Or as my team mate Guilie says “A Hop Within A Hop: A-Z Theme Reveal!”. Did I say Team Mate? Yes, we’re both on #TeamDamyanti – AtoZ Co-host Damyanti’s team! See the lovely badge in my sidebar >>
So here’s the thing. We’re having a hop within a hop (I had to repeat it!) A hop = A to Z Theme Reveal Blogfest (within) a hop = the A to Z Challenge.
Drumroll!
I am calling all ye who have signed up for the A to Z April Blogging Challenge 2014!
What? haven’t signed up yet? Do it now! The link is now open and there are 650 (and counting) so far. Did you sign up? Good!
What is the April A to Z Challenge?
A yearly event that brings more than 2500 bloggers – a MEGA bloghop. Through the month of April, starting on April 1, we write 26 posts starting with A for April 1, B for April 2 and so on until we reach Z for April 30. Except on Sundays, to cleverly accommodate the 26 alphabets.
And now that we’ve come past the To be or not to be – there’s one point of discussion with no end in sight: to Theme or not to Theme?
Turns out there are lots of advantages TO THEME. Yes, you should consider it seriously. Of course you’ll come up with a winner! And once you do, you can’t wait to tell the world, right? And you should!
And so – #TeamDamyanti (I am a part of it!) decided to takethe absolutely awesome Mina Lobo’s initiative last year – the Theme Reveal Blogfest – and turn it into a must-have ritual.
Yep!
I am co-hosting the A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal with Anna Tan, Csenge Zalka, Guilie Castillo Oriard and Samant
Another Drumroll, please!
I am excited to announce…
Here is what you do to participate in the March 21 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal
- Mark March 21, 2014 in your calendar – as the date on which you will publish a post about your theme reveal.
- Then, Sign up at the linky below. (Just add your blog’s home page link)
- Grab the gorgeous red badge above to add to your post on March 21, 2014 and link it to this post and also your sidebar if you like!
- Tell the whole world
- On March 21, 2014, publish a post talking about your A to Z Theme, telling us what your theme will be, and why it would be interesting for your existing readers and A to Z Participants.
This is a great opportunity for you to link up with other A to Z Challenge participants, and by the time the challenge begins in April, you’ll have an audience waiting for your posts. True that!
After you publish your post, come back and visit as many A to Zers as you can! Yup! Interaction is the name of the game!
Still frowning and wondering why you should do this?
Build your network – your AtoZ network – before April. Old Jungle Saying. I may or may not have made that up. But I’ve tried and tested it and it works. Get ready for the traffic. Make friends. Have a great time. Enjoy!
“Oy! But I don’t have a theme!”
Yo, you got 40 days to come up with one. F-O-R-T-Y. 4-0 days! That’s a lot of time! And yes you will have a theme!
“So do YOU have a theme?”
He, he. Of course not. Not yet anyway! But I am not saying anything until March 21!
Now sign up.
And this linky below.
You know you want to. We’re here to encourage you!
(You’ll find me on the A to Z Challenge link list at no.55 and 56 – yep! participating with two blogs this year. I figured, if I could ace it last year even while traveling abroad for twenty days in April – anything is possible!)
Sign up and let me know what you think in the comments.
Questions? Ask and ye shall receive the answers!
Here is the linky to sign up!
we have to sign up now or after the theme post on 21st march!!
Welcome, dear Nibha! Yes, you add your blog link to the linky now. But publish your theme reveal post on March 21, 2014. After you publish, come back here and visit others in the linky. 🙂 They’ll reciprocate by visiting you! Looking forward to your theme reveal post!
Ohk! Thank You 🙂
Love your post, Vidya! So proud to be a part of this with you. Hey, uh, any chance you’ll consider revealing your theme early? You know, just between you and me? A sort of Reveal-Host consideration? Aw, come on. I’m dying to know 😉
Of course, Guilie! I’ll certainly reveal my theme to you. Come closer. Closer. Closer now. (psst.psst.psst.)
