#Bloggiesta Starting Line – Getting #blogging done

I am signed up for the Bloggiesta! It’s a blogging marathon with the majority of participants being book bloggers. It runs all weekend but I will mostly be working on Sunday as I have a busy weekend. I’ve been neglecting this blog and wanted an excuse to get back on track. I have some big… Read More »

Armchair BEA 2011 – Blogging About Blogging

For the last day of Armchair BEA we are talking about blogging. This isn’t my only blog, I also blog at http://callistasramblings.com. I’ve been more serious over there lately and working on that one more and will be purchasing my own domain and probably moving to WordPress soon. I’ve been doing lots of reading about… Read More »

Armchair BEA 2011 – Nurturing Relationships

The topic for today was for Armchair BEA is Nurturing Relationships… with other bloggers, with PR/Publishers and with blog readers. I wanted to touch on some places Canadians can get books for review. I’m not listing all the possible places so if you want to mention one I don’t, please do in the comments. I’m… Read More »

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Desiging Your Own Buttons/Banners

Welcome Bloggiesta participants! Many of you need buttons or banners for a variety of things: reading challenges, entrecard ads, link to you button, blog features or memes and more. While I’m far from being a professional designer, I can and do make my own buttons as I need them. I didn’t do my blog design… Read More »

Halloween Readathon Wrapup

So I did really well with this readathon. I guess having a theme helped or perhaps it was a good change to NOT read a review book. I completed: The Myrtles Plantation by Frances Kermeen (True story of haunted house!)Ruined by Paula Morris and I started: Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America’s Haunted Inns and… Read More »

Halloween Readathon Update (Books and Mini-Challenges)

I’m actually just getting started with the readathon. I was busy all day and have somewhere to go tomorrow too actually. I’ll do as much as I can. The Halloween Read-a-thon is being hosted by Young Adult Books Reviewed. Here are the books I will pick from: (from old to new) Witchery Hill by Welwyn… Read More »

Halloween Readathon

I got some reading done at the 24 Hour Readathon but I’d like to get some more in so I’m signing up for the Halloween Readathon hosted by Young Adult Book Reviews next weekend. I do have one thing to do that weekend but other than that I’ll get as much reading done as I… Read More »