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The Featured Author Contest  

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The Featured Author Contest begin on the 1st of each new month.

Each month the IAN member with the most visits (hits) to their IAN member page will be named The Featured Author Contest Winner!
    The author and his/her books will be featured on the IAN home page for one month!

The Featured Author Contest

                                                                         Guidelines and Rules

We started this contest as a way to attract book buying readers to the site. This is not a “vote in” or a popularity contest. We expect all those who participate to act responsibly and honorably. Our goal is to sell books and to  increase exposure for all members.

Please advertise your IAN page by inviting all who see your post or tweet to stop by and check your page. ie “Check out my IAN author page at….” or “Visit me and the other talented authors at IAN….”  

Please do not to ask your friends for "hits" to your IAN page. Please do not announce you are in a contest. This can cause enthusiastic, over-zealous friends to multi-click your page. Multi clicking can send several dozen or even several hundred hits to your page in a short time. Unfortunately this is not true traffic. This is cheating! This practice will NOT be tolerated. If we suspect multi-clicking or any other unfair practice you will be disqualified and your IAN member page will be deleted.



Platinum level members are not eligible for this contest as IAN admin promote their pages.


What can you do to increase traffic?
  1. Tweet your IAN page everyday. Use #tags for your genres
  2. Link your IAN page to your Facebook page. (copy paste your IAN URL to your FB wall)
  3. Add links to your IAN page on your personal website and blog. (banners are available)
  4. Tweet other member authors and ask them to tweet your page.
 
                   
Our website hit count software can differentiate between self clicks, multi clicking and unique visitors! :)

Featured Author Contest Winners

Featured Authors 2011

January - John L Betcher
February- Elizabeth E. Wilder
March - M R Mathias
April - L Carroll
May - Jeannie Walker
June - Sharon Cupp Pennington
July - Franki deMerle
August - Larry Enright
September - Carole Sutton
October  - Nicholas Rose
November  - Joe Vizanko
December - Lori Otto

Featured Authors 2015

January - Sylvia Engdahl
February - Glenn Soucy
March - Harmony Rose
April - Donna Freis
May - Rik Stone
June - Kyle M Perkins
July - Bob Kern
August - Kenechukwu Obi
September - Diane Astle

October-Rebecca Bryn
November-PJ McDermott
​December-Coach JV Swann

Featured Authors 2012

January - Paul Anthony
February - Lisa M Taylor
March - Kenneth Hoss
April - Penny Childs
May - Frederick Lee Brook
June  - Alle Wells
July - Jeff Whelan
August - Gary Starta
September - Derek Graystone
October  - Daisy Buckner
November - CLR Dougherty
December - James Paddock

Featured Authors 2016

January - R.C. and J.P. Carter  
February-Phil Rowan
March-Bob Kern 
April-Stacy Juba  
May-
Sarah Stuart

Featured Authors 2013

January -Kimberly Ranee Hicks
February-David Van Dyke
March-VT Vaughn
April-Cliff Ball
May-Paul Morgan
June-Jan Moran
July-Rebekah Lyn
August-Glenn Soucy
September-Claudia Burgoa
October -Sherrie Lowe
November-Roberta Goodman
December-Kathryne Arnold
Featured Authors 2014

January - Lia London
February - Robert Carter
March - R J Parker
April - Rik Stone
May - Owen Jones
June - Naya Lizardo
July - Cynthia Morgan
August - Dresden Danielle
September - A.J. Leavens

October-Katherine Lowry Logan
November-JJ Slate
December-Doug J. Cooper

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