February 7, 2012
Movie Trivia #4
"Fill your hand, you son-of-a-bitch!"
Ten points for the name of the movie.
Five points for the name of the actor who said it.
Five more points for the name of the other actor who said it in a different version.
HINT: Obviously, this film has been remade.
eMail all answers to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (take out the spaces).
See you tomorrow for the Round 5!
February 6, 2012
Movie Trivia #3
"Once you have a man with no legs, you never go back."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
HINT: None; this one isn't hard.
Reminder: Do not post answers here; email them to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (be sure to remove the spaces). Include your full name.
See you tomorrow for Round 4.
Movie Trivia #3
"Once you have a man with no legs, you never go back."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
HINT: None; this one isn't hard.
Reminder: Do not post answers here; email them to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (be sure to remove the spaces). Include your full name.
See you tomorrow for Round 4.
February 5, 2012
Movie Trivia #2
The usual reminders: All answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com by February 15th at 11:59 p.m. Central Time. Answers posted on this blog or anywhere else will not be counted.
"He's had a longstanding sexual relationship with his co-editor of the magazine. Sometimes he performs cunnilingus on her. Not often enough, in my opinion."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
HINT: Recent.
See you here tomorrow for Round 3!
Movie Trivia #2
The usual reminders: All answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com by February 15th at 11:59 p.m. Central Time. Answers posted on this blog or anywhere else will not be counted.
"He's had a longstanding sexual relationship with his co-editor of the magazine. Sometimes he performs cunnilingus on her. Not often enough, in my opinion."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
HINT: Recent.
See you here tomorrow for Round 3!
February 4, 2012
Movie Trivia #1
Remember, all answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (be sure to remove the spaces when emailing). Answers posted here or anywhere else will not be counted.
1) "In my mother's house there is still God."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
Five points for the name of one of the actresses who said it.
Five points for the name of the other actress who said it.
HINT: Classic film adaptation of a groundbreaking stage play.
2) (young man) "They're saying your family are Negroes."
(young girl) "Yes, but did they say anything bad about us?"
Twenty points for the name of the movie (because this is a toughie).
HINT: An obscure, low-budget film that has garnered some late-blooming attention, over 60 years after it was made, having recently been released on DVD.
Remember, you have up until 11:59 p.m. on February 15th to submit your answers. Full details and prizes listed here. See you tomorrow for Round 2!
Movie Trivia #1
Remember, all answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (be sure to remove the spaces when emailing). Answers posted here or anywhere else will not be counted.
1) "In my mother's house there is still God."
Ten points for the name of the movie.
Five points for the name of one of the actresses who said it.
Five points for the name of the other actress who said it.
HINT: Classic film adaptation of a groundbreaking stage play.
2) (young man) "They're saying your family are Negroes."
(young girl) "Yes, but did they say anything bad about us?"
Twenty points for the name of the movie (because this is a toughie).
HINT: An obscure, low-budget film that has garnered some late-blooming attention, over 60 years after it was made, having recently been released on DVD.
Remember, you have up until 11:59 p.m. on February 15th to submit your answers. Full details and prizes listed here. See you tomorrow for Round 2!
February 3, 2012
Movie Trivia Contest 2012
Here's how it'll work:
Contest starts tomorrow, 02/04/2012, and runs through 02/14/2012. There will be a question or questions related to movie quotes posted every day during that period.
All answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (remove spaces when emailing) and must include entrant's full name. Answers sent elsewhere (via Facebook messages, here on my blog, etc.), will not be counted.
You may submit answers daily, periodically, or all at once if you prefer, but all answers must be received by 11:59PM Central Time on Wednesday, February 15th.
Contest winners, as well as answers to all contest questions will be announced by Saturday, 02/18/2012.
Prizes will all be eBooks, no print books. All prizes will be issued upon the publication of Isn't She Lovely? (exact date not known but is expected to be before the end of this month). In the case of a tie between one or more persons for first place, the grand, second, and third placement will be determined by a drawing; if there are more than three first place winners, the others will receive Isn't She Lovely?.
Winners will have a time frame of one week to download their prizes from the date instructions are provided. No extensions granted. No substitutions if unable to download.
Grand prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus all four of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (Save The Best For Last, The Heat of Heat, A Love of Her Own, and A Kiss of a Different Color). If the winner already has some or all of these titles, they may gift them to a friend or friends; as long as recipients have an email address. There will be no substitutions. Any prizes gifted will be distributed after the winners have downloaded their prizes for purposes of tracking.
Second prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus winner's choice of three of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (see above) with the gift option.
Third prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus winner's choice of two of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (see above) with the gift option.
Additional prizes of Isn't She Lovely? may be given at my discretion, depending on how many entrants who have large numbers of correct answers.
Tune in tomorrow for the first question, and let's have some fun!
Movie Trivia Contest 2012
Here's how it'll work:
Contest starts tomorrow, 02/04/2012, and runs through 02/14/2012. There will be a question or questions related to movie quotes posted every day during that period.
All answers are to be emailed to contests @ bettyegriffin.com (remove spaces when emailing) and must include entrant's full name. Answers sent elsewhere (via Facebook messages, here on my blog, etc.), will not be counted.
You may submit answers daily, periodically, or all at once if you prefer, but all answers must be received by 11:59PM Central Time on Wednesday, February 15th.
