Giveaway: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (pssst . . . it’s SIGNED!)
Edited to add: This giveaway is now closed and you may find the winner on the announcement post. Miss this giveaway? Find out if I have any other current giveaways.
I’m thrilled to give away a signed copy of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (check out my book review), 2009’s Newbery Award winner and all around massively popular book by a massively popular author. I was able to pick up a copy of the book while at BEA a few weeks ago and rather then keep it for myself, I know many of you who would be thrilled to have it! So, it’s all yours!
Publisher description:
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. . . .
Book trailer:
Giveaway Details:
- This giveaway will be open for two weeks and is open internationally. I will close the contest at the end of the day, Thursday July 23rd and announce the winners within the week. Edited to add: Due to some offline time that I didn’t anticipate I am extending this giveaway until July 31st.
- To enter, leave a comment on this post answering this question: If you lived in a graveyard, which dead person would you want to make sure was buried there, so you could hang out together and why? No answer, no entry.
- Five additional entries for each of the following: If you are not already subscribed and you sign up for updates either through RSS or by email, Twitter this giveaway, Stumble or fav this post, post about the giveaway either in forums (leave a link) or on your blog.
- Ten additional entries if you are already subscribed. My way of saying thanks if you’ve already been sticking around.
Links of interest: Maw Books review of The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman website, blog and on Twitter.
The Graveyard Book is available from your local independent bookstore, Powell’s, and Amazon.
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I’d want to be burried next to the Voodoo Queen in New Orleans. If anyone could get me out of the whole dead thing, it’d be her…lol.
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:38 amI’ll enter immediately instead of thinking I’ll do it later bcoz I’m sure I’ll get overwhelmed by the no of entries and then not enter at all
The answer to your question would be my best friend who died when we were in the 10th grade, but then on second thoughts no, I’m hoping she’s already reborn and making someone else’s life miserable
ummm…Tinkerbell? Well, I like her.
I already follow you via Google Reader although I don’t comment very often.
I’m going to Twitter this as well.
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:44 amHmmm… I’d like to be buried pretty much anywhere in Arlington cemetary. That’d make for cool conversation, right?
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/eellsworth/status/2551504572
I’m already a follower on google reader. I comment occasionally.
I also dugg and stumbled your post, and a link is on the sidebar of my blog.
That makes 31 entries… I think?
on July 9th, 2009 at 9:20 amI’d definitely need to be certain that Whitman was near by, because there is no point in being dead and in a graveyard with intellectual/creative types with which to hang.
on July 9th, 2009 at 9:33 amI would quite like to hang out with Oscar Wilde, I think he would help to fill my time in the graveyard.
what a great competition – will retweet now!
on July 9th, 2009 at 9:44 amWhat a great giveaway! I’d like to be buried near my dad. I’ve missed him.
I’m a subscriber via Google Reader, and I’m adding this to my blog sidebar.
Thanks!
on July 9th, 2009 at 9:50 amHmm. My mom? I miss talking to her. If you want someone more well known, I’ve always thought that Madeleine L’Engle would be a great conversationalist.
I’ve been a subscriber to your blog pretty much since I started blogging, which really isn’t that long
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on July 9th, 2009 at 9:52 amThere are two people that I admire greatly and would want to “hang out with”. My lifelong fascination with Queen Elizabeth 1st would make my ‘final rest’ a time when I could answer all of the questions that I would have for her. The other person is The Buddha because I have followed his principals and have so many more questions !
I am a follower ! Thanks for this opportunity
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:03 amThis book is on my “to-read” list and I don’t have a copy yet; so this would be a great contest to win
As for the graveyard piece…I think Elizabeth I is a great pick! I’d want to know why she never married and what her thought process was around professing herself the “Virgin Queen.”
I noticed that someone else mentioned her, so I will also go with William Wordsworth because I’ve been very, very curious as to who the “Lucy” was that he mentions in many of his poems.
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:12 amI would choose Sylvia Plath as my graveyard companion. Together we would write some incredibly dark, morbid poetry…
My blog post
My tweet
I also Stumbled it.
And I was already a subscriber.
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:24 amDorothy Parker! oh what fun we would have being witty! Well, she’d be witty and I’d try to not be someone she was talking about.
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:41 amIf I have to choose someone from ‘the other side’, I think I would have to choose Walt Disney.
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:45 amI think Walt Disney is one of the rare people who have ‘the magic’, and with his spirit and imagination I believe he would make a wonderful companion.
I’d make sure that my great-great-great-grandmother and I were in the same graveyard. That’s where my knowledge of the family leaves off, and it would be amazing to hear stories about the earlier generations! Plus, all that history, and traveling to America, etc.
Thanks so much for holding this contest!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 10:51 amI’m new here, but I love it already!
And I would very much like a chance at this contest.
So, in answer to the question: I’d like to end up either beside my mother (her disposition would be most helpful in a graveyard and, really, I just miss her) or, in case of someone better known, I’d have to say Jane Austen. I have some questions only she knew/knows the answers to (like how she stayed sane/maintained that authorial confidence as a woman writer in the early 19th c, for one).
I’ve also added this blog to my ‘Blogs I Follow’ on Blogger (though I would have done that anyway, actually) and linked from my blog. Sent an RT about this contest on Twitter as well. I’m not sure how many entries that gives me . . . but this was fun!
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:51 amOk, I have the famous person answer and the personal answer.
Famous – Mother Teresa. I just want to know how she did it all and was so selfless, etc.
Personally – I would like to be buried by the twin sister I lost at birth. I never got to know her and have always felt something is missing.
I signed up to follow yoru blog…wish I already had been, but I am new to all this and this is my first visit.
Thanks for the giveaway. My daughter did a report on Coraline and we have enjoyed his work since then.
Alison
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:54 amalipet813
I am also going to tweet this!
on July 9th, 2009 at 10:56 amHonestly, my local cemetery. My grandparents and parents and father-in-law are there!
I’ll Twitter it. I already follow you and am subscribed to your feed (even though I have it marked private…do you want proof?) and I’ll stumble you. I adore Neil Gaiman and The Graveyard Book is probably my fave by him, so I’d love to have this!! Thanks Natasha!
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:00 amStrange enough, my mother in law. My husband lost his mother when he was five and she sounded like an awesome young woman and she was into a lot of the geek stuff that we still really like (Star Wars, Nintendo, etc.)
I did a tweet and I am already subscribed to your blog. Love it!
