Food blogging for Dummies – A book giveaway
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Lubna Karim – Comment #42
COngratulations! Winner have 24 hours to get back to me. Or else I will have to pick another winner.
It’s a giveaway time! I have scheduled 6 giveaways this month as a part of my blog’s first birthday celebration, as I promised in my birthday post – remember? So here I present you the first giveaway…The most helpful book I have ever read, “Food Blogging for Dummies” sponsored by Kelly Senyei of Just a Taste.
Kelly, herself is a food blogger of Justataste.com and has been blogging for more than 5 years. Not only that, she is a food journalist, stylist, photographer and a chef. She has even worked with Food network and she has a degree in culinary arts. I think her qualification says it all that this book is written by someone with lottsss of experience.
Are you relatively a new food blogger or even wanting to start one and no idea where to start? This book has all the information you need to have one valuable food blog. From soup to dessert, anything and everything! This is simply the Bible for Food blogging!
I have known Kelly through one of the food blogging conferences. She is a down to earth, charming personality and full of knowledge. She knows every bits of this blogging world!
Check out this video yourself, you will fall in love with this beautiful personality!
At first when I received her email saying that she wants to send me a review copy of her book, I was like – Oh wow! That’s something new…but why not? In few weeks, it arrived at my doorsteps, and as it arrived, just like another books, it found its place on my cookbook shelf. You know what I am talking about right? The huge pile of cooking magazines and cookbooks that we plan to read when we get time and the pile gets bigger and bigger???
But this book was exceptional – I was curious to find out what’s in there and so I started reading. And then I realized, oh! This is like a perfect manual for how to have a successful blog! And very soon this book took place on my bedside table from bookshelf.
Kelly has done great job writing this book very carefully, the book has 16 chapters. Every chapter is dedicated to one special topic – like what blogging platform to choose to how to make money out of your blog. How to use your camera to how to take good food photographs. How to write a recipe to how to develop one. Finding your voice to eating with your eyes. Even how to upload something on the blog…like image or any other media etc…Every tiny detail that you need to know for blogging is there.
Why to spend time finding things on Google, when you have all the information you need related to food blogging in this book.

“How to take photographs, set up your own studio or how to read your camera” – whatever information you need is there

Ever thought of using “Glue” in place of milk while photographing?” I never did! Click on image to find out more about artificial food photography.

