The Crossword Competition – and The Winners (guest post by AJLR)
(Note: keep scrolling. –hellgoddess)
Judging by the speed of the first few submissions of completed answers after the puzzle was made available, and the fun that many of you said you had with the competition, we obviously have a lot of thorough and devoted readers of Robin’s books. Which we already knew, of course. :) And the compilation of the crossword gave me an extra layer of respect for Robin’s world-building skills. All that background detail in each story, all hanging together and making sense, all coming from one person’s imagination and sense of logical progression!
All of the 37 entries were correct (with one late-but-just-in-time amendment that was allowed) and I hope that the entrants didn’t end up with little squinty eyes from going backwards and forwards through so much screen text. Several participants commented that they’d thought they would remember more of the answers from earlier readings of the books than they actually did, particularly spellings. All I can say to that is that there must be a lot of people around here who have encyclopaedic memories!
And so to the three winners. These were drawn using a nice little random number picker that Blogmom passed on to me (thanks, Blogmom) and are:
1. Sarah (scribblous)
2. Diane (dllreader)
3. Rodrigo
Would those three people please email (using the same email address you sent your entry from) the mods(at)robinmckinleysblog.com address, ie the same one that was used for entry submissions, and let us know a) your full name and postal address so that your prize can be posted to you and b) the words you would like inscribed inside it. Please do this as soon as possible and in any case before midday (British time) this coming Saturday, 9th July, at the very latest. Any later than that and it’s entirely possible that Robin’s bats will by then have flown off with your copy and awarded it to someone else…
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