Ed Ass got its 500,000th hit today. This makes me feel old and venerable.
Naturally, I wanted to celebrate. I mean, with you guys, since you made it happen. But how?! No one has yet invented a giant internet pie.
Jamie Harrington, clever thing, had the idea that I have a giveaway contest, the prize being a first 20 pages crit. So that's what it is! I'll give away one crit of a book's first 20 pages (size 12 font, double spaced, .5 margins for you sneaky sneakies out there).
You'll be automatically entered to win if you do any or all of the following things:
1) repost this on your blog
OR
2) retweet my Twitter announcement
OR
3) link to this post on Facebook (make sure you include @Moonrat in the post so I'm notified of it)
I'll close the contest at 11 pm EST tomorrow (March 31). The Rally Monkey will randomly select one winner without my input (as if I could make him listen to me, anyway).
Yay! I'm really excited now.
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Yay! Congrats on your longevity, Moon Rat!
I retweeted the post announcement.
@jessicatudor
WHOOO! I'm all over this like Bill Clinton on interns!
I'll retweet whilst thinking of pie. Can you pie-tweet?
Ah crapola..I don't have a whole 20 pages done yet..wait..maybe I do..hmmmmm double spacing..I could..*sigh* prolly not..But congrats on your hits!
SQUEEE, yet again!!! So happy to have finally located my ass!!
I will tweet and link..Just in caseys..
AWESOME!!!
I blogged: http://lchardesty.blogspot.com/2010/03/ed-ass-is-giving-away-crit.html
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/lchardesty/status/11327208252
I will be Facebooking. :)
lchardesty at yahoo dot com
yeah!! I retweeted @write_brained!
chirp chirp!
I tweeted and re-tweeted it. Congrats on the milestone!
Congrats! I'm proud to say at least a thousand or so of those were mine.
1/2 a million! congrats.
I retweeted the post announcement. @mumfusa
First, congratulations! Second, I'm heading back to tweet it now :)
Also linking on Facebook.
A toast to your longevity, Moonrat! Off to tweet...
Tweeted. Congrats - this is so great!
Wow! Congrats on all the hits!
I have a question: by repost, do you want us to copy the text of your post or just link? Either way. I just want to do it right. :)
Retweeting/facebook and I'll throw it up on my blog tomorrow.
I linked on Facebook -- not sure the tagging worked right, though (I'm Shannon Phillips on FB)
I linked to my blog. Congrats, half a million. If I had a dollar for every hit you've had...well, I'd quit both my jobs and just write all the time. :)
Congrats! And that's a neat idea - I retweeted and facebooked links to this competition.
Nice work! I'm entering!
Congratulations, Moonrat! I tweeted (@alsonnichsen) about your contest. What a great prize! Is this the first time you've given away a critique?
Yahooie! Me loves me some prizes! I'm getting my Betty Crocker on making a casserole. (Who am I? I do not know.)Pretty sure it's monsoon related behavior. I RT'd on twitter and will post on FB later! Thanks for the fun contest.
Re-tweeted:)
Done and done. No, wait. I mean, just done.
Congratulations! This is awesome. I announced your contest at http://annfinkelstein.blogspot.com/2010/03/contest-announcement.html
I retweeted you. @aliciajfrey
I'm really excited too! Thanks for the chance.
Blogged: http://bookishinabox.blogspot.com/2010/03/giveaways-week-of-328.html
Tweet: http://twitter.com/whatinabox/status/11330337188
whatinabox at gmail dot com
Retweeted. Thanks!
Thanks! Re-Tweeted!
Congratulations, Moon! As for the awesome contest, I blogged and facebooked. Links below.
Blog
Facebook
Dawn--good question, sorry! Link is totally fine. I'll edit my post to clarify.
WooHoo! Congrats, Moonie!
(.5? Really? I'm used to 1". Is .5 an adult market thing?)
Congrats, Moonrat! I wrote a post on my blog about your contest.
I retweeted!!
dang!! wish i had twenty pages done!!