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:06 amWow. What a great question! I think it would be amazing to be buried near William Shakespeare. I know this is probably cliched, but I think it would be fun to be ghosts with William Shakespeare. We could make dirty jokes about our fellow ghosts and visitors to the graveyard.
I don’t know. He was the first person I thought of (aside from my Mom) that I wouldn’t mind being a ghost with. 
I just subscribed to your feed, by the way.
I’m also Retweeting.
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:11 amI’d like to hang out with my father, and be able to ask him all the things I didn’t have time to find out before he died. And to get to know him better.
Please enter me. I am already a follower on Google Reader and on Twitter.
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on July 9th, 2009 at 11:16 amFamous person – I would want Jane Austen buried next to me. I think she would be endlessly entertaining in a very sedate and Regency fashion.
Personally – My friend Elisa who passed away from cancer two years ago. She was marvelously witty, one of the most high-spirited and positive people I have ever met, despite a life full of personal setbacks. She also had a beautiful singing voice – she would be amazing to spend eternity with.
I’ve retweeted this as well. Thanks for a great question to answer!
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:16 amI would choose my husband. I know most people are thinking of someone famous but I wouldn’t want to hang out with anyone else.
I am already subscribed and have been for almost a year. I love your blog!
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:33 amI would like to be buried in a pet cemetary to have all the furry friends protect me, especially Tigger who protected me for 14 years.
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:44 amThis is a very generous giveaway. No need to enter me as I’ve read it.
I do like the trailer.
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:45 amI would want to be buried next to William Shakespeare just to see how many times he would “roll over in his grave”. On a more serious note I would want to be buried next to my grandmother and grandfather. I have so many fantastic memories of my grandmother and I have never met my grandfather, but he must have been an amazing man to have married such a truly remarkable woman, who I miss every day.
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:47 amHow about Oscar Wilde? Death lasts a long time, and I feel certain I will need the entertainment. Fantastic offer! Are you the nicest person ever or what? Just signed on to follow you on Twitter. Really like what you do here.
on July 9th, 2009 at 11:52 amMy grandmother. She died when my mom was six years old, so I’ve obviously never met her, but I was named after her, and according to old pictures, I resemble her. It would be nice to get to know her.
I’ve been a subscriber to your blog for many months now, Natasha
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on July 9th, 2009 at 12:10 pmI would love to be entered in your fantastic giveaway! This book has gotten so much positive buzz!
Would love to make sure my dogs of past were buried there with me cause you just don’t have enough time in this life to spend with them! There names were Awesome & Kasha! If I were to name a human companion it would be Mark Twain cause I’m sure he could make up stories every day to keep me entertained!
on July 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pm*New follower in RSS feed (bloglines Abookishgirl)
*I tweeted about this giveaway! (Chickwithbooks)
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When I was in Prague we went to the Jewish cemetary to see the grave of Kafka. It was pretty but I’m afraid my German isn’t good enough for me to want to live there, though I’m sure the language barrier could be funny at times.
I guess I’d want to live in the cemetary where my brother and grandparents are buried. It’s actually close to my house and the grounds are quite larger than they appear from the street. Two famous residents are Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy’s) and Woody Hayes (OSU football coach).
on July 9th, 2009 at 12:25 pmI’d like to hang out with my grandparents. I have three of them buried at the same cemetery with a nice view of the Pacific ocean.
I am already subscribed to your site and already following you on twitter.
Off to twitter the giveaway.
on July 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pmOh, please count me in! I just discovered you through twitter! I just posted a quick something there as well and just followed you as well. I have yet to follow you thru RSS, but plan on adding you to my reader right now!
As for a graveyard pal . . . hmmm, that’s a tough one! I’m thinking my great grandmother (we always had great conversations when I was growing up) or maybe Poe . . . he intrigues me!
Thanks!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pmRight now I’d have to say my dead cat Casper.
Tragic story on how he died but he was the best cat ever. He loved me so much and he was such a handsome cat.
Since no one else I love so much is dead that’s who I would pick.
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on July 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pmI would want to share the cemetery with Beethoven, if there were a piano around.
I twittered: http://twitter.com/dreys_tweets/status/2554736390
I’ve been a subscriber for a while now, I think. =)
on July 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI’m already subscribed! woohoo!
on July 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pmI Twittered this contest!
on July 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pmI’d love to meet my great-grandmother, so I’ll pick her as my graveyard conversationalist. She was an author, so I’m sure she’d have some great stories to tell–both made up stories and stories about my family!
I get your e-mail updates and look forward to reading them every day!
on July 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pmCan I say both my grandparents on my dad’s side (both buried in same cemetery)? I adored my gramps. He died when I was only 6 & left me heartbroken. I used to talk to him at night as if he were there with me. (I was a weird kid, I know.) And my grams was my greatest ally when I was growing up in a huge and dysfunctional family. I used to spend most of my weekends and half of my summer vacations with her. She took me traveling to places I’d never have gotten to if not for her, and made me feel loved & needed.
As far as a famous person goes, I think I’d choose either Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar to hang around with, not only because they were highly intelligent & literary, but because they sure lived full lives in exciting times and liked to talk. Imagine the stories they could tell!
Thanks for the great contest!
I will also follow you and tweet about this.
on July 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pmWow – What a great question! I think I would love to hang out with James Dean or Marilyn Monroe. Or Elvis! Would love to know if Marilyn was ‘helped’ in her death
I already follow via Google Reader!
Thanks for the opportunity!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pmMy first thought was Elvis! I would love to hear him sing! I also would love to talk to Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind is my favorite book and it would be fun to talk to her about it.
I already follow via Google Reader!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pmI would like to meet Dracula. Find out if the stuff I’ve heard is true or if it’s all made up
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on July 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pmIf I lived in a graveyard, I’d hope my Dad’s ashes were interred there. He and I could talk about how much we love to fly. And we’d have a lot to catch up on, since he’s been flying free for 8 years, as of tomorrow. Miss you, dad!
on July 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI really cannot choose between two persons : my grand-father, who passed away when I was 4, and my aunt Marielle, who was my mom’s “almost twin” and who died when I was 6. They were the most important people in my mother’s life and had fantastic lives; I would love to hear about this.
I already follow you through GoogleReader!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pmhmm tricky question because there a couple i would love to talk to!
Though i will choose my grandpa! I loved him very much! He was my dad in my eyes!
