I'm in Round 2! I need your VOTE!

Voting in Round 2 of the American Title contest (think American Idol but for books) has started, and I’m happy that I survived Round 1 and am still in the game! To survive yet another round and get one step closer to having my book, OUT OF SIGHT, published, I need your help. During Round 1, I did a blog tour for two weeks in which I appeared, writing on a different topic every day to get the word out about the contest and my entry. Since I’m going to be traveling a lot on business during the next couple of weeks and will have large chunks of time when I’m Internet-less, that isn’t possible this time. Plus, I want to try something different. I’m calling in the Snowball Effect. Visualize me at the top of a snowy mountain. I form a small snowball and start it rolling downhill by telling people I know about the contest and asking them to vote. It grows bigger and bigger (people I contact about voting contacting people they know and then those people contacting people they know, and on and on) until the snowball is HUGE at the bottom of the mountain. HUGE = enough votes to help me advance to Round 3. So how can you help?

1. Go to http://www.romantictimes.com/news_amtitle3.php and vote for OUT OF SIGHT. This round is focusing on descriptions of the heroes and heroines of the remaining finalists’ books, and I’m so happy that I got nice comments from the judges.

2. Ask other people in your family to vote. Remember, Romantic Times is only accepting one vote per person this year, but if your husband/wife/significant other, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children, grandparents, etc., have an e-mail address, please ask them to vote. Tell them they’ll make this gal in Tennessee they don’t know really happy.

3. Do you work outside the home? Ask your co-workers to vote. I hope some of you work at really big companies.

4. Are you a member of groups (PTA, a sports team, choir, book club, etc.)? Ask your fellow members to vote, to help make a dream come true. I was excited when I wrote OUT OF SIGHT, and I’d LOVE to see it on bookstore shelves. If I win this contest, I’m so going to dedicate the book to all the people who made the win possible.

5. Frequent your local bookstore? Have a favorite bookseller? Ask her/him to vote and to get the rest of the employees to vote. Patrons too! Hey, if I win, that’ll be one more book they can put on their shelves! (Oh, this goes for libraries and librarians too.) And while you’re at the bookstore, look for the December issue of Romantic Times Magazine. My fellow finalists and I are in it. I just bought my copy this afternoon, and it’s weird to see myself in a magazine I can buy at the bookstore.

6. Are you going to be attending a Thanksgiving gathering? Set up a computer where everyone in attendance can vote from their e-mail address.

7. Kids are constantly online. Ask your children to have all their friends vote.

8. Do you have a blog? MySpace page? Participate in online forums? Post there about the voting.

9. For everyone you ask to vote, ask them to ask people they know, and so on (thus, the Snowball Effect). It’s like a chain letter, only less annoying. And tell them that I really, really, really appreciate them taking the time to do so.

Again, thanks so much for the votes. I truly appreciate your help.

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