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September 18, 2012 · 6:00 am

Bright Side Blog Bash– Day 2!!

So, how much fun is this?? Lacie and I are having a blast! Be sure to head on over to her blog to enter to win her prizes, too!

So who won yesterday’s prize pack of books from authors Katie Ganshert and Dani Pettrey?

Congratulations to MARY PRESTON!!

Make sure you email me asap with your shipping address!

**Believe it or not, my husband showed up home from work early yesterday sick, so now ALL the men in my life are down for the count. I’d appreciate your prayers for my health– Mama doesn’t have time to be sick! I have to take care of all these sickies! 🙂

So, what’s Friday’s GRAND PRIZE???

Plus so much more! I’m still adding stuff to the pile to give away on Friday!

Friday’s GRAND PRIZE features all of the following:

  • A keepsake bookmark
  • No good book can be enjoyed without CHOCOLATE, so I’ll be sending you some of my favorite kinds!
  • Other goodies for a perfect reading experience (these are top secret!)
  • Harvest of Rubies by Tessa Afshar
  • A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, featuring Liz Johnson’s novella, A Star In the Night
  • Wildflowers from Winter by Katie Ganshert
  • A Bride Opens Shop in El Dorado, CA by Keli Gwyn
  • Submerged by Dani Pettrey
  • Mama Needs a Time Out by Heather Riggleman
  • God of All Comfort (Eight Lessons About Hope in Christ) by Donna Pyle
  • A 3 e-book set from author Linda Kozar including Misfortune Cookies, A Tisket, A Casket, and Dead As a Doornail

How can you win the GRAND prize? Enter to win the daily prizes Mon-Thurs this week. Every day that you enter, you’ll earn one chance at the Grand Prize. Enter on Friday to earn a shot at the Grand Prize! Help us advertise! Post on Facebook, Twitter, etc, and earn more chances to win. (Make sure you tag me!). Lastly, new subscribers to the blog receive THREE additional chances to win the Grand Prize!

Okay, now for more fun stuff: Today’s Prizes!!

Doesn’t this prize pack look AMAZING??? If you love a good historical romance, this is the prize pack for you! Winner announced TOMORROW!

Enter below by leaving a comment that answers the question in the vlog!

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Writers— don’t forget to enter for your chance to win one of these great prizes! Leave a comment that includes a blurb about your manuscript, the genre, manuscript length, and percent of manuscript completion.

Winners for the writing prizes will be announced on SATURDAY (9/22).

Good luck to all of today’s contestants!

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September 17, 2012 · 6:00 am

Bright Side Blog Bash– Day 1!!!

Welcome to the Bright Side Blog Bash!!

Check out my very first VLOG below!! (and read below the vlog for some updates!)

Don’t forget to visit Lacie Nezbeth’s blog and enter to win her prizes, too!

Okay, a couple of things have changed since I recorded this video, so let me clear them up for you.

Readers:

First off, winners for the books and book related prizes will now be announced DAILY instead of on Saturday. So if you want to win today’s prizes, make sure you enter in the comments below following the instructions in the vlog!

The winner for today’s prizes will be announced TOMORROW.

Writers:

All the writing related prizes I have to offer are listed below. You may enter as many manuscripts as you like, but you only have to enter each one ONCE. You can enter on my blog OR on Lacie’s on any day of this week,  but in an effort to keep you from having to re-post the same blurb every day, we’ve decided to pool our writer-prizes and read over ALL the entries we get from you and hand out the writer prizes on SATURDAY.

So post your blurb and the other required info (mentioned in the vlog) and you could be selected to win ANY ONE of my writer-prizes OR any one of Lacie’s writer-prizes. Post each blurb and info once on any day this week.

Writers, we can’t wait to read your stuff!!

Announcing today’s prizes for readers!

Want to know more about these featured authors? 

Check out Katie Ganshert’s site or Dani Pettrey’s site.

Want to win one of these AMAZING prizes? Follow the instructions given in the vlog.

Once again, you can enter as many manuscripts as you like, but only enter each one ONCE. You may enter any day this week (Sept 17-21, 2012.) Winners will receive ONE of these prizes.

Good Luck, everyone!

Check back for tomorrow’s winners and don’t forget to visit Lacie’s Blog to enter her contest as well!!

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September 14, 2012 · 11:14 am

The Bright Side Blog Bash is coming!!

Okay readers, I hope you are as excited about this as I am!!

Mark your calendars for Sept 17-21. My dear friend Lacie Nezbeth and I will be hosting the Bright Side Blog Bash!!

Not only will we have daily posts about writing, parenting, and our favorite authors, but we will be giving away TONS of free stuff.

Did you read that?

TONS of free stuff!!

Want to get a head start on earning the chance to WIN WIN WIN??? Here’s how!

Starting today (Friday 9/14), help us advertise! If you tweet this link or share it on Facebook, Google+ or any other social media site, I’ll give you one entry into the grand prize drawing (Friday’s prize for next week)!! Make sure you tag me, message me, or email me to let me know how you’re helping to advertise this event!! Also, if you subscribe to my blog before Monday, 9/17, I’ll enter your name into the grand prize drawing THREE times!

Want to know more about the prizes???

For Readers:

I’ve got dozens and dozens of books to give away from authors like:

  • Jody Hedlund
  • Katie Ganshert
  • Krista Phillips
  • Dani Pettrey
  • Keli Gwyn
  • Olivia Newport
  • Sarah Sundin
  • Catherine West
  • Tessa Afshar
  • Marion Stroud
  • …and many more!

For Writers:

How would you like to win:

  • Chapter critiques from published authors and editors
  • Social media evaluations for your website and Facebook page
  • Mentoring time from a published author
  • A chance to have an agent review part of your manuscript

Yes, we are actually giving ALL this stuff away, plus much, much more!! I have a ton of stuff to give away and Lacie has a ton of stuff, so you have dozens and dozens of chances to win!

Anyone can win!!

How can you make sure that winner is YOU?

Be sure you’re visiting our blogs EVERY DAY that week and following the instructions for commenting for a chance to win. (Subscribe now and don’t miss a thing!)

Writers, if you want to win any of the free critiques, you’ll need to submit a short blurb about your story. I’m giving you a heads up so that you can really make it sing!

So stay tuned, friends. If you aren’t already subscribed to my blog, now is the time to do it so that you won’t miss ANYTHING that week.

The Bright Side Blog Bash– focusing on the Bright Side of living a writer-mommy life!

Share with me: Have you ever won anything (contest, drawing, lottery, etc)? If so, what was it?

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