Bonus post for today--and grammar is optional!

Kidding about the grammar part. But this is not going to be a grammar post. What it IS going to be is a post about following your bliss, following said bliss and what is going to happen if you achieve this bliss. In order to bring success into my blogging life, I hope to win tickets to the 2010 Blissdom Conference, in a giveaway brought to us by SteaZ.
Well, I have three blogs at the moment--a craft blog, this blog, and THE blog.
This blog, Grammar with Mignon, is about improving my writing. I need to hone my skills if I am going to achieve my ultimate goal--and that is to have THE blog published. That blog, Maude's Mysteries, is my brain-child. Maude is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure in the 21st century type deal. My goal is to engage kids in reading--to really get them involved in the story, to have them own the tale--by letting THEM help write the story. Yes, that is what I said--the READERS get to help choose the course of the plot. I publish a chapter segment Sunday through Thursday. Voting opens Thursday and closes Sunday when the next chapter starts. And I am having a BALL with it. THIS is my bliss, my dream, my baby.
However, no matter what an interesting idea it is, no matter how engaging it is, no matter how involved the readers get, it does not succeed if there are no voters. And that is where I am now. People vote, but not many. Traffic is slow. And as a blogger, I value traffic. I treasure readers. I covet them. I want them! (Who doesn't?) Success, for me, would be having (dare I dream) 500 voters!
So, I want to discover tips and tricks about how to expand my audience base, how to reach out and touch that tween over there (but not in a creepy-old-guy way--in a good way, an inspiring way) that is desperate for some non-vampire related book to read. This is what I believe Blissdom: The Conference can do for me. It can help me find new ways to reach out. It can grant me knowledge of the blogosphere that I currently lack, and yet so desperately need. It will fill me with tips, tricks and tactics that I can use to get the attention of the readers I want.
And as a bonus, an extra special bonus, there is a session on Getting Published that I would love to attend.