Double Booked

By Elaine Viets

See all these books? They can be yours if you’ll help the Femmes Fatales.

We’ll even autograph them.

We need you to answer a short survey so we can give you a better blog.

I know, I know, we’re good. But we want to write the best possible blog. And we can’t do that without you.

We have two surveys. We’d like you to take one. Fill out the survey and you can enter a drawing to win at least 16 books.                                                    

One survey is for readers of this blog – the Femmes Fatales – and our sister blog, the Lipstick Chronicles. Hank Phillippi Ryan and I blog for both. You could say we get around. The Femmes are frequent guest bloggers on The Lipstick Chronicles and vice versa. Nancy Martin was just over here at the Femmes.

If you don't read the Femmes Fatales or the Lipstick Chronicles, please take the other survey. It's for people who like to read blogs -- just not our blogs. (We forgive you. We'll even reward you with books if you win. Just help us out, please.)

What do we want to know?

We’re asking what you like to read. What you like to see. What topics would you like to see more? Less? What about our blog layout: Is it boring? Complicated? Just right?                            

You can tell us. You won’t hurt our feelings. We won’t see your names, except if you win the drawing. Even then, we won’t see what you said about us. The Sterling Ad Co. will read your actual responses.

Do that for us – take the surveys – and all eight Femmes Fatales – Donna Andrews, Dana Cameron, Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner, Kris Neri, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Saums, and me, Elaine Viets – will sign and send you one of our books.

But wait, there’s more! as they say on the infomercials.                                                

The Lipstick Chronicles authors, including Brunonia Barry, Diane Chamberlain, Heather Graham, Harley Jane Kozak, Nancy Martin and Nancy Pickard, will send you one of their bestselling novels.

Margaret Maron will give you a choice of her latest book, "Sand Sharks," or if you’re willing to wait till November, her novel, "Christmas Mourning." I’ll send you my new Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper novel, "An Uplifting Murder" in November or the hardcover "Half-Price Homicide" now.

Just fill out one of these surveys. No matter which survey you take, you’re still eligible to enter the drawing for some 16 autographed books.

Come get your very own library of bestsellers.                                                             

Survey 1: TAKE THIS SURVEY ONLY IF YOU READ THE LIPSTICK CHRONICLES OR THE FEMMES FATALES. 

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sterling_mysteryblogs 

Survey 2: TAKE THIS SURVEY IF YOU DO NOT READ THE LIPSTICK CHRONICLES OR THE FEMMES FATALES. YOU WILL STILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE BOOK DRAWING. 

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sterling_goodblogs

  

     The deadline is October 3. Members of the Sterling Ad Co. will pick the winner. Spend a little time with us and we’ll give you hours of good reading.

PLEASE NOTE: If you answer "neither" to the first question in the Femmes-TLC survey, go down the take Survey 2. You're still eligible for the drawing if you complete that survey.

                                          

 

                                                            

Comments

[Susan Kersten]

I love the blogs the way they are. If you change anything I would add more links to the page under the story they are conetected to.

[Kim G.]

I've never visited your blogs, checked off neither, but would have liked a chance to view the questions, maybe I could have answered something?

[Lala Corriere]

Hmmm... I'm not finding the contest survey, either.

I think your blog is visually stimulating, without too much foo-foo. My only thought is that, without making it too dark/hard on the eyes, you could give it a more nefarious look.

I'm not sure this comment enters me in your contest [again, no survey] so perhaps you'll want to make that more clear.

Best!

[CilleyGirl]

The surveys worked just fine for me, but I found it incomprehensible that there was a box to check about how you follow the Femmes Fatales only in the hope that Donna Andrews will send you copies of her books before they hit the shelves....

;)

[CilleyGirl]

Oops, that should be that there WASN'T a box to check...

[Susan in VA]

I just noticed that when you bookmark this page it still says "My Blog" instead of "Femme Fatales"

So there's a suggested tweakering ;)

[Susan in VA]

Weird! I tried it again on the main page and it DID come up Femme Fatales this time!

hhmmmm.... Maybe I mistook the "My Weblog (post)" format on the individual post pages. (Still would be better if that said Femme Fatales)

[Elaine Viets]

Glad you clarified that, Cilley.
You're right, Susan. We'll see if we can fix that "Weblog" business.

[kt ford]

have checked into your blog at least monthly...and have been impressed..always adding to my tbr journal..also, did not get any questions survey..thank you muchly (!) for your continuing efforts..

[Elaine Viets]

KT, it's early here in Lauderdale and I've been up since four finishing a book.
Not sure what you mean about "did not get any questions survey."
Please help me through the fog.

[Charlesalas]

Hi:
I'd love to get into your blog. Is that possible? I'm on Facebook, and 3 websites: backpage.com; oxg, and e-classified
Thanks.
LOIS

[Elaine Viets]

Hi, Lois. Thanks for your note. We don't really need any guest bloggers right now but thanks for asking.