We’re going to see if we can’t help jump start this contest that Daniel Wallace is running over on his website. Yes, the same Daniel Wallace that wrote Big Fish.

The simple way to do this is to have you click here and read it directly from him. If you’re just waiting for us to tell you about it, we’ll try our best:

Wallace wants to know people’s predictions about how  his new book, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, is going to do after it’s released on Tuesday, July 3.

And he doesn’t want vague ones either; he wants specific details as to how successful (or unsuccessful) his latest literary work will be.

 The person who wins the contest gets a 10" x 15" glossy print of the book’s cover. If you want to enter, you’re probably going to want to post your entires as comments on that blog entry that you skipped up above.

We’ll try to let you know what the winning entry is once he decides. Of course, you can always head on over to The Alabama Booksmith on July 10 at 6 p.m. and pick up a signed copy. Maybe he’ll even let you know where you stand in the contest.