BLOGGING OPTIONS
As a part of the blogging component, you have three options of how to participate.
OPTION ONE (recommended): REVIEW
Post a review of Pure Pleasure. Be sure to include a link to Gary’s website and a link to buy Pure Pleasure on Amazon.
OPTION TWO: CANNED INTERVIEW and MEDIA RELEASE
Post one of the canned interviews (or a combination of them, if you prefer) with Gary on your website. You can also cut and paste text from the media release about the book. We highly recommend personalizing the post in some way so that the tour does not become rote. This may include adding your own commentary or experience, combining various questions from the interviews, or posting only part of the canned interview.
OPTION THREE: FULLY CUSTOMIZED
Create a customized post that fits the tone and feel of your blog. This may include adding your own commentary on the subject matter, telling a related story, etc. We only ask that you mention the book in some way and use the Amazon link.
Click here to see a SAMPLE POST.
LINKING TO OTHER HOSTS
Below are some additional ways you can select to help promote the tour itself and drive additional traffic to the blog tours sites. We would really appreciate it if you selected at least one of these options and have tried to make it simple for you by providing the HTML code for you to copy and paste.
1) At the end of your post, include a link to all of the bloggers scheduled on the tour. (HTML provided)
2) At the end of your post, include a link to the master list of bloggers on the tour.
3) Leave comments on the other blogs who are hosting Gary.
What a great contest and fantastic exercise–259 words is a challenge! You can read about my thin place here: http://heartscape.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/remembering-my-own-thin-place/
Jane Graham´s last blog ..Remembering My Own Thin Place
i have never done anything like this! i was given a link to this contest, and i am so happy to have been a part of this experience! it’s also great to read others thin place experiences!
Thank you Mary. Writing my thin place led me to thanking God again for what He’s done in my life!
http://www.robbieiobst.blogspot.com
Robbie Iobst´s last blog ..My Thin Place
Thank you Mary! Writing my thin place led me to thanking God again for what He’s done in my life!
Robbie Iobst´s last blog ..My Thin Place
This memory really took me back to an old, sacred place. Very thin! A good place. . .
Susan Meissner´s last blog ..A thin place in 259 words
I did not know what thin places were until I read Mary’s memoir. Mary’s book helped me to realize that my past contains a myriad of thin places that I had not been aware of until now. God has always been there. I applaud Mary’s courage.
Carma Dutra
Carma Dutra´s last blog ..A Thin Place Discovered
Thank you for allowing me to participate in your contest, I look forward to reading your book!
Sue Williams A.K.A. Suzy Parish´s last blog ..Fallen Sparrow
Ironic that I had just this past week posted a longer version of my entry on my blog. I guess it was meant to be
Thanks so much for this opportunity,
Jennifer Arrington
Jennifer Arrington´s last blog ..Missing my tea cup and other sob stories
What a wonderful thing to reflect on God’s goodness in our lives. I know for me it is easy to overlook or even start to forget His many blessings in the busyness of life. So thank you for the opportunity to share, as well as for giving me a reason to finally set up my own blogspot!
Nichole Rae´s last blog ..A Thin Place
My link is #64.
Thank you so much for this contest. I would love to review this book or just read it. It sounds wonderful.
Amy´s last blog ..Book Review:: The Choice by Suzanne Woods Fisher
I figured out “Mr. Linky”! : )
Sara Green´s last blog ..How much further was God going to stretch me thin?
What a great challenge. I honestly didn’t think I could do it- but I did
Can’t wait to read the submissions!…
tracey solomon´s last blog ..Battling my Braided Octopi- overcoming fear and failure and becoming a Linchpin.
sorry for the double linky- the first one is incorrect-
tracey solomon´s last blog ..Battling my Braided Octopi- overcoming fear and failure and becoming a Linchpin.
I so appreciate how many of you entered the contest! May the Lord bless you for telling your stories so courageously.
Thank you for this wonderful challenge. It was perfect timing! Cannot wait to read the book.
Leigh
Leigh´s last blog ..Thin Places
This was more difficult to publish than I expected!
The thin place I wrote about was one of the ultimate divine moments in my life. Thank you for another opportunity to praise God for how He works in us, through us, and through the circumstances that surround us.
Karen H. Phillips´s last blog ..Our Thin Place–Hope Deferred
I’ve been enjoying reading everyone’s stories! This was a great idea.
Danica´s last blog ..Even in the Petty Places
Mary, your testimony to God’s redeeming love opens a door through which hope and healing can be found. What a blessing to reflect on a moment Jesus showed up to serenade me. Thank you for the opportunity to share a bit of my love story. ~ May the Lord shine has love upon your heart always ~ ♥
Cherie LaLanne´s last blog ..Thin Places: Serenaded By God
Thanks for the contest, Mary.
Ginny Jaques´s last blog ..A Thin Place
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to be able to communicate the joy I have found after the struggle that my husband and I endured over our five year battle with secondary infertility. During our journey, I often felt like there was no hope for us.
Now, these verses come to mind:
Romans 5
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope.
It is an honor to serve our Lord, and to have been given the tribulation that brought us so much closer to Him.
Thanks for this contest! It was fun trying to trim it to 259 words.
Thank you to my dear friend Lexie who walked with me through my most thin place. Thank you for sharing life with me and for telling me about the contest
lynn marie cherry´s last blog ..Three Awkward Gifts
Thanks for providing this opportunity to share. God does some amazing things, and this is a fantastic way to let others know the work He is doing in each of us.
It’s encouraging to see so many people who sense God speaking into their lives.
Holly´s last blog ..Coming Home
259 words…brevity is a hard, but worthy challenge.
Thanks for putting it out there.
Melisa
http://liveabetterstory.blogspot.com/2010/02/thin-places.html
I enjoyed writing about my nearness to God. I will be reading Mary’s book as soon as I can find it. Many of my writer friends have enthusiastically endorsed, Thin Places so it will be on my nightstand soon.
Carol L Daubenmire´s last blog ..Thin Places
Mary, God is using Thin Places to do some work on my heart (and apparently others, too!), which is one of the reasons I started reading it. Thank you for being obedient.
Lexie Smith´s last blog ..Dance with My Father (Thin Place contest submission)
I sent an e-mail with my submission. Please let me know that you received it. It is called “Sacrifice of Praise.”
I can’t believe I missed the deadline! What an idiot. Oh, well, that’s the first deadline I’ve ever missed.
Not that I’ve had many to worry about. Still, it was great fun getting this emotional story of mine down to 259 words. And I’ve enjoyed reading the entries.
Thanks for the great contest, Mary.
sally apokedak´s last blog ..Thin Places
I love this book i have been buying so many books doing all the stuff they said to do and found myself feeling there was no hope then i saw this book and it was only 3.99 and i thought what the heck one more i got it started reading. Now its all highlighted for my husband to read i just think wow i really wish i could have found this book a long time ago. I think its very helpful because we have two 13 yr olds and a 4 yr old and i want to make better choices with all three kids. I never realized just how controlling i was till i read this book, and how much i let myself go thinking i was doing it all for the kids. Now i am learning to take time for me and my relationship with my husband and letting my children learn the 3 rules…
My post about Found Art: http://bit.ly/c08c9Z
Cíntia Mara´s last blog ..Blog Tour – Found Art (Leeana Tankersley)