Well, nothing could be simpler, just read on. First, a little background. The book is about a boy from New York who inherits a lighthouse on an island off the County Antrim coast and has lots of adventures there. The island is based on Muck Island near Islandmagee and lovely Kinbane castle (top, right) but the lighthouse is based on the Blackhead Lighthouse in Whitehead, County Antrim. If you look at the LOWEST photograph you'll see Blackhead Light and in the left hand corner of the pic you can just see my sister Diane's house. I used to walk my sister's dog from her house up to the lighthouse and back. This is the competition: What was the
average length (in minutes) of those dog walks? Of course every walk was different but the average was remarkably consistent. You could set your watch by it. Two clues: First, Ruffie was an older dog who didnt like to be out too long. Second, the lighthouse is actually closer to the house than it looks from the photograph....
The THREE closest guesses will get the signed book, lovingly airmailed to their fair city/town/survivalist shack by me own grubby paws. Closing date is midnight Monday 29th Eastern Time, which is 5 am on Tuesday the 30th UK time and 2PM on Tuesday the 30th in Australia. Two rules: one entry per person please and second you have to promise to review me on Amazon. Doesnt have to be a good review, just a review. Fair enough?
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Put your guess in the comment box below and remember to include your email address. If you have a blogger account you can tick the follow up box, otherwise include it in the post. Whew...GOOD LUCK!!!
14 comments:
i just noticed that if you click the picture you can make it slightly bigger.
GOOD LUCK
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28 mins
colman.keane at itabuk.com
Jeez, that's a tough question! And I'm useless at judging distances. Hmmmm.
The terrain's a bit mountainous. I'm going to go with 45 mins, at a pace dictated by the elderly pooch.
gb
I'm going to wait till ten minutes before the deadline,look at the answers,eliminate the outliers and calculate which number I have to choose in order to end up in the greatest number of best-of-three combinations.
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Oh what the heck,make it 25 minutes.
marco
marcolin at lillinet.org
30 minutes
blindenmuth AT gmail dot com
35 minutes.
so the first time i tried to answer this it was seven in the morning and i didn't even see the house. Way to go me.
Anyways, for my final answer:
33 minutes.
Put me down for 52 minutes.
malundy(at)gmail.com
hi its Patrick here i take it i cant guess even though i would prob get it wrong anyway email me P.creighton@hotmail.co.uk
Ooh, my first visit here and there's a book to be won. I'm gonna go for 48 minutes.
inspiral at aol dot com
50 mins
harper3 at gmail dot com
thanks to everyone who has entered so far. just a few hours left and then I'll be contacting the winners and announcing it in a new post.
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