Hey! Look! A contest! Enter to win a trip to Salem, MA.

Dear Faithful Readers,

I set my novels, The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places, in Salem, MA because it is my hometown, one of the places on earth that I know best. As a small city, Salem is rich in history — it has lived through prosperity as a shipping town, through notoriety as the epicenter of witch hunts, and it still enjoys a literary burnish as home to Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

Now, I invite you to enter The Map of True Places sweepstakes for your chance to win a trip to visit my city. Destination Salem and William Morrow are sponsoring the sweepstakes, and many local shops, restaurants, and museums have stepped forward to build a fun and interesting weekend for you in my town!

So enter the sweepstakes today — and please tell your friends they can enter, too. I hope to see you soon in Salem! In the meantime, head over to my website to download excerpts from The Map of True Places.

Best of luck,

Brunonia Barry

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4 Responses to “Hey! Look! A contest! Enter to win a trip to Salem, MA.”

  1. Janessa Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 10:59 am

    I entered and made my hubby enter too. :) That would be such a neat trip!!

  2. Kathy Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Any visit to Salem is a great visit! Hope you can put in a good word to your publisher to put out a Large Print edition in conjunction with the regular edition for low vision readers to read right away. Thank you.

  3. Rachel W. Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    I would enter… but I already live in Swampscott! Salem is a great place to visit (or live) and I’m sure the winner will have a fabulous time.

    Also, I got an uncorrected proof of The Map of True Places at the ALA conference in Boston in January and I just wanted to tell you how much I loved it. I loved it for all the same reasons I loved The Lace Reader… and it’s always fun to see your little town and that bar where your entire high school class seems to congregate every night mentioned in a book! I can’t wait for the next one!

  4. Nathan C. Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 3:16 am

    Brunonia & Gary,

    Thank you for helping make this weekend such a wonderful and memorable event for Jen and I. We didn’t want to leave. :)

    We truly appreciate the tour and your hospitality. It was a pleasure meeting you both and we had such a fun and wonderful time seeing all that you showed us, (and the stuff we had to imagine for ourselves) lol. I wanted to let you know all the drive-by snapshots turned out great. :)

    Thanks again for everything guys. It was awesome.

    Good luck to all who entered the new contest, the winner is in for a real treat.

    Nate

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