How to Win a Book in the Monthly Comments Contest

Each month, LDS Publisher is sponsored by three generous authors or publishers who have happily agreed to provide a copy of their sponsoring book as a prize to blog readers.

At the top of the blue section of the sidebar, you will find images of the sponsoring books with links to where they may be purchased.

Immediately below those three images, you will find a link to the sponsoring bio page for the current month. The bio page contains information about the books and the authors. Please visit this page to learn more about these authors and their books.


To be eligible to win one of the sponsoring books:

• Leave one or more thoughtful comments on any post during the month.


• The more thoughtful comments you leave, the more chances you have to win.


• Thoughtful comments do not have to be long, but they do need to show by their content that you have read the post and given the topic at least 3.5 seconds of sincere thought.


• Comments that express personal opinions or experiences on a post topic, discussion of other comments, questions related to post topic or other comments, and expressions of support for LDSP or each other are all considered thoughtful comments.
  


• Simply commenting "That's cool" or "Way to go" on multiple posts does NOT count as thoughtful comments.


• Anonymous comments are excluded from the contest.
  


• Mean and vicious comments are excluded from the contest.


• Comments that have nothing to do with the post are excluded from the contest
  


• I am the sole judge of what IS and IS NOT an eligible comment.


• Contest begins begins on the first day of each month and ends on the last day of the month.
  


• The time and date stamp on the comment, NOT the date of the post being commented on, determines which prize month the comment is eligible for.


• Each comment constitutes a separate entry in the monthly contest.
  


• Prizes are awarded according to randomly selected numbers.
  


• Winners will be posted on the first business day of the following month.
  


• Winners must e-mail their mailing address to me within one week of winning or their prize will be forfeit. Forfeited prizes will be offered in Last Chance/24 Hour response time posts.
  


• Winners must live within the U.S. or Canada. (Sorry about that. It's just too difficult and costly to mail books overseas.)
  


• Prizes are mailed directly to the winner by the sponsor.


• Each new month begins a new contest. Since each month's contest winner is randomly selected, it is possible that the same person could win a prize in consecutive months.


• Although I cannot imagine a problem developing, I have been advised to state the following: LDS Publisher herself, the company she works for, her family, friends, neighbors, etc., etc., etc. CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE for any outcome, positive or negative, that may or may not arise from participation in this contest, including but not limited to: failure to receive prize for any reason whatsoever; individual blog/website traffic or lack thereof as generated by participation on this blog and/or its contests; or anything else that may or may not irk you. SPONSOR AND PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. (Is that good enough, Mr. Bean Counter?)

**These are the rules for winning the Monthly Book Contest only. Rules for winning the Writing Contests are posted separately with each contest announcement.