Congratulations though :)
Sounds awesome! I'll spread the word on my blog immediately(as in, after I pee. Don't wanna mess up the ol' bladder)!
What a huge accomplishment. Congrats! And thanks for hosting such a great prize.
I retweeted (@LisaMBasso)
-Lisa B.
That's is awesome news! Congratulations!!
I just retweeted!
Fantastic! Congrats to you.
I retweeted @WhisperAmber
I tweeted, I facebooked, I danced a jig...
(That last part was just because you called me clever.)
Woot, Moonrat!
I've had a Twitter account for a few months now, but I've NEVER tweeted nor retweeted. Until today. It's not going out to a lot of people, but maybe enthusiasm and you being my first will count for something ;o)
@PhoenixSullivan
(ever lurking)
SUHWEET. I just posted it at my FB and requested you, as well. Jules KD. :D
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I retweeted!
Cool comp!! I've RT at http://twitter.com/individualchic/statuses/11327859919 and blogged at http://www.isabyrne.com/2010/03/everyone-has-competion-except-me.html
Thanks
Isa
Congrats on 500,000! I just posted this on our blog at Sisters in Scribe. :)
Congrats! I tweeted a link to the page. @lgibsonwriting
Oh and to Elspeth - that would make you a tweety-pie. Ok, I couldn't resist. Sorry. :)
Congratulations on half a million hits on the site!!!! This is an awesome prize and I have retweeted it (@lynseynewton)
This has to be the most awesome contest ever.
I blogged: http://shelleywatters.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-amazing-contest-this-time.html
I face booked (you're one of my facebook friends and I put @moonrat in my post.)
I am a horrible twittertard. I attempted to twitter and ended up incredibly confused. SO I couldn't twitter. Someday I will learn how to twitter.
I refuse to tweet. However, I mentioned this on my facebook status and even included the "@Moonrat."
Tweeted! I'm @CKHBFiction
In theory if one were to win, what would be the time line for getting those first 20 pages to you?
Thanks.
A cool half-mil? Congrats are certainly in order. :) Posted and linked to Facebook.
blogged about your contest here:
http://karenfcarr.blogspot.com/
Not sure what traffic 'Editorial Ass Contest' is going to drive to my blog, can't wait to find out!
btw: thank you so much for this wonderful contest!
Congratulations! That's wonderful! :D
And thank you for the contest! I've tweeted about it here: http://twitter.com/sandy_shin/status/11334648163
Congratulations!
I'm happy to tweet for you to global saturation is assured ;)
@elaineamsmith
I'm afraid I'm a technological idiot, but I tried to link it to my blog. I have no shame in admitting I was on here about six times today.
Posted.
Sweet! I really need that critique ;) I've posted it on my blog and added it to the sidebar. I'm going to retweet it now(@charitybradford)...and done.
Just tweeted from @meli1020 Congrats and thanks for the giveaway. I could use a critique :-)
Done and done!
I just re-tweeted the details. LOVE this contest idea!
http://twitter.com/TheMuffinMom
This is almost enough to make me want to actually go start a blog/learn how to twitter/get a Facebook page. Almost.
Sweet! Congrats, and I will be sure to repost. I'm all about serendipity. ;-)
Congratulations, Moonie! I retweeted.
@WritingRen
Congrats!!
I retweeted your announcment.
@SusanXBradley
Congratulations!!!
I retweeted! and now I'm following you on twitter too! @AmaliaTd
Congratulations! I retweeted, Facebooked and blogged.
Awesome! I'm adding this to the blog now!
I bloggity blogged it here:
http://christigoddard.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-sayeth-moonrat.html
I don't Tweet or Facebook.
I hope you're still doing questions. I'm waiting for the 'truths about aesthetically pleasing authors' question I had. :-)
Congrats!
I blogged at http://leerickson.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-looking-for-complication.html
Yay! Congrats. 500,000 ain't nothing to sneeze at!
I tweeted under the name @Tartitude
I re-Tweeted...
