Today, we’re kicking off a holiday contest on The Keenedom message board forum. All month long, we’ll be giving away signed and unsigned hardcovers and paperbacks from Thunderstorm Books, Apex Publishing, Lividian Publications, and others. What kind of prizes? How about limited editions of Heart Shaped Box signed by Joe Hill, unsigned limited editions of Stephen King’s Revival, Apex’s Do Not Go Quietly signed by editor Lesley Conner, limited editions of my own Submerged: The Labyrinth Book 2, and many, many more! These items will ship directly from the publishers throughout the month, as the winners are announced.

How do you win? It’s easy. Simply participate on the forum.

Each day, I will pick a Board. For example, tomorrow I may pick David J. Schow’s Board or Hailey Piper’s Board or The Writer’s Room Board or the Music and Podcasts Board. The chosen Board will remain known only to me. At the end of the day, anyone who posted on that Board that day will be entered into the contest, and a winner will be chosen at random. The next day, I’ll pick a different Board and the process will start all over again.

Now, a few caveats. First of all, your participation has to be actual conversation. You can’t just post post an emoji. That’s not participating in a conversation. And you can’t just go to a Creator Board and post “Hi! I’ve never read you, but I want to win a free book, so I’m posting here simply for that.”

My own Brian Keene Board, the Rules Board, and the Announcements Board are disqualified from the contest. Posts on them will not count toward the prizes.

So, happy holidays from all of us at The Keenedom. For those of you still posting all day on Facebook and Twitter — are Zuckerberg and Musk giving you free books? Because we’re giving you free books. All you have to do is talk.