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It wont let me sign up!!!!
ReplyDeleteMe either
ReplyDeleteit won't let me sign either
ReplyDeleteIT'S NOT LETTING ME SIGN UP AGAIN!!! AHH!!! Now I have proof!
ReplyDeleteWait! I DID get in, after refreshing it over and over! I literally screamed and started happy dancing :) #160. THANK YOU SO MUCH CUPID AND EVERYONE ELSE FOR THIS AMAZING CONTEST!
DeleteWoops, I just got bumped up (somehow). I'm 159 now :)
DeleteThe widget never appeared here.
ReplyDelete109! yes!!! I'm in!
ReplyDeleteBoy howdy! It's 9:00, I've been refreshing, the widget just showed up and it says it closed 5 minutes ago. It's definitely full! I'm not sure how that worked but I do appreciate the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteLike I said earlier, the contest gave me a deadline to get that query into shape. Thank you! Best of luck to everyone!
It said 5 minutes ago because we had a false start. Then it showed up a tad late after 9 because of people signing up early.
Delete141! *does dance*
ReplyDeletethe widget never appeared
ReplyDelete143! I actually made it!! Btw--there were issues--the widget never appeared for a good while. I had to jump from site to site!
ReplyDeleteWhew. I got it!
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ReplyDeleteLove YA didn't have a visible widget! Ugh! Technology and me don't get along!
ReplyDeleteI'm on at #109. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOops, make that 149. It switched while I was commenting.
DeleteThe widget never showed for me, no matter how many times I refreshed.
ReplyDeleteI gotta say, I'm feeling a bit bummed that I hovered and then didn't even get a chance to enter at all.
I had probs with the widget, too. Not sure if I made it in...
ReplyDeleteI think so Carla!
DeleteThe widget never even showed for me. I believe you have invented some kind of new literary torture the likes of which has never been seen before.
ReplyDeleteSlaves to the widget, one and all, upon our swords we now can fall!
I shall now go weep.
Okay, you made me smile, and I was nursing some serious hair rending because the widget never appeared on any blog, in any window, for me either, so I never even got to try. Which, it's not the failing I can't bear, it's the never trying.
DeleteBut now that I can call myself a slave widget and pretend to fall on my sword for the rest of the evening, at least I can smile about it. Thank you for that :)
Yes, this was funny during a stressful time!
DeleteEveryone who didn't get in gets a retry tomorrow!!!!!!!
thanks
ReplyDeleteokay, that was about the weirdest thing ever. This morning I thought I was in and wasn't. Tonight I figured I was out but there I am number 113.
ReplyDeleteToo weird.
I loaded it three times and never even saw the widget!
ReplyDeleteCarmen Taxer and Richard Wheeler, no widget? Did not even show even though I have been refreshing the page since 5 minutes before?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe that using the same widget on multiple sites = bad idea.
ReplyDelete155! Woot!
ReplyDeleteInteresting... I refreshed a bunch of times and the widget never appeared (it did this morning when I tried). It also said at 9:00 that it had expired 6 minutes ago. That time changed over refreshes, but it never stopped saying that it had expired. Technical difficulties adding an element of luck to the event? Good luck to those who made it in, regardless. :) Looking forward to seeing how the contest goes.
ReplyDeletephew, #111... email coming your way shortly :)
ReplyDeleteHum, original comment didn't show up! Strange... #121 woot!
ReplyDeleteI think I made it! Yay #92! WooHoo!
ReplyDeleteYes!!!! I got in! So excited. I had to hit the refresh button a couple of times and the number kept changing. I sent my email with the wrong number and had to resend it with the correct number.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to everyone who made it in!
ReplyDeleteI thought I didn't make it but I'm 105. Yippee, I'm in and excited.
ReplyDeleteSorry to everyone who had trouble with the widget and didn't make it in. I was on this and Krista's site & the widget didn't show up here right away. On Krista's it was not doing anything after I hit "enter" so I thought I was out.
Good luck to those who made it and those who didn't with querying.
~Amy K.
Sorry for the complications!
ReplyDeleteDid anyone here see the widget working AFTER 9?
Not me. Not anywhere. In fact, it's still showing me the first 75 (on all the blogs) but saying that it's open. Without the widget.
DeleteI didn't ever see the widget. Hit refresh like 10 times since 9 pm, and it went from zero to like 176 entries in a second, without ever seeing the widget. Could be my computer is just slow. We're having a storm here that is quite scary, though, so my internet connection is acting a little wonky due to the massive lightning...
DeleteSo you can see 176 entries Laura? I've shut down safari and restarted it, reloaded all the blogs and they're still telling me it's open (with no widget) and just showing 75 entries. So freaking wacky.
DeleteI arrived at your site from Love YA after 9 and was able to use your widget--though I was convinced I was too late, I'm #124!
DeleteThere was no widget after 9. Then I left a comment, hit Publish, and there was the widget, already filled out. Like I did this morning. I hit publish and my name went on the list.
Delete*shakes head*
When it showed up for me (I refreshed a billion times) the widget was closed. I was 178 though so I'm not sure if the "closed" was correct.
DeleteYes, but only after a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5). But it was there.
DeleteMan Huntress, I *almost* tried that, but I was so spastic, trying to get the other blogs up that I didn't want to waste the time. *slaps forehead and reaches for the scotch...*
DeleteoH, poo.
DeleteIs that my Linky post from this morning? That would explain it.
@Artemis Grey
DeleteSpastic is my middle name.
I'm putting off my Snoopy dance for now. My entry appears in the same spot as this morning's Linky entry. Cupid might be reconsidering entries like mine.
I didn't see it until it closed. It may have had to do with your popularity, Cupid! Too many people trying to use it at once.
