10th Annual Blogiversary Contest — Prize: Me! Wait…er, What?

* Update: This contest is closed until next year. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, July 14th.

It’s that time of year again. My ten-year blogiversary is coming up on July 12th. Holy cow. Ten years? Really?

I think it’s now official that I’ve been blogging for forever. Or maybe after the past few years’ never-ending health issues, it just feels that way. *smile*

Once again, I’m amazed I found that much to blog about, not just in the number of posts (over 1000!) but the length of my posts. I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve come up with a blog topic and said, “Oh, this one will be short,” and ended up with 2500 (or more!) words. *sigh*

Reminder Announcement:
As I announced last time, after 1000+ posts and ten years of publishing articles every Tuesday and Thursday, I’m giving myself the gift of an irregular schedule. So this is a great time to make sure you’re signed up for my blog-post newsletter so you don’t miss any of my new scheduled-when-I-feel-like-it posts! 🙂

I haven’t been the only one writing. My readers have left several thousand comments on my blog, and many talented guest posters helped me during this past year. That’s an amazing amount of conversation and shared stories and tips, and it’s all thanks to you (almost half-a-million visitors and five million page views just this past year!). You’re the reason I blog.

(Your supportive comments on my last post about my burnout and need to switch to a flexible blog publishing schedule just reiterate how much you’re why I do this. Thank you for your understanding — and for being awesome!)

To thank you, I’m celebrating by holding a contest. For those who weren’t around last year, let me back up…

A blogiversary contest—that’s pretty normal, right? But there’s a reason I call myself insane. There’s a reason I write paranormal. There’s a reason my motto is “Why be normal?”

I don’t want to do normal.

So for this contest celebrating this blog and all the readers that make it awesome, the prize is…me.

Enter Jami Gold's blogiversary contest for a chance to win! Click To TweetWell, not “me” literally, but my time and/or money. You get to pick what that means. (Disclaimer: Subject to reasonability, privacy concerns, and legality. I haven’t landed in jail yet, and I don’t intend to start now. *smile*)

I want this contest to be for all my readers, whether you’re a writer or not, whether you’re published or not, whether you’re a newbie or not. If you win, you decide how I can be most helpful to you.

Some ideas:

• Signed copies of any two of Treasured Claim, Pure Sacrifice, Ironclad Devotion, or Stone-Cold Heart from my Mythos Legacy series
• $25 Amazon gift certificate
• Free registration to any of my online workshops, including my Lost Your Pants? An Impatient Writer’s Guide to Plotting a Story workshop or my newest workshop, the romance-focused Between the Sheets: Create a Deeper Romance with the Romance Beat Sheet
• Detailed critique of your opening pages up to 1200 words
• Critique of your synopsis and/or query letter
• Beta read up to 5K words (includes feedback on overall premise, characterization, and pacing, but not in-depth editing or grammar)
• Analysis of your story’s structure and story/character arcs
• Mentoring/walk-through help on one project (blog/website, developing a premise, business plan, social media platform, etc.)
• Email brainstorming (story ideas: digging out from plot hole, branding ideas: coming up with tagline, etc.)
• I’ll write a guest post for your blog
• You’ll get to write a guest post for this blog (subject to my guest post policies)
• Three books from my general blog contest collection (books I’ve picked up from conferences)
• Pick my brain about anything (grammar questions, copies of the writing advice documents I’ve collected, a list of the writing advice bookmarks I’ve saved, etc.)
• Or anything else you can think of…within reason. *smile*

To enter, leave a comment. It’s just that easy. (Yep, that means those of you reading this via RSS or newsletter should visit my site so you can wave hello in a comment.) And yes, even if you’ve won in previous years, you’re welcome to enter again!

Maybe tell me what you’d like to win, or make up a funny choice to amuse us all. Introduce yourself if you’ve never commented before. Or tell me how stupid you think this contest idea is. Whatever. It will all count.

Also, I’ll pick an additional winner for every 50 commenters (not including my comments). So if 1-50 different people comment on this post, I’ll pick one winner. If 51-100 different people comment, I’ll pick two winners. And so forth. Because the more the merrier!

This contest will close at midnight Eastern time on Sunday, July 12th, 2020. The winner(s) will be chosen randomly and announced on my official blogiversary post on Tuesday, July 14th. Good luck!

Do you want to win something? If so, tell me about it!

P.S. We now have enough comments for two winners! Yay! The more comments we get, the more winners we’ll have. *smile*

P.P.S. Not sure if your comment posted? This post has so many comments—good for creating more winners!—that all comments won’t show up at first. Either click “newest” on the bar under the form below to sort the messages in reverse order or click the “Load More Comments” button at the bottom of all the comments to see yours. (But keep in mind that new commenters will go through moderation first.)

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