book blogging!

[bookshop]

So, i casually went to take this survey about book blogging and then stared at it sadly, because i realized that they're talking about book blogging on a scale far beyond what I attempt here with my livejournal

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[mark356]

I looked over the survey, and was nodding and trying to calculate the stats for my LJ. Then I got to question 12: "How many pitches do you receive from authors and publishers each week?" :O

I've been thinking of posting more about books too-- goodness knows I read enough of them. I wish that more people posted book recs (or anti-recs, or just ponderings about books). Plus, besides the handful of author blogs I follow, and occasionally Publishers Weekly or the odd review from the New York Times or whatnot, I just don't know what bloggers or sources read lots of books and talk about their favorites.

[themadpoker]

Well I already voted but I am commenting to just say regular book blogging from you would be absolutely brilliant! \o/ I love reading people talking about books and you are especially awesome at it and also I like fandom perspectives being applied to everything ever. Plus YA books are the best books and therefore should have lots of reviews yes?

In summary and conclusion: omg do it!

[imaginarycircus]

Well, I voted for keep everything on DW/LJ--but if you don't want to turn off new readers who are just reading for book stuff then I can see why you might want to start a book only blog. In that case you might want to consider cross posting to bookshop? And posting the books only posts in their own blog for people who aren't us? Or is that unnecessarily baroque?

[anatsuno]

that would be my solution as well. For ease of use I would use posterous for it. I already pitched it to Aja but I don't think she cared *g* *lobbies for ease of use and relevant crosspostings!*

[bookshop]

hey! i made a posterous! i friended you on it and made it orange and everything! i am just not sure what to *do* with it! *PONDERS*

[anatsuno]

Ooooh! yay!

Well, my theory was, you can create your book blog somewhere you want it to be (another LJ, a blogger blog, a wordpress blog, whatever) and then you set up your posterous to crosspost to your lj and that new blog. And every time you wanna make a book review entry, you email it to posterous and VOILA. :))

[pornography]

your username is perfect for this endeavour

[bookshop]

perhaps it was leading me here all along~

[pornography]

KORETTE DESTINY~

[zanzando]

I stand by what I said about the smacking.

I say go for it. And be as blunt as you like, you're not doing it for the publishers but for yourself and other readers.