“Celebrate 10 Years of Blogging with Me!” Joan Y. Edwards

It’s amazing. I didn’t know what to write when I first started my blog on October 9, 2009. I knew I wanted to write posts to keep you, my readers, from giving up. Primarily, I am a child of God. So I write to inspire you to believe in yourself.  Next, I am a writer, I focus on writing posts to help you as a writer understand the publishing process and ways to market what you write.  I illustrate a little, so I added a few posts for illustrators.  

Last year, I lost about 300 subscribers when I moved my blog to my website from WordPress.com/. That made me very sad. However, I like that one link https://www.joanyedwards.com will get everyone to my website, books, and blog.  If you’re not receiving an email when I publish a new blog post, I would be honored if you’d subscribe. 

I started out with 25 visitors a month. Now I have over 1,000 visitors a month. Visitors have viewed a post of mine over 700,000 times in 10 years! Isn’t that awesome! You’re a part of that. Thank you.

Here are my most popular posts on Writing, Spiritual, and Illustration:

50 Publishers Who Accept Unsolicited Manuscripts
22 Literary Agents Who are Looking for You
What Is the Purpose of the Dialogue in Your Story?
How to Write a Pitch, Summary, and Synopsis That Sells
How Many Words Should Your Sentence Contain?
Plots Need Believable Consequences
God, I Need You Now
Don’t Tell God How Big Your Problem Is; Tell Your Problem How Big Your God Is.…Author Unknown
One Point Perspective – Art
How to Draw in Two-Point Perspective 

What should we do to celebrate?

Give away a copy of one of my books, YES.
Give away a free critique, YES
Give away free Never Give Up image. YES.
Give away free 10 Affirmations for a Child of God, YES.

Thank you to the following people for leaving a comment on this blog post before midnight on October 9, 2019:

1. Marquita Martin,  Carol Baldwin Didn’t want to be entered into the contest, 2. Sarah Maury Swan, 3. Ken Chang On,  4. Melanie Robertson-King, 5.  Bob Rich, Linda Andersen Gutheil Didn’t want to be entered into the contest 6. Cat Michaels, 7. Lisa Anne Cullen, 8. June Phyllis Baker, 9. Pamela A. Bryson, 10. Kathleen Burkinsaw, and 11. Shawn Crane Simon.

Random.org chose  Number 10, 8, 7, and 5.  Therefore,

10. Kathleen Burkinshaw won a free copy of one of my books.
8. June Phyllis Baker won a free critique of 1000 words of a manuscript.
7. Lisa Anne Cullen won a Never Give Up image.
5. Bob Rich won 10 Affirmations for a Child of God. I sent it to him.

Here is the Never Give Up image I created for Lisa Anne Cullen. She said I could post it here for you to see.

I emailed the winners with their prize information.

I would be honored if you would subscribe to my blog. Receive free gifts. Join over 100 other subscribers and over 700,000 visitors. You’ll be sent an email to confirm your subscription. Thank you.

Never Give Up
Joan Y. Edwards, Author
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Never Give Up
Joan Y. Edwards
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