Dear Apress User Group,

This May, Apress will award a SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE to one lucky
promotion winner!

How do you win? Apress has a fun puzzle for you to solve: the Apress 
User
Group Puzzler. And the catch is that you are going to create the 
puzzle.
(Please share this announcement with ALL registered members of your 
user
group.)

Here's how it works: The entire month of April, we're sponsoring a 
promotion
open to participation from all Apress registered user group members who
reside in the United States and Canada. The competition involves 
creating a
small crossword puzzle. By May 27, 2005, Apress will notify the chosen 
winner
by e-mail.

Please create a five-up/five-down crossword puzzle incorporating ten
different Apress and friends of ED author last names (no first names 
allowed;
last names only). You can easily create clever questions by browsing 
through
both of our websites, www.apress.com and www.friendsofed.com. When 
you're
ready to submit your puzzle, visit the Apress User Group Puzzler 
submission
page, http://www.apress.com/userGroups/crosswordpuzzle.html.

Here's a sample question: "A Yale graduate, and project manager for the
Microsoft Excel developer team, he 'blogs' his way to fame." (Answer:
Spolsky). See-it'll be fun to create your own Apress Puzzler!

Rules and other details: Participants must be 18 years of age or older. 
Only
one puzzle submission per person. Puzzles must be written in English.
Promotion is open to participation from all Apress registered user 
group
members who reside in the United States and Canada. Puzzles must be 
submitted
by April 30, 2005. By May 27, 2005, Apress will notify the chosen 
winner by
e-mail. 

Winner agrees to allow Apress to reproduce and display the winning 
puzzle.
Nonregistered user groups may first register at
http://www.apress.com/userGroups/ to become eligible to enter the 
Puzzler
promotion. 

Apress looks forward to reading all of your submissions! Good luck.

Janet Crosbie
Apress User Group Liaison
janet@apress.com
(510) 549-5930 (x 121)




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