I am super excited about this!!! I have seen others do contests in the past and I knew I wanted to do my own someday!!!
So for my first contest ever, I'm gonna keep it simple!!!! In honor of my debut novel A Bitch Named Karma, which will be released later this summer from Lyrical Press, all I want you to do is tell me your karma moment!!
Here's what you do: Post a comment telling me about a moment where you've experienced karma, good or bad! It can be anything!!!
All commenters who answer the question will be entered into a random drawing for a $10 gift card from Amazon.com!!! Only rule is that you must be one of my followers!! Please feel free to share this contest with your friends and blogger buddies!!! Cause if my follower list reaches 100, I will add an additional $5 prize!!! AND if I have at least 25 karma commenters for the contest, I will add a 3rd prize, another $5 gc!!
Please enter my contest!!!!! I am so excited!! And I hope to hold more contests in the future!!!
PS: Forgot to add, deadline to enter is Friday at midnight, EST. I will draw the winner sometime over the weekend and announce it Monday on the blog.
PPS: I figured I should add one of my karma moments.....Guinevere's comment made me think of this.... When I was a sixteen, I started seeing this guy...I was still kinda dating someone else. Okay...there was no kinda about it. But I was out camping at the seasonal campground my family camped at every weekend and my boyfriend was at home and I knew I'd be breaking up with him the minute I got home and had access to a phone (this was before cell phones). So I fooled around with the guy, went home, broke up with my boyfriend, then the next weekend....the other guy was back with his ex girlfriend.....yeah...karma was NOT my friend that day. But, I deserved it!
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Hurray for contests! I'm so excited about the upcoming release of your book, Stephanie, and so happy for you. I think my best karma experience recently is that I have won both a manuscript and a query critique. I should have a much-improved package to send off next time. So lucky!! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow..now that is some awesome karma!!! You must have been a very good girl to get that!!! LOL!!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks, I am so so excited for everyone to read it!!
Okay here goes, I'm not proud of this by any means but you said you wanted a karmic experience --
ReplyDeleteAbout 15 years ago I had been out drinking with a new friend when she wanted to go to her house for a quick minute -- well, of course I had to pee and went into her bathroom and being inebriated peeked in her medicine cabinet. She had a beautiful leather ponytail thingy in there -- which I couldn't resist, I took it. I never saw the girl after that, I had an accident and left the place we both worked.
Anyway, fast forward to about 3 weeks ago. An aquaintance of a friend was here at my house, we were having coffee, when she went upstairs to use the bathroom. She had been in there for awhile and while not wanting to ask what she was doing, I wondered why it was taking so long. When she came downstairs she left rather abruptly. Curious I ran up the stairs and looked around the bathroom, then opened the medicine cabinet. There were two new hair thingy's my father had gotten for my daughter, brown & white. The white one was gone.
You know what they say, what goes around, comes around.
I am living bad karma...I used to gripe at my mom about my little sister and what a brat she was. Now I have a little one just like my little sister. And...it wasn't my mom's fault. She is just really THAT STUBBORN! :0)
ReplyDeleteAnne, what a great story!!! I couldn't help but laugh!!!
ReplyDeleteKristi...I so have one of those stubborn little girls living at my house!!!
Congrats on your book :o) How exciting!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid I use to laugh at my mum's lumps and bumps and wobbles. Now I have my own set of wobbly bits and she's in better shape than me!
LOL!!!!! Oh I think we've all been there Niki!!!
ReplyDeleteYay! contest! I almost always let people who have less things than I do go in front of me in the supermarket line, hoping that one day someone will let me in front of them. It finally happened last weekend! I only had a loaf of bread and a kind man let me go in front of his mounded over cart. SUCCESS!!
ReplyDeleteYay contest! My karma moment... hmm. I dated a guy who "sort of" had a girlfriend when we first met. Then I constantly had other girls trying to snag him away from me in the most ridiculously blatant, rude ways. What can I say? It was college... we were all really dumb!
ReplyDeleteBethany, so awesome!! I do that too and it has happened to me too!!
ReplyDeleteGuinevere....lol! Too funny!!
I don't know if it will pay off, but when I do book reviews on my site, I only review the books I enjoyed because I want to help authors sell their books not scare people away from them. Also, I feel like if I go and dog out someone's book, I'm going to be mauled by karma with bad reviews if I ever get lucky enough to get published, lol. SO I guess it's self-serving in a way. Great contest! And can't wait for your book. :)
ReplyDeleteI soooo get that!! I write my reviews on Goodreads, and I used to be completely and utterly honest.....but any of the ones I had negative reviews of, I went back and deleted them. I don't want other writers to hate me!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm like Roni. I only review things that I really enjoyed because I don't want anything to come back and bite me! So I'm trying to keep the karma good on that end. :D
ReplyDeleteGreat first contest!
Thanks Lady Glamis!!
ReplyDeleteStephanie, I posted about your contest in my blog's weekly roundup. *crosses fingers for lots of new readers discovering your blog through the karma contest*
ReplyDeleteOh, and here's the link. http://thisisnotnotmydayjob.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-round-up_21.html
ReplyDeleteMy goodness. I need an edit button so I don't have to leave multiple comments every time I blond out.
I love that my unfortunate college karma inspired you to share your story too! :p
Thanks so much!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI firmly believe in Karma all the way. Let me try to think of something wonderful or bad...lol!
ReplyDeleteA few days ago, I was researching agents to query my current Thriller ms when I came across an agent. I checked him out, his projects, his likes/dislikes, and such interviews. It seemed like it would be a long shot, due to his only occasional looks for thrillers since he's trying to focus elsewhere, like graphic novels.
Regardless, I decided I would try querying him. My husband who's huge into comics and graphic novels, got me hooked long ago with him, so I made sure to tell this agent on a personal note I was a fan of James O'Barr's graphic novel.
The same day I got a reply, expecting a rejection when I opened it. To my surprise, his words of reply were awesome and asked for the full ms. I totally believe that adding in my liking for James O'Barr scored major brownie points! Now, let's just see if my writing will take me the rest of the way...
Taking time to do things right will make the right things happen for you! Karma at its best!
Once I paid for the someone's meal (behind me in the drive-through line). The next day my Mother-in-Law gave me money for our groceries that week. Freaky!
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Wow Sara!! That is fantastic!!!!!!! Fingers are triple crossed for you!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!!
How cool Catherine!! (You must have posted while I was writing my reply to Sara! LOL!) I always say I'm gonna do something like that one of these days...drive through or a toll. A pay it forward kind of thing! :)
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