@DebbAA
Congrats!
I retweeted and posted on my blog.
Oh, sorry. I'm sally_apokedak on Twitter and my blog is here.
Hooray! I retweeted and posted about it on my blog here: http://pamalaknight.blogspot.com/2010/03/celebration-and-contest.html
Congratulations on your numbers! I'm sure you'll get to the million mark very soon.
*waves*
Cool!
I retweeted. @MLStoughton.
I linked from my blog. http://mlstoughton.blogspot.com
I blogged and FB'd --not a tweeter.
Congrats!
I did the FB thing, but your name didn't get highlighted, so I don't know if it'll work.
So I also retweeted: (@Lyonstale)
(Come on, universe! Pick me!)
Now I want pie.
I retweeted @cathychall.
Well, first I followed. THEN, I retweeted. And now I'm gonna hook up at Facebook. Because that's the way I stalk. Um, roll.
Okay, I linked to this on FB, and included "@moonrat" in the comment. I hope that works. Congratulations, you uber social networker, you!
Word verification: cophipi = extremely laid back law enforcement
Yay!! Facebooking (Erika Robuck, Author) and feeding to twitter @ErikaRobuck right now.
PS I, too, want pie. Cherry, please! with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top.
Yes, I too am commenting to say I retweeted. :) @bcmorrow
Thanks for all the great advice you've doled out over the years, Moonrat. You do a great job with the site!
http://danielwpowell.blogspot.com/2010/03/moonrat-hits-bigtime.html
Woot! Congrats on all the hits! And thanks for this contest.
Linking back to you ...
I RTed (a few hours ago) from @HeatherTrese, but I wasn't sure if I had to comment...so I will, but mostly to say congrats on your awesome-ness!!!
what about all of us who are too busy writing to tweet or facebook or blog but have read your (awesome) blog forever, possibly accounting for 10% of the hits?
I blogged http://elfmama.livejournal.com/ and I retweeted you. As for you feeling old, you do look rathr gray and dark circled round the eye.
Retweeted!
500,000? Whew! That's amazing.
I love your blog, and I love this contest!
I have posted a link at my blog: http://cherylangst.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/another-contest-2/
And I retweeted it: @CherylAngst
Thanks for offering your editorial services to the lucky winner.
I sent you a friend request so you can stalk me. I'm trying to learn how to link things on FB. I don't tweet; that's way too confusing for me. But I'll post a link on my blog.
.....dhole
Congratulations on all of those hits! I just added your contest to my post. :)
http://skmayhew.blogspot.com/2010/03/writing-community-information.html
Congrats on the half million! I tweeted and it's on Facebook, too.
I RTed
@_JessicaLove
Congrats on your success! :-D
I tweeted!
I facebooked!
& I linked!
Retweeted.
Whoa! Barely made it!
Tweeted at:
http://twitter.com/_vickie_p
and posted on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pamvickers?ref=profile
I just blogged about it!
talk about awesome :) Just tweeted @steenaholmes
PS I learned about this from Anne (piedmont writer), from the link on her blog.
I'm currently away on vacation. All I can do it retweet it.
@stinall
wow. thats alot of comments.
Awesome--thanks for doing this!
I blogged about it: http://merbear95695.livejournal.com/48434.html
retweeted! @brideofabull
AWESOME AWESOME MOON RAT!
wohoo! Thanks for this contest!
Congratulations! Are you as obsessed with checking your Google Analytics as I am?
Hi Moonrat,
Congrats on the milestone!
I linked to you on my Facebook page. I'm new to Facebook and have no idea whether I've done it right... *blonde moments*
Anyway... fingers crossed.
Hooray! I believe this situation calls for the Great Vicini, don't you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkBuKQEkio
Wow, comments galore! Congratulations!
