September Giveaways!

Update: the first giveaway has been extended to Saturday, September 13 at 11:59PM Central Time.

Who doesn't love a good giveaway? 

In order to encourage readership and participation from you, my lovely readers, and broaden my audience, September is my month of giveaways! There will be one giveaway a week, for a total of four giveaways this month. Thanks to some wonderful sponsors, I have some really great items for you this month. Here is how the giveaways will work:

1. You can have your name entered in the giveaway drawings more than once. In order to have your name entered, you can do any (or all!) of the following:

Participate via Blogger:

• Subscribe to Certainly Candid via email (this is done right on this site!)
• Share Certainly Candid via Google+
• Comment on any post on this site (one comment per post, please, and keep it topic relevant)

Participate via Facebook:

• Like my Facebook page (this can only be done once)
• Invite your friends to like my Facebook page (for every friend of yours that likes Certainly Candid you will get your name into the drawing - and so will they!)
• Share my Facebook post links in your news feed
• Comment/like Facebook links to posts (only one comment per post, please, and keep it topic relevant)

Participate via Twitter:

• Follow me on Twitter (this can only be done once) @CertainlyCandid
• Retweet my posts to your followers (each retweet equals one entry)

2. Each weekly giveaway will end on Saturday evening at 11:59PM Central Time. The weekly winner will be notified via blog post the next day (Sunday). I will communicate with the winner on how he/she would like to receive the giveaway item(s).

3. The process is repeated each week, with all entries from the previous week reset to zero. The last giveaway will end at 11:59PM Central Time on Saturday, September 27.

I will give you an example: if I am a viewer, I decide to "like" a post on Facebook, retweet it on Twitter, and have 3 friends "like" the Facebook page as well. Total entries = five. This is a competitive contest meant to encourage readership! Please take the time to read, share, like, and retweet - I am grateful for everyone's continual support of Certainly Candid.

Without further ado, I present the items in this first giveaway:

1. A new copy of John Green's An Abundance of Katherines (read my review!).
2. A beautiful new coffee mug, for those of you who also failed on your New Year resolution to cut back on coffee (picture to be posted soon).
3. To go with the coffee mug, a new package of Starbucks blend coffee (picture to be posted soon).