Mother's Day Giveaway

Enter today for the chance to have your mother receive a copy of Life Is Short delivered to her door in time for Mother’s Day! One winner will receive a personalized book and Mother’s Day card from the author, you get to choose the message! 

All you need to do to enter is choose two items from the share list and complete them. Then comment on this blog post and tell me which two share items that you completed. Please don't forget to enter your name and email address when you comment. You can enter the giveaway once each day from now until May 8, 2013 at midnight eastern time. Apologies, but this time the giveaway is only open to U.S. Residents.

share list

• Post this image on FaceBook and tell others about the contest
• Become a site member on Arden's Day
• If you've already read and enjoyed my book... leave a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, GoodReads, iTunes or your FaceBook page.
• Call your mom and tell her that you miss and love her
• Purchase Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal and then give it as a gift
• Share this page on Pinterest
• Tweet this image to your twitter followers or post on Tumblr along with the message "I just entered to win Life is Short, Laundry Is Eternal for my mom #book #giveaway"

U.S. Residents only. I promise to overnight the prize to your mom on May 9 (but I don't control the mail). We are using the honor system about your shares but don't be surprised if someone checks. As always, Arden picks the winner from a hat.

Update on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 9:44AM by Scott Benner

ADDED on May 5 at 9:45 am est.

Now the winner and their mother will receive a personalized book!

Update on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 8:52AM by Scott Benner

And the winner is...

Your Favorites: April 2013

Your Favorite Arden's Day Content from April 2013 was...

On the blog

On Sale Now: My first book, 'Life is Short, Laundry Is Eternal'

DexCom G4 Platinum: Second Look

Pooh. Gilly. Bear.

OmniPod Rash?

Many other posts received similar attention to this month's top four - thank you for reading!

facebook

This picture received the most 'likes' during April on the Arden's Day FaceBook page

This post was seen on more timelines then any other...

"Thank you to every member of the DOC for supporting my book... I know that there are far more then just the names you see here. #HeartWarming

Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal arrives in stores today."

twitter

The tweet that you retweeted the most was something that started out as a way to amuse myself but a lot of you got behind it - which I really love and appreciate!

C’mon @Oprah just look… You’ll love it.  Can I get some RTs from readers! http://t.co/QE9CCZKoOB

It was accompanied by this image

I've only been doing these end of month favorite post for three months, however...

Arden's Day has experienced growth in both page clicks and unique users every month for the last eight consecutive months! I'm touched, humbled, and happy that you are enjoying the site.

I've said this before but it bears repeating, thank you for the incredible support that you have shown both by reading my blog and buying my book. I genuinely don't know how to properly say thank you... 

On to May!

Pictures from my Barnes & Noble Book Signing

Thank you to everyone that was able to come out and support my first book signing last night. I had a wonderful time (please ignore how tired I look in some of the pictures) and as you can see, Arden really enjoyed signing the books!

We are working on making other events happen, please stay tuned. If you have pictures from last night I'd love it if you would send them to ardensday@me.com.

Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal is available everywhere that book are sold and on all eBook formats - I hope that you love it!

Have a great weekend and thank you as always for your continued support!

Scott

A big thank you to the Barnes & Noble in Hamilton, NJ (especially Susan) for their warm and wonderful support.

From Stay-At-Home Dad to Published Author and all the Laundry in between

From the Trenton Times. Photo by Christina Izzo 

From the Trenton Times: 

Scott Benner said he had his first introduction to writing books when he was a child in school.

“We used to write them and bind them and then they would go on a library cart and go from class to class,” he said. “That’s the part I really liked — that the book was somewhere else and someone else was reading it.”

Benner, who grew up in Bucks County, continued writing through his teens and early 20s, trying his hand at writing movie scripts and fiction, but he said he found that he was writing stories that were already written.

“I felt that I didn’t have anything to say,” he said. “I felt that if I kept saying stuff that somebody else had already said, either it isn’t valuable or I’m not at a point yet where I should be doing this.”

But after being a stay-at-home dad for 12 years, Benner said he found something to say.

You can read the entire article in today's edition or online here.

If you are in the Central NJ area, please come out tonight at 6:30 pm for my first book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Hamilton, NJ.

Guest Post: I wrote a piece for WEGO Health about the Power of Communication

From the WEGO Health Blog

WEGO Health is proud to announce the recent publication of Scott Benner’s first book: Life is Short, Laundry is Eternal: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad. Scott is the 2011 winner of the WEGO Health Activist Advocating for Another Award, and an amazingly engaged member of the WEGO Health network. In honor of this outstanding accomplishment, WEGO Health is giving away three copies of the book to members of our community. Today is the last day to enter the contest, so head on over to our Facebook page and share today’s post about Scott’s new book for your last chance to win a copy.  Not a big Facebook fan? You can also retweet WEGO Health to enter!

I hope that you can take a few moments today to read my guest post over on WEGO Health's blog. Here's a snippet of what I wrote:

It’s possible to face your challenges alone; I know that because I tried. But eventually the burden becomes too heavy and it can begin to drag you down. Alone you are one person pulling a mountain, but together, together we are unstoppable. On the days that are too much for me, I look to others to find the strength to carry on. Those people, those sometimes faceless friends that I have found online, they hold me up until I can stand again. Before I know it, I’m fine and ready to help them during their tough times.

WEGO is giving away three copies of my book today when you retweet or share their blog entry - good luck! Hey, even if you don't win today there is still time to enter my GiveAway for a signed copy of 'Life Is Short'.