I'm entering. And now following your blog as well. Just added you as a friend so ... yeah lemme see if I can link it to you properly. :D
I feel foolish. I blogged about it and put it up on facebook but didn't know how to link it to you. ::Sighs:: So here is my link to my blog post.
http://caledonialass.blogspot.com/2010/03/chance-to-win-20-page-crit.html
Got it up on blogger. Off to facebook now.
http://aclairedawn.blogspot.com/2010/03/celebrating-with-moonrat-contest.html
Congrats on your hits. I'm in, I'm in. Facebooking this wonderful ditty. What? You didn't know I turned it into a song? =)
Bravo (^_^)
I'm still in the Stone Age (not on tweeter yet), but I'm reposting your announcement on my blog, crimogenic.blogspot.com
I would enjoy your blog even if I wasn't a writer. I tweeted and FB'ed, hope you get something fun to read!
That's a very nice gift! I know how much work goes into editing and twenty pages is generous *smiling*
Over here from Teresa Frohock's place *waving hi*
Yay! I retweeted at twitter.com/JadeTweet
I blogged!! Congratulations!
Awesome! Consider yourself tweeted! I'm @hddodson
I may have missed the post as I have no idea from London of when is 11 o'clock EST; sorry, you'll just have to class me as a woeful ignorant.
http://imogenscreativefire.blogspot.com/
I posted on facebook, then friended you so you may have to look ;) I enjoy your blog. Thanks for your work there.
Congrats! Half a mil is quite a feat! I posted on my blog, and will tweet, too. Peace...
Posted to my blog!
http://fantasycrapshoot.blogspot.com/2010/03/moonrat-milestone-half-million-hits.html
I retweeted: marjorielevine
I reposted over at my blog http://greyplaces.blogspot.com/
Woot! Good luck everyone!
Blogged about it
http://irreleventthinking.blogspot.com/2010/03/crit-giveaway.html
Congratulations to your half a million!
I do wish I had written a book, only short stories so far, but this will be an incentive to get on that for the next time. :)
But I will retweet to help out those who have.
Cheers!
I hope it worked: Facebook was linked as per the rules of engagement, but I'm not much of a Facebooker and not entirely sure about the @Moonrat business. Much love for your blog, Moonrat, and for your awesome self. Congrats! :D
Congratulations! I retweeted, although I hope that you can wait a bit as the WIP is not crit-ready.
Cool contest and congrats on the 500,000+ hits. I posted info about the contest with a link on my blog: http://tlsumner.com/post/Stuff-Stuff.aspx
Congratulations, Moonie!!! I posted it on facebook and retweeted you on twitter - I'll post in my blog if I get time before the end of the day, too.
Hey, does that mean Rally Monkey should put my name in that hat twice? :-)
Awesome! Congrats! I'm linking to Facebook and my blog and Tweeting in 3...2...1
;)
I retweeted @susankmann
Congratulations. x
Retweeted and will post today!
Whoot! Brilliant idea! :) I re-tweeted. @BekkaCooper
Thanks for the contest Moonrat. Trying to help spread the word at: http://davefelder.wordpress.com/.
I retweeted! @katydidcamp
Okay, I posted about it at MotherReader.com and now to write the rest of the twenty pages. ;^)
(I never mention these, but my word verification is "gusto" which lifts my spirits somehow.)
Who was the lucky 500,000th? Maybe that guy/lady should win the prize.
I think I get an extra entry ticket because my blog feeds into my FB page and I've had people clicking and commenting from there.
Sorry, forgot to mention it in my original response.
Wow, half a million hits--that's a milestone, and what a cool contest!
I have posted at http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com
Very cool! Congrats on hitting the 500K mark. I'm RT'ing your post right now. :D
RE-TWEETED!
Wheeee! I posted you on my FB page (we're friends, so you can stalk me better and all ;)- here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000724543020
Congrats! Love the blog!
Facebooked! :) and retweeted...
Congrats...and I'm drooling over this contest...much better than pie!
I've posted on my blog:
www.kristichestnutt.blogspot.com
Thanks and congrats again!
Awesome! Just retweeted this, thanks! Congrats on all the hits. I love your blog!