DeleteI had to hit refresh like ten times before the widget showed up. I didn't bother going to the other blogs,would've been a waste of time with my slow connection. But I DId see the widget and I DID get in, though it was shortly AFTER 9pm EDT.
Delete169!
ReplyDeleteI must tell you, though, that I almost died. It was insane. So, a few minutes before 9:00 (8:oo PM here in Wisconsin), the widget showed up. I was very surprised and quickly wrote down my name. That turned out to be a false alarm, they were just setting things up, so I apologize for that.
After they erased the names that submitted early, the contest started. It was time, but the widget wouldn't show up. I refreshed, and refreshed, went to the other blogs, started yelling at the computer. . . AND had the not so brilliant idea to restart my browser.
I was certain I had missed this opportunity when the widget finally appeared and I got entry #169.
So sorry for the early inconvenience. And so thankful for this opportunity. CONGRATS, everyone!! Thank you!
Okay, that's crazy that you saw it early! I was sitting hulking and obsessively refreshing and never saw it before 9. Then at nine, the blogs all posted, but I could never (and still haven't) seen the widget. Go figure. Skynet has taken over!
DeleteIt didn't show up for me for a while either and I was convinced I'd missed out when it suddenly appeared. I typed like the dickens and then there I was! #146! Yay!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this opportunity! Emailing and posting my stuff now.
I made it, too! So exiting! Thank you very much for the opportunity, and best of luck to those who entered!
ReplyDeleteWhew! Under the wire. Shaky fingers surfing blogs! Thanks for adding the extra slots for us. You guys are the BEST!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't see the enter spot for the widget on your blog for quite a while and I tried Brenda's too but it didn't appear there either. Then once it finally showed up I hit enter and ended up 185. :(
ReplyDelete#133! Good luck everyone!
ReplyDeleteDid the widget even appear on this site? I've seriously been refreshing since 5 minutes before the start. We missed it earlier, because the widget was on the homepage and not on the actual page url for the competition, and now because it seemed like the widget just did not appear?
ReplyDeleteFine, we'll do this the traditional route, if you'd like to have a read anyway, here's the link:
http://vampirebibliographica.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/sanguinem-emere-bought-in-blood/
Sorry for the confusion. Please try to submit again tomorrow! We are taking 25 more entries. Stay posted for more details very soon!
DeleteI'm so sorry. My computer was being angry with me, and I think it submitted my name twice: #150 AND #162. So, so sorry.
ReplyDeleteYou know what, I'm going to go ahead and post my entry on my blog because writing takes that kind of psychotic perseverance and I've got it.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who wants to join me for the Writer's Voice losers party, hop over to my blog and post a link to your entry in the comments section. I'll read yours if you read mine, and the winner gets something better than a slap in the widget.
#85... #85! Oh my gosh, I made it! Sent the email!
ReplyDeleteWe are deliberating! Please be patient or check back! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOh, right, here's the link to the query and first 250 of Mad As A Hatter: http://the-allie-cat.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteIt's 3:30am here now, I have no idea how I'm going to get to sleep again.
ReplyDeleteGot up at 2:30am to enter a competition, fearing that the weird issue that plagued the previous entry attempt would once again thwart me. Fear, hope, frantic action, much wailing and gnashing of teeth and then... The cold silence of rejection.
Anger, disbelief, the comments of those with the stars on their side fanning the flames of grief. All I can say is: "That's life." The real world.
A brief bright moment that has now passed. I will return again to my small patch of dark fantasy, where the hero will pass through hell for a brief glimpse of heaven. Will he succeed? Sure, tell yourself that. How will he succeed? Now that will take some telling...
This makes me feel so sad. Please please try to re-enter during tomorrow's extra window. More details coming very soon!
DeleteI retract my last statement. I was just like the rest of you. Refreshing every ten seconds. I even had all four blogs in separate tabs. I was counting down and then about died when the widget wasn't showing. I was over here cursing & throwing objects at the walls as the seconds slipped by me. Then, out of no where, I clicked the comments to see if other people were having the same trouble and the widget magically showed up. At that point I frantically typed my info in, laughing to myself and somehow I secured the #165 entry. After reading the morning contestants comments, I for sure thought there was a thirty second window before the entries booked up. I can't believe I made it in. Add me people. Let's network. Good luck to all!
ReplyDeleteHow glad am I that I don't have to do this every day? I had completely given up - by the time I saw my first widget, it was on 154 - I thought I was toast - but then I moved up to 130 ( my lucky number is 13, so I asked the Angels for this number - I guess they were listening. Thanks Cupid - you guys are awesome.
ReplyDeleteJacky
xxx
same story here jacky...twas like a gift from the blog fairies!
DeleteI signed up at 9.05pm and thought I had missed it, had to refresh several times and I am on DIAL UP in rural New Zealand!!
ReplyDeleteAnd then gift from the blog gods... I am #153.
So go figure?
For those who had no chance during our second window we are accepting 25 more entries. More info coming soon!
ReplyDeleteUPDATE!
ReplyDeleteI don't think the widget failed. This is what I think happened: We had a false start at 5 til. People signed up. We had to delete those early entries, so the widget didn't open till a bit after 9, eventually filled up quickly for those lucky enough to be refreshing at the right time, then closed when it was filled. So some may have never seen it open. Especially on slower internet connections.
So, we are opening a third entry window and taking another extra 25 entries tomorrow! I will update my blog with the exact details asap!
Thank you!
Thank you for helping to organize and host this amazing contest!
ReplyDeleteGAH!!! 206! I STILL can't operate a widget! I actually got my blog name on the entry line instead of my human name! I don't deserve to be in the contest! :)
ReplyDelete