Jessica and Jen are working on revamping the blog. We're planning on changing the look and the name of the blog. And we're slowly fazing out reviews to concentrate on our promos. When we look at participation in contests and visits to the blog, we notice that more people stop by the blog when we have romance authors as our guests.
So, this month we want your opinion on our blog promo content. Would you like this blog to move into featuring a specific genre (we're leaning towards romance/erotica/chick-lit)? Or do you like the variety of genres featured? And if you like the variety, is there a genre we haven't covered that you'd really like to see? Would you be interested in us featuring a specific genre each month?
Give us your thoughts and if you'd like to be entered in the contest, please leave your email address in your comment (or after you comment send a message to admin.bookblog@gmail.com). We'll give away a $10 gift card to Amazon.com to a random commenter on Sunday, August 30.
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I like the idea of featuring a different genre each month (or each week or two-week period depending on the frequency of the postings) with a series of blog articles covering different aspects from creation to publication and promotion specific to the feature (genre) of the month. The articles to be tagged genre specific for ease in finding later.
I like the idea of having a different genre each month. This way if you don't like that particular genre you can skip the blog for the month. You will also be able to tell friends what each month is featuring and when to check out for certain authors. Have a great day.
house_mouse88 at yahoo dot com
I like the idea of different genre each month or week which ever works best for you all. I love the historical genre, its my favorite but I do switch around a lot so I would like to see a little of everything.
lead[at]hotsheet[dot]com
I do like the idea of different genre. Because there are some people of your visitors love other genres. Not only romance. Like me ; I love horror, paranormal and a bit romance genre : )
Maybe you can do it once in two weeks coz if it's once a month, it'll just too long for romance ;D
Oya, I love your blog coz you have variety genre of books inside the blog. Keep the good work and generosity continuosly d^.^b
mariska
uniquas at ymail dot com
I like the idea of a different genre for each blog. My favorite is historical romance (regency & victorian). I also like mystery, suspense & thrillers.
kkhaas AT bellsouth DOT net
I have a preference for the romance genre (funny abbut that...) but I enjoy reading a blog thwt covers a variety of genres, not necessarily in any order.
It might be nice to have authors announced beforehand - on the blog, on Twitter.
Great blog. Thanks for having me.
chellecordero@gmail.com
I vote for anything in the Romance category! Erotic/chick-lit/suspense/paranormal...it's all good!!! BTW....loooove contests/giveaways!!! They give me an opportunity to read authors i probably wouldn't know about!!
Contemporary romance is my favorite so I go with that; but on the other hand I agree about a different genre now and then so everyone gets what they like and more authors are featured.
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
I am starting to review the blogs I follow and have decided to stop following blogs that don't consistantly feature books I enjoy. There are just so many blogs that I don't have time to filter through a blog that only sometimes features books I like. So I'm in favor of sort of specializing. I say sort of because I think if you went with romance you could have all subgenres of romance. Paranormal, historical, contemporary and erotica romances. Just not general fiction.
And whatever genre you go with should be your favorite. Even if it isn't the type most frequently cited by us. You are the ones doing the interviews and hard work. If you don't enjoy the types of books you are dealing with - it will seem to much like work.
I'm strictly a romance girl. I enjoy parnormals, regency historicals and erotica.
lynda98662 at yahoo dot com
the differn t is good by me but i do read more contemp romances
i like to see harlequun writers/series book
kh
kimehak@yahoo.com
I read mostly romance, chick lit, women's fiction so those authors are the ones that I will read about. mce1011[at]aol[dot]com
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runningmatey at hotmail dot com
I would like it if the site were geared mainly towards romance/erotica/chick lit, with maybe one review or feature a week in another genre, such as YA, or non-fiction self help books etc. that might be interesting. Or Perhaps relationship books, or even DVD's.
Also, I think you would attract more readership if you removed the restrictions on contests. Or relaxed them, so that a poster can win a contest once a week rather than once every two months.
I would like to see your blog focus on different genres. You could change genres every week or two. I think that if you kept one genre for a whole month, you might lose some non-fans who would never come back.
It would be great if your blog covered contemporary romances, historical, YA, paranormal, chicklit, and suspense.
Thanks for asking our opinions.
I am all about the romance genres. So, if you featured different romances genres every week, it would be great.
Crystal816{at}hotmail{dot}com
My lean has always been toward paranormal, erotica and fantasy, but it's nice to be varied and subjected to books and authors you might not normally read. It helps to broaden our horizons.
Deidre
deidre_durance at hotmail dot com
I like to see a variety of genres maybe with more in the many romance subgenres - contemporary, paranormal, historical, erotic, suspense. I really enjoyed your children's book author you have on this week and would have hated to miss that interview if you were to go to all romance. Maybe one week a month for other genres than romance?
Laurie
laurieire at hotmail dot com
I like the idea of different genres, as I have read about some books here that I might otherwise not have tried. However, I do seem to be more interested in the posts when the books being discussed/ reviewed lean towards romance in any of its sub-genres (contemporary, erotic, suspense, etc.)
My main interest is romance, different kinds depending on the day and mood.( comedy, intrigue, western, historical, futuristic, fantasy, etc.) I do like contemporary, some young adult and scifi,western,fantasy in otherwords-most anything! sharonkaras@yahoo.com
I'll be honest---this is the first time I'd heard of your blog. I came to visit because of the romance author you have interviewed today. I read and write romance, though am currently unpublished. My favorite romance genre is Suspense, but i also read historicals, paranormals, and erotic romances. Some futuristic also, but most of the stories I read have a bit of mystery in them. Now my DH loves sci-fi.
I see some names I recognized on your agenda, whose day I unfortunately missed. But I do see some future guests I shall try to remember to visit. I'm sorry I've missed out! But glad I found this site.
Do you have a newsletter you send out on the day authors are being interviewed?
Or maybe you could have certain days for certain types of fiction i.e. every Monday have sci-fi alternating with cyber-tech, apocalyptic, fantasy, etc.; then every Wednesday have romance, alternating sub-genres; etc.; on another day have Thriller fiction or some mystery. You get the drift.
And whether it's an author interview, a featured editor or publishing house, a book review, your own thoughts, whatever, stick to the genre of that day.
Just my 2 cents,
Julie
Oh, Please enter me in the contest. My email should be in your system, since I had to type it in to make a comment on Nancy's post today.
I love the contests and featuring romance/erotica/chick-lit.
I look forward to reading more of your stuff and would love to be entered in your contest.
Thanx
MariElle Betz
MariElleBetz@gmail.com
Congrats to Crystal! Please watch your inbox for an email from admin.bookblog@gmail.com. You need to claim your prize by September 15 or the prize will be forfeit.
Jen
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