I would want to see him again because i never properly said good bye to him! =[
Another note i would want to see Jane Austin and King Henry the 8th! I would love to pick there brains!! To hear their thoughts would be amazing!!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pmmavisita92 at gmail dot com
and also i am subscribed to your emails!
Thanks for this cool giveaway Natasha! I don’t want to be weird, but I’d really want my dad there. It’s been 10 years this last September, so it’s been too long! I know I’ll see him again though, right?
I’ve been a follower for a little while, I twittered your giveaway, and I’ve posted your giveaway on the sidebar of my blog. Thanks!
I’ve never read one of Gaiman’s books…can you believe it? He’s been on my list for awhile though!
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on July 9th, 2009 at 2:38 pmI think I’d like to be buried near Mark Twain. He would certainly be fun to talk to, and I doubt we would ever run out of interesting conversation.
Will send out a tweet about this!
on July 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pmPlease enter me! I am already subscribed and off to twitter now
on July 9th, 2009 at 3:08 pmUgh. Got so excited about entering, I forgot to answer the questions!
Hmmm…personally, I think probably my husband (not dead yet, but) because he’s the only person I genuinely like being around for a long time.
But if we’re going for historical, then Martin Luther (not King, Jr.–the Protestant Reformist). I find him insanely interesting and would love to know how he felt about some of his decisions.
on July 9th, 2009 at 3:15 pmIf I lived in a graveyard, who would I want buried there so I could hang-out. Well, there are several ways to go with this: I could say my ex, especially since he’s NOT dead yet.. hehehehe. Then I could torture him every day.
However, if we’re being nice… I could say my Grandpa Coy. He passed when I was 15, and I’ve missed him since. It’s like my foundation crumbled with his death. Then, when my mom visited me, she could see her dad, too
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on July 9th, 2009 at 4:58 pmif its someone whose already dead…my great-grandfather. someone whose still living…andrew lloyd weber.
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on July 9th, 2009 at 5:16 pmWell, if we’re sticking to famous people, I’d pick Thomas Jefferson. He was a very interesting character in our past, politically and even as an inventor type of guy. If it could be anyone, I’d still like to know my paternal grandma. She died a year before I was born and I’ve heard some great stories about her
Would love to win! Thanks for the opportunity.
on July 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pmJHolden955 (at) gmail (dot) com
Hmmm, I’d want to hang out in a graveyard with Marie Antoinette. Then I could pretend to be a shepherdess and a queen!
And I’m already subbed to your site.
on July 9th, 2009 at 6:53 pmI would want to be buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, next to Gertrude Stein. I’m sure that she would have a salon where she would host all of the cool people buried at Pere Lachaise — painters, writers, musicians, politicians. And, since Oscar Wilde is nearby, I would hope that we could hang out and make witty remarks about the tourists who picnic in the cemetery and those spirits still too caught up in being cool, vying for position at the spirit salon.
on July 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pmHmm, I think I’d like to hang out with Oscar Wilde. He has a nice monument too
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on July 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pmI’d want to meet my father’s mother, so I’d hope she was buried in the cemetary. She disappeared before my father turned 3, so all I know of her is that one act — not the backstory!
I’m subscribed via Bloglines…
thanks for this opportunity!
on July 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pmsuch a hard question. I guess if forced to chose it would be hariku murakami the author because there’s so much I would want to ask him and so much i could ask him to do….like write me excellent books forever and ever
on July 9th, 2009 at 7:56 pmBrandon Lee’s grave, I think he had a kind soul and was very smart, so we’d have so much to talk about, plus he died way too soon.
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:25 pmI subscribe to your RSS via Yahoo reader.
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:26 pmOh, this book looks awesome! What a fabulous giveaway. Hmmm….I think it would be interesting to be buried next to Princess Diana or Amelia Earhart. Of course, next to one of my own ancestors woudl be interestign , too. I am a blog follower. Thanks, Natasha!
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pmPersonally, I would just like to be buried at he Père Lachaise Cemetary in Paris. That way I could hang out with Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Georges Seuraut…and many others. It would be interesting, to say the least!
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:34 pmBook sounds enthralling. I love the old, neglected cemataries found on the empty miles of prairie with the tall, dry grass rustling in the wind. And,now and then, a distinctive rattle or the fearsome snake basking in the path under a searing summer sun. I want to follow you on Twitter, please…
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:44 pmSorry, I stopped too soon. I would love to be buried beside one of the older pioneer women who could whisper tales of the hardships, the sorrows and the joys which filled her life.
on July 9th, 2009 at 8:50 pmI’d want to be buried near comedians. Maybe Lucille Ball or Bernie Mac. Even John Ritter. No point facing eternity without laughter.
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on July 9th, 2009 at 9:47 pmOscar Wilde would be wonderful to share a graveyard with. I imagine he is as quirky and playful in death as he was in life. And I think being a ghost and hanging out would be all about having fun and doing pranks on the living.
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on July 10th, 2009 at 2:46 amWow, I’d love to read this. What a ghostly question. I think I’d like to be in a graveyard next to Shakespeare, just so he could tell me about his plays. He’d probably find me pretty boring, but still…
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on July 10th, 2009 at 5:57 amI just posted a review of Neil Gaiman’s book on my library website. As a new publisher I am always on the lookout for great kids’ readers. I loved the development of all the characters, both good and bad, and the illustrations by Dave McKeon really set the stage for this tale set in a cemetary.
While reading Gaiman’s book, if you get a chance have some fun on our website at http://www.TheUndercoverKids.com. In fact, if you kids like to write we have introduced a kids writing contest.
Since I was a young girl, I have always been a reader but I must say that I am really enjoying the kids’ literature that is being published now. What’s your thoughts? What do your kids say about that as well?
on July 10th, 2009 at 7:27 amWow….I loved reading everyone elses answers to your question. It’s a very deep, “if you were marooned on and island….”
I read a borrowed copy of this book and quite enjoyed it. It was different and original.
Hmmmm…who would I want with me…The obvious personal answer is friends and family I have lost over the years. In realation to the book though, I enjoyed the age of the graveyard with the different ghosts from different time periods. I think it would be interesting to be able to speak with different ‘representatives’ throughout history.
And of course, you know I am already subcribed.
I’m just going to send you all of my books and just wait….you run into all the famous authors and get signed copies all the time. I will get you to get them all signed for me
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on July 10th, 2009 at 9:31 amI would want to be in the same graveyard as maybe John Ritter or Lucille Ball or Bob Hope or someone like that…laughter and the pursuit of it is vital…intellectual pursuits are great, but I want to have fun!!
