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Hi there!
I know it’s a day late, but I had to celebrate my birthday after all. Cakes and parties are over, though. Here are the contest winners!
By the way, just to spread the win evenly, I decided that each contestant could only win once. That way, nobody hogs the prizes :

Winners:
First Prize (2 Books by June Casagrande): CHORVA
Second Prize (1000 EC credits each): KRANJCARZ and TOMGU
Third Prize (500 EC credits each): ALL CONTESTS, ZRIZ, MARS, KAT, SHERRY

If you want to seen the Random.Org results, just leave …

It’s my birthday tomorrow, and you know what that means: the contest is over! We’ve got more than a few contestants now (a lot more than I actually expected, being a new site and all) so I think overall it’s been a success.
Thanks to everyone who joined!
Results will be announced tomorrow

There’s still time to join the contest and win June Casagrande’s books and thousands of EC credits. Joining is easy and there really isn’t a lot of competition, so your odds of winning are seriously up. Prove to the world that a book can be just as enticing as first prize as gadgets (for us nerdy writer folks anyway). Join the contest now!

*Breaking News!!! New Prize added thanks to grammar goddess June Casagrande!*
EDIT: Slight changes in Mechanics, thanks to a comment from Pinay Mommy. Made me realize something crucial to this contest: ease of joining. Thanks Mommy!

If the title strikes you as a bit too enthusiastic, it’s because I am.
I’m seriously stoked now that it’s less than a month before my birthday comes around. Instead of waiting for you people to send me presents, though, I guess this is a very good chance for me to give back to …

I have a bit of an OC complex, as you may have noticed by now, and I keep an eye out for this blog’s statistics.
“Obsessed” is an understatement, really.
This morning, when I noticed that my Technorati authority had gone up a few points, I immediately clicked the widget to see what made it so. I was in for a big surprise.
Apparently, Kat S., a good online friend from my LJ days, found this website useful enough to nominate me one of the Top Ten Emerging Influential Bloggers of 2008.
Surprise!
First …

Oh well, you can’t keep a girl from trying.
It’s a little bit like gambling, this addiction to contests, only I don’t have to spend any of my hard-earned money. As I mentioned a while back, contests are the way to go if you want to generate a lot of feedback. As The Net Fool’s recent contest proved, you can really earn a lot of traffic, popularity and readers through prizes.
Lots and lots of prizes.
Now that everyone’s cooking up contests just to beat the competition, what’s a blogger to …

My entry made it! Check out the past week’s top five posts from PlotDog Press WOOF.
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Presenting the finest of the writer’s blogs by the bloggers who write them. Highlighting the top 5 posts as chosen by the 05/30/08 WOOF Contest participants. Want in to join the next WOOF? Submit a link to your best writing post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.
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* I’m Like a Trash Can Holding all the Information
* Don’t Write …

Just like in the real world, giving away free stuff can be a pretty good motivator to make people sit up and listen. Freebies, prizes and rewards never fail, be it online or offline. There’s something about human beings that makes us light up whenever the word “free” comes around.
That said, a contest is a very good way to get more traffic to your site. Just ask The Net Fool, host of this month’s biggest online contest. He’s giving away cash and online freebies; can you …