You're Not The Only One

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One of the things that a lot of us love about blogging is that we share experiences. We may not meet or even see our fellow bloggers but we feel we know them. For many of us it's an important part of feeling connected, almost like having another support system. Recently I tagged some bloggers on memes requiring a bit more info on who they were and what they felt and what I read really moved me. They made me wish I could pay for their writing, to thank them for sharing, to give them something for giving me their words on their personal stories.

From that thought, and with the help of a small team (Sarah from He Loves Me Not, Ariel from From Fuck Up To Fab, Ms R from Woman of Experience and Vi from Village Secrets) we've come up with a plan! We're putting together a book for WARCHILD written by bloggers and here's where you come in:

We would like you to submit (to us at bloggersforcharity@yahoo.co.uk) a written piece about something you've been through from any aspect of your life that you want to share. It can literally be about anything: your relationships, your past, a road not taken, being a parent, an illness or your regrets etc. We've called it "You're Not The Only One" to reflect the camaraderie of blogging.

Proceeds will go to WARCHILD and, blatantly following in the same fashion as Troubled Diva (Mike Atkinson)'s Shaggy Blog Stories, we will be publishing it through www.lulu.com. This is a no upfront fee internet publishing site who will take £4.70 per book sold if we make it no longer than 200 pages. We're pricing the book at £9 so £4.30 will go to straight to the charity. Because the cost lulu.com takes goes up according to how many pages we want published, we do have to stick to the 200 page limit so we can't guarantee you'll get your submission in for sure and the absolute maximum length for submission is 1500 words (but we’d rather not have too many at that length. In fact you may stand more chance if your piece is on the less wordy side).

WARCHILD is a uk based charity but it helps children all over the world, so we'd like as many submissions from as many places as possible

A small note, we'd prefer it if you submit stories you've not published outside the blogworld, i.e a piece from your own site is great, but not from a previously published hard copy book, lulu or otherwise; that makes this exclusive.

To summarise:

• You must be a blogger with a live blog
• It must be about something you've been through, amusing or serious or any style you like.
• You can submit in your blogname and remain anonymous, or not, up to you.
• It can't be something previously published outside the blogworld, but anything from your blog, or something entirely new, is fine.
• Try to keep below 1500 words.
• You must pimp the book on your site and buy it if you make a submission to be in it!
• Please LINK BACK TO THIS POST to spread the word!
• NEW DEADLINE IS 9th MARCH 2008 for submissions - NOW CLOSED!
  
• Send your submissions to us at bloggersforcharity@yahoo.co.uk

We’re really excited about this and think, if we get the quality we know is out there, we stand a good chance of getting some great PR.

If it's hugely submitted to, we'll do another one later in the year.... so get writing !

Oh, and here's a sticker to put on your blog too...

SUBMISSIONS and/or LINKS FROM:

