Bout of Books 7.0 Day 4

Tune into important @boutofbooks announcements from:

10:30am to 11:00am CST (TZC) - Amanda
7:30pm to 8:00pm CST (TZC) - Kelly

Challenges

Acrostic Poem hosted by Harley Bear Book Blog
Personify a Book hosted by Kimberly Erskine

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post your progress for the previous day (today's link should be to your progress for the third day of the read-a-thon).  Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update post.  If you do not follow directions, your link will be deleted.

Bout of Books 7.0 Day 3

Tune into important @boutofbooks announcements from:

10:30am to 11:00am CST (TZC) - Kelly
7:30pm to 8:00pm CST (TZC) - Amanda

Challenges

Create a Cover hosted by I Talk Books!

Twitter Chat Information

TZC = Time Zone Conversion
There is a Twitter chat today at 8pm CST (TZC)
The chat will be hosted by @soulswallo
@boutofbooks is on standby

The chat will last one hour. You do NOT have to follow the host. If the host gets stuck in Twitter jail, she will take over the @boutofbooks handle.

The questions are below. We will use the Q1/A1 system. The host 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. What is your name and blog? (with link!)
Q2. How are you doing with your goals?
Q3. Fill in the blank: “Bad days require books with ___”
Q4. You’re being written into a book as a character. What type of character would you be and why?
Q5. Tell us your favorite character. (Name, Title, Author) What makes them stand out? #boutofbooks
Q6. Fill in the blank: “Did you know that I___?” (tell us something unique about yourself!) #boutofbooks
Q7. What’s the best piece of #boutofbooks advice you’ve been given? (or would give?)

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post your progress for the previous day (today's link should be to your progress for the second day of the read-a-thon).  Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update post.  If you do not follow directions, your link will be deleted.

Bout of Books 7.0 Day 2

Today is the LAST DAY to GET SIGNED UP.
Are YOU signed up PROPERLY?
Only properly signed up participants
ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZES.

You like prizes, right?
Get signed up.
Do it right.
We will reward you.
_________________________

Congratulations!

You survived the first day of the read-a-thon!

Tune into important @boutofbooks announcements from:

10:30am to 11:00am CST (TZC) - Amanda
7:30pm to 8:00pm CST (TZC) - Kelly

Please note: the form for the sign up will stay open through TODAY.
It closes Wednesday at midnight (TZC)

Challenges

Book to Music hosted by Medusa's Library
Alternate Titles hosted by The Book Barbies

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post your progress for the previous day (today's link should be to your progress for the first day of the read-a-thon).  Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update post.  If you do not follow directions, your link will be deleted.

Bout of Books 7.0 Day 1

Want to win any of the lovely prizes during Bout of Books?

You MUST be signed up.

You must be signed up CORRECTLY.

With a direct link to your sign up post.

With your direct link in the sign up linky. (That's here.)

If you don't have a sign up post, make one.

If you signed up with the wrong link: DELETE IT

Then add the right one.

YOU CAN DO IT.

Welcome to Bout of Books 7.0!

Tune into important @boutofbooks announcements from:

10:30am to 11:00am CST (TZC) - Kelly
7:30pm to 8:00pm CST (TZC) - Amanda

Please note: the form for the sign up will stay open through TODAY and TOMORROW.
It closes Wednesday at midnight (TZC)

Challenges

Book Spine Poetry hosted by Escape Through the Pages

Twitter Chat Information

TZC = Time Zone Conversion
There is a Twitter chat today at 1pm CST (TZC)
The chat will be hosted by @BookBender
@boutofbooks is on standby

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post your progress for the previous day.  Because today is the first day, we're linking goals rather than progress.  If you have already submitted your goal post, you do NOT have to link again.  It is the same linky.

Bout of Books 7.0 Goals

Welcome to Bout of Books 7.0!

This is not the link for your sign up post.

THIS IS NOT THE SIGN UP POST.

The sign up post is here.

This is for your goals.

SHARE YOUR GOALS HERE!

In this post, you can link to wherever you have your goals posted. To be considered for a prize in any of our challenges, you must have a post about your goals and be actively tracking your progress.

Here is more information you should know:

• This linky will also be available during the first day of the read-a-thon, so if you don't have your goals set yet there is no rush.
• If you're not sure what information to include, check out our template on the help page. 
• Please make sure this is a DIRECT link to your goal post.

If you have questions about your goals or how to track progress, visit our FAQ page. If you can't find the answers on the Help page, tweet us!

This is for goals only. If you have not entered your link in THIS LINKY, you are not officially signed up.

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.