Bout of Books 7.0 SIGN UP!

Are you ready to SIGN UP?

THIS WHERE YOU SIGN UP.

Here's what you have to do:

1. Post on your site and declare your intentions to join us. It's EASY. Grab the official blurb (below) and our button (in the sidebar) and create a post.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

2. Add your link to the linky in this post.

3. -OPTIONAL- Add your social media profile links into the Google form BELOW the official linky.

4. On May 13th, READ!

To read the full explanation of sign up changes, visit this post.

If you want an example of a sign up post, check out Kelly's.

Official Sign Up

Remember: you must post a DIRECT LINK to your sign up post. 

If you're only participating on Twitter, link up your "I'm participating in Bout of Books!" tweet, NOT your Twitter profile.

Want to share that you signed up for Bout of Books? Tweet it!

STOP.

Check yourself.

Did you use the linky up there? ^

If you did NOT, you are NOT signed up.

Do not proceed.

Go back.

Get signed up.

Then come back.

Social Hour Sign Up

THIS IS OPTIONAL.

It is not the official sign up form.

New sign-up procedure for #boutofbooks 7.0

Note: This is NOT the sign-up post. The official sign-up post will go live on Monday, 4/29.

Howdy, #boutofbooks-ers!

Amanda and I have been brainstorming on ways to streamline the sign-up process and we've come up with something that is a little different from what we've done in the past.

On Monday, 4/29, the sign-up linky will go live. In order to be considered a participant of Bout of Books 7.0, you need to have a post declaring your intention to join us so you can link that post in the linky. This post can either be a simple "I'm participating in Bout of Books 7.0" with our official blurb and a link back to our site OR you can go the full monty and list out your goals, books you intend to read, etc. YOUR CHOICE.

Easy peasy, right?

In addition to the linky, there will also be an OPTIONAL section to add your social media links to our Social Hour. This is so we, as a community of book lovers, can interact and find one another across the blogosphere.

"But, guys," you might be saying, "why the changes? I liked it the way it was!"

Quite simply, the previous process with the Master List was the single largest component of Bout of Books that caused confusion. We addressed sign-up issues every read-a-thon that drove it home that we needed to change the way we were doing things.

So we are.

Bottom line: The new procedure requires ONLY that you declare your intent to join us for the read-a-thon and link up that post on the sign-up post (check out the Getting Started page for the official blurb and buttons, if you want to prepare your post early).

If you don't have a blog, we have a couple of options for you...

• Tweet about the read-a-thon and link that tweet in the sign-up linky
• Post about the read-a-thon on Facebook and link that post in the sign-up linky
• Leave a comment on the sign-up post letting us know you'll be joining us and link that comment in the linky. (in the event you have no other outlet) 

If you have any questions about the new sign-up process, please comment here or talk to us on Twitter or Facebook. And don't worry--we'll go over everything again during the actual sign up.

Call for Help with #boutofbooks 7.0

Bout of Books 7.0 is May 13th through May 19th

Like us on Facebook 

and follow us on Twitter 

to join the social media fun.

We need YOUR help. This post is ONLY for people who want to host a challenge.

Challenges information

• Bloggers host challenges on their own blogs. (If you do not have a blog, you may host it here.)
• Challenges run for 24 hours and run from midnight CST to midnight CST.
• There will be a limit of two challenges per day.
• Challenge sign up will close April 21st at 11:59pm CST.

Preference will be given to challenges that are NOT genre specific.

#boutofbooks Chat TODAY!

Today. 1pm CST. Be there.

This chat will function just like other #boutofbooks chats. It will last one hour. I (@BookBender) will host the chat. You do NOT have to follow me. If I get stuck in Twitter jail, I'll take over the @boutofbooks handle.

The questions are below. We will use the Q1/A1 system. I ask the question using Q1, Q2, and so on. You respond using A1, A2. EASY!

Need the best way to follow along? Join the #boutofbooks TweetChat room.

Q1. Introduce yourself! Tell us who you are and where you’re from.
Q2. Describe yourself in six words.
Q3. Complete the sentence: “I am proud of my blog (or Twitter account) because....”
Q4. Recommend a book that surprised you (in a good way) recently. Give us the author and genre.
Q5. Do you have reading or blogging goals? What are they?
Q6. What are you hoping to accomplish during the next #boutofbooks?
Q7. Let’s talk challenges. What challenge would you like to see in #boutofbooks 7.0?
Q8. Look into your crystal ball and make a prediction: How many participants will #boutofbooks 7.0 have?

#boutofbooks Chat TOMORROW!

At this exact time tomorrow, March 30th, we will be having a #boutofbooks chat.

Will you be joining us?

Bout of Books 7.0 is Coming!

Mark your calendars for MAY 13 through MAY 19.

(On April 15th, we'll be making a call for YOUR help with hosting challenges.)

I know you're probably thinking, "Yay! Another Bout of Books! But, May? That's too far away!"

What if I told you that you didn't have to wait until May for some Bout of Books fun?

Don't worry. I'm not teasing you.

We're going to have a Twitter chat 

on Saturday, March 30th at 1pm CST.

Yup. We know how much you love Bout of Books, and we're looking for ways to keep you connected to the read-a-thon even when you're in between fixes. We love you THAT MUCH.

And since we love you so much, you will get your wish of a welcome video. What we WON'T tell you is who will be on camera. You'll have to come back here and watch to find out.

Other important housekeeping items to note:

• Bout of Books is moving to a SET schedule. No more waiting in agony to find out when the next read-a-thon is. We'll be having THREE every year.
• January: first full week 
• May: second full week
• August: third full week
• The Bout of Books website will be under going some changes. We're looking to streamline everything so that it is easy and fast to find the information you're looking for.

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. We keep you updated there, too!