The story of this guest post starts with me receiving the most brilliant book blogger review request I’ve yet to see. As book bloggers, we are used to seeing things like “Hello [Mis-spelled name], would you like to read my book”, without any info about it, sometimes missing even the book’s name, never you mind punctuation! So every time we…
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How To Get Book Bloggers To Actually WANT To Review Your Book Guest Post By Savannah Cordova at Reedsy
As an author, have you ever emailed a reviewer for a potential book review? Or maybe you’ve received a review request as a book blogger? If you’ve been on either end of this deal, you’ll know that writing a good book submission email is quite a hard thing to navigate. If I’m honest with you, as a blogger, 70% of the…
Continue Reading→The Greatest Book Blogging Myths I’ve Encountered Some Confessions And Thoughts On What We Think Blogging Is And What It Actually Is
When we start out blogging, we tend to have all these wild ideas about how book blogging actually works. More than that, we have so many hopes, a Iot of which seem to be ungrounded. So I’ve decided to write a post about book blogging myths we often start out with. Maybe it could prevent some confusion and disappointment in…
Continue Reading→What Are Some Of The Best Books I’ve Read In 2019 So Far? The Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2019 - Because I Want To!
So let’s mark the first day of me actually feeling excited about blogging again by doing a tag! (At least… For a while? I hope it lasts…) Anyway, I didn’t specifically want to do any tag – I just wanted to look at the books I’ve been reading for the past half a year, and especially at the best ones,…
Continue Reading→The Life Of A Bookworm With Dyslexia – An Interview Jen, A Book Blogger With Dyslexia, Tells Us How It Feels To Read When You... Can't Quite Do It
Today we will be talking about something different, and definitely not something a lot of people consider to be a part of the life of a bookworm – dyslexia. But it can be! And so today I have a fellow bookworm and book blogger here, to talk about her experience with dyslexia and how she nonetheless pursued her hobby of…
Continue Reading→The Writer Behind The Name: How Much Does Gender Bias Exist In Publishing? Guest Post by David and Morgan from WriterWriter
To all my ladies – happy International Women’s Day! And what a post I have for you on this day. Today, I welcome David and Morgan, the founders of WriterWriter, to talk about prejudice and inequality in fiction, primarily in the scifi and fantasy genres and how it affects the industry and the end result – the fiction that eventually…
Continue Reading→Have You Ever Wondered Why You Read Books? These Are My Reasons Why, And They've Been Different Over The Years
Have you ever wondered why you read books? And have you ever thought that maybe that reason is different now, as opposed to several years ago? (Not to even mention about when you just started.) A GIF of a sloth, making a thinking face I have been wondering about this lately. How it’s not just my reading choices, genres, preferred…
Continue Reading→Recommend Me Some New Releases! Get Me Back In The Loop
Hey everyone! This is going to be a short post, but you might enjoy it, because I’m totally giving this one up for you all to be the stars of it. Because I have a, um, sort of a problem and I think you can all help me out! Long story short: I have been busy, ill and all sorts…
Continue Reading→Are We Being A Little Too Organized As Bloggers? Is It Killing Our Steam? Guest Post By Andrea @ Little Red Reviewer
Hey everyone, today I have an interesting guest post on the blog! When Andrea @ Little Red Reviewer tweeted a mysterious tweet in what was probably November about a secret project of hers, I caved and asked for more info – I am truly a cat, what with my curiosity. And so I’ve been sitting on this little secret ever…
Continue Reading→Real Publicist Advice On How To Get Review Copies Approved The Interview You've All Been Waiting For
So today I’ve got a secret agent under cover who wants to answer some of your questions about publishing and especially requesting books! Namely – on how to get review copies approved. Why a secret agent? I mean, since when have people in the secret services been working with publishers? Well, okay, maybe it’s a little simpler than that. It’s someone…
Continue Reading→Have You Ever Finished A Book And Realized You’re Missing It Already? 5 Ways That I Miss Books
So I take it you know full well what the term “book hangover” means. You’ve been there – read a wonderful book or two, ran out of the series (and even of all the possible spin offs), or worse yet – waited on a series ender for years, and there doesn’t seem to be one coming. But really, are those…
Continue Reading→“Guilty Pleasure” Labels: Is It Just Schoolgirl Mentality You Can’t Let Go Of? Why You Should Read Chick Lit (At Least Sometimes!)
