Waiting-for-the-baby giveaway

(No, I'm not pregnant. Not even a little.)

The new issue of the magazine should come home Tuesday (cross fingers).

However, my husband is going out of town tomorrow (Monday), and won't be back until Friday.

Although I can do much of the label-printing myself -- all the orders that come in between issues -- he handles the big printout whenever a new issue comes home.

Rather than make me have to wait to start mailing issues out until he gets home, he's printing the labels out now.

He's also posting the information about the new issue on the magazine's site. Already the free-to-read articles are posted, as well as the table of contents and all that.

This is weird to me. Usually I follow the Jewish idea of not decorating the nursery until there's an actual physical baby to put in it, which translates for me into not advertising the new issue until it actually comes home from the hospital. Printer. Whatever.

So to ease my sense of strangeness, I decided to do a little giveaway, like the ones I've seen on other sites.

I'm giving away a free copy of the new issue.

Between now and the time that said new issue actually arrives safe and sound in my living room, people can post here if they want to enter the contest.

Tell me in your posting something about the new issue -- which article from the table of contents sounds intriguing, fer instance. Why you want a copy. Something like that.

If you post (with a link) about the giveaway on your blog or a forum or loop or group or something, you can post again here for another shot at winning.

If you post somewhere about the new issue coming out and link to the magazine's site, you can post here again for another shot at winning.

I'll be using a random number generator to choose, so the more times you're able to post here, the better your chance of winning.

The winner can live anywhere in the world -- I'll shell out for international postage on this one. This being the international issue, that seems fitting.

I’ll post the very second the magazine comes home, and let you know who won.

Best of luck from

Deborah the Sleepy Editor.