Happy Birthday! Blogverisary! Anniversary! 4th Year To Us!

Call it what you will, but Authors Promoting Authors has been around for four years and we thought we should celebrate.

Over the next few weeks, we will have Birthday Posts, Anniversary Specials, and lots of give-a-ways.

We are passionate about helping authors succeed, and over the four years, APA has grown into a huge and far-reaching network. Behind the scenes, we answer questions from authors, we do our best to ask around and provide references or thoughts on publishers, services and even agents. We have inspired other blogs to work in the same vein and have brought hundreds of writers together, most importantly, given authors an innovative way to promote their work.

 We were the first blog of our kind, open to all genres, all authors, everywhere.

As part of our 4th Year Celebration, we'd like to run a feature called "Remember When..."

If you have been on the APA Blog, especially during the early years, we'd like to have you back, to talk about the book of yours that appeared here and your current or recent release. If you're interested, drop us a line here: apasuggestions@gmail.com
Thank-You! Thank-You! Thank-You!
To all the authors who have participated, to all the contributors who have been on over the years and to our many friends and readers. Thank-you!

In the next few weeks, we will be celebrating our Birthblogversary, with lots of prizes, contests, events and giveaways but it is our Birthday! Blogverisary! Anniversary! 4th Year! And we thought we should take this opportunity to ask for presents. 

Our Present List

Many, Many, Many Followers
 Last year, due to the changeover of our template, we removed the Follow button and were just a little bit slow on re-adding. Followers of the APA Blog get perks and at least one of us tries to follow you back.

A New Look
 Each year around our anniversary-during the summer-we improve the elements to the blog and slightly change the look. If you are a blog/template/graphic person out there and would like to do this for us, drop us a line here: apasuggestions@gmail.com

A Brazen Contributor
 We are the only blog of our kind. We were the first blog to be open to all genres, including erotica and in part in was due to those erotica authors why we quickly gained interest and following. We'd like to give back and are seeking a contributor to have a weekly "Erotica Corner" on the APA Blog. You could talk about all things that have to do with erotica writing, interview writers, artists, those who publish erotica books and anything else in between.

Non-Published Writers 

APA is open to all writers or readers. If you are an expert in your field, filled with knowledge and wisdom that you think our readers will appreciate, then we'd love for you to write a guest post and be Our Guest.

Love Us!
We greatly appreciate our contributors and encourage you to show them some love.
Margaret West's new feature "Food for Thought" in a short time, has grown hugely popular. If,you are an expert or person with knowledge in the book-world and feel that you'd make a good guest for her, please contact her directly at: margaretwest@hotmail.com And give Margaret a follow here:
http://margaret-paranormalromanceauthor.blogspot.com/

Dorica Nevin, pops in on Sundays with her soul-awakening feature, Sunday's Stillpoint. Check out Dorica's labor of love, "Psyche's Journey"
http://www.psychesjourney.org/

C.S. Chamberlain interviews authors, with six questions that center on your characters and on your story, with her feature "Six of A Story" .
Check out her blog here: http://cschamberlain.blogspot.com/

Christopher Chamberlain is an artist and firmly in the APA Family. If you need cover art or other drawings, see his work here:
http://manyfacesart.blogspot.com/

Join In!

This blog does not exist without authors who want to participate. Check out features to see where your book could fit. Want us to help or have an idea for a post that you don't see listed? Drop us a line here: apasuggestions@gmail.com It never hurts to ask and if we can, we will accommodate.

Continue On
In connection with APA, C.S. Chamberlain is starting a new collective blog. Looking for six other women, to take part and post one day a week on this new blog. Preference will be given to those writers who are unpublished and are working on a WIP, have interesting things to say, and more than anything else, want to land that elusive literary agent.
If interested: cschamberlain2010@gmail.com

Hire Me!
In celebration of our fourth year, check out this promotional package


Tell Us What You Want... 
Is there something you wish we had on this blog? Is there something you'd like to see? Would you like to host us for our anniversary? Do you have ideas of how to celebrate? As usual, we'd love your thoughts and suggestions.

Can't Say Thank-you Enough!
A thousand thank-yous' to everyone, past and present who has helped build this blog and the behind the scenes network. We wouldn't be celebrating out 4th year without you!
Leave a comment on this post and all week--all comments from the week of July 18th 2011, will be entered to win a weekend spot on the APA Blog.