Would you like to spend a weekend in Sophie’s shoes? Enter the Sophie contest and you can! And if you don’t win the Labor Day weekend trip to San Francisco you still have a chance to win a:

• $300 Sephora gift card (so you can buy more than “a little” lip gloss)
• $200 gift certificate to CocoaBella (now you too can become “obsessed” with dark chocolate)
• $100 gift card for Starbucks (Sophie’s dream prize)
  

Here’s how you enter:

Write about Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss on your blog (equal to 1 entry)*

Write a review of Lust, Loathing An A Little Lip Gloss and post it on a bookseller’s website (equal to 1 entry)**

Choose Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss as your book club selection and have me speak to your group via speaker phone (or if it’s an internet book group via message board or IM) (equal to 2 entries per book group member)

Post a book trailer on YouTube for Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss (equal to 10 entries)***

The contest will begin on June 1st and will run until August 15th. One name will be randomly drawn and that person will win a trip to San Francisco! **** The winner will be flown from anywhere within the continental United States (or if the winner lives within 100 miles of the city, driven) to the city by the Bay on the 5th of September 2009. There he or she will stay at the famous Parc 55 Hotel for two nights. During the winner’s stay Kyra Davis (that’s would be me) will take him/her to many of the places Sophie has visited throughout the city.

If your name is not drawn and you have more entries than any other contestant you will be rewarded the $300 Sephora Gift Card! The person with the second most entries (assuming that person has not won the other prizes) will win a $200 gift certificate to CocoaBella. The person with the third highest number of entries will win a $100 gift card for Starbucks!

This contest is for you the readers, not the media so I will not be able to count any review that you were hired and paid to write as a contest entry.

* Please notify me 24 hours in advance of blogging about LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS and let me know what name you will be blogging under and the web address of the blog. Otherwise your blog will not be counted as an entry

** Please notify me 24 hours in advance of posting a review of LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS for a bookseller’s website to let me know both the web address and the screen name you’ll be using for the review

*** Please send me the book trailer for LUST, LOATHING AND A LITTLE LIP GLOSS BEFORE you post it on YouTube. All trailers must be PG-13 or less. No R, X-rated videos will be counted as a contest entry. If you are unfamiliar with what a book trailer is please click on the following links to see two examples of some great ones.

Book trailer for Wake by Lisa McMann
Book trailer for Airhead by Meg Cabot

**** While there is no age requirement for the chance to win the gift cards you must be at least 18 to win the trip to San Francisco. If you are 18 or over and win the trip you have the option of bringing a friend with you to share your hotel room but your companion will have to pay for his or her own airfare, meals and entertainment expenses.

Those are the rules. Best of luck!