Monday, September 2, 2013

Authors After Dark 2014 Reading Challenge.


Welcome to the Authors After Dark 2014 Reading Challenge and Sign up Page.
Hosted by Midnyte Reader and Bookswagger.

The goal of this challenge is to let readers, whether you are going to AAD 2014 in Charlotte, NC, or not, get better acquainted with some of the authors who will be attending this event.

Sometimes I go to conferences that feature authors who I am unfamiliar with. Then, when I read their books later I want to kick myself for not reading their work sooner, so I could have talked to them about their stories, gotten a book signed or just gushed properly.

Stella Price, the organizer of Authors After Dark was kind enough to give me the green light to host the challenge again this year and Robin from RLD Design, the AAD website designer provided the button.  Thank you Stella and Robin!

To find out more about Authors After Dark 2014 visit their website!

To sign up for the Challenge please read the following carefully:


GUIDELINES:

•You can sign up here at Midnyte Reader or at Bookswagger.

•This Challenge will run from September 1, 2013  through August 10, 2014, the last day of the AAD 2014 Conference.

•You can join at anytime during the year.

•Anyone can participate (not just book bloggers). If you don't have a blog: You can link to Goodreads, Amazon, Shelfari, etc.  The easiest way may be to make a separate shelf for this Challenge or a post.  Links back to the Challenge are appreciated and will help others if they would like more information.

•If you are using Facebook for this challenge, please write a post (you can just use a few sentences) about the Challenge.  Links back to the Challenge are appreciated and will help others if they would like more information.  When you review a book or short story, please do not write a sentence or two.  Please write a full review, even if it is just a few few paragraphs.  


TO SIGN UP:
•Write a post about this challenge on your blog with a link back to this post or the sign up post at Bookswagger.

•Include a list of the AAD 2014 books you hope to read in anticipation of the Charlotte conference. You can check out the authors on the AAD 2014 website HERE. Please note that your list is not written in stone! You can change it at anytime.

•Grab the button and add it to your post or sidebar.






•Sign up on Mr. Linky below. Please make sure your sign up link goes to your 2014 AAD Reading Challenge post, or your list on Goodreads, Facebook, etc.  Please do not just link to your blog.  (If you link to your main blog page, unfortunately it will be deleted.) 

  
My Book Goals for this Challenge:

~As Lie the Dead by Kelly Meding
~Another Kind of Dead by Kelling Meding
~Wrong Side of Dead by Kelly Meding
~Requiem for the Dead by Kelly Meding

~Darkest Edge of Dawn, The by Kelly Gay
~Hour of Dust and Ashes, The by Kelly Gay
~Shadows Before The Sun by Kelly Gay


~Flesh and Blood by Kristen Painter
~Bad Blood by Kristen Painter
~Out for Blood by Kristen Painter
~Last Blood by Kristen Painter


Sign up for the Challenge below!




To post a review for the Challenge click HERE



Please note that I am simply attending AAD 2014 and am not affiliated with the event, nor am I receiving any compensation for hosting this challenge.

3 comments:

Aurian said...

I challenge myself to read a book from the authors coming to the small event in Berlin, Germany, so I can have my books signed. That makes it so much more fun, and I have discovered some new favourite authors to read. And they are so nice in person!

Midnyte Reader said...

@Aurian-Yes, I agree. It does make signings more fun when you know more of what the authors wrote.

Logan E. Turner said...

Can I carry over books from the 2013 challenge to 2014? I haven't gotten as far as I had hoped. :D

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