And you could win lots of awesome prizes

                          and learn about             

        Watched,

        the hottest new teen novel,

       while making new friends.

Each of the following blogs is offering a different awesome prize!

(That's 14 prizes!)

And the grand prize is a $25 dollar gift card to Amazon.

                  Quick, Fast Entry

Pick a blog, any blog to get started

(just click on the underlined name)

Better hurry! There's only 4 days to enter -Tues., June 21st-Friday, June 24th

 **(Need more details? More complete entry details at the bottom of the page)

1.   Follow Rachelle Writes and leave a comment.   Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Rachelle's blog. (If you do both you get 1 entry into Rachelle's contest and one into the Grand Prize contest-You Must do both to enter either)

2.   Follow A Writer's Reality and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Melissa's blog.

3.   Follow Day Dreamer and leave a comment.

Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Christine's blog.

4.  Follow The Queen of the Clan and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Danyelle's blog.

5.   Follow Jordan McCollum and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Jordan's blog.

6.  Follow The Crazy Daze of Motherhood and leave a comment. Then followCindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Jane's blog.

7.  Follow I am a Pistachio and leave a comment.

Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Rebecca's blog.

8.   Follow Chasing Dreams and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Tamara's blog.

9.   Follow Ramblings of a Random Writer and leave a comment. Then followCindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Betsy's blog.

10. Follow Matthew Tandy-The Working Writera nd leave a comment. Thenfollow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Matthew's blog.

11 Follow Weaving a Tale or Two and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Donna's blog.

12. Follow Tristi Pinkston, LDS Author and leave a comment. Then followCindy M. Hogan and leave a comment about Tristi's blog.

13. Follow My Yellow Sandbox and leave a comment. Then follow  Cindy M Hogan and leave a comment about Abby's blog.

14. Follow Watched and leave a comment. Then follow Cindy M Hogan and leave a comment about that blog.

13. Enter all 14 contests and you get an extra 5 entries into the Grand Prize Giveaway. (19 entries)

14. That's not all! Get 6 extra entries by buying Watched here (print book) or here (e-book) and sending her a copy of your confirmation cindymhogan at yahoo dot com.Easy peasy.   Wow! That's 25 entries!

           

Have fun and good luck!

**More Details on how to enter

• Click on the blog name
• Follow that blog
• Leave a comment that you were there 
• Jump over to Cindy's blog
• Leave a comment about what you liked about the other blog. 

Congrats! You've entered that blog's contest and earned one entry into the Grand Prize Drawing!

Enter one. Enter two or how ever many you like, but...

If you enter all the blogs' contests you get a bonus 5 entries into the Grand Prize Drawing.

That gives you a total of 19 entries to win the

Grand Prize- A $25 gift card to Amazon.

And don't forget to get your copy of Watched for a bonus 6 entries.

(25 total)

Remember- you only have 4 days to enter.

(Tues, June 21st-Friday, June 24th at midnight)  

and you must comment on both blogs for entry into each contest.

Individual blogs will award prizes on June 25th

The Grand Prize will be awarded on June 28th on Cindy's blog.

Check back to see if you won! You have 2 days to claim your prize.

A big thanks to my awesome friends for joining in on the fun.

1.   Rachelle Writes

2.   A Writer's Reality

3.   Day Dreamer

4.  The Queen of the Clan

5.   Jordan McCollum

6.   The Crazy Daze of Motherhood

7.   I am a Pistachio

8.   Chasing Dreams

9.   Ramblings of a Random Writer

10. Matthew Tandy-The Working Writer

11 Weaving a Tale or Two

12 Tristi Pinkston, LDS Author

13.My Yellow Sandbox

14. Watched

Follow me here, leave a comment, repost to Facebook and/or Twitter (tell me in your comment that you did). Each of these will put you in a drawing for a bath basket--Cherry scented bubble bath, rose soap petals and a bath bomb, along with a fluffy bath scrub. It all comes in this adorable heart shaped basket.

Gearing Up For A Give-Away

AND...It's time for another Rambling. So what have I got to ramble about today? 

How about an upcoming contest. 

Shhh...

I'm not going to tell you about it yet, but I will give you a hint:

Be sure and check back on June 21, that's next Tuesday. I'll have a contest up and running.

And that is one marvelous reason for coming to visit me next week.(Not that I don't want you to visit me every week!)

Short Story Contest UPDATE!

I am meeting with my panel of judges tomorrow. I will have the results for you on Friday night. The winning stories will be published right here! So be sure and check back then.

The grand prize winner of the short story contest will receive a signed copy of my novel Identity. If you'd like to read more about my book coming out soon click here. As soon as I receive my copies of the book, I'll ship one right out to the winner.

Thanks for dropping by!

Short Story Month

Did you know that this is Short Story month?

Every year as part of my high school curriculum I teach a short story unit where we read and analyze several different stories from a variety of authors. One of the things I always point out is the key elements of an excellent short:

1. A limited number of characters

2. A single issue

3. The main character is dynamic and round

4. Strong theme

5. Twist or surprise ending

As a celebration of Short Story month I'm offering a contest.

Here are the rules:

1. Maximum word count 1000

2. Must be emailed by midnight on May 31, 2011

3. Put "Short Story Contest" in the subject line

4. No attachments-put the story in the body of the text.

5. Add your name, email and snail-mail addresses, and phone number at the end of the story

6. Your story should be geared for Young Adults. No lewd, suggestive, profane or gratuitous violence

7. Send your Short Story entry to:

AuthorBetsyLove@hotmail.com

Only one entry per email address

The stories will not be judged by me personally, but by a team of highly trained high school students. (Trained by me, of course).

"So, what's in it for me," you ask.

The winner will receive a copy of my novel Identity (soon to be released).

Good Luck, and may the best short story win!

I forgot to add that the first, second and third place winners will get their stories published on my blog. All rights to your story stay with you once the contest is over.