Sunday, March 18, 2007

Welcome to the first ever issue of TopBlogMag!

A wise person (with a knack for stating the obvious) once said “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”. Well, I guess this is ours, let’s hope it’s a good one.

Allow me to introduce the team:

We are Big H, Surviving Motherhood and Bob
Three bloggers
Two guys and a girl
Three Brits
Two expats
Two parents
Two writers
One published author
One Officer
And one ex-stunt man.

I think that’s quite enough about us.

All of the posts you can see on this page are part of this issue of TopBlogMag (sadly not as many as we would have liked from you guys; please, please read the rules before sending us your entry, we really can not accept entries already posted on your blog) so go and have a good read, scroll right down to the bottom, click over to the view the blogs of the writers you enjoy and don’t forget to leave comments for our writers – I know they are dying to hear what you think.

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Next Weeks Themes

The themes for the next issue (to be published Monday 26th March) are ‘Imagine’ and of course, the constant running theme of ‘write about what ever the hell you like’.

To take part in next weeks issue please have your entries to us no later than 12 midnight GMT on Friday and please, please, please read the rules before sending us your entry.
(To find out what time this is where you live click here, Hint: GMT is 0)

If you have any ideas for future themes please leave them in the comments below.

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3 comments:

Not From Lapland said...

What about having a picture inspired theme one week? something a bit different.

March 19, 2007 at 6:50 AM
禾草唐楷 said...

sounds good.

March 19, 2007 at 7:43 AM
Anonymous said...

I love the idea of a picture theme. Great job on the first issue!

March 24, 2007 at 7:05 AM

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