Hola readers. I have been away from the blog for more than a year. I hope my writing has been missed 😉 My New Year’s resolution is to blog more in 2023 and to liven up things a bit, I am offering a Giveaway that includes loads of reading, book reviews, guest posts, and prizes.

This is going to be a reading challenge spread over 12 months and has two different ways to participate. Let’s talk about the dos and don’ts of this giveaway.

Giveaway Parameters

• WAY #1: Select 12 books to be read in 2023, one book for each month of the year. Criteria for book selection are based on 12 prompts; each can be used only once. You need to submit three book reviews in the year as guest posts for my blog out of the 12 books you would have read. At the end of the year, three winners will be chosen and will be sent an Aman gift voucher worth 300/- plus one pre-loved book per review.
• WAY #2: Every month, read a book and write a book review as a guest post for my blog. I am offering a pre-loved book from my bookshelf as a prize. You can pick a book, commit your read selection and write a book review.

If you are looking for some pointers on how to write a book review; then check out this post

Giveaway WAY #1

• The selection of one book a month x 12 months, is based on 12 prompts which can be mixed up. But you need to fill in the name of the book at the time of signing up for the challenge and cannot change it later.
• You are required to write book reviews for three out of these twelve books that you read in the year and submit them as per the time slot given.

Prompts

1. A book by your favorite author / Award nominated/winning book
2. A book with romance / relationship / family drama or YA genre
3. A book with a number in the title / contemporary fiction
4. A book recommended / hyped by the book-o-sphere
5. A book with the word girl / woman / female name in the title
6. A book with any of the six elements in the title ( Air, Earth, Water, Fire, Metal, Spirit )
7. Re-read a book / read a Classic
8. A book with a strong female protagonist / based on women issues
9. A book with words related to magic in the title (magic, wizard, witch, etc) / Fantasy Fiction genre
10. A book with the name of a color / or the word color in the title
11. A book with a gorgeous cover / Free hit
12. A book with a Universe element in the title (Sun/moon/stars/galaxy/universe) / Historical Fiction genre

⊆ You are eligible for picking up to pre-loved books for the three book reviews you submit which will be sent to you at the end of the challenge. 

Giveaway WAY #2

• Read one or up to 3 books from the 12 prompts and submit a book review for each. You can select anyone of the three time frames for submitting the review. You need to confirm this at the start of the challenge. Four reviews per time slot will be accepted and I reserve the right to change/accept your chosen slot based on availability. You don’t have to read 12 books in this option.
• I have a number of pre-loved books to giveaway which you can choose first and book to confirm your participation. The books are in pristine condition with no writeup of any kind in it. I will be sharing a IG reel to show off the condition of each of these books; will tag you on it once you confirm the participation.
• Books will be sent by India Post to an Indian postal code only.
• You can submit up to three reviews and pick pre-loved books as prizes.
• Follow me on IG
• Share a IG story, confirming your participation and tag me on it by 5th Jan 2023
• Share a IG story once you begin/finish a book and tag me on it
• Book will be sent only after the book review has been received and accepted by me. If you are doing more than one review, then all the books will be sent to you together.

Submit the book reviews as per the following schedule

a) Book review #1 –  by 15th March 2023

b) Book review #2 –  by 15th June 2023

c) Book review #3 –  by 15th September 2023

• Word limit: 1000-1500 words in the WORD template which will be given by me
• Original writing with 90% or more for plagiarism check on Grammarly
• Use American English for writing the post
• One high-resolution (at least 2MB) picture of the book posed aesthetically. Not to be copied from the internet; please pose the physical book / audiobook / Kindle book and click the pic.

Intrigued? Pin it!

Prize Eligibility

To be eligible for receiving one Amazon gift voucher worth 300/- (Three winners)

• Follow me on Instagram (no private accounts) – 2 points
• Share a IG story, confirming your participation and tag me on it on 7th Jan 2023 – 2 points
• Share a IG story once you begin/finish a book and tag me on it – 2 points (each if you share for both)
• Submit the three book reviews on time – 6 points
• Complete the 12 books by 31st December 2023 – 5 points
• Points will be given for aesthetic IG posts and stories – 3 points
• Maximum hits on the blog post – 5 points (So do share the blog link to your followers once its been posted)
• I have a number of pre-loved books to giveaway which you can choose first and book to confirm your participation. The books are in pristine condition with no writeup of any kind in it. I will be sharing a IG reel to show off the condition of each of these books; will tag you on it once you confirm the participation.
• Books will be sent by India Post to an Indian postal code only.

Please note:

Minimum three participants – 1 Winner will be chosen

Five Participants – 2 winners will be selected

Seven participants or more – 3 winners will be picked

• Participant is one who will complete all the challenge parameters. Signing up alone does not count.
• I will confirm the number by 6th Jan 2023. If the minimum number for WAY#1 is not reached, then only the WAY#2 will be played out.
• I reserve the right to reject a book review if it doesn’t fit the parameters and/or the writing quality is inadequate (grammar, punctuations, spellings, etc) 

Please fill in the googledoc by 11.00 p.m. on 7th Jan 2023 to confirm

• your participation
• selection of books to read and review
• submission date of book reviews
• pre-loved ones

Pre-loved books selection – 1 book per book review

1. Inheritance by Balli Kaur Jaswal
2. Sugarbread by Balli Kaur Jaswal
3. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
4. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
5. Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
6. The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
7. Crowfall by Shanta Gokhale
8. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
10. The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
11. An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
12. The Restaurant of Love Regained by Igo Ottawa
13. Here, There and Everywhere: Best-Loved Stories of Sudha Murthy
14. Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives by Sudha Murthy
15. The Magic of the Lost Temple by Sudha Murthy
16. Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk And Other Stories by Ruskin Bond
17. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
18. Ingo by Helen Dunmore
19. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by Stephanie Perkins
20. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
21. The Great Alone by Kirstin Hannah
22. Fly Away (Firefly Lane #2)  by Kirstin Hannah
23. The Book of Lost Names by Kirstin Harmel
24. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
25. Seahorse by Janice Pariat
26. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
27. Ananasi Boys by Neil Gaiman
28. The Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim
29. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
30. FireKeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

So jump onto the googlesheet and fill in the books to read and the books you want from the pre-loved selection. I am looking forward to this year long bookish association and hope to meet plenty of bookstagrammars.

In case of any query, please do write to me at shalzmojo@gmail.com

---

Facebook | | Twitter | Pinterest |Goodreads | Instagram | 

I am an avid book hoarder and reader who loves to write about her opinions on books she reads. If you would like to have an honest review of your book by me; please drop me a mail on shalzmojo@gmail.com with :

1. A sample section of the book (about 25 pages)
2. Your social media handles

Please note that I would require a physical copy of the book for the review and will take 100% advance of the fee.