For my library and yours (a giveaway hop with library love)
For three years in a row, I ran a challenge on my blog to raise awareness and money for libraries. In those three years, the participating blogs raised more than $8000 for libraries. I am grateful that so many marvelous people participated. (Yes, you!)
This year, I will not be organizing the blog challenge in its previous form. Online networks have stretched out thinner and wider, and people are spread across more sites than ever before: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more every day. The power in a blog challenge comes from the number of participants. Regrettably, it has become difficult to draw the necessary concentration of donor blogs and commenters.
But I'm not leaving my library high and dry. This year, I will again make my spring donation. And as it happens, Kathy of the "I am a reader, not a writer" blog is conducting a charity-themed blog hop/giveaway right now, which is the time of year when I've always done the library challenge!
So here's how we're celebrating the Power! of! Libraries!
1. If you are at least 13 years old and can receive mail in the US, leave a comment below with a way to contact you by the end of April 4, and you will be entered in the giveaway drawing for a signed copy of my second novel, Try Not to Breathe, about a boy recovering from a suicide attempt and his friendship with a girl who is trying to reach her late father through psychics.
2. If you want to donate to your own local library (or bookmobile, or literacy-related charity like RIF), let me know that, too, and I will randomly pick one of you and match your donation to your library, up to $200. (You do not have to donate any money anywhere to be entered in the drawing for my book.)
3. If you decide to blog about the value of libraries, please leave a link to the exact post in your comment. (I might just go crazy and decide to pull another name for a book, and if I do, it would surely be from that smaller pool of such dedicated library fans!)
The Official Rules:
You must be at least 13 years old and able to receive mail in the US.
I reserve the right to pick another winner if the original winner does not claim the book or cannot provide sufficient proof of a library donation. I reserve the right to cancel the contest if prize is not claimed in a timely manner.
One comment per person. Winner will be selected randomly from the entries received on or before midnight EDT on April 4 (i.e., the minute April 5 starts).
I reserve the right to cancel the contest if technical difficulties (e.g., caused by internet or software failures) interfere with my ability to receive and track the entries.
Comments may be left at either my LiveJournal or Blogspot blogs, but must be left on the Giveaway hop entry.
Behind the cut, other participants in the giveaway hop (links may not be live until March 30):
This year, I will not be organizing the blog challenge in its previous form. Online networks have stretched out thinner and wider, and people are spread across more sites than ever before: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more every day. The power in a blog challenge comes from the number of participants. Regrettably, it has become difficult to draw the necessary concentration of donor blogs and commenters.
But I'm not leaving my library high and dry. This year, I will again make my spring donation. And as it happens, Kathy of the "I am a reader, not a writer" blog is conducting a charity-themed blog hop/giveaway right now, which is the time of year when I've always done the library challenge!
So here's how we're celebrating the Power! of! Libraries!
1. If you are at least 13 years old and can receive mail in the US, leave a comment below with a way to contact you by the end of April 4, and you will be entered in the giveaway drawing for a signed copy of my second novel, Try Not to Breathe, about a boy recovering from a suicide attempt and his friendship with a girl who is trying to reach her late father through psychics.
2. If you want to donate to your own local library (or bookmobile, or literacy-related charity like RIF), let me know that, too, and I will randomly pick one of you and match your donation to your library, up to $200. (You do not have to donate any money anywhere to be entered in the drawing for my book.)
3. If you decide to blog about the value of libraries, please leave a link to the exact post in your comment. (I might just go crazy and decide to pull another name for a book, and if I do, it would surely be from that smaller pool of such dedicated library fans!)
The Official Rules:
You must be at least 13 years old and able to receive mail in the US.
I reserve the right to pick another winner if the original winner does not claim the book or cannot provide sufficient proof of a library donation. I reserve the right to cancel the contest if prize is not claimed in a timely manner.
One comment per person. Winner will be selected randomly from the entries received on or before midnight EDT on April 4 (i.e., the minute April 5 starts).
I reserve the right to cancel the contest if technical difficulties (e.g., caused by internet or software failures) interfere with my ability to receive and track the entries.
Comments may be left at either my LiveJournal or Blogspot blogs, but must be left on the Giveaway hop entry.
Behind the cut, other participants in the giveaway hop (links may not be live until March 30):
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