Contest News:

First off MY CONTEST!  

I will be extending my contest until MONDAY August 2.

Why? Because I still need to buy the stuff for the boxes and the amazon gift cards haven't arrived at my house yet.  LAME. So I still need to order some stuff.   I don't want the prize winners to wait for a long time to get their boxes.  But needless to say,  there's going to be some very cool stuff in there.

PLUS a crit of your first three chapters.  Lots of awesome.  Promise.

AND instead of points per comment you've posted on MY  blog-- because yes, that is annoying.  You can get points PER TWEET.  So if you really want a mystery box, tweet the crap out of it.   Or SHAMELESS promote it on your blog.  (every time you mention it I'll give you another two points)
But you MUST include the link.

• You get 2 points if your are a current follower
• You get 1 point if you are a new follower (please say who referred you)
• You get 1 point following me on Twitter. (I''ll follow you too!)   My Twitter Button has been FIXED!
• You get 3 points for referring someone to the blog.
• You get 1 point for posting this contest on your blog (you get 1 point for EVERY Mention too)
• You get 1 point for tweeting about the contest. (you get 1 Point for every tweet.)
• You get 1 point for adding it up and doing the right math too. 

If you already posted your score, that's cool, you can go back and add more points to it.  

Please post your score on the MAIN contest page.

Also there is a BUTT Load of AWESOME contests happening RIGHT NOW!  Why Twitter isn't flooded and crashing with blog contest I don't know.

Other Blogs

1) Rose Cooper - a new follower to this blog, has just about the most amazing layout design for her blog and is doing an art give away.  Now what you might not know about me is I'm a comic book geek.  Her art reminds me a lot of Jhonen Vasquez.  Very cool.  
So go check out her super awesome give away. 

http://rosecooperwriter.blogspot.com/2010/07/art-giveaway.html

2) Larissa World just hit 100 followers Yay Her!  One day I'll be there too.  There's a bunch of ARC up for grabs.  yay.  BTW in case anyone is a HUGE dork like me and DOESN'T know what an ARC is, it's the Advanced Reader Copy, yep it took me WAY too long to figure that out.

http://lchardesty.blogspot.com/2010/07/woohoo-blogaversary-and-100-followers.html

3) Sarah Enni is doing a summer giveaway!!! But it ends TONIGHT!  Go check it out.  She has one of the nicest blogs I've ever seen.    


http://www.sarahenni.com/?p=1077

4) Blue Lipstick Samurai hit 50 followers too.  YAY her.  She also racked them up MUCH faster than I did.  Not that I'm jealous or anything.  She also has a pretty cool blog and it's one of my faves.   Signed copies of good stuff and CANDY! 


http://www.bluelipsticksamurai.com/2010/07/contest-time.html



Other shameless promotion, my very good friend Meg has a blog.  Instead of posting her tales of writing, she posts her writing.  She's writing a book a Claire, God's klutzy prophet who doesn't like her job because let's face it, being a prophet is a HUGE pain in the ass.   
For every 10 followers she gets, Meg will donate money to cancer research.  Seriously 1 click will make a HUGE difference.  Please go check that out!

http://readthisbookaccordingtoclaire.blogspot.com/