It's that time! Now through September 30th at 11:59pm EST we will be participating in BlogFest 2012!
I know you've heard about it! I know you're anxious! I know you're overflowing with excitement!
What is BlogFest?
BlogFest is a massive carnival of giveaways with a great collection of participating blogs. Each blog has a giveaway and the idea is to hop from blog to blog, entering all the giveaways your little heart desires. Hopefully you might even come across a few blogs you might want to bookmark and continue visiting.
How do I enter to win?
Each blog has their own giveaway and their own rules. The giveaways will start at midnight EST on the morning of September 28th and run through 11:59pm on the night of the 30th. That's a whole 72 hours that you get to visit as many blogs as you want and enter their amazing giveaways.
What is this Tracking Site?
This is a site designed by me and developed by my live-in IT guru at http://blogfest.ajourneyofbooks.com. You simply need to register with a valid email (more about why it needs to be valid in a moment) and then start tracking your progress. You can click through to blogs from this site and once you've visited a site, you can come back and check off that you've visited the blog. Want to compete with your friends? When you register, click the option to make your list public and everyone will get to see how many blogs your display name has visited.
I heard something about a Grand Giveaway?
That's right! This is for anyone using the Tracking Site. For every blog you visit and mark off, this will give you one entry into the Grand Giveaway.
The winner of the Grand Giveaway will be notified via the email they used to register for the Tracking Site (see, that's why it needs to be valid). After BlogFest, every email in that database will be promptly deleted. I despise spam so be assured you won't be receiving any from me!
Okay, I'm ready! Let's do this!
The link to the Tracking Site is all over and the complete list of blogs is at the bottom of this post.
BLOGGERS: If you need further instructions, they are at the bottom of this page.
We are giving away one YA, Fantasy (your interpretation), or Romance book of your choice in addition to a signed copy of any one of Richelle Mead's books. In addition, for every additional 300 followers we receive, I will add another book to the stack. There are 1872 followers at posting time.
Open to residents of the U.S., Canada or International entrants as long as The Book Depository ships there.
Now for the list! The following are blogs participating in BlogFest 2012. Each should have an amazing giveaway in store for you.
Wendi Zwaduk - Romance to Make Your Heart Race
Colloquium
Megan Slayer - Too Hot To Handle
Supernatural Snark
Confessions of a Bookaholic
Still Blonde after all these YEARS!
Good Choice Reading
Roof Beam Reader
Believing is Seeing
Desperado Penguin
A Dragon's Love
Patricia Leever
Author Killian McRae
Ruby @ Ruby's Reads :)
Lee's Musings
Love is a Many Flavored Thing
Elisa Dane
Kacey's Kreations
V.S. Morgan - All Shades of Love
Hannah Downing Author
CMash Reads
Therese Gilardi: Beneath The Sunglasses
Seductive Musings
Snarkymamma
Kiru Taye Writes
From the TBR Pile
Hesperia Loves Books
Feather Stone, Author
Nicki Elson's Not-So-Deep Thoughts
Malevolent Musings
Kelly's Lucky You
Obsession with Books
Rebel Writer: Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy
Jessica E. Subject
Dianne Hartsock
Diva's Bookcase
Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
Jennifer Lane Books
Fierce Dolan's Writing Utopia, One Word at a Time
Oh! For the Love of Books
Coffee, books and me
Kay Dee Royal Paranormal & Erotica Romance Musings
Wicked Readings By Tawania
Booksnob
Amaterasu Reads
Ashlynn Monroe's Blog
Bewitched Bookworms
Another Author
Michelle Santiago
Sharon Hamilton Author
Jennifer DeLucy's Blog
Can We Talk About...
J.C. Martin, Fighter Writer
Leontine's Book Realm
The Enigmatic
EGC
Hott Books
I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read!
Starla Kaye
Stacie Vaughan
Book Obsessed
Margay Leah Justice
Two Little Cavaliers
Cherie Colyer
Curling Up By The Fire
Jill of The O.W.L.
Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book
Lucidity
Letters Inside Out
noodleBubble nice Blog
Carol Oates
Christmas TV History
D.J. Kirkby
The Book Pushers
Into the Mystic
Ravishing Romances
Alexia Banks
I'd So Rather Be Reading
Havan's Heavenly Haven
MamaNYC
The Cozy Reader
Reviews By Molly
Nuts and Crisps
The Wormhole
The Enchanted Book
NOVELS ON THE RUN
Socrates Book Review Blog
Si, se puede
Cuzinlogic
Love To Read For Fun
Simply Ali
Crimson Romance
Librarian Mouse
Joyousreads
Tiffany's Bookshelf
The Tales of Dexter, Nora, and Chloe
Tall Tales from a Small Town
Midnight Thrillers
Notorious Spinks Talks Books
Mochas, Mysteries and More
My Little Pocketbooks
Mocha Girls Read
The Smiling Pains of Novelist Destiny Booze
KMN Books
Knitting and Sundries
Think Sincere
The Maiden's Court
Vanessa Morgan
With Our Best
Reading Romances
Ashley's Christian Book Reviews
Ashley's Bookshelf
JennReneeRead
Jaclyn's Musings
Parent Palace
Jamie Haden
Writing Is A Blessing
The Relentless Reader
Bookvisions
Jennifer Wells, Paranormal Romance Author
Hlidie McQueen - Writing by Moonlight
A Passion for Romance
Leeswammes' Blog
At Home With Books
Becky WIcks
Susan Frances
Gemma Parkes Living and Loving
Jade Kerrion: Where Science Transforms Art
Mom vs. the Boys
Tami Brothers ~ Live, Love, Write!
Randomness from Mommyville
Feather's World
Reading Angel
JennRenee
Girls Just Reading
Blessed In Homemaking
Doing Dewey
Pages Off Life
Full Moon Bites
Lena Sledge's Blog
Lille Punkin
1099 Mom
Lyn Styles
star shadow blog
Life on the edge...of Appalachia
Chopski's blog
Cherie Reads
Participant Instructions:
Now, the plan for BlogFest is for each blog to host a number of links to keep the hop going. Simply find your blog (ctrl-F or go to Edit-Find and type in your blog name to find yourself in the list) and copy the next five links AFTER yours into the bottom of your BlogFest post. This should keep the hop going. Blogs at the end of the list - copy the links below you and then move to the top of the list to complete your five.
In addition to the five (5) links you should be copying, please also link to http://www.ajourneyofbooks.com. This will hold the master list for BlogFest 2011. In addition, you can also link to the BlogFest 2011 tracking site to give your readers extra chances to win fun prizes. Each blog that they track as having visited earns them another entry into a special giveaway - http://blogfest.ajourneyofbooks.com .
Remember, at a minimum you should include six (6) links in your post, the five blogs after you in the list and http://www.ajourneyofbooks.com for the master list.
Example:
#1 posts the link to #2, 3, 4, 5, 6
#56 posts the link to #57, 58, 59, 60, 61
Last blog posts the link to #1, 2, 3, 4, 5
