Catch a Ride to BlogWorld 2008: So You Want To Be An Automotive Journalist?

Yeh- you heard the calling in the title and how it spoke to something deep inside: you have often thought of how you would make a great automotive journalist? Details on how to break in after you read my wee monologue:

Here is the deal: my career to date was accidental and a dream but I do get the heart of the automotive industry and the enthusiasts. I make no bones about who I am, my story and how I got here.

Next week I am honored to be a panelist at BlogWorld and, after compassionate discussions with Dan Gray, aka @mpgomatic, he put together a topic near and dear to, not only my heart, but other online writers about breaking the gray-lady vein of tradition and how, as citizen/enthusiast/geeks, we can gain credibility. Co-panelists also include Scott Monty of Ford, Muhammed Saleem and Joe Neuberger.

Here is the gist of all of this:

If you are an enthusiast of cars, motorcycles, ATV’s (and that does include those who hate all of the aforementioned and just want nothing that rolls with a motor and just want to write about how you detest them all) and you think that you can put your heart into conveying a message in 300-500 words in the vein of a “new school” automotive journalist, please submit your entry to michelle at missmotormouth dot com and the 2 best entries who can be in Los Angeles at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles by 2PM Friday, September 19, 2008, will be selected to ride to BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas with me, with complimentary admission to BlogWorld, lunch to and fro Vegas (and maybe a little dinner & drinks if I find you as fascinating as my favorite upstart Andy Mrozwinski) and a ride back to Los Angeles ~ all round trip in a new GM White Diamond Acadia (yeeeah! We’ll be ridin’ like gangstas!) which I will be driving to review.

The only thing that you have to provide is your own hotel room but hey!- its Vegas- what will cost you is your cheap Vegas room and losing at the tables! (Oh and any medical care if you should need that. I can’t possibly pay for that.)

Judging of potential winners is being done by myself and 2 uber-secret people who can make or break whether you ever get cars to review in your new future career and the deadline is 11:59 PM, PST, Wednesday, September 17, 2008.

The winning writer’s will get their blogs published on Mota.net, the site where I get to edit some amazing writers and contribute to with my own efforts and give full props to giving me my start in my accidental career and, I guess you could say that I gave birth to their blog.

Start your brains-a-whirling! This contest opens now!

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