Contest winners, as well as answers to all contest questions will be announced by Saturday, 02/18/2012.
Prizes will all be eBooks, no print books. All prizes will be issued upon the publication of Isn't She Lovely? (exact date not known but is expected to be before the end of this month). In the case of a tie between one or more persons for first place, the grand, second, and third placement will be determined by a drawing; if there are more than three first place winners, the others will receive Isn't She Lovely?.
Winners will have a time frame of one week to download their prizes from the date instructions are provided. No extensions granted. No substitutions if unable to download.
Grand prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus all four of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (Save The Best For Last, The Heat of Heat, A Love of Her Own, and A Kiss of a Different Color). If the winner already has some or all of these titles, they may gift them to a friend or friends; as long as recipients have an email address. There will be no substitutions. Any prizes gifted will be distributed after the winners have downloaded their prizes for purposes of tracking.
Second prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus winner's choice of three of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (see above) with the gift option.
Third prize: Isn't She Lovely?, plus winner's choice of two of the other Bunderful Books titles currently available (see above) with the gift option.
Additional prizes of Isn't She Lovely? may be given at my discretion, depending on how many entrants who have large numbers of correct answers.
Tune in tomorrow for the first question, and let's have some fun!
February 2, 2012
Gone Blogging
Author Cheris Hodges interviewed me over at her blog, Simply Cheris. Click on over, and feel free to leave a comment!
Gone Blogging
Author Cheris Hodges interviewed me over at her blog, Simply Cheris. Click on over, and feel free to leave a comment!
February 1, 2012
Anatomy of an eBook: Untitled Sequel to Save The Best For Last/The Heat of Heat
In columns under this heading I'll be discussing how I construct a book, in case anyone's interested...
Obviously, I don't yet have a title for this book. I was considering trying to combine the two, but unless I can come up with something better than She Who Heats Last, Heats Best, I'll abandon that idea.
I'll give you a little background information:
In Save The Best For Last, the main character was Genevieve L'Esperance, a citizen of a deliberately unnamed French-speaking Caribbean island (their political problems provide the background of Gen's dilemma). Gen has two close friends, Francesca (Cesca) Perry and Olivia (Liv) Oliveira. Not much is known about Cesca other than that her father is quite wealthy and owns an Upper East Side townhouse, and that she has an intense dislike of police officers due to their mistreatment of her and her family members.
Liv (who despite her Latino-sounding name is a black American; her paternal ancestors emigrated from the Cape Verde Islands, a Portuguese colony off the western coast of Africa) and her family also lived on the Upper East Side, but they are not rich: Her father was a building superintendent and her mother a nurse. The senior Oliveiras now work for a very wealthy family of magazine publishers in Connecticut, providing handyman, healthcare and valet services (for the elderly patriarch), as well as housekeeping.
The bridge between the two books is Liv's character, who is present in The Heat of Heat when the younger son of the publishing family, Ivan Price, brings Sinclair Hatchet to his family's home. It's clear that something is going on between Liv and the older Price son, Brian, but since there were already three romances going on I couldn't go into any detail other than that they spent one night together that ended badly.
Not surprisingly, readers have been asking me for more about Liv and Brian, and I'm working out the story. It's going to be a challenge, since some of the action will take place in the period after Save The Best For Last ends and before The Heat of Heat begins, while other action will occur after The Heat of Heat ends. But I love a challenge!
Stay tuned for more columns on this process.
Anatomy of an eBook: Untitled Sequel to Save The Best For Last/The Heat of Heat
In columns under this heading I'll be discussing how I construct a book, in case anyone's interested...
Obviously, I don't yet have a title for this book. I was considering trying to combine the two, but unless I can come up with something better than She Who Heats Last, Heats Best, I'll abandon that idea.
I'll give you a little background information:
In Save The Best For Last, the main character was Genevieve L'Esperance, a citizen of a deliberately unnamed French-speaking Caribbean island (their political problems provide the background of Gen's dilemma). Gen has two close friends, Francesca (Cesca) Perry and Olivia (Liv) Oliveira. Not much is known about Cesca other than that her father is quite wealthy and owns an Upper East Side townhouse, and that she has an intense dislike of police officers due to their mistreatment of her and her family members.
Liv (who despite her Latino-sounding name is a black American; her paternal ancestors emigrated from the Cape Verde Islands, a Portuguese colony off the western coast of Africa) and her family also lived on the Upper East Side, but they are not rich: Her father was a building superintendent and her mother a nurse. The senior Oliveiras now work for a very wealthy family of magazine publishers in Connecticut, providing handyman, healthcare and valet services (for the elderly patriarch), as well as housekeeping.
The bridge between the two books is Liv's character, who is present in The Heat of Heat when the younger son of the publishing family, Ivan Price, brings Sinclair Hatchet to his family's home. It's clear that something is going on between Liv and the older Price son, Brian, but since there were already three romances going on I couldn't go into any detail other than that they spent one night together that ended badly.
Not surprisingly, readers have been asking me for more about Liv and Brian, and I'm working out the story. It's going to be a challenge, since some of the action will take place in the period after Save The Best For Last ends and before The Heat of Heat begins, while other action will occur after The Heat of Heat ends. But I love a challenge!
Stay tuned for more columns on this process.
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