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on July 10th, 2009 at 10:22 amThanks for holding this great contest/give-away
I would want to be in the same graveyard as William Shakespeare so I could learn from his writing genius.
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Tough question! I think I’d pick wherever Thomas Jefferson is buried because I’d love to relay the current state of America to him and see him roll over in his grave. (hee hee) He and I see pretty eye to eye on all things decentralized
) I think it would be fun to interact with such an interesting historical figure.
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Thank you for such a fun giveaway and fun way to enter!
on July 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pmWhat a tough question! If I could choose anyone, it would be my grandfather. He died when I was very young, and I never had the chance to get to know him.
Thanks for having a great giveaway!
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on July 10th, 2009 at 4:07 pmWhat a great giveaway. Thanks.
I’m not quite sure who I would want to be buried near. Probably someone like Abraham Lincoln – he was supposed to be a great story teller, plus his life was just so interesting.
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on July 10th, 2009 at 4:26 pmOh my gosh – this is a hard question to answer. But I think that I would want to make sure that my grandfather was buried there. He was a wonderful man, and I loved him very much. We had a shared love of animals.
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on July 10th, 2009 at 4:30 pmC.S. Lewis. He had a way of explaining complex ideas in a simple way. The opportunity to talk to him would be fascinating.
on July 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pmno doubt, I would want my Grandmother Sophia in the grave yard with me. She died 3 months before I was born, but my mother did a great job through stories and pictures of helping me get a feel of who she was. I have so many questions for her!
on July 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pmI have been wanting to read this book for months now, thank you for offering it in a give away!
I would love to be included in your giveaway. If I lived in a grave yard it would be the one were my brother is buried. I would love to have the chance to talk to him, even if it is just for a few moments.
on July 11th, 2009 at 3:48 pmThanks
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Eleanor Roosevelt, hands down. How amazing would this be? I am kicking myself for not standing in the huge books of wonder line when he was there. Sigh.
on July 11th, 2009 at 5:14 pmTough question. There are lots of people that I would love to chat with, but would they be fascinating for eternity?
I’m currently reading a book called Becoming Shakespeare about the legend of Shakespeare – more about how he became so well known after his death rather than his actual life. I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabethean England and would love to know the answers to some of those debated questions about Shakespeares life. I guess that means I need to be buried in a church rather than a graveyard. Does that still count?
I’m already subscribed on my reader. I’m off to Tweet about the giveaway now. I’ll post a link in my Monday round-up blog post.
Thanks for the great giveaway.
on July 11th, 2009 at 6:03 pmI just finished reading the Graveyard book a week ago. I really enjoyed it because I’m just a naturally curious person, and whenever I’m in a graveyard I wonder about people. The gravestones tell so little about them or just give hints that make you want to know more.
Several Utah graveyards would be cool to hang around. The huge one in Salt Lake where Brigham Young I buried would probably be interesting. Also the Santa Clara graveyard would be interesting to me because my old slightly famous pioneer relatives are buried there.
Yet, wouldn’t it could be cool to hang around arlington national cementary? You would get to know all those unknown soldiers.
Though, It would be extremely fun to hang around Abe Lincoln. I’ve heard he was abosolutely hilarious! Plus, he was wise and intelligent, and a good storyteller, and speech writer. It would be an entertaining after life that’s for sure.
on July 11th, 2009 at 6:25 pmI’d love to win this, but what a hard question! I’m thinking someone very funny… but who? I tried to wake my husband who’s just drifting off to sleep to help suggest someone, but he just smiled and went back to sleep. Hrmph. I’m going to say my grandfather. There is something about the comfort of family, and I’d have a lot to catch him up on.
on July 11th, 2009 at 9:16 pmOooo.. I would love to hang out with Audrey Hepburn! She could teach me a lot on how to be elegant and sophisticated
on July 12th, 2009 at 12:05 amBlogged: http://bunnymoney9.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-links.html
on July 12th, 2009 at 12:06 amTweeted : http://twitter.com/bunnyb/status/2595206622
on July 12th, 2009 at 12:06 amI’m already subscribed.
on July 12th, 2009 at 7:17 amI’d want to hang out near Madame Curie…
on July 12th, 2009 at 8:04 amI’d want my dead person to be Mary Shelley. I’ve always loved her, and she sounds like she’d be cool to hang out with. Plus she could tell me first hand accounts of the whole Romantic period, and I could compare them with how history has constructed them over the centuries, which would be interesting for sure.
Thank you for opening the giveaway internationally!
on July 12th, 2009 at 10:09 amI thought about this for a while and I decided that I would love to be near my great grandmother and great grandfather. They were very important to me and I don’t think I spent nearly enough time getting to know them. I had 10 more years with my grandfather than with my grandfather but I don’t think the time was enough to find out the wealth of knowledge that they had collected.
on July 12th, 2009 at 3:17 pmoops that should read 10 more years with my grandfathr than with my grandmother(sorry for any confusion)
on July 12th, 2009 at 3:20 pmWell…what an unusual question!
on July 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pmMy fathers father – I had a great childhood with him but he developed MS and spent the last ten years of his life bedridden and unable to speak. He was a funny man with a lot of talents and I was always very sorry to not be able to get to know him better.
For a second there I thought you basically meant who I’d want to stay dead. I was about to say Hitler then I read on..yeah no. I’d want Elvis there. He’s still awesome and had such a great voice! Maybe he’d sing to me
on July 12th, 2009 at 10:16 pmWhat a fantastic giveaway! In answer to your question I would love to be in the same graveyard as Jane Austen – I would be entertained by stories forever that way!
on July 13th, 2009 at 3:38 amI’d like to be burried next to Fernando Pessoa. He was a creative genius who thought out whole worlds and different personalities-almost always with contradicting opinions-in his head (heteronyms)and was a humble librarian his whole life. If anyone could make eterinity interesting, it’d be him.
on July 13th, 2009 at 8:23 amI’d want to be buried next to someone funny and sarcastic, because while intellectual persons would make for great conversations, I know I will still laugh and make jokes. I think George Carlin might be fun!
on July 13th, 2009 at 10:23 amI would like to be with Kurt Kobain, because of all the artists I never got a chance to see live, I could settle for seeing him dead I guess
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on July 13th, 2009 at 11:27 amGraveyards freak me out, but I think I’d want to be with my family – I’m more comfortable with them, plus it would be fun seeing them after we die.
