Announcement: Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (June 22-26)
May 25, 2013 46 Comments
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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is an event taking place from Saturday June 22nd until (and including) Wednesday June 26th. If you’re a book blogger and you’d like to give away a book to your readers, maybe to show your appreciation or because you have a special celebration, this is your chance to join up with others.
Most giveaway blog hops seem to be directed towards young adult and romance audiences. Those hops are not so ideal if you want to give away more literary books.
This will be the eight Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (there are 3 per year). So far, it’s been a great success, with between 30 and 70 participating blogs every time. It’s time for the next one and I hope you’ll join in. More details:
This event is an opportunity to give away prizes and get more traffic to your blog. You will run your own giveaway (a blogpost on your own blog), but it will be linked up to all other participants via a links list. That way, not just your readers, but also the readers from the other participating blogs will stop by your blog.
You can offer one or more books, a gift voucher (for instance, to Amazon or Book Depository), or anything else related to books and reading. There is no minimum or maximum value that your prize should have.
The only restriction is that if you’re giving away a book, that it should have some literary merit. It does not have to be the most difficult classic ever, but please no romance, urban fiction or YA. Quality thrillers, poetry and non-fiction are fine, as are contemporary fiction, literary fiction and any other genres not in the categories above. If in doubt, please ask!
Further information on the prizes: a book can be new or “gently read”. Your giveaway can be just for your country, for your continent, or word-wide. Offering a book via bookdepository.com is a good way to make your giveaway world-wide (although not all countries are available) as it offers free postage.
Last day for signing up is June 19th. Only sign up if you intend to have a giveaway post up on your blog on June 22nd.
Copy the image to put the button on your blog (e.g., in your sidebar and/or in a blog post), so you can advertise the Blog Hop and attract more participants to make this a big event and/or tell your readers about the event coming up.
You cannot sign up via the form anymore. If you are a late entrant, please write to leeswammes @ gmail dot com and I’ll add you to the list.
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I’ll add your blog to the list with links below once I’ve seen that you’ve filled out the form. You cannot add yourself to the linky list. Last signup day: June 19nd!!
Linky List:
If you have questions, just ask in the comments, or email me at leeswammes at gmail dot com. 
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Yay, I have already been wondering when sign-ups would open! *rubs hands in anticipation*
You’re one of the first to sign up, Birgit. If I remember well, it was the same last time. Thanks for the support!
I’m in! Always have a lot of fun hopping and thinking about which book to giveaway!
That’s part of the fun, isn’t it, Sam?
I second that!
Laurie
Does it have to be your own book, or just any book? (Sorry if this is a dumb question!)
Sarah, there is no such thing as a dumb question! It can be any book. It’s just that YOU have to pay for the book and/or the postage.
Yay! Please count me in. Are Kindle books allowed for the giveaway, or just paper/hardcover ones?
Sarah, I way, way prefer people to giveaway paper books, but eventually it’s up to you. Have fun with the blog hop!
Okay, one more question and I’ll stop. Does Stephen King’s Dark Tower series count as literary (I’m assuming his horror doesn’t)? If not, I can think of another book or do an Amazon gift card, etc. Just wondering because the Dark Tower series is a major inspiration for me.
Sarah, I haven’t read it, so I can’t be sure. But I would say his 11/22/1963 counts, so if it’s similar to that (in some ways) then YES!
Do ask if you have any other questions. I hope you’ll join in!
Fabulous! Love these hops, thanks for hosting another. I’m in!
Good to have you, Jennifer.
I’m in! Thanks for organising this great event Judith.
Nice to have you, Jo!
This is a great idea, I’m really excited for it!
Would love to host a giveaway for one of the Richard and Judy reads but I’m broke sadly. 😦 So remind me when it starts and I’ll make sure I help get the word out! 🙂
Hannah, what a pity you can’t join in . Maybe next time. A Richard and Judy book was a great idea (maybe I’ll steal it). Thanks for tweeting about the giveaway.
Unfortunately, I can’t let everyone individually know about the blog hop but before you know it, you’ll be fed up with all the emails and tweets that come by your screen about it. There’s no way you can miss it if you subscribe to my blog / Twitter etc.
Feel free! There are some great titles in there.
Well goodo then. 🙂
Hi! I am Shabbat observant so my post regarding the giveaway would go up on Sunday June 23rd. Is that ok? Also, I’ve never done a giveaway, though I’ve been blogging since October. I do want more traffic so I’m into this! Can you recommend what language to use and what procedures work best? Both for picking the winner and for sending out the prize/s. Thanks!
Kelly, that is fine – but keep in mind a lot of the hopping is done on the Saturday (when people first see the blogposts with the giveaways). You’ll miss out on the first run of people – but if you know how to do it (or maybe I can explain), you could schedule your post in advance (e.g., on Thursday or Friday) so that it goes live on Saturday. Would that be an option? If not, then Sunday is absolutely fine too.
Judith, will there be a link I can use on my blog to send my readers to the list of participants? I can’t seem to remember how that worked the last few times 😉
Jennifer, last time I sent you the (final) list as a html file in a email, which you can they paste into the html of your blog. Remember? 🙂
Ohhh yes! Now I remember! 😀 Thanks!!
I’m back! 🙂
Yeehah!!! Great to have you, Adam!
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Thanks for running this again Judith, I am looking forward to joining in again this time.
I am looking forward to this, it will be the first time for me to participate in a blog hop. I am a bit nervous though, I am not very technical and when i read something like ‘pasting a list in the html of your blog’ I can only think ‘I have to do what, where and how?’ (especially where and how)
Please Judith, tell me this will come with instructions!!
Kind regards,
No instructions, Bettina. 😦 Thing is, I only know this for wordpress (very easy) and I assume it’s also very easy on blogger. If not, leave it out (this IS in the instructions: “if you don’t know how it works, don’t do it, just make sure you have a link to my post with the linky list” – that’s the post that I will write and publish on the day the giveaway starts).
Meanwhile, if you want, try and see how you can insert html in your post, otherwise, no worries! Any more questions, just ask.
Good to have you in the blog hop!
In blogger if you go write your post there is a html button on top next to the other format possibilities. Write your post in design mode. Hit the HTML button and paste the text Judith sends under your last line. It will look like in my february post http://mybookchest.blogspot.nl/2013/02/bloghop-giveawayfeb2013.html
If you need help with blogger feel free to contact me
Thanks for the explanation, Ciska. That should be easy enough to do.
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I’m in! Now I just need to decide what to give away…
Yay! Good to have you, Kate.
Is it against the rules to make an unofficial post before the 22nd to say what books you’re giving away?
Sarah, no such rules! If you’d like to do that, go ahead!
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How do we decide who wins? I’m thinking I want to give a book away each day. Would I use something like RaffleCopter? Did I miss this somewhere already? I feel dumb. 🙂
Sarah, you’re definitely not dumb because you’re asking questions to find out how it works. How can that be dumb? 🙂
You can use Raffle copter, random.org. You can have comments as entries or use a Google form. Whatever you prefer.
Having a new winner every day is not so handy, because the majority of people probably only visit once. And the idea is to have one dedicated giveaway post that mentions the blog hop and has the list of all the other participants. Other than that, you are free to do this any way you like.
Hope that helps. Please ask if you want to know more. You can also email me if you prefer.
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I’m looking forward to doing another of your Giveaway Hops! Thanks for hosting this again!
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