😀 Great, eh? 😀 Hugs! Love ya!
Vidya! Lovely post! I am so looking forward to working with you on this Challenge and am so happy that we have such a terrific group in #teamDamyanti! ~~Mary
Hugs, Mary! I feel the same! 🙂
Looks cool…I just added mine… sooooo looking forward to the madness 🙂
~ Kajal
Wonderful, Kajal! It is going to be so much fun!
Thanks for hosting this with your fellow members of #TeamDamyanti for this year’s challenge. I like how you laid out all of the instructions and presented this hop-within-a-hop in such a fun way! Kudos to you, Vidya!
~Nicole
#atozchallenge Co-Host @MadlabPost
Thank you Nicole! I am so looking forward to April! The interaction, the connection, the writing! Wow!
I’m signed up! Thanks for doing this. This is a great promo for the A to Z Challenge and a fun way to lead in to April.
Lee
An A to Z Co-Host
Tossing It Out
Welcome, Arlee! 27 is a magic number! I am loving all the activity around the A to Z Challenge – what a fantastic way to celebrate blogging!
Love you for this great initiative!
This post is full of WIN!
<3!
As always, I love your enthusiasm! I’m so amazed that you do this challenge and now will do it around a theme.
I think my readers would go crazy if I were to post 6 days a week for a month! I’m not sure it’s fully in line with my peaceful oasis. 🙂 That’s my one main concern. Thanks for the encouragement.
Thank you, dearest Sandra! I used to worry about that – but I’ll be giving fair warning! I am very much looking forward to the hectic activity – not just this blog, but my health blog too! 😀 Love, Vidya
Signed up = now I’ll have to think of a theme.
Hello Vidya
Thank you so much for this initiative. Just what I was looking out for. Let me tell you something, I have a theme ready and I am part of AJs wHooligans assisting AJ in the task. Ssshhhhhh… See you around.
Regards
Kripali
precari0us.wordpress.com
Have never embarked on the challenge, but may consider giving it a go!
Hey Vidya!
I’m all signed up for the A To Z Theme Reveal blogfest! It’s gonna be a blast!
I have a theme… sort of… actually trying to finalise it… okay enough said for now… 🙂
And see you next week for my Ubuntu Blog Hop! I’m looking forward to reading all the entries!
I have absolutely no clue what my theme will be 🙁 n this is my first time ever at this or any such type of monthly challenge…with trembling hands I add my link!
Good luck, Aditi 🙂 There are lots of tips for first-timers on the atozchallenge website – but I learnt the hard way to get as many posts written as possible BEFORE April started (you can schedule them in advance!)
Jemima
Thank u Jemima. Will try and schedule, that way I could interact more! 🙂
Aditi, that’s gold-plated advice from Jemima! Last year when someone told me, I laughed. And suffered…but kept on. This year I plan to be ready so I have lots of time to interact with everyone!
Thank you Jemima! Hugs!
Hi there fellow fan-fare friend:) Looking forward to the months ahead, while we wreak havoc & consume coffee by the truckloads!! xoxo
Yes! Sam! I am busy stocking up on the coffee! 😀 Hugs. I just know we’re going to have a great time!
Vidya – great post. Still working on my theme. : ) I’m stopping by pre A to Z Challenge to say hello.
Susanne
From the Market to the Plate
Volunteer for the 2014 A to Z Challenge (Stormy Sidekick)
Welcome, Susanne! 😀 Great to see you here! Can’t wait for the A to Z party to kick off!
Theme, theme , theme what to theme ? :)Lot of thinking to do !
Naba, think think think! And mark your calendar for March 21 – and post anyway! 😀 Grab the image from here and link it back! 😀 Hugs! Going to be fun blogging together!