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I would want to make sure that my grandma was burried there, since we could hang out 24/7.
And, I’m already subscribed!
on July 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pmEdgar Allan Poe!
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on July 13th, 2009 at 3:54 pmI would like to be hanging out with Jim Morrison. He would keep the afterlife very interesting.
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on July 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pmVincent Price!!!!
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on July 13th, 2009 at 9:42 pmMy Great Grandpa! He had an amazing green thumb and he could give me gardening tips!
I subscribe in RSS.
on July 14th, 2009 at 1:36 amI’d choose to live in the graveyard where my dad’s buried. I miss him!
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Thank you.
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on July 14th, 2009 at 2:08 amI would pick my maternal grandmother. I never met her her so it would be nice to get to know what she was like.
on July 14th, 2009 at 2:41 amThanks!
I’d love for it to be my family. Okay, technically? One person: my mum.
I’m already a subscriber by RSS and email.
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on July 14th, 2009 at 8:42 amI never got the chance to know my mother’s parents, so it would have to be them. I’d love the chance to hear their stories.
I subscribe and follow, and have retweeted and stumbled. Thanks!
on July 14th, 2009 at 8:53 amMy actual mother-in-law, I think, because she died before I met my husband so I’ve never met her.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:07 amActually, as I am imaginary and already dead, I would like the company of Bod Owens. I think that he would make a marvelous playmate. I have tried to get his e-mail a number of times and so far have had no success. So I guess the book would be some compensation until then.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:08 amBest,
Billy Bones
I think I’d like to hang out with Jim Morrison. He was an observer, and I’m curious how he saw things. There’s also no shortage of interesting thinkers and artists to chat with at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:09 amWho would I want to be buried with? Hmmm…I think it would have to be Agatha Christy. Can you imagine all the stories? All the new stuff she would have come with after all this time?
Well, her or the (fictious) Master from Dr Who.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:10 amBoy, you really know how to publicize your site. I’m impressed.
It got me to put you on my Bloglines feed and Twitter about it.
As for my answer, it would have to be my dad. He died when I was 15 at the age of 45. He worked a lot and I hardly knew him, yet he supported us, did what he had to, and I miss him still.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:11 amOh, I like this much better than the old desert island question.
It would have to be someone inventive, who wouldn’t get boring. I think Oscar Wilde might find a lot of humor in the afterlife, and would have no compunction whatsoever in sharing it with whoever might be within earshot.
I just subscribed to your feed, looking forward to reading your blog. I have the feeling I won’t be finishing my To Read queue for a long time now!
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:13 amEdgar Allan Poe, of course!
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:15 amHerodotus would be my pick – who better to chat with than the father of History? (though Suetonius could give him a run for the money in terms of entertaining gossip. and Pliny could answer those pesky questions about Atlantis…)
I found you by way of The Fabulous Lorrian.
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on July 14th, 2009 at 9:15 amMark Twain. How can you get bored spending eternity with one of the wittiest people that ever lived?
RT @deathslittlesis
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:19 amWow!! Great giveaway!
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:20 amI would like to be near my Grandpa. He was an amazing man.
I subscribe via google reader and twittered about it here
I would want to be buried by Abe Lincoln. I’m an Illinois girl and am fascinated with all that is Lincoln. I will definitely Twitter this and look into the others RSS and e-mail. I’ve been a follower for awhile, but new to most things bloggy!!
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:21 amYou are so generous to volunteer your signed copy!
Hmmm, I love this question. I wish I could pick more than one, but since it’s limited, I would want to ensure Carl Jung’s grave was in walking distance. He’s such an unusual cat, y’know? And brilliant! We could talk about archetypes and create mandalas and I could get all of the good gossip about Freud that we don’t read about in the psych books.
Oh, and I’ve been a follower for a bit. Almost since I began blogging? I’m still in the “newlywed” stage – blogger for six months.
)
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:25 amI’d like to be in a graveyard where Agatha Christie was buried. I mean sure, she’d smell bad after all these years, but, it’d sure be cool to pick her brain…(metaphorically speaking only, of course!)
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:26 amAnd what about those who don’t want to be buried at all?
I think I’d like my ashes to be laid near Chopin’s grave. I wonder if he is still composing in the after life.
Or perhaps Mozart? Being a ghost and listening only to the sounds of the undead and the moaning of others who have ‘pending issues’ must be dead boring!
(oh, and I did retweet. awesome giveaway! =D)
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:31 amI would make sure that Albert Einstien was buried there. Not only was he a brilliant scientist, he was also a brilliant philospher who truely understood what was important in the world. Needless to say if time travel is ever invented I plan on going back and being his groupie. So to be buried near him to be able to spend all that time hanging out and talking with him would be the most amazing thing ever. (p.s I even have an Einstien action figure a friend gave me for my b-day one year chalk in hand so i made him a lil blackboard with e=mc2 on it.)
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:43 amIt would have to be the cemetery in the town where I grew up. My dad is buried there, as are my mom’s brother, parents, and grandparents–plus lots of other relatives from my mom’s side of the family.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:57 amWell, Although he is still alive and not famous…yet….my husband. Hes my best friend and the only reason i hate the thought of leaving this plane is the thought of not staying up all night haing great conversations and wine with him. and fir someone famous, i think, jesusand or mary. i am not a christan, but i think jesus was a great teacher and i would want to know either one their sides of the story. i think if i had a chance to talk to him then i would have almost enough to ponder for ever…
on July 14th, 2009 at 10:07 amBuried next to Lee Harvey Oswald, just so I can know what REALLY happened.
on July 14th, 2009 at 10:08 amI would make sure Tolkien was buried in the cemetery so we could discuss the linguistics and geography of Middle Earth!
on July 14th, 2009 at 10:08 amI’d like to be buried near William Faulkner. Wonderful stories and Carousing to boot! What a Hoot!
Now I’m gonna poke around the site a bit. Looks veddy intedesting
on July 14th, 2009 at 10:44 amHmmm…if I have to pick just one, I think I would like to be in the same graveyard as Shirley Jackson – an eternity of humour and horror!
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on July 14th, 2009 at 11:03 amI’ve signed up for email AND retweeted!
If I live in a graveyard, I would love to hang-out with Margaret Truman for I have always been fond of her written works. She has described the Washington circle very vividly. I would love to chat with her about tales of the area.
