Competition Past and Present Page

Past Competitions:

For the publication of the German language edition of TN5, we had an Angela Merkel Poetry contest. You can see more by clicking here: Win the first signed copy of the German 'First Among Sequels' (Closed 15th December 2009)

For the Launch of Desmond Fforde's book, we offered a copy to who did the best Haiku. You can see the results HERE (Closed 1st December 2009)

The competition in 2007 was to colour in any of the illustrations from First Among Sequels

For more information click HERE

For the release of The Fourth Bear the task was to write a modern nursery rhyme. You can read the winners and other entrants HERE

In conjunction with the launch of Something Rotten there was a "How Hamlet are you?" game and the opportunity to test your Hamlet-spotting skills to win books and other goodies. For more details, click HERE

Insanely difficult acrostic set by reader Arsinoe Chi. T-Shirts and advelopes won by Mike Tueller and Janet Coburn, so competition closed - but try it for fun anyway...

The TN3 US launch featured my mother's dalmation in a Spot the Deliberate Mistake Competition which was loosely based on a postcard I gave away on that launch. This competition soon became a 'Spot the mistake that I meant to make, not the other ones I did accidentally', the fallout of which can be found HERE

The TN3 UK launch featured a 2003 Nextian Brain competition which sported a huge host of really technical Thursday Next trivia. I was astounded by how well people knew my books - better than me, on many occasions! The answers can be found by clicking HERE

The TN2 US launch competition was something Mari wrote for penguin which we called the Penguin Literary Challenge. You can still do it but there are no prizes any more.

The TN2 UK launch was marked by a Lost in a Good Book Blurb writer's challenge where the hapless competitors had to precis LIAGB in under eighty words. Sadistic of me I know, but we have to find our laughs here at Fforde Grand Central wherever we can. The winner's entry was excellent.

Another TN-2 related competition was this Lost in A Good Book Quiz which is for fun only.

I can't remember what this competition was precisely for, if anything, but in it I asked readers to tell me where they thought various character's names came from. It's quite amusing what people came up with.

Less of a competition and more of a sale for charity, I auctioned off two parts in the UK and US versions of Lost in a Good Book in 2002. We raised a total of nearly £5000 for the Usk House Day Hospice in Brecon. You can learn more about the auction by clicking HERE.