Who does such hard work? Detailed information on the menu of wordpress blog setup and also other platforms…Brilliant job done Kelly
Kelly dear, I so wish I had this book in my hand when I started my blog – but never late than never right? I know I need to make a few – okay lots of changes after reading your book!
Thank you Kelly.
I am totally sold to this book and totally recommend it. It’s worth every penny.
Now let’s talk about the giveaway!
How to Enter:
Here’s your chance to win one copy of “Food blogging for dummies”. And the good news is that this giveaway is not limited for USA residents only, they will be shipping worldwide. So let’s see who is the lucky winner?
This giveaway is open until Thursday (5/31/12) 11:59:59 pm CDT . I will pick the lucky winner on Friday (06/01/12).
Because of Memorial day long weekend holiday here in USA, I am extending the giveaway deadline for another week. Now the giveaway is open until Thursday (06/07/12) 11:59 pm (your time). I will pick the lucky winner on Friday (06/08/12).
The winner will have 24 hours to get back to me so make sure to leave a valid email address. Your information is confidential.
I will use the random number generator software to pick the winner. So if you choose to go for extra entries, make sure to leave separate comments for each entry. Otherwise the number generator software will not recognize your entry.
Mandatory entry: Just leave a comment in this post.
Optional entries: Make sure to leave separate comments for each step you follow.
Remember to leave a separate comment for every step.
- Subscribe to ZaikaZabardast so you do not miss a single post.
- Follow me on Pinterest.
- Like my Facebook page.
- Follow me on Twitter.
- Follow Just a Taste on Twitter.
- Like Just a Taste on Facebook.
- Tweet about this giveaway saying: “I just entered to win a copy of Food Blogging For Dummies from ZaikaZabardast http://wp.me/pTI6E-sk @zaikazabardast @justataste” or something like that.
Other OPEN Giveaways to enter:
Free Wholly Guacamole Products
Beautiful Mexican Vanilla beans by Beanilla
A case full of Beautiful Lipman Tomatoes
This is gonna be so helpful for me. I would love to win this book Grishma!
I had liked you in FB long back 🙂
Followed you in Twitter … long back 🙂
And subscribed too .. again long back 😀
I would like to participate 🙂
Good job!!!!!!!
Nice
Would love to read this.
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Nice …the books seems to be very inserting
Have subscribe to this space for long now
Liked your fb page
And like just a taste page in fb too
I want this book.
I hope I get it.
Wish I can get hold of this book. Liked both pages on Facebook and Twitter.
I love the book! Well I mean I don’t have it, but I’ve seen reviews and I’ve Meet Kelly!
I Follow you on Pinterest.
I like your facebook page!
I follow you on twitter
I Follow Just a Taste on Twitter.
I Like Just a Taste on Facebook.
I tweeted this about the giveaway! “I just entered to win a copy of Food Blogging For Dummies from ZaikaZabardast http://wp.me/pTI6E-sk @zaikazabardast @justataste”
Happy, happy birthday my blogger friend. Here’s a toast to another wonderful year.
Awww…thats sooo sweet of you Teresa! Thank you very much 🙂
THis book looks really good : ) Thanks and tell your friend “Great job!” 🙂
Thanks so much for your sweet comment about my bread 🙂 Now, I’d love to win this book since I guess I am a fodd blogger, and have my ‘dummy’ moments ;D
Thanks so much for your sweet comment about my bread 🙂 Now, I’d love to win this book since I guess I am a food blogger, and have my ‘dummy’ moments ;D
I follow you. I’m sure it’s a great book, but you sure are NO DUMMY! haha. Are you going to come to the happy hour next Wed. I’d like to see you there!
I pin with you.
I facebook with you.
I tweet with Just a taste.
Yes this is going to be really useful. Good luck! and I hope I win it 😉
yes, been you follower (long time back)
Liked you FB page (long time back)
Ooh, I could use a refresher!
I like you on Facebook.
I follow you on twitter!
Hey.. u have a really nice blog! And so thoughtful of u to organise a giveaway with this book 🙂 good luck!
Lovely job Grishma 🙂 I follow you on facebook, twitter and pinterest
Oh and I tweeted about the giveaway and followed Kelly on fb and twitter
Congrats on hitting milestone dear….new look of u r blog is very refreshing…Book sounds interesting…..
I already like your page on facebook……
Liked just a taste too on facebook…
That’s a very apt book to give – for procrastinators, and also for people who already have food blogs. Congratulations on your blog turning one! I recently came to know about your blog through another one.
Just began following you on Twitter also.
Congrats on your 1 yr blogoversary!
Following you on Pinterest!
Following you on Twitter
Following just a taste on twitter
Like you on FB
LIked Just a Taste on FB
Tweeted about this giveaway
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I met Kelly at the FBFOrl … same place you did, right?? She is great! I would love to win a copy of her book, it’s a must-read for food bloggers!!
I’m following you on Pinterest!
I’m already following you on Twitter
I already like you on Facebook
I tweeted about the giveaway!
I already follow Just A Taste on twitter
I already like Just A Taste on Facebook
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This book is looking awesomer and awesomer, the more I have been reading about it
just in time :-p Congrats on your milestone…I liked “just a taste on Facebook and like u on Facebook too…The book description sounds really good …
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Gr8 Giveaway Grishma and hope that i win this book..not sure whether will restart my blog now only but hope this book will me in tht step.
Congrats Grishma, Would love to have this book and hope it helps me in restarting my blog.