Another “Coffeehouse Cliche” giveaway.

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thPicture yourself sitting in a coffeehouse and writing the Great American Novel. Or next year’s Pulitzer for Best New Play. Or just sucking down some java and pretending to be all sensitive and deep.

I can help.

This week I’m having a second Coffeehouse Cliche giveaway, with three essentials to literary pretentiousness:

A notebook. Not the electronic kind, obviously. This is a 5-by-7-inch navy blue book with lined pages and an attached pen. Go ahead. Fill it up.

Starbucks e-gift card. This is good for $10 worth of whatever caffeine you need to jump-start the muse.

Coffee mug. This stainless steel Cutter & Buck mug has a lid with a handle and a leather sleeve if you’re not a handle-holding kind of sipper. The sleeve bears a discreet logo for Bankrate Insurance — yep, I got it at last year’s Financial Blogger Conference.

You can actually do anything you want in the notebook, from haiku to Hangman. Nobody has to know. But maybe you do have something to say, and having a pen and paper will help you say it. Hope so.

P.S. You have to provide your own beret.

To enter:

If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.

The deadline to enter is 7 p.m. PST Tuesday, March 11. If I don’t hear back from the winners by 10 p.m. PST Wednesday, March 12, I’ll pick a new winner. So if you enter, be sure to check your e-mail.

Note: Due to the high cost of international shipping, a winner who lives outside the United States will be given an Amazon gift card and the package will go up for grabs again.

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85 thoughts on “Another “Coffeehouse Cliche” giveaway.”

  18. “Or just sucking down some java and pretending to be all sensitive and deep.” This reminds me of the phrase I heard once that always makes me laugh: “Sincerity: I can fake that!”

    I’d love to have an analog (vs. digital) reason to hang out in my local Starbucks 🙂

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  22. I have been following your columns (email & FB) since I hit a one of those “rough patches” in 2010. I am not through it yet but I am going through it. Sitting in a coffee shop would be a treat!

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  29. Fabulous! A notebook that size is on my shopping list. A Starbucks GC is always a treat. I recently lost my only stainless steel mug. Thanks for another great giveaway.

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  40. When we were in college, my husband lived off campus in a step above a shack known as The Coffeehouse. I would love to give this to him!

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  42. Although I have no interest (or is it imagination) to write a novel, the notebook would be great for journaling and Starbucks and a mug would be a great treat for a family member.

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  45. If I really could write the great American novel I probably would be able to write a better comment than this.

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  60. I follow you via email. If I won, I would give the Starbucks gift card to my mom who makes a weekly trip to get herself a treat.

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  77. This would be great! I love small notebooks. I follow several blogs every day. Yours is the first one I click on. I love your posts because they are honest and real life. Thanks!

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