10/18/09

GIVEAWAY! STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN BY STEWART COPELAND


Product Description
When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's vastly entertaining memoir-in-stories, Strange Things Happen. The world knows Copeland as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock history. But they may not know as much about his childhood in the Middle East as the son of a CIA agent. Or be aware of his film-making adventures with the Pygmies in the deepest reaches of the Congo, and his passion for polo (Brideshead Revisited on horses). In Strange Things Happen we move from Copeland's remarkable childhood to the formation of The Police, their rise to stardom, and the settled-down life that followed. It ends with a behind-the-scenes view of The Police's extraordinarily successful reunion tour. It's a book of amazing anecdotes, all completely true, which take us backstage in a life that is fully lived.

I ended up with two ARCs for this book, so one needs to go away!

How to Enter:

Leave a comment here with a way to contact you (1 entry)

Repost this giveaway on your blog with a link (1 entry)

Become a follower (not sure how to do this, click here) (2 entries)

Download Where Would We Go by Rusty Anderson for free from Amazon! click here (1 entry)

Please leave a separate comment for each entry since I am using Random.org to pick the winner on November 1, 2009. I am mailing this one myself, so entries are limited to the USA and Canada.

Why Rusty and why this song? Well, Rusty played in a band with Stewart Copeland called Animal Logic and he was the best man at my wedding. So there!

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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    I would love to be entered in your draw.

    I just became a follower of your blog.

    Thank you.

    wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  2. Jonnie (JB)October 18, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    I would love to be entered.
    dftrew(at)gmail(dot)com

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  3. Jonnie (JB)October 18, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    I became a follower 1
    dftrew(at)gmail(dot)com

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  4. Jonnie (JB)October 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    I became a follower 2
    dftrew(at)gmail(dot)com

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  5. MonieGOctober 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    I would love to win this one for me and my mom! Monie @readingwithmonie.com

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  6. MonieGOctober 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    I'm a follower.

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  7. MonieGOctober 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    I downloaded Where Would You Go? Thanks!!

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  8. BridgetOctober 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM

    Just blogged about this on Win A Book. No need to enter me in the contest.

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  9. Renee GOctober 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM

    Please include me.
    rsgrandinetti(at)yahoo.com

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  10. PamOctober 20, 2009 at 4:33 AM

    Count me in please! Sounds like an interesting life, and you are correct - I didn't know about these fun facts!

    melacan at hotmail dto com

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  11. JoanneROctober 20, 2009 at 5:38 PM

    Thanks for the opportunity! Am currently becoming a follower.
    joannereynolds@sbcglobal.net

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  12. UnknownOctober 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Thanks so much for this giveaway I would love to win this book
    tanyainjville@yahoo.com

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  13. UnknownOctober 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    I downloaded the song from Amazon Thanks
    tanyainjville@yahoo.com

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  14. Cory Chase (not that Cory Chase)October 29, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    Stewart Copeland is the man!! Thank you for the opportunity to enter the drawing.

    cortwist1212(at)gmail(dot)com

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  15. sharon54220October 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    I would love a chance to win this book. I love memoirs and bios and autobios.

    Thanks for the chance.

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  16. sharon54220October 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    I also became a follower.

    sharon54220@gmail.com

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