Today is the 6 month anniversary of my blog. Yes, my humble small section of the book blogging community known as TheTattooedBookGeek has managed to face down marauding hordes of Demons, hacking and slashing (gaming reference) it’s way to a small modicum of achievement.
Firstly, it was 500 followers and now it’s 6 months of blogging. Thank you to all of you for reading my babbling reviews and misery/poetry and for liking, commenting, sharing and following. It’s all really appreciated and also a massive thanks for making me feel like a member of the book blogger community and not an outsider.
As it’s been mentioned before I’m not perhaps a typical book blogger (though I still haven’t been told why) so on that technicality I could quite easily skip this but I thought what the hell and why not!
So, I have decided to run a giveaway contest. Now, I like to do things differently and so, as I write poetry, I’m making it a poetry contest.
There will be two prizes a first place and a runner-up, the first place prize is a book/books upto the value of £15 (English pounds) with the runner-up prize being a book upto the value of £10 (English pounds). The book/books willbe shipped from the Book Depository, so if they ship to your country then you can enter, simples!
The Rules:
1 – The poem canbe on any subject, something dark, something light, something meaningful, something funny, the choice is upto you.
2 – The poem canbe in any style or form you want it to be (I write simple rhyming style but there’s countless other styles out there to use).
3 – Either leave your poem in the comments section of this post below or write a post on your own blog but if you do, please remember to link it back to this post so I can check it out.
4 – I will pick the winner and runner-up myself.
5 – The contest is open for one week from today – running from Monday 5th September to Monday 12th September.
6 – On the 13th September I will pick the winner/runner-up and will then contact them by the contact feature on their blog, telling them that they have won/runner-up and requesting their address and the book/books they would like. I will also then write a blog post announcing the winner and runner-up including their poems.
7 – For the book/books to be shipped to you, you will need to give me your postal address and name – unless your happy to have your blogs name on the package. I will then email you when the order has been despatched by the Book Depository. I’m a genuine guy and after you have received the book I will delete your address. All I ask is you let me know when you receive the book (I’m from the UK, the postal service here isn’t great and things sometimes go missing so I’m not sure what will happen with international shipping – and if your from the UK then we have to trust in Royal Mail “shudders”.
congrats on your six months of blogging!
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Thankyou. 😀
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Congratulations!! This contest is a great idea!
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Thanks.😀
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Ooh… neat… I haven’t written poems for 13 years, maybe it’s time I have a go for your scrutiny! 🙂
Congrats on the anniversary and on your success! 🙂
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Thanks. 😀 If I can write poems, anyone can. 👍
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Actually whipped one up here in 10 minutes, quite impressed with myself 😀 Sharing is scary though, how do you do it? 😀
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Share it! 🙂 I don’t know how he does it either. I shared I think two poems I wrote and was totally freaked out about it.
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Yeah… just gotta strap on a set and hit publish! XD
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Ha! That’s the spirit! 🤗
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Ha, I wonder if Jill straps on a set to go with her stick! 🙂
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What???!!! How did I miss this comment?
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Ha! 👍😂😀😈
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I just do, it perhaps sounds weird but I worry more about posting my reviews than the poetry! I’m not that eloquent with the prose and don’t use big words so I think, shit, my review is crap but with poetry I try to write with meaning and either people will see the meaning in the words or they wont’t. 🙂
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Well, you probably got a pingback, but here’s my entry! https://liisthinks.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/heartkiller-by-yours-truly/
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Great, the first entrant! Possibly the only entrant but still the first! 🙂
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😀 There will be more…
Poems galore, people! Tap into that inner poet and blow Drew away!
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Congratulations 🙂
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Thanks. 😀
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Congrats on the 6month blog anniversary
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Thank you. 😀
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Congrats, darling! The poetry contest is a great idea. My poetry isn’t all that great. Maybe I’ll write the continuation of Fluffy for you. 🙂
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Ha, that would be awesome! 🙂
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Any suggestions how their love story ends? I think Fluffy and Butterfly need to get back together. 🙂
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Well, the ended I always had in mind was for Fluffy to die surrounded by a bunch of his strumpets with a grin on his face! 🙂
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Of course you’d say that. Does he die of old age? I don’t think I can write the ending of Fluffy.
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Yeah, old age with a smile on his face. 🙂 Ha, Fluffy was my creation anyway if anyone kills him off it shouldbe me, well the lack of likes and the distain for fluffy already made him ill! 🙂
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I agree. How about I write the reunion poem and you can write his Denzel Training Day moment? Lol That would be awesome actually. Yes! Do it! 🙂
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It’s upto you, we both know they didn’t do well on our blogs though. 😦
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You can include it with the winner post and I’ll include mine as the poetry contest. I just think people didn’t know what they were about.
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We’ll see, I wouldn’t include it in the winner post though, it would have to be seperate.
