Sunday Winners!

Winners have been chosen! *Fist Pump* Let's start with the Annie Nicholas Giveaway. Our WINNER for the Digital copy of IRRESISTIBLE by Annie Nicholas is....EmmaD (email starting with emmad@xtr)

And for the RANDOM FRIDAY giveaway...
WINNER #1 who has the choice between a BLOG DESIGN or a HOT ARC is...Andra (email starting with andralynn7@)

WINNER #2 (who will have to wait for Andra to choose) is Joder (email starting with joderjo402@)

Because it is a PICK and CHOOSE giveaway. Winners have 24 hours to respond to the emails sent before new winners are chosen. 

Book Blogging 101 - Funding Your Giveaway

This is where I pretend that I know what I'm talking about.

Spawned from the Big Sis, Little Blog program, Book Blogging 101 was born. Do you have a question? Leave it in the google docs form and I'll try and answer them in the order they are received.

Q: People like giveaways. We like being able to give books away, we like being able to win books. How do book bloggers fund it? I would love to be able to give away more books on the blog I contribute to. 

A.You provide the books. Or. You get someone else to provide the books.

Cheap alternatives to paying for a book and paying for shipping is to use the BookDepository or Amazon.com - BookDepository is a little more popular because it is free international shipping, so you can have an international contest and the books tend to be cheap.

Easiest way to get someone else to provide a giveaway on your blog. Ask.

An author/publisher contacts you to review their book, you say yes, and follow it up with "Will a giveaway, interview or guest post be possible to go along with the review?"

If extra books are available, they will let you know. The worst they can say is no.

JUST ASK LIKE A PROFESSIONAL. Read my rant on how not to ask...here.

There are also sites where you can sign up to do giveaways for publishers. The most notorious ones are the groups on the Ning Book Blog site.

Pocket Books Tour Sign Up: http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/pocketbooksblogtours
Hatchette Book Giveaway: http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/hostahachettebookgroupgiveawayonyourblog
Pocket Romance Tour: http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/gallerypocketbooksromanceblogtourgroup

Other ways to do this is by signing up for blog tours, those usually have a giveaway attached to them.

You can also save up for your own giveaway.

I hope this answered your question.

Now a questions for you guys...

What book blogger terms did you need to get explained? Terms like ARC, WOW, and FF.

PS - WOW --- Waiting on Wednesday & FF while a twitter term is popular with the social bloggers, it means Follow Friday

Ask your BB101 Questions here...

Link up Your Giveaways!

I'm in the mood to enter some giveaways...but I need you to tell me about them. Puh-lease!??

Just make sure they are book related {books, giftcards, accessories...etc}

TIP: Put the title of the book/item in the spot for YOUR NAME

Last Day to Win!

LAST CHANCE TO WIN!
Giveaways ending today:

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