Blog Tour & Kindle Giveaway with Scott Nicholson

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

*UPDATE*
Scott is also helping me celebrate my 1 year Bloggy Birthday with a separate giveaway HERE


Please Help me give a warm Welcome to Scott Nicholson.

Blog Birthday Love
By Scott Nicholson
http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/

Here I am at Jo Jo’s Book Corner for her first bloggy birthday party and I don’t have any presents except maybe a Kindle or some free e-books. *JoJo does Happy Dance*

I keep looking around expecting one of these hunky dudes to pop up out of a big birthday cake. All I know is I’m keeping my shirt on.

Part of the mission of the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour is to celebrate book bloggers. They are doing more for reading than just about anybody else around, sharing a passion for books that sometimes borders on frenzy, especially when a big blockbuster like The Passage or Mockingjay comes out.

But bloggers like JoJo are also doing the important work of spreading the word about new books and authors who might be flying under everybody else’s radar. The newspapers don’t do it anymore, and the traditional press and book review magazines are vanishing. This is an important role that will only get bigger in the future, as the walls of the virtual world erode and we’re all mixed together like a puddle of melted Neapolitan ice cream.

The places we used to meet around books, like libraries and bookstores, have their own challenges and seem to have more digital media than paper books these days. And as the digital revolution continues, we might lose that personal connection that makes reading and sharing ideas so cool.

Sure, there are forums at places like Amazon, Goodreads, and Shelfari, but sometimes they are too big and it can take time to find your communities. That’s where bloggers like JoJo can offer a gathering place that still has personality, and the thousands of book bloggers can each build comfortable, inviting platforms for the people with similar tastes.

As an author and reader, I love bouncing around the different blogs. I love the wild creativity and the giveaways, the reviews and news, and best of all, the author interviews. Blogs are a cool meeting place that can change rapidly and stay current, and in the years ahead they will be helping create trends as readers gain more control over price and content.

And bloggers are also creating today’s bestsellers, with independent authors like Vicki Tyley and Amanda Hocking (I love her books!!!) getting a push from a few high-profile bloggers just when their sales were heating up anyway. Blogs add that personal touch that makes a big difference to the reading experience.
So a blogger like JoJo, who opens her home here on her birthday to a little-known writer like me, really matters a lot. Most of all, it’s fun to be here, because I can tell from this blog that JoJo is a warm, humorous person.

Sure, I’d love for you to buy all my books (psychological thriller The Skull Ring is this week’s over-hyped feature), but I’m happy just to be able to get out here on the Internet and be goofy a little.

Usually I am about 10 years behind the times, and once in a while ahead of my time, but as an author I feel the digital era, the book blog era, and independent publishing are colliding at the place where I am happiest and most free. And that’s worth baking a cake over.

Happy Bloggy Birthday, JoJo, and may you have many happy blogging years ahead. Now blow out those candles and let’s get this party started!

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Scott Nicholson is author of Speed Dating with the Dead, Drummer Boy, and 10 other novels, five story collections, four comics series, and six screenplays. A journalist and freelance editor in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, he often uses local legends in his work. This tour is sponsored by Amazon, Kindle Nation Daily, and Dellaster Design.


Prizes and Rules:

To be eligible for the Kindle DX, simply post a comment below with contact info. Feel free to debate and discuss the topic, but you will only be entered once per blog. Visit all the blogs on the tour and increase your odds. I’m also giving away a Kindle 3 through the tour newsletter and a Pandora’s Box of free ebooks to a follower of “hauntedcomputer” on Twitter. And, hey, buy my books and put me in the Top 100 and I’ll throw in another random Kindle 3 giveaway. Thanks for playing. Complete details at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/blogtour.htm

BLOG CONTEST RULES: The international contests are free and available anywhere it's not prohibited by law, and no purchase is necessary. To be eligible for the Kindle DX, simply stop by the hosting blog within a week of my post and leave a comment with your email address or Twitter account. I will return one week after each post and collect names--these people will be assigned a number and entered in the prize pool.


You can only enter once per blog, but the more blogs you stop at, the better your chances of winning. The winner of the Kindle DX will be randomly selected, by number, at the Watauga County (NC) Public Library in early December. The contacted winner will have one week to respond, or another winner will be selected.


BONUS KINDLE GIVEAWAY: If at any time during the tour, one of my books hits the Top 100 of the Amazon U.S. or U.K. Kindle Store, I will give away an additional Kindle 3! Promote the tour and double your odds.

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Thank you so much Scott for being here today and helping Celebrate My 1st Bloggy Birthday!!!

You heard him folks, to enter the Kindle giveaway simply leave a comment on this post (with your contact info),Feel free to chat about this topic, Then head over to Scotts Blog to enter the other giveaways! Good Luck!!!