blog carnival
I just have time for a quick post today, so I thought I’d tell you about blog carnivals.
“A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly.
Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic. Carnival posts are generally collated by the author by soliciting relevant contributions from interested people. The author collects links to these submissions, edits and annotates them and publishes the resulting round-up to his or her blog. Many carnivals have a home page or principal organizer, who lines up guest bloggers to host each edition. This means that the carnival travels, appearing on a different blog each time.” ~ Wikipedia
Not all carnivals travel to different blogs every month, and not all of them are updated regularly, but, either way, it’s an easy way to get some free links to your site, not just to the main page but to specific blog posts. Most carnival owners only accept one blog post from each blog per session, but whenever you write something particularly fine, it may be worth suggesting.
You can head over to The Blog Carnival Index and browse carnivals by categories. There are some on writing, blogging, and publishing, as well as a couple that feature stories, so there should be several that are relevant to you as an author.
You don’t have to do anything special to participate, just provide your name, email, and link to the blog post you want to submit. You can also check out the site’s FAQ in case you want to start a carnival of your own.
