Kickstarter: Reward: Wear Your Face on My T-shirt

As the Kickstarter rewards go out, I freaking love getting photos and posts from people who are receiving their rewards, like this one here by Dane:

"I just got my copy of THREE QUESTIONS a novel written by my friend Meagan Adele Lopez. How about this for inspiration - a girl falls in love, moves from LA to the Great Britian, writes a novel, self-publishes it and runs a successful kickstarter campaign to help market it. I LOVE MY TALENTED FRIENDS!!! So proud of you Meagan!!"

Of course, part of the rewards I chose had to do with my collecting photos of YOU. For $199 or more was a photo of your face on my t-shirt for one week. Three people claimed this reward, and the first is being executed as we speak. I have taken it a bit further than originally anticipated. (Two people still need to claim their rewards for this donation – ahem, Amanda and Greg!)

As with most things that I do in life, I went a bit bigger – I couldn’t just wear a t-shirt with a face on it, I had to build a campaign out of it.

Mark Pickett kindly donated moolah, and got this reward. He runs a fantastic startup called Nail Your Mortgage that is looking to disrupt the mortgage space, so we came up with the “Nail It Girl”. She’s a bad ass who runs around the freezing streets of Chicago to take pictures of herself in the “Nail It or Go Home…Actually Do Both” t-shirt in front of gorgeous historical homes.

Today’s photo: (Can you guess where I am? It’s a pretty famous one)

You have to guess where she is, and if you do correctly, the first one to answer wins a $25 gift card!

Just follow the hashtag #nailitgirl on Twitter - it starts at 10AM CST and runs through this Friday! Get your trivia hats on! Hints to follow.

Want some more explanation? Here is the video:

So, two more of these rewards to go! Stay tuned!

Most of the January rewards have gone out – there are still a few things I am waiting to get in the mail. If you haven’t received your January reward (there are some that aren’t due until February), please email me at meagan@ladywholunches.net

Cheers!

What question would you ask to get to know someone?

It’s the last few hours to enter to win a free copy of Three Questions! All you have to do is answer the question: “What question would you ask to get to know someone?” in my comments or Nathan’s.

Nathan Agin, over at Nonstop Awesomeness, was kind enough to interview me about my book, what practices I used to stay disciplined while writing the novel, and how I came up with the idea. He’s not just a great blogger, he and I acted together in a play in college called The Big Funk.

(I won’t be reposting his photo on my blog of us in the play – oh dear!)

Last chance to win a copy!!

Virtual World vs. Physical World

I will be the first to admit that I love my online life. It has provided other worlds the ability to see into their counterparts. It bridges gaps in education, knowledge and spreads messages faster than any other medium in the world. I am amazed by the technology that continues to grow and change, and I fully embrace it. In fact, I am probably, in some ways, more a part of that world than I am the physical world – I work in that world, I communicate in that world, and I create in that world.

I am so grateful for it – I am able to immediately publish a novel online that readers can download the day after I’ve uploaded it. I can make a trailer to an adventure I had, and have it online a few minutes after I push “submit” on Youtube. See below for my adventure in the Catskills with my girlfriends during Hurricane Irene (oh, and trust me, it was an adventure!):

But, after 2 and a half years of working on something, there is nothing like the gratification that comes with holding a physical, tangible object. I could even see it in Jock’s face when my novel came in the mail – it was like, this is actually real.

I didn’t just spend 30 months on something to have it land in the abyss that is the internet. No, I spent that time so that it could be taken on a vacation with someone and their family, so that it could be borrowed to a friend, so that it could curl up with you in bed, so that your tears would fall on a page and make an actual stain! I want it to hang out on your bookshelf, or your coffee table and come up in conversation.

Three Questions Physical Book Meagan Lopez

Is that the ego? Maybe it is, but nothing, and I mean nothing beats holding my own book in my hands. Sure, it won’t be ready for you to buy for a few more weeks, and time is precious, but I am glad the ebook is there to fill that gap in the meantime.

Can’t wait to send you a signed copy! Stay tuned for ways you can get a discounted, pre-ordered copy! Pardon me while I plug a bit more below.

Check out my interview with The Next Web here.

If you’d like to purchase my ebook, it’s here for $2.99!

Eight hours in Vegas.
A promise to meet in Chicago.
Four months apart while he traverses through the depths of Africa and she “aspires” through the haze of Hollywood.
Three questions each letter.
Their intense connection is clear, but fate is only as strong as timing allows it to be. She has a life-long passion that is finally turning into a career. He has landed enough British pounds to travel the world for the first time in his life.
Will their honest answers be enough to bring them back together?

Winner of Shabby Apple Dress

Congratulations to Ann Hurd who won the Shabby Apple dress!!!

Thank you to everyone who entered. I used this random name picker with ClassTools.net to pick the winner, and the lucky Ann Hurd came up. Stay tuned for more giveaways.

Ann, sounds like you preferred the Five to Nine black dress below. I will send you an email to confirm and to get your address!

Five to Nine Dress

Happy Holidays to all my readers.

Meagan

Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway!

I was recently contacted by Shabby Apple – this incredible clothing boutique – to give one of my readers one of their dresses! I couldn’t think of a better Christmas gift to one of my faithful readers who have traveled this journey with me. I went through the boutique’s list and picked three of my favorite dresses. Whomever wins will be able to pick their favorite of the three!

Also, they are offering free shipping for the holidays. Enter HOLIDAY at checkout. (You can follow their blog here).

The three dresses I picked are below. Click on the photo to see different views of the dresses.

San Gabriel Dress

Five to Nine Dress

L'Amour

To Enter:

Leave a comment below with a way to get in touch with you AND/OR tweet this post by midnight on Sunday, December 19th!

Be sure to check back on Monday for the lucky winner.

That’s it! Just leave a comment, tweet and retweet to your heart’s content. (Oh, and it wouldn’t hurt to interview a family member, not for the contest but just because it’s good for your soul.)

Good luck!