My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.