Announcement: Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (June 21-25)

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is an event taking place from Saturday June 21st until (and including) Wednesday June 25th. 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, 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 bookdepository), 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, 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!

Authors are welcome to join in too. Please offer a physical copy of your book in the giveaway, or a choice between a physical copy and an e-copy.

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 18th. Only sign up if you intend to have a giveaway post up on your blog on June 21st. I will send you an email with more information and the full linky list on June 19th.

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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.

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Signups are closed. Late entries please contact leeswammes @ gmail . com

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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 18th!!

Linky List:

Leeswammes The Misfortune of Knowing Bibliosue Too Fond Under a Gray Sky Read Her Like an Open Book (US) My Devotional Thoughts WildmooBooks Guiltless Reading Fourth Street Review Nishita’s Rants and Raves Word by Word Words And Peace (US) Ciska’s Book Chest Falling Letters Roof Beam Reader Readerbuzz The Relentless Reader (US) Mom’s Small Victories (US) Daily Mayo (US)

The Emerald City Book Review (US) A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall Lost Generation Reader Booklover Book Reviews Bay State Reader’s Advisory River City Reading (US) Books Speak Volumes Words for Worms Wensend Bibliophile’s Retreat Readers’ Oasis The Book Musings My Book Retreat (N. Am.) Books on the Table (US)

If you have questions, just ask in the comments, or email me at leeswammes at gmail dot com.

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