I also twitted this: http://twitter.com/ivanulrich/status/2635426726
I have always been a long-time subscriber of your blog.
on July 14th, 2009 at 11:23 amI would like to be buried in the same cemetary as a good friend I lost almost 4 years ago.
Thanks for the great giveaway, and I already follow.
on July 14th, 2009 at 11:33 amI’d want the Last Librarian of Alexandria, because I want to know what was in that library!
on July 14th, 2009 at 1:31 pmby my grandpa- he died when I was young but he was so fun and so full of adventure
on July 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pmI’d want to buried by the old lady I met in the park. She said so utterly sincerely to me:
“If you watch for them, you’ll never see them. But they’ll love you anyways.”
Even though the kids made fun of her for being crazy, she never really seemed like it to me.
…And I never got to ask her what she meant.
on July 14th, 2009 at 1:59 pmFirst thought was Bill Hicks, but I changed my mind.
I would say Dorothy Parker, I loved her BUT…
I will go with 1) my gramma, 2) Andy Warhol and 3) Jane Austen who is supposedly a distant relative of mine.
My gramma believed in me, even when she didn’t say it, Andy and Jane would suite my personality well.
Also, tweeted http://twitter.com/CRschilliger/status/2638572939
on July 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pmThis is kind of sad, but for me it would be where my dad is. I’d love to have the chance to hang out with him some more.
on July 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pmmy dad, vince vaughn, ben stiller and will farrel, all wickedly funny.
on July 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pmYeah! This was such a fun book. Hm…if I lived in a graveyard, I would want it to be the one my grandparents are in (either one, can’t really choose between them) – I want to know more about their lives!
And yeah for me already subscribing!
on July 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pmI’d have to choose Douglas Adams. He was my favorite author in my youth and I would really have enjoyed talking to him.
Thank you for this giveaway! I’ve already signed up for email and I’m on my way to twitter!
on July 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pmI’d have to choose Douglas Adams. He was my favorite author in my youth and I would really have enjoyed talking to him about his life, his writing and his religious beliefs (or rather lack there of).
Thank you for this giveaway! I’ve already signed up for email and I’m on my way to twitter!
on July 14th, 2009 at 4:52 pmIf I lived in a graveyard there are several dead people I’d want buried there so we could hang out. It would be cool to hang out with my Dad, and his father, who died just before I was born. It would also be cool if Marx and Lennon were buried there. Thats Groucho and John.
on July 14th, 2009 at 4:56 pmTwittered @sophiamorris
on July 14th, 2009 at 4:59 pmI would like to hang out with Marie Antoinette, France’s last monarch. Just saw a feature on the French Revolution at the Bio Channel, and the story of the royal family’s fall from power was just incredible.
Twittered this contest @ pinkpatx.
on July 14th, 2009 at 5:25 pmMy fiance’s maternal grandfather. I want to meet and thank the man who helped make my love the man he is today. I want to exchange stories with him. He can tell me how my love was before he was six years old, and I can tell him how he was from 13 years old and onward, though I should leave out the teenage angst bits.
on July 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pmI would want to be sure that my Nana was buried there for me to hang out with. She died when I was 8 and famously never wrote down any of her recipes! She did it all from memory, and I still wish I knew how to make her chicken and dumplings! So I’d want her there to teach me to cook, and to talk about roller derby, the Philly Eagles, and the show Dallas (my Nana’s 3 favorite things).
on July 14th, 2009 at 6:57 pmI just Twittered the contest! @jackiereeve
on July 14th, 2009 at 7:02 pmI’d like to be near Oscar Wilde. I’d love to hear his comments and conversation which is sure to be witty and perceptive.
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on July 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pmI’d love to be near Princess Di, I think she was such a good soul. What interesting conversations we could have.
I subscribe by googlereader and twitter.
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on July 14th, 2009 at 8:24 pmMy book club is thinking of reading this one in the next year. I hope it is one of the books picked. I know I am probably driving everybody crazy talking about my father, but he is the one who I would choose.
I am already a subscriber.
on July 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pmI think I would like to have my maternal grandfather there. I never knew him as he died three weeks before I was born. My mother told me that I would have had him wrapped around my little finger, but I don’t think that would be the case with him dead. I have always wondered what some of our conversations would have been like, and really, just what our relationship would have been.
Now, to subscribe to your feed.
on July 14th, 2009 at 11:31 pmHoly Moly I AM DYING OVAH HEA! I am seriously going to have to answer this question fast! I would LOVE TO WIN THIS ONE MORE THAN ANY OTHER CONTEST I’VE EVER ENTERED! He is my very favorite and I have NOTHING autographed by him…nor do I know *HoW* I’d get one!
I’m ready to *FAINT*!
OK…I really would need to be buried by MARILYN MONROE! Why? I mean do you really have to ask? She’s fascinating and so was her very short life! She’s a bombshell and someone I adore! I could definitely hang out with her for all eternity!
Now, Yes, I follow your blog and I follow you on twitter as well! I hope to be right back with a link for you contests on my blog and on twitter! : )
Thank you SO MUCH FOR HOSTING THIS!
xoxo Amy
(Did I say Thank you Natasha?) lol
on July 15th, 2009 at 1:07 amOk I blogged about it over on my blog and here’s your linkie http://aparkavenueprincess.blogspot.com/2009/07/graveyard-book-giveaway.html
xoxo Amy (Park-Avenue Princess)
on July 15th, 2009 at 1:20 amAnd I tweeted! LOL APrkAvePrincessI am SO excited about the great giveaway @MawBooks! http://bit.ly/QjYaJ
on July 15th, 2009 at 1:23 amIf I lived in a Graveyard, I would want HP Lovecraft to be buried there. Talk about someone who could help with weird events!
on July 15th, 2009 at 5:01 amWalt Disney hands down. He’d have so many interesting stories to tell!