The Boy Who Could But Didn't / DJKirkby / Kahless / Think Think Think / Jaded And Opinionated /I Hate The Earth / Much Ado About Sumthin! / Fallen Scorpion / Scary Duck /Boy Does Life And Stuff /Blue Soup /Fresh Air Lover /Music Around The World /Why Don't We Get Drunk And Blog? / Mother of Shrek /Creative Splurges /Lillipad /Craig Andrew /Curvy Girl World /...failed painter /Jazzy Ron /Candy's Corner /Old Heatonian /Itelli / The Misssy M Misssives / Driving The Flies / My Very Own Karma / Fussy Bitch /Little Red Boat /Lucy Pepper / This Redeemable Life /Boy On Top /Johnny B's Private Secret Diary / Nite Byrds Nest /McAsh / Mommy Has A Headache /Troubled Diva /Having My Cake /Rogi /Novel Racers /Being Lucy Diamond /Smaller Than Life /Domestic Goddesque /Enny-Pen /650 Miles /Single + Cats = Sad /Cherry Blossom Adventures /Dot And Mars /Sabbloneuse /This is This /Sometimes Funny Is All I Have /Girl With A One-Track Mind /One Man Blogs /Parlez Vous Moo? /H Factor /Iron Girl /Quadrireme /Missing In Iraq /Bane Dad /Martinis For Two /Not So Painful Reality /Broke In Berlin /The Gospel According To Rhys /Our Albion /Little Miss Awkward /Automatic Win /Lane's Write /Deb's Daydreams In The Shed / Swiss Toni / Cold Tea Again / The Overnight Editor / Let's Kill Saturday Night / La Femme a Las Vegas / Textually Promiscuous / Everything Is Electric / Kitchen Table /Letters To Ed /Not What It Seems /Enduring Rambles / Joe Heather /Miss Tickle /Crystal Jigsaw /William Hammett /I'm Just A London Girl /Forever Scarred /Real E Fun /Down In Me /I am Livid /Mr Fractious / Twisting Ivy / Smack Dab In The Middle / Eileen Dover / Notes from Hallett's Mountain / Goddamn Right / Late Thirties Crisis / The Most Boring Blog on the Internet / Queen Vixen / The Jagster / The F Word / Distracted Spunk / The Cat Girl Speaks /Jottings / Princesse Ecossaise /An Unreliable Witness / Miss Diarist / Swearing Mother / Two Blue Fish / Because They Made Me / Secret Walk / Prada Pixie / Enidd / Sean / Secret Walk / Menopausal Old Bag / Hope Dies Last / Cold Tea Again / Shot To Nothing / Maniac Mum / Uncle Norman / Random Moments / Motor Mouth / Life Goes On I Think / Rachel North London / Sami And The City / Inner Minx / Nappy Mountain / Weenit / Winter Thunder / Somewhere - Something / Pats Past Imperfect / Citizen of the Month / Silver Lining / Lemon Pillows / Kat Campbell / Rachel-Catherine / Single in San Francisco / Debi Alper / Bobz Yer Uncle / Make The Voices Go Away / Tampon Teabag / Belle-Diary of a Housewife / Petite Anglais / It Had Better Be Good / Nuts In May / Humdrum Blog / Jackie Adshead / Two Months Medicine in Niger / Basically Unemployable / Cally Taylor / Kay Reyes / Persistent / Musings From The Hinterland / Woman With No Regrets / Trauma Queen / IttyBiz / Beda Kantarjian / Billy Gean / Spiral Skies /Life With Leukaemia / I Love The Smoke / Kat Campbell / This Fish / Cure Climb / Mopsa / Absolute Vanilla / A Place To Hide / Speculative Woman / Mr Farty / Jamies Smitten / Judd Hole / Distant Aggravation / DBA Lehane / Bloody Students / Peregrinatus / Maximum Customer Experience / Helga Hansen / Through The Debris / Redders Ramblings / Sorkin Saturdays / Traveling Chica / Barren Blog / Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction / Words Wine and Whatnot / It's A Life / Letters of Bother / Suzanne Broughton / Creative Crabbing / Aprylsbulgaria / John Soanes / The Deadbeats Novel In Progress / Watching Geordie Life / Lesley Bonney / Karen Clarke/Highly Satisfactional / Random Access Babble / Beautiful Simplicity / One Fine Weasel / Outside I'm Dancing / Leigh Forbes / She Breathes Again / Reluctant Memsahib / A Mother's Place Is In The Wrong / Emerging Writer / Kitty / Lilly Sheehan / Brand New Tattoo / Afloat in Falmouth /The Inadvertent Gardener / Fall On Me / Karen Took A Walk / Ebar / Hotfessional / Retired & Crazy / Borrowed Light / Alien In A Foreign Field / Sarah Dunnakey / Grape Girl / A Writer / Enemies of Reason / L'Eggs Up And Laughing / The Life and Times /No, It's Not Just You / Twenty Something and Clueless / My Salad Dressing Days / Dear J- / Serial Deviant / Kathryn Harris / Adventures In Blunderland / Sarah Charsley / Dauntless Dater / Tired Dad / Tea Stains /Canned Laughter / Useless Rants / Lost White Kenyan / If You Read Only One Blog This Year / Heroes In Rehab / Sketch and Colour / Kristabella / Karoons / My Turnip / Status Anxiety / Gibbon Core / All My Own Worn / My New Notebook / Big Blue Barn West / Gay Camera Whore / Ganching / Typing Away

ALL UPDATES ON THE BOOK GO HERE

Hey, did you link or submit and I've left you off this list somehow? Please let me know in the comments box and I'll correct it...SJP


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