Yesterday, over on The Short Review blog I read about this new intiative for Short Story Month 2011, in May. Anything that promotes the reading of short fiction can only be a good thing. The details from the website are as follows:
Inspired last year by the Emerging Writers Network—who inaugurated May as Short Story Month three years ago—and the Big Poetry Giveaway for National Poetry Month, Fiction Writers Review is excited to launch our second year of The Collection Giveaway Project: a community effort by lit bloggers to raise attention for short story collections. Warm thanks to FWR Contributing Editor Erika Dreifus, who suggested FWR as a home for this project last year and will not only be participating on her own blog, but will also be helping FWR run the project right here.
To participate in Short Story Month 2011: The Collection Giveaway Project , here’s what to do:
(1) Post an entry on your blog recommending a recently published short story collection (or two, or three).
The post can be long or short, a review or merely a rave. The one requirement is that you, the blogger, have read and loved the book(s) in question.
(2) Offer a copy of the book (or each book) as a giveaway to one lucky person who comments on your blog.
You can choose the winner through a drawing, or by the wittiness of his/her remarks, or by whatever criteria you choose.NOTE for blogger-authors: You can absolutely give away a copy of your own collection—but in an effort to keep this as much about community as publicity, please also offer to give away a second book that isn’t one of yours.
(3) Announce the winner(s) on May 31, 2011, and arrange to send out copies of any books you are giving away.
If you’re participating, drop Erika an email at erika [at] fictionwritersreview.com to let us know. We’ll add you to the list of participating blogs/sites and link to you from this frequently updated page on our site.
Check back May 1 for the official launch, but we’ll update the list throughout May!
I’ll be taking part and am now off to decide which of the many great collections published recently that I’ll be giving away on this blog.
8 Responses to The Collection Giveaway Project
Thanks for posting this up Dan… most definitely need to get my head around this and get on board.
Time to kick the last of the black fluff out of my head and venture back out into the world again.
I was thinking this might be the perfect forum for me to post my review of From Dark Places and giveaway my promo copy. Might even do two books, Em’s and another as yet undecided title.
Cool idea! I might just do it too!
I’ll be watching to see what you chose to give away.
It is a great idea, isn’t it? I have no idea which collection I’d give away, I keep finding new favourite collections…
I know what you mean, but having too many great collections being published is a great ‘problem’ to have.
Dan, thank you for promoting the CGP! I look forward to hearing from you about your giveaway selections and adding a link to your giveaway post on FWR.
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