I’m already a Google Reader subscriber
on July 15th, 2009 at 6:36 pmMarilyn Monroe because she was awesome.
on July 15th, 2009 at 8:31 pmI have entered up above with my suggestion. I have justed tweeted about the competition again and I also mentioned it at Australian Women Online book forum and on my blog <a href=”http://www.readingupsidedown.com/?p=1035Reading Upside Down
Still keeping my fingers crossed.
on July 15th, 2009 at 11:06 pmMy grandmother who still is such an inspiration (an artist, storyteller and amazingly cool person) to me and Vincent Van Gogh…
Just subscribed and just tweeted
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on July 15th, 2009 at 11:22 pmI think I’d want to hang out with Jim Morrison of The Doors.
on July 16th, 2009 at 8:09 amI posted on twitter – dcf_beth
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on July 16th, 2009 at 9:24 amI would want to be buried Adam & Eve so I can talk to them about the garden of Eden and about God!!! How cool would that be huh!!!!
on July 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pmI subscribe to you through e-mail and RSS
I twittered you under theblindcupid
Thanks for the wonderful Giveaway ;o)
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I would like Emily Dickinson or Charlotte Bronte or really any of my favorite female writers – I think they are the kind of people I like hanging with and it certainly would not be a bore since we could be discussing all kind of things – plus I always admired poets and writers and the way they use their words
on July 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pmI would not mind being buried in the same graveyard as Groucho Marx. Good times! I have just discovered your blog looking up info on Neil Gaiman. Bonus for me! Awesome give away
on July 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pmAs far as famous people go I would like to be near Marilyn Monroe and my other pick would be my dad. He was such a fun guy to be around and I miss him.
on July 16th, 2009 at 5:23 pmIt would have to be my mother. She taught me to stay strong and always keep the faith. She taught me to be a good mother by following her example. To me she was a great woman.
on July 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pmI would like to be by my Grandpa. He always treated me like I was important to him. The fact that my grandma is buried next to him would be a great added benefit.
on July 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pmI am subscribed to receive email updates.
on July 17th, 2009 at 3:06 pmI want to be buried by Madeleine L’Engle! That would be some awesome conversation.
on July 17th, 2009 at 6:19 pmIf I lived in a graveyard, I’d want to make sure my grandmother & my aunt were buried there – I miss them and would love to share my life with them. megalon22{at}yahoo{dot}com
on July 17th, 2009 at 7:52 pm+10 Already a follower
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IF I were to be buried, it would be next to this amazing writer (Neil Gaiman) after the passes away, please, not now! No homicides thoughs here. And I’m young still, no need to die soon.
on July 18th, 2009 at 4:23 pmI’d like to hear his stories forever.
uh, just saw people “proving” that they’d tweeted. so, if you feel the urge to check, please look on @mariblaser. you’ll find it!
on July 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pmIf I lived in a graveyard I would want my Grandma Bonar to be buried there. She was a wonderful, fun and very cool lady. She did so much in her life and told such exciting and interesting stories. Miss her a bunch!
I singed up for updates on RSS.
Thanks for the chance at winning this book.
on July 18th, 2009 at 5:16 pmI definitely agree with the person who said Pere Lachaise would be a great place to be buried – party with Jim Morrison, talk philosophy with Balzac, etc. Sounds like a good way to spend eternity!
I am subscribed via Google Reader.
on July 18th, 2009 at 10:37 pmI wish my grandmother was there so we could have all the conversations I wish we had had.
Thanks for hosting this.
on July 19th, 2009 at 9:48 amI would like to hang out with my grandad who died shortly before I was born. I’d like to get to know him.
The minute I’ve posted this, I’ll become a subscriber. I’m worried it might take me to another page if I subscribe.
on July 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pmSorry! I forgot to add my email.
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on July 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pmMy Grandparents because they are my family and I love them!
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on July 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pmIt would be my MOM! Not so famous but very missed. Except she hated graveyards and is no where near one….
I have read everything by Neil Gaiman including this book which I can’t stop recommending to everyone. Would love to own my own copy!
I am a new follower on Google Reader.
on July 19th, 2009 at 5:07 pmI would want Augustus to be buried at the graveyard so that we could hang out.
I subscribe to your RSS.
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Stumbled your post.
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on July 19th, 2009 at 6:54 pm+1 I would really like to meet Shakespeare hanging out in a graveyard.
+5 Tweeted contest: http://twitter.com/bookgoil/status/2731069197
+10 Already following you on Google Reader and email updates!
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on July 19th, 2009 at 7:50 pmI’d like to live in a graveyard in which the poet Horace was buried. Apart from the fact we can discuss writing and poetry (this is the guy who we get the term “purple prose” from!), I also have a soft-spot for him, since I learned Latin via schoolbooks that told a fictional account of his life.
I already follow you on Twitter, but not on RSS, so I just added you to my GoogleReader.
on July 19th, 2009 at 7:51 pmAwesome contest. I would say.. maybe Einstein. If his personality is has as crazy as his hair, I bet it would be interesting. Or perhaps Mozart.
on July 19th, 2009 at 7:51 pm+10 I already subscribe to your blog in google and by email and enjoy it!
I’m not going to get fancy to answer the question – if I had to live in a graveyard I would want to be in the one on the side of the mountain in Lamsburg, Virginia where my dad’s dad (my grandfather) is buried. Our second child shares his middle name and I never got to meet this grandfather who passed away when my dad was 12. I have heard wonderful things about him and how much he would have loved me and my kids so I would love to meet him and talk to him.
on July 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pmMaybe this is sentimental (and I haven’t read other posts to see if this is a common theme), but I’d love to be in the same graveyard as either of my grandfathers. They were both special to me and I miss them. I would love to hang out with them and talk.
As for famous or infamous, I think I’d like to pal around with Dorothy Parker.
on July 19th, 2009 at 8:40 pmI would like to spend time with all of my old pets that have passed on, like my cats Tiger, Cleo, Jack, and Everest and my dogs Kona and Tio. They were so sweet and I’ve missed them a lot.
I also twittered the contest! My username is @chloeeesays.
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on July 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pmWow great question and I would want a long list so many interesting people to choose from but in the end I would go with my family members and pets who I have lost. Ok and maybe Elvis then I’d know he was really dead and not in a gas station somewhere.
on July 19th, 2009 at 9:57 pmI would choose to be buried in the family cementary where my grandparents, with the added bonus of being near the rest of our clan. Would be nice to talk with them about their lives, and how it had been to live in the previous generations. I never knew them well when they were alive.
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on July 20th, 2009 at 9:49 pmHi! I love book giveaway contests like this.
Although he’s not dead nor do I wish him to be dead, as that would be tantamount to sacrilege and rather unthinkable, I’d rather share the earthy hidey-hole with Neil Gaiman.
I want to find out how much or which part of the story will he rewrite if he goes through the graveyard experience himself.
Yet if we’re talking about people who are legitimately dead, I think I’d like to see and be with my Aunt who passed away last year. I want to thank her for taking such great care of us.
