Hope I don't get my lights punched out
For a bunch of reasons, most of them bogus, I haven’t been around this here blog too much lately–as all 7 of my regular readers know. Please expect some more posting soon, but meanwhile, just wanted to give you a heads up about a so-called cage match that I’ll be jousting in next week.
It’s a simple contest: on each of five days in a row starting Monday, a pair of authors will put up blog posts on their own sites about the cage match. Whichever of the two authors gets the most comments on their blog wins that day’s match. On the sixth day, the two highest vote getters go against each other in a championship. Every visitor who makes a relevant comment wins a free ebook from that site. One grand prize winner will get a Kindle preloaded with 12 ebooks.
My match with be on Wednesday, April 20th, where I’ll be going against Kimberly Kinrade, whose debut work of fiction, “Bits of You & Pieces of Me“, is a kaleidoscopic collection of stories, poems and fragments informed by a deep emotional melange of loss, betrayal and hope. Anybody with a heart will relate to it.
Most of the other writers taking part in this promotion are using an amped-up Mohamad Ali -type patter talking about how they’re going to win their competition. That’s fun enough, but not really my style. I do hope you’ll stop by Tuesday Wednesday and leave a comment; I’d appreciate it. If you comment you’ll get a coupon for a free ebook, and some lucky person will get one of my signed (paper) books & copies of all three of my ebooks. Check out the BlogTourdeForce website for more on the other books and authors. Hope to see you Wednesday.
UPDATE: in an earlier draft I said my cage match bout on April 20th would be on Tuesday. But it’s Wednesday. One of these days I’m going to learn to read a calendar. Really.
Is this where we leave the comments? May I be one of the first to wish you well in your cage match. And good luck to Kimberly as well. I hope both of you sell books!
hi John! your book Acts of the Apostles piqued my curiosity. if this biopunk thriller had been around for a decade, why didn’t i hear of it! darn! anyway i’m glad i know about it now and i sure am looking forward to reading it. good luck to you and Kimberly with your match. c”,)
Hello Juliane and aobibliophile(tm!) Thanks for your comments. I put a newer post further upstream, but am glad to have comments here too. I’ll send out coupons for free ebooks at the end of the day, but feel free to purchase books too in the meantime! Thanks again for stopping by, and please help me spread the word.