Check in to the Blogger Book Fair July 22-26, 2013

Check in to the Blogger Book Fair, and book your trip to far away places!

July 22-26, 2013

Authors and Book Bloggers,

Sign ups for the July 2013 Blogger Book Fair will close on June 15 at midnight central time, so get your registrations in to participate!

As of 5/31/2013, we have:

Authors: 89
Books: 233
Bloggers: 14

If you haven't yet registered, you can find all of the information on the Blogger Book Fair page.

1. Check out the Code of Conduct
2. Fill out either the Author Sign Up form or the Blogger Sign Up form (Deadline June 15)
3. Kayla will match everyone with hosts and send out this information to you after sign-ups close
4. Check out the events--all authors are eligible to participate in the events, and if you have an event you'd like to host, just fill out the simple Event Sign Up Form--all of this information can be found on the Events! page (Deadline July 8).
5. If you're interested in hosting a giveaway to drive traffic to your site, sign up via the Giveaway Sign Up form (Deadline July 15).
6. And if your book will be FREE or $0.99 for the duration of the Fair, you can sign up on the Free and $.99 Book Sign Up Forms (Deadline July 15).

Events:
Art Fiction Gala hosted by Lucie Smoker
Does your fiction promote the visual arts--through featuring an artist, painting, sculpture, performance art, etc? Then, consider entering Lucie's Art Fiction Gala.

The Art Fiction Gala is a virtual celebration of fiction that highlights the visual arts. Dress up in your finest, pick up some friends--a bottle of wine--and sample mind-blowing fiction that crosses the line between literary and visual art. Plus a gallery of art featuring reading.
More information & entry instructions

Three Wishes hosted by Kirstin Pulioff
Introduce your characters to the world.
Kirstin Pulioff invites you to ask your main character, "If you found a magic genie lamp, what would be your three choices?"
More information & entry instructions

Flash Fiction Challenge II hosted by Thomas Winship
Get ready to exercise your flash fiction muscles.
For the Flash Fiction Challenge II, Thomas Winship will provide an opening line.
From there, entrants will craft a flash fiction piece of approx 500 words. Entries will be displayed on Thomas' blog Vaempires during the BBF, spread out evenly across the five days, in order of receipt.
More information & entry instructions

Snapshot Synopsis Contest hosted by Fel at The Peasants Revolt

Challenge: chisel your synopsis down to 50 words or less.
Voting will be open throughout the fair for visitors to vote on their favorite Snapshot Synopsis.
More information & entry instructions

Reader's Choice Awards hosted by Sherri at Shut Up & Read
All books registered for the Blogger Book Fair are automatically entered into the running for the Reader's Choice Awards. Voting will be open from July 22 to July 25.
More information

Indie Soap Box Files hosted by Shah Wharton
Take a turn on the Soap Box.
Shah invites speculative fiction writers to write a guest post about being an indie (or hybrid) writer.
More information & entry instructions
Restrictions: Speculative fiction writers only

Monster Menagerie hosted by Noree at Trip the Eclipse
What's your favorite monster or supernatural creature?
Feature your creature in a flash fiction piece (500-800) words to be featured on Trip the Eclipse. Visitors will vote on their favorite piece.
More information & entry instructions


Ways to Help:


Donate to the Blogger Book Fair via the BBF Donation Fund. To help get the word out about BBF, we would like to place ads on Facebook, Goodreads and other places, but to do, so we need a little help. We'd also like to have some BBF sponsored giveaways, so money donated would also go toward prizes. NO MONEY WILL BE KEPT BY ANY ORGANIZER OR PARTICIPANT.

Spread the word! Share the Fair on your social media accounts and show off the Blogger Book Fair logo in your blog's sidebar.

Join us on:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Goodreads
• Google +

Lucky 7: Seven Lines Meme

So, I normally don't do this sort of thing, but I'm feeling frisky today. Here's the deal: I've been tagged for this Lucky 7 meme by the wonderful and awesome V.J. Chambers. (By the way, if you don't know who this is, learn quick! And check out her amazing books. My personal fav is her Jason and Azazel series.)

So, the point of the meme is to select 7 lines from your current manuscript and post them on your blog. Only, you have to choose seven lines from page 7 or page 77. Here are the rules in list form, for those who enjoy lists (like me) taken from V.J. Chamber's Lucky 7 post.

1. Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next seven lines as they are – no cheating
4. Tag 7 other authors

My current project happens to be Land of No Mortals and I chose the 77th page since it was much more interesting than the 7th. So, here we go!

“I just hope that fire doesn’t spread across the entire city,” Errol said.

Rebecca stared out her window. As the fire consumed Crown Haven, black storm clouds loomed over the city. “Maybe it’ll start raining soon.”

No one responded. The idea hadn’t comforted her either, but she held onto the hope that the fire would remain centralized.

Cool huh? That was fun! Now to tag 7 other authors. Haha, honestly, I don't know seven authors well enough to feel okay with tagging them, but I guess I will anyway.

1. Jess Waldron
2. Jaclyn Dolamore
3. Griffin Hayes
4. Jerry Hanel
5. Sybil Nelson
6. Jeremy C. Shipp
7. Charmaine Clancy

Feel free to join in even if you haven't been tagged! And if you've done your own, link to it in the comments so I can check it out!

Bloggiesta

I decided to join in with Bloggiesta. Bloggiesta is a challenge to organise and further your blogs. It's fun and informative and I thought I'd participate. I'm a bit behind, but it will be great once I get everything done. If you know your blog needs a bit of revamp and you need to get it organised, I suggest you join me and participate as well! Post a link to your blog post if you do decide to join so I can come see.

Bloggiesta - First Day Intro Post
Bloggiesta - Second Day

Personal Goals for this weekend
+Write an Article
+Write a Review
+Set up a Calendar/Events page
+Create a Menu Bar for Blogger Blog

I will be updating with the items from the mini-challenges I have completed, and will also apply most of these things to my Articles on nrwick.com since they need very similar attention as my blog does.

[UPDATE]
+2010 Resolutions - Finished
+Comment On Blogs
+Create a Blog Cheat Sheet
+Change the Footer Copyright to 2010.
+Organise and Think Critically about your Labels and Categories
+Back up Blog
+Searched for Dead Links and Fixed SEO
+Decided on 5 Article Topics



From First Bloggiesta
+ Updated Google Reader
+Set Up Google Alerts
+Had my site graded by websitegrader.com


An additional helpful url is from Problogger. I'm going through this list as well for Bloggiesta.
31 Days to Building a Better Blog - Problogger

Total Hours Spent: 16 (Not because I'm lazy or started late but more so that I am just that fast with some of this stuff... also my blog is fairly new and easy to clean up.)