What a great idea this is, Vidya. It’s a good incentive for all of us to get our act together! Well done, Team Damyanti! You rock, ladies! ♥
Thanks Corinne. So nice to have you on board and rocking it with us! 😀
Fabulous idea! It’s my first time participating in the challenge and this should be a help to get the word out. Thanks very much for the opportunity!
So glad you signed up Debbie! Looking forward to interacting with you!
Thank you for the opportunity for a share in the fun. I signed up but was not able to grab the badge link — what did I do wrong? It didn’t work. ……. I had my theme picked out a long time ago — he he.
Carol, thanks for signing up! Just download the badge image and link it to this post – and you’re done. Looking forward to your theme reveal post on March 21 – I admire you for your preparedness! What a great example! 🙂
What a cool blog hop; looking forward to participating; I just finished gathering all the stuff I needed for my A/Z theme today and have about all of them written; should be a fun month in April!
betty
Glad you signed up, Betty! I am impressed you’ve got everything together and it inspires me to step on the gas to do my own stuff!
Looking forward to your theme reveal on March 21! Cheers!
Ok…I’ve committed…you know, I’m just a new blogger, and I’ve recklessly signed up for the A to Z challenge. So I figured, why not make it complete with a theme too? Sounds fun. I hope I do all this “blog-hopping” stuff correctly since I’m a little “blog-challenged ” yet! Thanks for making it look so fun! I’m looking forward to seeing all the interesting themes 🙂
Hi Vidya – I’m in the A-Z and will probably do the theme post, but not join blog-hop … there will be enough of that in April. But I will try and see what everyone is doing …
Cheers Hilary
Hey I dont have a theme…nor I am sure of as my writing would be dependent on time available and ideas in my mind..Can I do without theme?
However, majorly it will be poems and haiku from my side though 🙂
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Hi Vidya,
I have joined the blog hop and got the linky too and thought of a theme as well.
Been visiting some blogs though not enough.
My main concern is that I have been unable to get the A to Z participant badge to put on my side bar, plus I cannot figure out how to the ‘Blog Reveal badge’ to put on my blog.
I sound like a lost soul but please help, cannot post on 21 march with out the badge.
thanks a ton.
http://inderpreetkaur.blogspot.in/2014/03/becoming-freelance-writer.html
Hi Interpreet, Welcome! Great that you’ve signed up for the Theme Reveal and it is awesome you have a theme!
About the badges – easy peasy. Just right click whichever image you need from here and upload it to your blog. That’s it!
The A to Z participant badge is in my sidebar. And the Theme reveal badge is right here in this post!
When you write your post on March 21, do link back to this post!
Let me know if you need help. Would you like me to email you the images?
Love, Vidya
Thanks a ton, Vidya.
I already feel better, got the side bar badge but err, how do I link the post on 21st with this post of yours?
I got the image but not link….
thanks once again.
That is easy, Inderpreet! At the end of your post on March 21, add the following words: This post is written for the A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal Blog fest” and hyperlink those words to this link: https://vidyasury.com/2014/02/a-to-z-challenge-theme-reveal-blogfest.html
🙂 All the best!
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Hey Vidya !
Thank you for being such a wonderful host .
I have no theme, no experience BUT just wanna join ur party 🙂
Cheers !
Whoaa! That’s the spirit, Ananya! So sign up and write a fun post discussing your views on having a theme for the A2Z. Who knows, by March 21, you may come up with one! 🙂 Thanks for the kind words!
I signed up for the A-Z a few days back, and for the Theme Reveal just now.
Looking forward to March 21, and to April!
Yay! I am very glad you did. As I cut my salad this morning, I wondered if you would sign up. 🙂 Your entry for the ThemeReveal is my house number. I bet that’s a sign! 🙂
Welcome, Pro and welcome again!. You will love this!
Hey Vidya! A theme reveal is a great idea! Unfortunately, the list doesn’t show up for me. It says that the linky tools subscription has expired and that the list isn’t available. 🙁 Am I too late to sign up?
