There will be 3 winners: one for each hundred of you wonderful readers. The winners will be selected by a random generator and I'll announce the lucky peeps next Mon. June 21st. Each winner will get to choose one of the following books: The Forest of Hands and Teeth-Carrie Ryan, The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner-James Dashner, or Bleeding Violet-Dia Reeves. You can email me your choice if you're one of the winners. Good luck!!!!
P.S. The contest is open to those living in any place where the Book Depository ships.
Other Contests: Angela over at The Bookshelf Muse is celebrating reaching 800 followers--there are great prizes including 2 full manuscript critiques!!!! Head on over there and enter before Wed. June 16th.
I am a lurker, but long time follower. I like reading the writing tips. They are helpful and interesting.
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I love all the writing tips. I know, I know, that's almost all the posts, but that just means I like all of it. : D It might be fun to get a little taste of what each of you writes. If you've done this in the past, please ignore me (I'm a fairly new follower...) but I think that would be fantastic. ; )
ReplyDeleteThanks for the contest & congrats on followers.
ambience.of.rain {at} gmail.com
Your writing tips are awesome- they might be about just the basics of writing, but they help heaps! I'd love to read some more on how you guys create your characters and more on dialog (I have the most difficulty trying to keep that "natural" if you know what I mean!)
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ReplyDeleteI just started following this but I looked around a bit and I really like the Friday Book Recommendations. I saw that you had The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves on there. Those are definitely two of my Top 10 favourite books. I actually got to meet Carrie Ryan in March. She's such a sweetheart! =D
ReplyDeleteI'm a lurker too but I love all the writing advice so thank you for that :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for the contest :)
lynsey(AT)narrativelyspeaking(DOT)com
I am already a follower. I love reading the writing tips. Writing advise is something you can never have too much of!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great contest!
jayliv6009@gmail.com
Love reading the writing tips. This blog is awesome. I'm fairly new but I'm finding that I enjoy it immensely.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your followers. I am one of them. Your blog is very well organized and well written.
ReplyDeleterobin [at] intensewhisper [dot] com
Of course the writing tips! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on hitting the big 3 double-0! :)
lchardesty at yahoo dot com
Like most everyone else, I love the writing advice! Every time I read a post, I find a new way to make my WiPs stronger--thank you so much!
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I lurk too! I love the writing tips and everything you do! Keep up the awesome work! :D Please enter me in the contest. Thanks so much for hosting! Congrats on 3-0-0!!! That's awesome!
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Im mainly a lurker too. And while not a writer I do love the writing tips as well. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower. I love your writing tips, they're really helpful for someone who often faces problem in writing like me. So, thanks for the nice tips.. and for the awesome giveaway! :)
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Wow, congratulations on 300 followers! I know everyone else is saying this, but I love the writing tips too - especially when they're listed or in bullet-form, because that makes it easier to remember. :)
ReplyDeletewe all need writing tips i think although we may not always admit it we all get rusty at times so your tips do help greatly weather you realize or not :)
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after making excuses for -not- writing for far too many years i finally decided to stop with the excuses, unplug the television, use a laptop without a strong wireless connection and start writing.
ReplyDeletei have a list of carefully culled web sites that i read on a daily basis for industry insight, writing tips, inspiration and for the good writing of the blogsite writers. SiS is one of those sites.
I love the writing tips and the book recommendations! :)
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Congrats on 300 followers!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I like the writing advice. As for what you could add? Maybe "aha" moments that took your writing and/or quest toward publishing further.
It's awesome to meet some of you lurkers out there - thanks for de-lurking!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the feedback-we really appreciate it! :)
Congrats to your followers!
ReplyDeleteThough I lurk more than I comment, I really love your blog! The writing tips have helped me so much, and even my teacher has noticed a vast improvement in my essays. Keep up the great tips!!
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Congrats! That's amazing. I'm a lurker but I love your blog.
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I've been following and reading for a while, but I don't comment much.
ReplyDeleteI really like your writing tips. As of late, one that's helped me a lot was the show vs tell. I never really got it, but the way you explained it with "my heart racing with fear" vs "my heart racing" really clarified it for me, and I've been working hard to apply it.
Yay! I'm a follower! And there's actually one of those books that I HAVEN'T read yet - can you believe it?? I like it when you blog about craft, btw. Guess that's broad, but it's true!
ReplyDeleteI like the variety of writing tips. They cover everything that aspiring writers need to know.
ReplyDeleteI'm an old follower ! Congrats on your 300 followers !
ReplyDeleteeverybody's love free books, including me :D
i like your site, coz it's clean, and it's fast to open your page ! ( i found some blogs take some times to upload their page !)
uniquas at ymail dot com
I like your posts on writing. Keep up the good work!
