2013 Realms Faire & Joust
November 11-15th
Twitter Hashtag - #grogz
2013 Events and Hosts
Jousting Tournament
Knights Wanted! Can anyone beat the 2012 champion, Ghost Knight? Angela Brown turned out to be a formidable opponent.
This year, the joust is all about YOU, the knights.
Each knight will be featured during the joust, the tournament held to help promote your book or site. Plus, you'll be publicized in the sidebar on my site until the 2014 champion is declared.
Prizes will be awarded to each day's commenters as well as to the winning knight at the end of the joust. Points are scored by commenters using particular words assigned to the knight. Such as, Zounds! Ghost Knight! Lance that lout! The winning words are zounds, Ghost Knight, and lance. That'd be 3 points for Ghost Knight.
Knights can provide either a story about their feats or an excerpt from any of their books. Stories/excerpts are limited to 200 words or less. However the tournament goes, you can't lose. I'll be posting everyday the week of November 11th, cheering on knights and promoting their wares.
Knights can also provide prizes.
The Joust is limited to 10 participants. Only 3 slots remaining!
Sign up!
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Masquerade Parade
*Attend the ball! You'll have a ball! Writers disguise themselves and submit a 200 word snippet of the party providing clues/hints as to their identity. Spotlights an author's writing to help promote them and their wares.
Prizes provided to commenters and the best snippet, decided on by a panel of judges.
The Masquerade is limited to 10-15 costumed authors.
Sign up!
The Artist's Way
Featured authors will provide an excerpt from either published or unpublished work. The artist will create a masterpiece based on the excerpt. Prizes will be awarded.
Author Sign Up! * Artist Sign Up!
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Collective Stage Performance
- Samantha Geary
- Writers
*A collaborative "Canterbury Tales" story-telling contest by a group of writing "pilgrims" on a journey where each writer assumes a character and gives their pov. The prize for this contest will most likely be free music in lieu of a free meal. Each writer will post their part of the tale on their site *their moment on stage*
Interested writers can contact Sam.
Dragon Hunt
*Hunt for the hidden dragons. Those who find the most will get a chance to win an Amazon GC by drawing.
The Stockade Brigade
*Selected authors will be put in the stockades and brought on trial for book witchery. Witnesses will score points by testifying for or against the author's crimes. Points will be score for using secret words. An ebook will be given away every day to the witness who scores the most points. A bigger prize will be awarded at the end of the week. Warrants for their arrests have already been issued. The Sheriff of Realmsdom will catch up with them all soon.
Castle Jumble
*Laura will post a word (like Bartizan) on her blog and the first person to give her the correct definition in the comments is the winner. They will need to Google the word most likely. More than one word a day can be posted. A person can only win once a day though.
Drench-a-Wench / Soak-a-Bloke
*Blogs will be selected by committee to be bombarded by comments. A person will be nominated each day. People will go to that person's blog and soak them with blog love. One commenter a day will randomly be selected to win a prize. For the commenters that participate in all five days of the event, their names will be entered into a draw for a grand prize.
Phasers
Untethered Realms will post a word each day, such as 'Phaser'. The first commenter would then provide a word they think of associated with 'phaser', such as 'stun'. The next commenter would then provide a word they associate with 'stun', such as 'shock'. The next would provide a word associated with 'shock', such as 'electric'. And so on. The last comment of the day will receive a prize.
Sponsor Any Event
Sponsors will provide prizes. They'll be promoted on their own page on mpaxauthor.com and on the Untethered Realms website. In an Amazon widget, their books will be shown, their name and web address will be promoted. This page will also appear as a thank you on mpaxauthor.com and other sites before and after the Realms Faire.
Want to host an event? Contact mpaxauthor at gmail dot com to be put on the planning committee for 2014.
Be a Sponsor
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Will announce again when it's closer - bummer I'll be on vacation that week!
ReplyDeleteThat's a bummer, Alex! Who gave you permission to go on vacation anyway? ;)
DeleteWell, I'm sure you'll be rooting for a Knight or two...maybe there will be a ninja entry!
Hello River,
ReplyDeleteJoust a minute. A lot to take in here for my last two brain cells.
Oops and you might know my take on all this kinda' stuff. Actually, I feel like I'm trapped in a computer game. Help me!
However, being such an amazing alleged human, I will take the liberty of sharing your posting. 'Farcebook', here I come...
Good knight,
Gary :)
LOL! I thank you kindly, Sir Gary, for donating your last two brain cells to my worthy cause, even though it be a *shudder* blogfest of sorts.
Delete*waves to Penny*
Wow. I will assuredly be cheering from the sidelines. Cheering everyone, but particularly the dragons...
ReplyDeleteThose dragons can be sneaky little (or big) things, EC! Hiding everywhere, lurking in the shadows... It will take a fair amount of hunting to gather them up. ;)
DeleteI have a very soft spot for dragons. Beautiful, intelligent, dangerous - what is not to like? Though I am not sure I would attempt to capture any - admire them from afar perhaps...
DeleteThis is going to be such a fun event! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is, Julie! Huzzah! :D
DeleteNeat event, River.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty much committed to NaNo again and will be in a frenzy. So sorry I'll have to miss all the fun!
M.L. Swift, Writer
Ah, yes, the annual knock-your-head-against-the-wall NaNo happening. ;) Make sure you fortify with a stash of chocolate, Michael!
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