{"id":15287,"date":"2009-07-23T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2009-07-23T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:22:21","slug":"blogathon-now-with-prizes-for-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/blogathon-now-with-prizes-for-pledges.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon &#8211; now with prizes for pledges!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blogathon 2009\" alt=\"blogathon2009-mdm\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blogathon2009-mdm.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"60\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>Okay, I should have done this sooner, but in reviewing what graphic novels \/ trade paperbacks I have for my reviews and getting them all sorted, I discovered that over the past few years I&#8217;ve gathered up a number of duplicate purchases (or some things that have been obsoleted by later, bigger volumes).<\/p>\n<p>My loss is your gain, if you&#8217;re pledging to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/\">Blogathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=132\">make a pledge to the Denver Dumb Friends League<\/a> through my blog on the Blogathon of <strong>$25 or more<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll be entered into a raffle for one of the books listed below (raffle will be for order of pick).<\/li>\n<li> You get an additional chance in the raffle for every $25 you have pledged in total (i.e., two chances at $50, three chances at $75, etc.). If you&#8217;ve made multiple pledges, the total will be used.<\/li>\n<li> Family exempt from this offer (either you can already read it or you&#8217;re probably not interested).<\/li>\n<li> Anything left&nbsp;over will be put up on eBay for auction, proceeds to go to the DFL (post-Blogathon).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Books up for grabs (and I can recommend all of them):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Courtney Crumrin and the Fire Thief&#8217;s Tale<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> <em>Order of the Stick<\/em>, vol. 3: &#8220;War and XPs&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> <em>Ms. Marvel<\/em>, vol. 4: &#8220;Monster Smash&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> <em>Doktor Sleepless<\/em>, vol. 1<\/li>\n<li> <em>Freakangels<\/em>, vol. 1<\/li>\n<li> <em>Girl Genius<\/em>, book 7: &#8220;Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle&#8221; (h\/c)<\/li>\n<li> <em>The Boys<\/em>, vol. 2: &#8220;Get Some&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> <em>Invincible<\/em>, vol. 9: &#8220;Out of This World&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> <em>Astro City: Local Heroes<\/em> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Void where prohibited and all that jazz. Remember, I&#8217;m not getting any of this money &#8212; it&#8217;s all going to the Denver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddfl.org\/\">Dumb Friends League<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I should have done this sooner, but in reviewing what graphic novels \/ trade paperbacks I have for my reviews and getting them all sorted, I discovered that over the past few years I&#8217;ve gathered up a number of duplicate purchases (or some things that have been obsoleted by later, bigger volumes). My loss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/blogathon-now-with-prizes-for-pledges.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogathon &#8211; now with prizes for pledges!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15425,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/post-blogathon-action-report.html","url_meta":{"origin":15287,"position":0},"title":"Post-Blogathon Action Report","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Jul-09 7:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, aside from one very brief stop, I stayed well away from the keyboard after I got up yesterday afternoon. 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