Posted this on my blog: http://pachuvachuva.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/if-i-were-a-boy-id-be-nobody/
Already subscribed via email, blogrolled and twittered this, too. http://twitter.com/pachuvachuva
More power to you and your blog. ^_^
on July 20th, 2009 at 11:13 pmI would like to be buried next to my paternal grandfather. He died before I would born, and I would like to get to know him. I’d also like it if my dog, Wicked, were on the other side of me. She was a great dog and I still miss her terribly three years later.
on July 21st, 2009 at 12:42 pmI’d make sure and look for Nietzche. I like all his works but it still confuses me and I want to talk to him about Atheistism/Anti-Christianism. He’s been an issue and I want to know about it more. He is a great guy! It would be fun with the debate between me (a Christian) and him (a western philosopher who talked about anti-christianism). We have different views to talk about and additional to the talk is the ambiance of the graveyard. He may inspire me to write a book about our talk or our views merged into one.
I hope to win this book!
Thanks Natasha!
on July 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pmalready subscribed to your blog.
on July 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pmtwittered @ isaw08.twitter.com
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I posted my answer above, and also joined the email list, tweeted the contest, (http://twitter.com/trainerr), and posted it to Facebook (www.facebook.com/trainerr).
Thanks,
on July 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 amRenee
My best friend died almost two years ago and I believe she still had so much life in her that she returns once in a while just to make sure I’m living my life to the fullest. I would love to be buried next to her so we could party just a little more, talk until daybreak, vacation again to a sunny beachy place, and text eachother at 2am just to say hello.
The book looks awesome, can’t wait to read it! Any chance it will come out for the Kindle?
on July 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 amMichael Jackson – so we could dance together!
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I’d want Anna Pavlova to be buried there because she was one of the best ballet dancers in the history of ballet.
~Haley
on July 23rd, 2009 at 10:13 amAlso, I blogged: http://7and1.net/2009/07/23/pee-ess/
on July 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmI would like to be buried near Edgar Allen Poe, at least then once a year I would get a drink.
I subscribed, no idea why I hadn’t before today.
I tweeted but I don’t know how to link a single tweet
on July 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pm“Why did no one tell me that Maw’s Book Blog was giving away The Graveyard Book Signed? http://tinyurl.com/ma5nlg“
I know now here is the link,
on July 24th, 2009 at 5:55 pmhttp://twitter.com/faith42love/statuses/2828331868
I would want to be next to Micheal Jackson there are some things I like to know!!!!!
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on July 25th, 2009 at 11:42 pmI would want Samuel Johnson to be buried there so I would have an endless source of edification and delight.
on July 26th, 2009 at 1:54 amWow that is a really hard question. I think rather than some celebrity or author I’d rather have my maternal grandmother buried there because there is SO much I’d love to ask her. I never knew her and she died when my mom was 12 so there are so many unanswered questions.
I have been a subscriber through google reader for way over a year, not sure how long exactly.
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on July 26th, 2009 at 12:35 pmI had to really think on this. I mean my first impulse was Douglas Adams because I thought of all the amazing stories he could tell, and I just loved his work so much! Then I thought, well that is kind of selfish. I don’t want to be all about what this person can do for me, and I don’t want to be like that. So I am back to square one. Finally, I decided that I would like to hang out with Lucille Ball. I am still kind of back to what she could do for me because she was brilliantly funny, but hey, I can fill her in on everything that is going on in the living world.
Thank you so much for the giveaway.
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on July 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pmI also follow you on twitter and I posted your giveaway there: http://twitter.com/kellyblackwell/status/2861101601
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on July 26th, 2009 at 6:12 pmOh did I post my link to this one…I hope so because I will drop dead and need to be in the graveyard if I win this one. This is the best giveaway ever!
xoxo Amy (park-Avenue Princess)
http://aparkavenueprincess.blogspot.com/2009/07/graveyard-book-giveaway.html
That’s the post and here is my contact information…yes, this is really my email. LOL IAmHiMaintenance@aol(dot)com
on July 27th, 2009 at 2:33 amTweet Tweet:APrkAvePrincess@mawbooksblog http://bit.ly/PXbCo Neil Gaiman book giveaway!
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on July 27th, 2009 at 2:36 amDid it again to spread the word (and gain some more enties) I hope you did my giveaway natasha!
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on July 27th, 2009 at 2:37 amI posted your giveaway on my blog.
http://enroutetolife.blogspot.com/2009/07/hurry-up-and-enter.html
Thanks so much.
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on July 27th, 2009 at 11:43 amI would like to share eternity in the same cemetery with my mother. It would feel right to do so. After all, the first voice I ever heard was hers…seems that I should be entitled to that music forevermore. When I find her my first question will be, “How exactly did you die?”
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity. I am very happy to say that I am a new subscriber.
on July 27th, 2009 at 6:33 pmOh my God! Your giveaway is truly supercool, and thanks a lot for extending it. I had been on holiday the last couple of weeks and I might have missed it.
In the graveyard, I have three choices actually. I’d really like Roald Dahl for his wit, Kishore Kumar for his singing and my grandmother for, well, being my grandmother.
I blogged about your giveaway at http://linktoink.blogspot.com/2009/07/neil-gaiman-giveaway.html. Your blog is also on my sidebar
on July 28th, 2009 at 9:56 amI would like to hang out in the graveyard with Vincent Price!
on July 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pmI ReTweeted-
on July 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pmI would say Maud Hart Lovelace to chat books or Eleanor Rooservelt-I think she’d be a good influence
If I lived in a graveyard, one person I would make sure was buried there would be Douglas Adams, so I could meet him. I love the Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy, but I didn’t discover the series until after he died. It would have been great if I could have had a chance to meet him before he died.
In addition, I am now subscribing to your blog by email and I added this post to my favs on Stumble Upon (my username there is the same as my email username).
on July 30th, 2009 at 7:39 pmSomeone who loved the land and the wildlife, maybe Midwesterner Aldo Leopold. Or someone from the children’s book world. Tasha Tudor would have some stories to tell, I bet. We could milk goats together.
on July 31st, 2009 at 9:38 amHey, wasn’t the result scheduled to July, 31st? We’re in September and no news!
Great way to build audience, but you should at least stick to your word…
on September 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 pmMariana –
The winner of this giveaway was announced already. If you will notice that the post has even been edited to direct you to the blog winner announcement post.
on September 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pm