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Romance Blogfest Coming Up!

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Just so you have no excuse this year: Valentine’s day is two weeks away! Now, naturally, for the real people in your life, you’ll probably want to commemorate this some way. You know, flowers, chocolates, . . . promises you don’t intend to keep, et cetera.

But with all that love in the air, you know you’re going to be planning something special . . . on your blog. Here’s a chance to find an automatic topic, and get lots of visitors to your blog—and find great new blogs to read yourself! That’s right, it’s a BLOGFEST!

How to participate (and rules)
1. The theme is Love at first sight . . . or not so much. Post a first meeting between two characters who will fall for each other (even if it doesn’t look like they will at the time!).

2. You may write a new scene on the topic, OR you may post a scene from your WIP. [This doesn’t preclude completed works. Because, after all, no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned.]

3. This should be a given, but all scenes should be clean (i.e. no sex [what kind of first meet is this?], limited violence and language [again, what kind of first meet is this?]).

4. Post your scene on February 14, 2011, and add it to the Mr. Linky (on my post that day, though you’re free to sign up below, too). Link your post back to the blogfest on here so your readers can read other entries, too.

5. Read, enjoy, and comment on other entries!

Want the badge? Copy this and paste it in the HTML of a blog post or your sidebar:

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Thank you for signing up in advance:

Blogfest badge photo by José Carlos Norte

20 thoughts on “Romance Blogfest Coming Up!”

    1. I consider that pretty much the same thing. I’m thinking of doing a “deleted” scene from a finished work.

  5. I hope you don’t mind. I shared this with a writing group I’m in called The Sweetest Romance Authors. They’re not all LDS, but they’re all united in promoting clean romance, so I thought they’d fit right in with this blogfest. 🙂

    1. On February 14, 2011, post your scene on your blog. In your post, link back to the blogfest main page here at JordanMcCollum.com . Then get the URL (permalink) to your post and come here to the blogfest page. Add your post to the Mr. Linky on my post that day by pasting the permalink in the URL box.

      The Mr. Linky here is for interested people to sign up in advance (they’ll have to redo their entries the day of to include links directly to their posts). You can also copy and paste the badge code into an HTML editor on your blog to add it to your sidebar or post if you want to let your friends and readers know about the blogfest.

      That a little clearer?

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