Congratulations again to our winning Challengers! We are so proud of you, and we’re also proud of everyone who participated. Whether you wrote one article or 100, accepting the LK Fall Article Challenge was a step toward greater success in your writing career.

The winners will receive their Golden PJs via e-mail later this week. Because everything is so hectic with the holidays coming up, and because attendance has been low lately, we’re going to forgo the tele-ceremony this time around and instead do a KILLER kick-off for the New Year’s Article Challenge.

The next Challenge will kick off on January 17 and run through February 19, and you’ll be challenged to write 30 articles to earn a Golden PJs. But this time around, with so many experienced article marketers in the group, we’re going to emphasize the strategy behind article marketing and how you can monetize your efforts. And that, my lovelies, is the whole point! Writing articles is fun, but we want to get paid, too, not just write for free. :] We’ll help you figure out how to best use your existing and new articles to make some moolah and move your writing career forward.

You can expect article series on the blog, regular blog features, and focused, encouraging disucssion on our Yahoo! Group e-mail conversation list as an added bonus. Signing up will also net you an e-book version of the 21-Day Article Writing E-course, currently in production.

So use the sign-in box at the top of the screen to register for the New Year’s Article Challenge, and we’ll send you your e-book just as soon as it’s finished. And start thinking NOW about your writing goals for 2008. Suzanne and I are here to help you achieve them with the help of our awesome designated discussion list leader and co-blogger Hope Wilbanks and incredible article marketing expert Jeff Herring.

We can’t wait to help you reach your career goals next year! Enjoy your break, and don’t stop writing!

- Kristen

The Fall Article Challenge ran from November 1 to November 30, 2007, with a goal of writing 15 articles. Many participants set personal goals as well. The following are Challengers who met the 15-article minimum — and many beat it! Congrats to all for your hard work.

Fall Challenge Golden PJs Recipients (in no particular order):

• Anita Revel
• Dan Goodwin
• Christina Sponias
• Marion Ryan
• Lynn Jordan
• Neil Sawers
• Deirdre Morris
• Damaria Senne
• Felicia Slattery
• Diane McLain

If you completed the Challenge and your name isn’t on this list, it means I didn’t get your announcement. Please e-mail me and let me know if you need to be added. More info soon on the Golden PJs Award Ceremony!

-Kristen

There were several pajama-wearing participants in attendance on Wednesday, October 16, as Lieurance-King Article Challenge co-hosts Suzanne Lieurance and Kristen King (pictured at right in her moose jammies) awarded the coveted Golden PJs to 11 writers who completed the LK Summer Article Challenge.

The winners are:

• Andrew Grant
• Christina Sponias
• Connie Ragen Green
• Dan Goodwin
• Donna Marie Laino
• Hope Wilbanks
• Janet Riehl
• Jeff Herring
• Lessie Harvey
• Lynne Lee
• Yvonne Perry

Congratulations to all of the participants. Whether you met the goal of 30 articles in 60 days or just got the ball rolling, we’re thrilled to have such a great group of supportive, dedicated writers as part of this fun event each season.

Be sure to sign up above for the next article challenge, which kicks off on November 1!

- Kristen & Suzanne

The next Golden PJs Award ceremony will take place on Wednesday evening, October 17th, at 8:00 CST, when awards will be presented for winners of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge, which ended on September 30, 2007.

Email invitations will be sent soon to everyone who took part in the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge.

We’ll have one final article challenge for 2007 - the Lieurance-King Fall Article Challenge. This will be a shorter challenge since we know writers will be super busy with other things in December.

Plan to accept the Lieurance-King Fall Article Challenge and write just 15 new articles during the month of November.

Sign up for the challenge above.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge. We hope you had a lot of fun and managed to write some quality articles that will drive traffic to your websites and blogs.

Congratulations to those of you who met the challenge by writing at least 30 new articles within the two month period of the challenge.

Next week, we’ll have a Pajama TeleParty to celebrate and award the Golden PJS to everyone who met the challenge. Look for more information about that soon!

Stephenie Hovland, Winner of the Golden PJs Award for the Lieurance-King Spring Article Challenge 2007

The Lieurance-King Spring Article Challenge lasted from May 1st to June 30th of this year. Eighteen writers accepted the challenge, but only one met the challenge by completing 30 articles for article directories during this time.

Listen as Kristen King and I present Stephenie Hovland with the Golden PJs Award for meeting the Spring Article Challenge, and find out what taking part in the challenge did for Stephenie.

Visit Stephenie Hovland online at Faith-Filled.com.

Here’s a press release that went out at the end of our first quarterly challenge this year, The Lieurance-King New Year’s Article Challenge, when we presented several writers with the Golden PJs Award:

On Wednesday, April 4, 2007, The Working Writer’s Coach, Suzanne Lieurance presented Golden PJs awards to the participants and winners of the Lieurance-King 2007 New Year’s Article Challenge. Since the participants do not live in close proximity to one another, the awards were presented virtually in a teleconference arranged through www.freeconference.com.

Twenty-four writers began the article writing challenge on February 1, 2007, with a goal to each write 30 articles before March 31, 2007. Other writers continued to join the race even after Yvonne Perry, owner of Nashville-based Write On! Creative Writing Services, had reached her goal and secured her place in the winner’s circle beside second and third runner-ups, Hal Manogue and Kate Garvey. Keep Reading »