Winners to our Letters to Santa Giveaway + Holiday Hours

As you can imagine, Santa had quite a few letters to read. He was quite taken by the number of handwritten letters that came in this year. It was a welcome sight for his old eyes.

Thank you to everyone who sent us a letter to forward to Santa. The jolly old elf was overjoyed at reading your notes.

Santa said it was difficult to choose just one letter as the winner of the giveaway. So many of you wrote such lovely letters! After much contemplation, he gave us the one letter that was picked as the winner.

The lucky winner of the Letters to Santa Giveaway is Kata from Canada! Congratulations! Santa will be on his way to pick up the pen she wished for, the Sailor Pro Gear Four Seasons "Winter" fountain pen.

We also picked our 5 runner ups that will receive a Goldspot Prize Pack, which includes the one prize pack we set aside for the Rafflecopter giveaway we were running on social media. The winners are :

• Karen J.
• Susan J.
• Ken A.
• Alec P.
• Jeff L. (our Rafflecopter winner)

These winners will be receiving the items pictured below :

If you're curious to know what all the good little boys and girls asked for as their top Christmas wish pen, here are some observations :

Most boys and girls wished for a Visconti pen over all other brands. The #1 most wished-for pen was a Visconti Homo Sapiens fountain pen.

Pelikan came in a close second, OMAS third & fourth place shared by Pilot & Sailor.

Other notable pens that were asked for :

• OMAS Arco Brown Celluloid - in the Ogiva & Arte Italiana styles
• Pelikan M1000
• Visconti Divina Elegance
• Pilot Vanishing Point Raden
• Pelikan M805 Stresemann
• Namiki Yukari Moonlight

Thank you again to everyone who wrote in. This was quite an enjoyable giveaway that we most likely will be running next year as well.

We hope everyone will be enjoying family & friends this holiday season. Our office will be closed early on Christmas Eve, December 24th. We will be closed on Friday, Christmas Day, and will resume business on Monday, December 28th. We will also be closed on Friday, January 1st.

Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa & Happy New Year! Best of health, happiness and fortune to you all!

InCoWriMo Month-Long Giveaway

Hey All,

image courtesy InCoWriMo.org

February has already begun and so has InCoWriMo 2015. Before you jump to Google to find out what the heck I'm talking about, InCoWriMo is short for International Correspondence Writing Month. In the same vein as November's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), InCoWriMo is a month dedicated to letter writing every day of February. That means writing and sending 28 letters during the month.

We'd love to get the word out to get more folks writing and sending letters. So, Goldspot Fine Writing will be sponsoring an InCoWriMo month-long giveaway.

The Prizes

A Waterman Expert 3 Deluxe Fountain Pen + A Noodler's Neponset Briar Wood Ebonite Fountain Pen. A total retail value of $250.

For those of you who follow our blog and giveaways, we offered up this rare ebonite Neponset a couple months ago for our Pen Revolution Giveaway. Sadly, the winner never reached out to give us their address, so we're doubling up the prize for this giveaway.

How to Enter the InCoWriMo Giveaway

Step 1 : Get a pen. Any writing implement will do. Ballpoint, rollerball or fountain pen.

Step 2 : Grab a piece of paper or other writing surface, like a post card.

Step 3 : Write us a letter. Topic can be completely of your choosing. Write about your favorite pens. What you like to write, or just simply show off your penmanship (or lack thereof). Be sure to include at least your name and e-mail address so we can get in touch with you if you are the winner.

Step 4 : Address your correspondence to :

Goldspot Pens
c/o InCoWriMo Giveaway
1230 Highway 34
Aberdeen, NJ 07747

Step 5 : Mail your letter to us by February 28th.

All entries must be postmarked by February 28th to qualify. We will randomly select a winner on March 10th.

Legal Fine Print

All entries for the InCoWriMo giveaway must be post-marked by February 28, 2015. By participating in the InCoWriMo Giveaway, you are giving us permission to share your name and images of your mailed-in submission on social media (your address and email will not be shared). Entries will not be returned to you and will become the property of Goldspot Pens. 

No purchase is required to participate in the InCoWriMo Giveaway. Giveaway winners have 30 days to contact us to claim their prize. If Goldspot Pens is not contacted within 30 days, prize will be offered up in subsequent giveaway.