Gallery Books held a contest at the launch of the new novel, Halo: Broken Circle.

The contest was to like and comment on their Facebook page: If you could be any character in Halo lore, who would it be and why?

My answer was: Well, by far it would have to be Master Chief. He’s respected, he’s lucky, and he’s not just a spartan, he’s THE Spartan!

That last bit was paraphrasing Spartan Locke when he tells the Arbiter whom he is hunting.

Below is the prize pack that went to two lucky winners. There were close to 1,000 comments. I was one of two people who won!

I received the prize pack yesterday. The only thing switched out was the jackal for an Elite Ranger. I actually like the Elite Ranger figure even more than the Jackal, so I was quite happy about that. Also within the prize pack was a nice spiral bound notebook and canvas bag from Gallery Books.

I already own all of the Halo stuff awarded to me. Some I’m going to keep, some I’m going to offer through the blog as contest prizes. This way I get to share the wealth, so-to-speak.

Of what’s shown above, the following will be prizes in upcoming HFFL contests:
• Halo Broken Circle Novel
• Forward Unto Dawn Blue Ray
• Halo 4 Original Soundtrack

The following two are parts of the Halo Mega Bloks sets that I’ll give as prizes as well:
• Tartarus from the Battle pack set above
• The Squad of 4 White Spartans from the Revenant set

I’m also going to run a charity auction for the Gamestop exclusive Red Spartan on eBay. Money raised through that auction will be given to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

More details on the contests next week, as well as info on the charity auction.

-Sal