Either way, best of luck with both blog hops! 🙂
Oh Yikes! Sara, thanks for catching that. No – you are not too late! Linky is open till March 21! I am trying to get that fixed. So glad you let me know! 😀
Well, glad I’m not too late, but sorry it’s giving you problems. Hopefully you can sort it out. 🙂 I’ll be sure to check back later and see if I can sign up before the 21st. 🙂
Sara! Come on over. The linky has been fixed and is back! 😀
Yay! I’m all signed up! 🙂
Thanks for this great initiative, this is my first ever attempt at something like this. I am so charged up that I got the theme up my sleeve while typing this comment 🙂 Looking forward to learning and sharing in this great forum….brimming creativity!
Glad to have you on board, Bhawana! Welcome and lets rock this A to Z Challenge! 🙂
Thanks for the reminder… I had forgotten to add my blog links for the blogfest.
Rajlakshmi! Not too late, as you can see! 🙂 Good to have you here!
Hay Vidya I want to opt out of the theme reveal, is that possible ? But I will be participating in the challenge ..
Why @Simple Girl? We still have five days to put the post together. Just show your support and post on March 21 – it is all about interaction! So, relax, and join the fun!
I can’t add my link here 🙁 It says I’ve already added but I haven’t 🙁
No.274 – is that you? “I am S(t)ri” 🙂 If not, give me your details and I will see what I can do. 😀 Welcome!
Hi,
I just visited a few blogs. You are indeed right, it’s been a pleasure checking them out. I’m looking forward to reading the others listed here.
Thanks for this and blessings to all of you.
Regards,
Mary
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OH. my links seems not to be working.. so checking it again..Blog @http://rubinaramesh.blogspot.com/
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Hello! I posted my link, but it wasn’t to my home page. 🙁 When I tried to fix it the link said it was already on the list. I actually don’t see it anywhere. Perhaps I’m tired or blind…
Help, please?
Thanks!
Cat
Thank you. I am @brooklynandbo on twitter
I will be blogging under “THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A GIRL.
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I am confirming my theme is “THIS IS A STORY OF A GIRL.”
Thank you. I am @brooklynandbo on twitter
I will be blogging under “THIS IS A STORY OF A GIRL.
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That’s a cool theme, Brenda! Looking forward to reading your stories! Thank you for dropping by!
I have decided on the theme Learning Every Day and I will post about a new thing I learned everyday according to alphabet.
I will link my last post to this theme reveal.
I am sorry I came upon this too late. I can participate right?
Hi Preethi! Welcome. Just sign up for the theme reveal at the linky below this post and link up! 😀 Looking forward to connecting with you through the A to Z!
Official title… The is the Story of a Girl.
Not sure why this was so hard. Sorry!! Excited though!
Hi Vidya,
Getting introduced to #AtoZ Challenge recently, I could register my blog only today and am yet to come up with any theme reveal post. Is this a mandatory step to take part in the April challenge ?
Look forward to your kind reply and let me know if there can be an extension.
regards,
–Jayanta
Hi Jayanta!
Nothing is mandatory! But signing up for the theme reveal is fun! And as you will see, I have no theme either but drummed up a post so I could hang out with everyone! 🙂 Choice is yours. If you ask me, though, taking part in the theme reveal (even if you don’t have a theme) is a fun way to start interacting and getting visitors to your blog and build the tempo for the A to Z 🙂
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My link for the theme reveal.
http://tulipsandme.blogspot.in/2014/03/the-language-of-flowers.html
Thank you Vidya,
My link for the theme reveal.
http://tulipsandme.blogspot.in/2014/03/the-language-of-flowers.html
My theme is #learning everyday.
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Welcome, Inge! So glad you signed up for the A to Z. Nope, never too late for a theme reveal! 🙂 Why not do it tomorrow and start April 1 for A with a bang! 😀
Looking forward to connecting with you!
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