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I've been following for a while now and I must say I enjoy the writing posts the most. Oh and the giveaways too naturally. Congrats on 300 followers!
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I love reading opinions of books of a certain genre, what's good, great and meh.
ReplyDeleteI'm a GFC follower.
patronus89013 at yahoo dot com
Congrats on the followers! Love all the advice so there isn't much I'd add. Maybe a tish more on story mapping that's all I can think of.
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I like the fact that you mix writing advice with book recomendations - I love variety.
ReplyDeleteAlso you writing sytle is light an easy to read, always an advantage when reading from a computer screen.
Congrats on so many followers
I love the writing tips too.
ReplyDeleteYou have helped my wip revisions no end. :)
Congrats on the 300 followers.
yay - enter me - ive been a fav follower! :)
ReplyDeleteI am an old follower, but not that old. Maybe just a few month. I found your blog when I was looking for some tips how to write a good review and your blog happens to give them all. I googled for a little but i gained a lot bunch of tips. I dont comment much, but I like reading of the writing tips as a reference. I'm not a good writer, so i need help, with simple and easy english (and not gibberish). So I think you guys keep it up, make it simple, easy for some lurker like me, and provide lots of writing tips. It's help a little if it is not much ;p
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the giveaway!
darlyn225 at gmail dot com
I follow! Congrats on the 300 that's awesome! And thanks for mentioning my contest as well! :)
ReplyDeleteHave a great week!
Angela @ The Bookshelf Muse
new to your blog...but after looking around a bit your whole blog is great. I am not a writer, just a reader. but the tips you have seem helpful...but I am gonna say the book recommendations are awesome! I am always looking for a new book!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your followers!!
I really like your recommendations posts
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Hi - I am a new follower ... but looking through the blog, I have found some brilliant writing tips amongst other things! Brilliant site!
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I love all the interesting articles about writing. I always learn so much from them. :D
ReplyDeleteCongrats on reaching so many followers!
Anna ♥
goodgonegirl@gmail.com
I love the writing advice- I've been printing out the last few and giving them to my writer friends! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all of the followers! I'm new to your blog and (since I'm an aspiring author) I'm so glad I've found it. What I've seen so far has been helpful. I'm also loving the book recommendations. Keep up the good work!
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Im a follower also and I love reading about your book Recommendations great giveaway thank you.
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I love that you guys are all doing this together. I've been trying to get a blog together with someone for awhile, but I don't know where to start. So I'm trying to get bigger in the blogging community to do that.
ReplyDeleteBut Congrats on the followers!!
camisadomind(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love the book recommendations!
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I'm a follower. I love how the blog is so organized. It makes my life so much easier and it's extremely convenient. Thanks for the contest!
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I have stopped by to read your blog but just now joined. I enjoy your post with all the info you give us on different subjects. Congrats on 316 followers.
ReplyDeletemisskallie2000 at yahoo dot com
I really enjoy reading the writing advice you guys give (I've learned a lot!) even though I honestly would not write. I just suck too much at it and I'm totally fine with that so don't feel bad and don't say something like "oh but this but that."
ReplyDeleteAnywho, I would like to see more about you guys! You guys hardly talk about yourself. Just about tips and such. :)
I have been a follower for quite a while :D
I am one of your ancient followers and like many others, the main reason I stay and love your blog is because of the writing tips that you have over here. I am so looking forward to read a lot more of those! Keep up the good work, fellas. And congratulations on reaching 300 followers. Thank you so much for the giveaway =)
ReplyDeleteI've been following for a long time, and I've got to say that I love your blog. All your posts are so helpful!
ReplyDeleteAnd the style is your blog is very nice; it matches your theme. Maybe a spike of colours will help ignite something? Haha, just a tiny suggestion. :)
I like the writing tips and book recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI follow via GFC.
kzupancic[at]yahoo[dot]com
I just discovered your blog from a list on The Bookshelf Muse and I'm definitely becoming a follower!
ReplyDeletei love the overall tone of this blog - it's so friendly and welcoming and positive, every time I visit. Your writing tips are fantastic, but I haven't read a post I didn't enjoy here. :-)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all congratulations on passing 300 followers!! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat I lve most is the friendly and positive tone of your blog, it shines through! I also love the book recommendations. SOmehow until now I ahven't read your writing tips but as everyone seems to love that feature of the blog, I'll have to check them out! :-)
Here's to many more followers and keep up the great work!
Also thank you for this great giveaway and for making it international!!
:-) Stella
stella.exlibris (at) gmail (dot) com
Just found your blog today! Looking forward to the writing tips.
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I love the writing tips and the book recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI loved the post that you just wrote, actually, about waiting to send your best work into an agent. I find myself over and over thinking, eh, what if no one even likes the idea - why bother fleshing this out if it won't sell? It was a boost, and a good one...so I'm plugging away!
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