January 24, 2009

I have had such a huge response to my call for bloggers in this Cancer Blog Book Tour, that I decided I needed to expand this venture and post the directions on my Website.

I encourage all of you cancer bloggers to participate.

"The This Time’s a Charm" Cancer Blog Book Tour launches February 09.

Q. How does it work?

A. Each day, for 30 days, I will write a new blog post on ThisTimesACharm.com, which will include a short synopsis of each of the blog stops on my book tour. I will publicize this continuously to my cancer network on Facebook, MySpace and many other cancer-specific social networking sites that I participate in. I will also arrange for coverage by several major media contacts that I already have made. I encourage all of you to contact any media connections you may have as well.

Each blogger on the tour is encouraged to do something different than the previous bloggers...in the way of either interviewing me, writing a review of This Time's a Charm, doing a podcast, taking quotes out of the book and writing about them...etc.

This book tour will run for 30 consecutive days, ending on March 09.

I will send a signed copy of This Time’s a Charm to each participant...in turn… each blogger will read my book...and agree to complete/post their contribution to the blog book tour within 14-days of interviewing me. My book is a quick read and it’s completely “conversational” in tone. I write like I speak, so you should easily be able to finish the book in just a few days. I’ve had many people tell me that they got so engrossed in the book that they finished it in one sitting!!

Back to the logistics…every blogger site will link to all the other bloggers sites and ThisTimesACharm.com. We will absolutely top out our referral traffic between all of our Websites.

And for the bloggers among us who are simply loved ones of someone dealing with cancer right now and who don’t really care about taking over the stupid book world anyways; “It’s a really fun way to promote your blog, and share your story with the world.”

Contest Details

Since I use Google Analytics to track every visit and click through to Amazon.com, I will be able to tell which blogger produces the most effective traffic to my site. To that end, I’m going to offer two prizes for a healthy competition for all those interested in participating. To be fair to those bloggers at the end of the tour, we will hold open the results tallying until 03-31-2009.

Second Prize: $50 Visa Gift Card & (1) “This Time’s a Charm” arm bracelet. Same as the “Live Strong” bracelets but mine are a cool “Gun Metal Blue.”

How is this determined?: The blogger who refers the SECOND MOST “Absolute Unique Visitors” to the site during the contest period. Each IP Address will only be counted once; so multiple voting by any individual does not result in a higher “Absolute Unique Visitor” total.

First Prize: $100 Visa Gift Card & (2) “This Time’s a Charm” arm bracelets.

How is this determined?: The blogger who refers the MOST “Absolute Unique Visitors” to the site during the contest period.

If you'd like to be considered for one of the 30 available tour stops, please contact me. Participants will be chosen randomly by Donald A. Wilhelm and will be notified via email IF they are chosen.

Obligatory Legal Disclaimers: WHETHER OR NOT SELECTED AS THE WINNER, ALL PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS GIVE EXPRESS PERMISSION, BY WAY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE “THIS TIME’S A CHARM” CANCER BLOG BOOK TOUR, (TTACCBBT) TO DONALD A. WILHELM & F.E.A. PUBLISHING, ALLOWING USE OF THE WRITTEN BLOGS PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR (TTACCBBT) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE, WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION TO THE ENTRANT.

In the event of a tie in the number of votes for both or either of the two prize slots, the following tie-breaking procedures shall be implemented: The tied Finalists will receive an email from F.E.A. Publishing (The Publisher) instructing them to write a new blog on a specific subject identified by the The Publisher in that email. Finalists will have precisely 72 hours from the date such email is sent to each Finalist to write such blog and post it to their respective blog sites. The tied Finalists will also email their new blogs to The Publisher for posting on www.thistimesacharm.com. The Publisher will then post the tie-breaking blogs on its website and ask website visitors to vote for the one they like best over a 72 hour period specified by the Station and only one vote will be permitted per IP address. The tie-breaking blog with the most votes shall be the First Place winner.

•In the event that the foregoing procedure still results in a tie, The Publisher will break the tie based on any lawful criteria that it desires by selecting The First prize winner from among the Finalists still tied after the above procedure.

• The tie-breaking procedures set forth above shall only be conducted with respect to the actual tied Finalists. For example, (a) if in the initial voting round there is clearly a first place finisher but two Finalists are tied for second place, the tie breaker will be conducted only between the two tied Finalists for the Second Place prize, or (b) if in the initial voting round there is a tie among two or more Finalists for First Place, the tie breaker will be conducted only between the tied Finalists for the first prize slot. NO MORE THAN TWO PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED IN THIS CONTEST AND THEY WILL ONLY BE AWARDED TO THE TOP TWO FINISHERS IN THIS CONTEST AS A WHOLE, WHETHER OR NOT THERE NEEDS TO BE ONE OR MORE TIE-BREAKING ROUNDS AS SET FORTH ABOVE.