Monday, September 1, 2008

Cozy Mystery Challenge – time to sign up!

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Last year I hosted a cozy mystery challenge in September, and I'm ready to do it again! The goal is to decide on a number of cozy mysteries you think you ran read in September, and then, well, read them in September!

In order to participate you need to:

  1. Decide on a number of cozy mysteries to read in September. (This can be from 1 up to, well, whatever you think you can squeeze in!)
  2. Create a post on your blog with the number you plan to read for this challenge and possible title selections, please create a link back to this post so others can easily find the challenge home if they wish to join.
  3. Sign-up with Mr. Linky so I can keep track of who all are going to play. Please put the number of cozies you plan to read behind your name. An example would be: Kris(04).
  4. When September is over, be sure to come back to my blog and I'll have a new post created where you can use Mr. Linky to let us all know how you did!


See, that's it! That's not so hard now is it?

Last year I asked people to read only cozy mysteries for the month of September, but that proved to be a little hard. So basically the only change is that you can read other stuff, just pick a number of cozies that you think you will be able to read, and try to stick to it.




***REQUEST: I'm pretty busy right now and not sure I'll have time to create a challenge picture. If you like to create these and have the time to create one for this challenge, I would really really appreciate it.***


***AUTHORS: Any authors out there willing to donate one of your cozy mystery books as a prize? I had a couple of authors offer to do this for me last year and loved being able to give away a book to a challenge participant. If you are interested, please notify via email. Thanks!***



19 comments:

Heidi said...

I am so happy that your doing this again. I will have to figure out my list.

Unknown said...

Yeah! Glad to see you are going to "play".

Lover of Books said...

I am going to make a post on my blog right now. :)

Unknown said...

Yeah! I'll be over to check out your list tomorrow lover of books. I, myself, still haven't put together my list. lol! We are working on the dining room now and so my library has all my boxes of books and tools and flooring and doors in there. haha! So it will take some effort to find my cozies.

Bookfool said...

I'm all challenged out, but I'm going to peek in and see what everyone reads. ;)

Unknown said...

I completely understand bookfool. I don't think this is exactl your genre either, so I won't be mad. :)

Wendy said...

Hi Kris - I've finally had time to catch up on posting new challenges...your challenge is now post here at A Novel Challenge!

Unknown said...

Thanks so much Wendy!

Anonymous said...

Ooh, I clicked Mr. Linky before I put in my total! I think I'll just try for 4 books! I love cozy mysteries though so it may be more! :D

Unknown said...

No problem Ladybug! Looking forward to seeing how many you read.

Grilsgood said...

Half of everythign I read are mysteries, far less cozies, but I can up that.

Grilsgood said...

Half of everythign I read are mysteries, far less cozies, but I can up that.

Unknown said...

grilsgood - I read a lot of mysteries too, I don't read as many cozies as I used to, but always have several waiting for me in the TBR pile.

Jenn and The Cats of Castle Coull said...

This challenge is perfect for me, as I love cozy mysteries. I can't wait to start!

Unknown said...

Jenn,
Glad you were able to sign-up!

Unknown said...

I belong to a few cozy book groups at Yahoo! I will be reading at least 1, who knows how many I will read. I will keep a running list on my blog.

Judy

Unknown said...

Judy - Thanks for signing up!

Anonymous said...

I'm in. I can't read what is required as the screen is too big for my moniter for some reason.
kim in ohio

Unknown said...

Kim,
I'm glad you are joining the challenge, sorry you can see everything. You just make a list of cozy mysteries to read in September. Create a post on your blog with the list and a link back to my blog. Then at the end of the month, visit this blog and let me know how you did! I'll go ahead and sign you up.