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Congrats on making it through 6 months of awesomeness!! XD A poetry contest is very cool! I didn’t see it in the rules, but is swearing allowed? ^^ 😉
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Yeah, swear away though it can;t just be swear word after swear word after swear word, need some other words in between BoB. 🙂
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I guess that rules out any poetry by Jay and Silent Bob! 😆
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I guess so but well…..we do have Jill and Anne! 🙂
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Unless it’s a haiku, yes? :’) But mkay, I’ll see if I can come up with something! 🙂
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No, even if it was a haiku you need other words than swear words and I don’t mean, Bieber, sausage and yum yum as other words! 🙂
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LOL :’). Owkaaaaay, no yum yums :’)
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Gobble gobble is probably more appropriate anyway! 😂
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Sick… All of you! 😂😝🙊🙈
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Cos we learned that from the best Jilly! 😂
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Dirty boy! :’)
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What a fun idea! I’ll share on FB, I have lots of poet friends who might be interested! 😀
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OK, cool, thanks. 🙂 Thought it was just something a bit different to the normal as I dabble in poetry to. 🙂
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I think you have enough to publish a nice little book of poetry. So you do more than just dabble. 😀
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Thank you. 🙂
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Congrats on your 6 month blogiversary!!! I just recently celebrated mine as well. I love your creative spin on a giveaway! Can’t wait to read what people submit! I actually have a few people in mind who should enter, so I’ll be sure to let them know!
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Thank you and yeah, as I write poetry I just thought it was something a bit different.😀
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Congrats on 6 months of publishing your awesomeness and thank you for doing so! 😀 I wrote one a bit ago and put it on a side blog (because putting it out there at all was difficult for me… how do you do it??) Anywho, here’s the link to it: https://kittymaschan.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/she-weeps/
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Thanks, will check the poem out. 😀
I actually find posting poetry easy, I try to write things that have meaning in and either people will like it, relate to it, see the meaning in it or they won’t but it mainly holds some sort of meaning to me. Whereas I dread posting book reviews as even after six months I’m still not confident in my reviewing ability.
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I really like your reviews though! The way you write them is like you’re just talking to me about the book and why you thought what you did of it. It’s quite helpful (though my TBR is bursting) 🙂
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Thank you. 😀
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I’ve just checked your poem out, can’t find anywhere to comment on it though so I’m commenting about it on this, it’s really good, you did a great job with it.😀
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Aww thanks! 😀
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Happy 6 months blogiversary
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Thanks. 😀
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Happy 6 month blogiversary, Drew! xx
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Thank you. 😀
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Happy Anniversary Drew. You often make me cry so I have done a poem on my blog. It is true the thing I write about. Hope you like it.
https//booksfromdusktilldawn.wordpress.com
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Thank you, I’ll hop on over and check it out and sorry my misery makes you cry. 😀
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Love it really just emotional lol
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Woot for 6 months!! I love your babbling reviews haha. I am going to refrain from showing everyone up with my awesome poetry skillz though 😉
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Ah, go on, you know you want to! 👍😂
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MY shoe is blue.. I may have stepped in glue.. Ewww. Does that work? 😉 No poetic bones in this gal sadly hehe.
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Happy six month blogeversary! 🙂
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Thank you. 😀
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You’re welcome!
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Congratulations, Drew! And what a fun and creative way to celebrate!
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Thank you. 😀
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Happy 6 month anniversary Marshie! I’m terrible at poetry, but if a miracle happens, I’ll share it 😀
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Thank you and you should give it a go! 😀👍
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Happy 6 months of blogging, Drew! 🙂 And I always love writing poems so I’ll give this one a try. 🙂
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Thanks and will look forward to reading your poem.. 🙂
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Congratulations on 6 months anniversary, imagine how your blog will be in a year! 😀 This is such a great idea and so nice of you, you’re such a nice guy :). I share your shudders over Royal Mail though !
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Thank you, and yes, royal mail certainly make you shudder! 🙂 I wouldn’t say I’m a nice guy, think it’s cool to do something different though.
Hoping to see you enter a poem as I always like your poetry. 🙂
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Oh yes I’m going to try and enter, no worries if I don’t win, just love to add to the poetry out there 🙂
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Glad to hear it, at least that will be three entrants now! 🙂
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Only 3 😦 I hope more people get involved otherwise there’d be a clear loser 😮 lol
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Yep, only three, open until monday though so fingers crossed for a few more. 🙂
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Congrats on the 6 month blogiversary. If I had 2 seconds to write a poem I would totally enter this. I have lots sitting mind you but I get the feeling this is for just written poems so they can stay just written. I will reblog this though and if inspiration strikes before the day is done I will pop a entry in 🙂
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Thanks and appreciate it. 🙂
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Reblogged this on thistleyroses and commented:
Great wee contest here 🙂 and great review site. Pop over and take a look xx
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thanks for the reblog and shout out. 🙂
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Sorry I missed the contest. I’ve been away for the last week and am still all back and forth, (getting ready to move). I didn’t intentionally miss it, I just haven’t written any poetry in the last week – I still haven’t :o!
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Wish I saw this earlier. Congratulations.
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Thank you. 😀
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You’re most welcome.
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