Character Chatter It’s time to give your favorite characters some love! Characters are essential to a story, and they can make or break a book for some readers. Now’s your chance to shine the spotlight on your favorite characters, or maybe your least favorite. Who’s your favorite couple? What are the components of a well […]
Blogging Q&A Blogging 101. All kinds of tips and tricks to get you started or keep you going. Talk about ARCs, reviewing in general, web design, etc. What blogging platform do you use? How do you network? What are some of your favorite web designs? Or maybe you want to talk about your own blogging […]
Social Media How do you use social media to expand your blogging/writing horizons? Social Media is all about networking and connections, and utilizing today’s technology to the fullest. Make sure you mention your own social media pages. Do you have another blog, maybe a Tumblr? Have a Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook? Or maybe there’s an […]
Visual Expressions There are so many ways to tell stories. Whether it’s comic books, graphic novels, visual novels, webcomics, etc, there are quite a lot of other mediums to tell a story. On this day, we will be talking about those books and formats that move beyond just words and use other ways to experience […]
Library Love Librarians are awesome. Not only are they helpful, they’re very fun to talk to and give great recommendations. Show your library some love, and the wonderful men and women that run it. Why is your library fantastic? Got any funny stories? Feature your library on your blog? Do an interview with a librarian? Julie: […]
We’re so excited to participate in Armchair BEA again this year! Julie’s Introduction Tell us a bit about yourself: How long have you been blogging? Where are you from? How did you get into blogging? Hi! I’m Julie from the Houston, Texas area. I’ve been blogging for over a decade on my personal blog and […]
Julie Topic of Choice: Favorite Features. I thought today I would talk about some of my favorite features I’ve seen on book blogs lately. Discussion Posts – these are definitely my favorite. I enjoy reading what people think on a particular topic. We run a weekly discussion post as well, since it is […]
Giveaway We’re giving away an advertising spot on our sidebar! This is for the static spot (not the random rotation) for the duration of one month. The winner can provide an image that is 125px up to 250px (both length and width) and the link will be up on our sidebar for the […]
Julie Expanding Blogging Horizons: Well, actually this blog is expanding my blogging horizons. I have a personal blog that I’ve had for 10+ years, and in that time I’ve also been part of a few message boards and a zine website. The boards and zine have closed down and aside from my personal blog, […]
Julie: Author Interaction: Before I became a blogger I was a bit shy to go to author events. I certainly didn’t go alone. If a friend wanted to go, I’d go as well. My very first author event was a joint event between Kim Harrison and Patricia Briggs. It was so awesome! After […]