@ShalleeMcArthur
I linked the post on Facebook. You'll have a million hits before you know it.
1/2 a million! Congratulations. I'm posting in a sidebar at http://mghiggins.blogspot.com/
Holy shiznit! Congrats, that's a LOT :D
I retweeted (which also posts on my facebook) from @christacarol (and facebook.com/christacarol)
Good luck to everyone!
That's awesome! Cool contest, too. I retweeted.
I facebooked. Congrats, Moonie. So...were you this popular in high school?
Great contest. I retweeted the post announcement.
Hi Moonrat. I'm not going to post a link to this on my blog because my blog has a specific purpose. But I do link to your blog on my sidebar.
I'm not trying to say that should count for the contest but I just wanted to stop by and say great blog, fun contest! Good luck to all who enter.
Oh my goodness, so many entries! I retweeted the lovely contest you have provided. Congrats!
I retweeted @tiffanyaneal
Congrats on your awesomeness!
Re-tweeted!
Yay! Congrats on all the hits--you deserve it : ) And thanks for the contest. I retweeted! @JenniferWriter
LuAnn,
I was excited to enter the contest...check out my Facebook page for a post to your link...congrats to you! As always, you are amazing!!!
Realized I forgot to sign my previous post...Wordsmith is Carolyn Campbell....
Wow, congratulations. I'll be reposting this on my blog.
Jai
Woohoo! I'm posting about it on my blog... now!
I retweeted and posted on facebook :D thanks for the contest. @pizaseven and Leona Bushman, facebook name I'll also post on lbushman at blogspot
I feel like I ought to bestow you with a fantasy beard. Or how about the knowing wink of a wise old owl? Or pyjamas worn through at the knees.
Happy Venerable Semi-Millennium.
(and I almost feel a Japanese indie band lyric coming on here).
Anyhow — you're linked.
And in the tradition of old music hall pianos, rinky-tink rinky-tink rinky-rinky-tinked...
OOH! Having the first 20 edited would be most fantastic!! Congrats on hitting 500K!
I posted on my blog! Congrats! That's a great prize!
http://confessionsofafirsttimenovelist.blogspot.com/2010/03/contest-and-bojangles.html
I linked this on facebook (AdriAnne Strickland)... I don't know if it went to @Moonrat. I've been slow to take up Twitter...
Thanks for the contest!
I have liked reading your posts. I re-tweeted! Yay :D
Congratulations, Moon Rat!
I retweeted (@writergrljolene), posted on my blog (http://writergirljolene.blogspot.com/2010/03/critique-contest.html) and posted on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/writergirljolene)
So glad you've been here for half a million hits!I am a far sight down a veeery long list, but I re-posted this on my blog.
http://reallyimblogging.blogspot.com/2010/03/shamelessly-selfish-post.html
Note the completely unrelated pic in my post, because it is epic. Well, not as epic as something like WoT, no matter how many times Meyer throws the word "saga" in there. But raptors would elevate it close to the realm of Norse mythology.
But I don't have a blog, OR Twitter, OR Facebook!
So here's what I did: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3588422
Please say that counts! Unless you'd rather not critique a few short stories instead of a novel opening. The only bits of novel I have written need to be restarted from scratch, and I'm into short stories right now.
Tweeted (vitch36) FB and Gathered...
Here: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978143778
Dana-vitch36
Hey Moon Rat,
Congrats on the feat! I'm just gettin' started. I'm Agent Orange: Literary Agent Undercover. Miss Snark may be gone, but I've arrived.
Love for some of your followers to come on over if they have questions a literary agent can answer.
I'll be checkin' in and readin' your posts.
Yours,
Agent Orange
agentornge@blogspot.com
Agent Orange: while I love the color and admire your wit, I wonder if you're too young to remember how many lives agent orange ended or changed irrevocably? It was a horrible, horrible part of our country's recent history.
What a great idea! The deed is done :) Thanks very much and congratulations.
That's a generous prize. And congrats on being so popular. :)
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