Contest Alert!

Shelli Johannes Welles, who hosts the tremendously helpful blog Market My Words, is running a great juggernaut of a Mardi Gras contest. Unagented authors can win a critique with agent Alyssa Eisner Henkin at Trident Media Group, and agented authors can win marketing consultation with Shelli herself.

The even more amazing thing about this contest is that Shelli is giving lots of stuff away for free–advice in the form of interviews from people on all sides of the publishing industry. A librarian, an indie bookstore owner, and a social media guru all gave their top advice for how to promote your book. I don’t mind telling you that for someone like me, 3.5 months away from publication, this is like gold.

So in case you need amazing marketing advice (because really, who doesn’t?) and if you want to *win*, go to faereality.blogspot.com and enter today. Yes, if you read the contest requirements carefully, you’ll know that I get more points toward a potential win because I’m blogging about this to you, but that should actually motivate you *more* go to there. Because if I’m blogging about it in the middle of the afternoon, that must mean I think it’s worth it.

Have a good weekend, everyone!