Lately I’ve been giving you all sorts of confessions. Like, seriously, Evelina – how many more things can you confess? Or do you keep making these up to draw readers? 😂 Well, no. I’m not making them up! I mean, there are probably plenty of dark secrets embarrassing details in your own life you would be willing to confess to your peers for…
Continue Reading→I’ve Been Thinking (And Reading) About Anxiety And Worrying Featuring The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World by Torre DeRoche
Is there a season for worrying, do you think? A GIF of the full moon with a cloud passing over it Is there a season for worrying, when we’re more anxious than at other times? Perhaps for most people, it’s the full moon, or maybe spring, when the seasons are changing. For me though? Life is the season for worrying.…
Continue Reading→[Discussion] Why Authors Should Take Extra Care When Writing Enemies To Lovers And Why I Avoid That Trope At All Costs #bullying #abuse
There hasn’t been a discussion post on my blog for a while, and there especially hasn’t been one which is… painful to discuss. I hope this won’t bring out all the trolls of the universe, but… I just have to talk about this. A GIF of a man, chewing on his fingernails and looking concerned So today… I want to…
Continue Reading→[Discussion] Is ARC Reading Kind Of Like School Reading? Lists Upon Lists Upon Lists...
It is no secret that most of us bookish people like lists. And we really like lists. We make lists of books we own. We make lists of books we want. But most importantly… We make lists of books we need to read. Some of those lists are for books we genuinely just want to read. Some of them are…
Continue Reading→[HP Anniversary Week] Is Ron Weasley Actually… Just A Major Dick? Discuss With Me!
So, okay. The headline might be a little strong? But I got your attention, didn’t I! So before we get carried away, let me tell you why I’m posting about this today – Margaret @ Weird Zeal is having a Harry Potter Anniversary Week! To celebrate, she’s doing posts all week (you’ve probably seen some already!), and I’ve decided to join…
Continue Reading→Quick Q&A With C.G. Drews, AKA Cait @ Paperfury! Are you excited??
So I have been promising you some MOAR @Paperfury content since posting my review of A Thousand Perfect Notes. Since me and Cait are SUCH GOOD FRIENDS … blogger buddies … OKAY since Cait is so cool she’s gonna answer a few questions on my blog today! So the idea was a quickfire Q&A, but honestly? If you know me… The…
Continue Reading→#NewBloggers 101 comes back! Litsy – A Bookish Social Network Have You Ever Heard Of Litsy? Erica Robyn And Me Will Introduce It To You!
So I thought we have not had a #NewBloggers 101 post in a while. Which is why today me and Erica Robyn @ Erica Robyn Reads will be talking about Litsy, a bookish social network you might have not discovered yet! And before we dive into it, here are the older #NewBloggers 101 posts if you need to catch up: Evelina: Before we start talking about it, let…
Continue Reading→[NewBloggers] What Tools Can Help Me Be An Organized Blogger? TBR Spreadsheets #NewBloggers 101 post number.. I've lost track!
So hi everyone! This is an unexpected post, but I think it will be useful to you. Let’s say, this is a surprise continuation of the Efficient Blogger series! A little while ago, I posted this tweet, and as it turns out? Everyone adores lists! And now you all want my TBR spreadsheet: I made a list today. I realized…
Continue Reading→[Discussion] Do We Create Too Much Content? Should We Just Breathe Already? Or..?
So lately I’ve been getting sort of tired of my #NewBloggers 101 feature, and all the calendar based properness of my blog. It’s just.. it’s tiring. Want to know why #NewBloggers is tiring? While I appreciate people helping out and writing guest posts so much, and kudos to the ones who did a wonderful job (you know who you are!), sometimes it…
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