Looking for survey-lovers and a giveaway!

I am looking into having advertisers, specifically for things pertaining to special needs parenting, on my site.

If you're a reader of this blog, you know I'm not the commercial type. If I run an ad, it's for something like books or old-fashioned candy, and I've made about $5.00 from those ads in the two years they've been running. But, this is different, a real opportunity to make some money AND have pretty cool companies featured over there on my humble right hand column.

In any case, I'd really appreciate you filling out this brief demographic survey that will help me to decide whether or not to even run the ads. Fill it out whether or not you're a parent of a special needs child, whether or not you're a parent at all.  If you have a minute and want to fill it out, well, I'd be much obliged. In fact, I'd be so obliged that I'll send one lucky person a copy of the book The Shroud, by my good friend and neighbor Michael Meloan and his brother Steven Meloan. The Shroud is "a science-adventure novel in the vein of Carl Sagan's Contact -- offering a compelling scientific backdrop, while exploring many of today's headline-making scientific, spiritual and ethical questions. The story has no sectarian agenda. At bottom, the message is one of decoupling spirituality from religious dogma, while better exploring the spiritual impulse with cutting edge technology."

Doesn't that sound interesting? I haven't read it yet, but I do look forward to talking to Mike every time I'm outside my house. We have the best sidewalk conversations, and I'm imagining this book to be nearly as good as a prolonged sidewalk chat and probably better.

Fill out the survey HERE. 

Leave a comment that you've done so and enter for your chance to win a copy of The Shroud. The winner will be announced in a week or so, so stay tuned!