Race #5 DEBUT AUTHORS! (Presented by Heather) PRIZES EDITION!!

Welcome, everyone, to the fantastic, spectacular PRIZES edition of WIBIJ!! If you are fast enough, or enthusiastic enough, or witty enough, you just might win your choice of a book! Woo-hoo!! A book from one of our fabulous featured blogs here at WIBIJ, no less! We're changing our posting today, so that you can sign up, and loiter here, this morning before the game.

Welcome!! Remember--there will be at least two winners today, one for FIRST PLACE: snagged by the quickest player who leaves the correct phrase in the form, and one for BEST COMMENT: won by the player sporting the wittiest (or funniest) on topic clue out there in the blogosphere-- again, you must leave the correct phrase here at the end of the game in order to qualify! Let the googling begin!!!

Welcome friends from far and near,

Thanks for coming; for being here.

First, some business, before we play,

Disqualification for all who stray!

Sign in at the comments down below,

New clues, every 10, after you go.

Leave Respectful words at each new place,

Stay On Blog Topic--or you're out of this race.

Collect Jon's clues from the comment pile,

Visible by their CAPITAL style.

Return again, comment that you're done,

Submit your phrase, maybe you've won!

There's not much more for you to know.

Welcome to the circus; away we go!

So many debut authors, so little time.
Follow the clues, follow the rhyme.
We wish you good luck as you google to play.

A new book is yours if you win today!

Jon's SECRET PHRASE:


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Clue #1 @ 1PM EST

sarcastic and funny, and a bit of a sleuth

an outsider, a newbie, a little uncouth

living in quiet, he takes his Days Dark

lip reading secrets, mystery's lark.

death comes a knockin' while on the school trip,

so smiley and he, into truth, take a dip.

uncovering secrets, about everyone

much wit is revealed before Hamburger's done.

Clue #2 @ 1:10

she's charmed and she's popular--until her last Fall

seven do-overs in total as death does a stall

day, by day, by day, she retries

her mistakes, her wastes, her life, her lies.

Before moving forward she first must move back

and put meaning within everything that did lack

again and again and again she must right

the flaws in herself and the dark for the light.

CLUE #3 @ 1:20

random facts have a calming effect on the day

when the school bell rings out--one's expected to play

with the anomalous mass of bully and friend

which is which? it's so hard to know in the end.

Reinvention makes sense, as do numbers galore

and inventions and science they never did bore

one Thomas Edison or, one eddy, at all

and learning social cues puts you ahead of the ball.

CLUE #4 @ 1:30

19th century america was enthralled with the sisters,

real foxes and tricksters of mrs. and misters.

cracking knuckles and joints, they pretended the Dead

were speaking aloud, "We Hear them," they said.

never caught in the lie until love came to call

the guilt of their life catches up with them all

or at least with the one who stands to lose most

is it possible to give up your life for fake ghost?

LAST CLUE @ 1:40

not a book to be searched or one title to read

but a different debut coming out of the seed

a forum to chat, to play and to Talk

no need to bring anything, Tracy supplies Chalk.

whether writing that draft or that pesky revision

Crossing out adjectives, beating into submission

or seeking for agents, or just wanting to find

other like minded writers of your very own kind.

look through Tracy's posting

find the one that delivers the hosting

come and take a look,
meet folks to help with that book.

Feeling Stuck?? Check out the Everything Else You Need To Know Page.

Game is open until 1PM Thursday, EST.

STAY TUNED FOR RECAP AND AWARD CEREMONY ON FRIDAY @ 1PM EST!!!

Who will win books? YOU? Get googling!