Please bear with us as we take a mini vacation this week and next. We'll be back with an excerpt and contest on Friday, November 13 and will return with our interviews on Saturday, November 14.

Jessica and I have been talking for months about upcoming changes at the blog. When we started this blog in November 2007 (hey, we're two years old!), we were just going to talk about some of the books we liked and offer reviews. Then in June 2008, we decided to see if we could find a few authors who would agree to be interviewed for a little variety on the blog. We posted our first interview in July and the response was overwhelming.

Nearly a year and a half later, the blog continues to grow, but changes are necessary to keep the blog fresh. The biggest change is that starting February 1, we're revamping the whole blog. We'll be moving to a new web address and more than likely switching from Blogger to Wordpress (don't worry, this will hopefully be a smooth and seamless transition for you). Along with this move, we'll debut a whole new look for the blog. Our name will be changing as well as our focus. And last, Jessica is stepping back to be our web designer (after all she went to school for it).

Last month we held a name the blog contest. We thank everyone who offered their suggestions to us. We ended up coming up with our own blog name, but did chose a winner (Lulu) for offering a name that, when adjusted a little, will become our backup. The name we decided to go with is Romancing the Book. This reflects our new focus of the blog: a place to feature books of the romance (and related) genre.

As the debut of the new and improved blog draws closer I will keep you updated on the upcoming changes. Oh, and check out the poll in the right had side bar and offer your opinion...

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As we are starting to book promos for 2010, I would like your opinions on how we run our promos.

Right now we mostly have Monday thru Thursday and Saturday/Sunday promos with the occasional Friday one thrown in.

With the popularity of the blog growing, I was thinking of moving to a 3 promo a week format starting in January 2010. These promos would probably post on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

What would you like us to do? Keep it as it is now, open the blog for more promos or cut back and make the promos last longer? Post here or vote on the poll in the right hand side bar.

To make things interesting, at the end of the month (April 30), if you make a comment here and leave your email address, I'll pick a winner to receive a book off of my bookshelf.

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As visitors to our blog have probably noticed, most of our guests have been authors of romance and/or erotica. It's been easy for me to line up these authors because it's mostly what I read.

But I want to know what sort of genres you read and would like me to find authors to promo here. I want to keep you all, our readers, happy... but I also want to get more variety of genres represented here.

So, I've posted a poll (it's in the right hand column) and will keep it running until Halloween, October 31. Choose as many genres as you want. If there is a genre that I didn't list, post here and tell me what it is.

And now to the contest part of all this. We've just completed 3 months of promos and we have 3 months more scheduled for you. To enter the contest, tell me which of the promos you most enjoyed or the one you're looking forward to. And a "why" you liked it or look forward to it would also be helpful as we look to the future. At the end of the month, I'll pick a couple names from the commenters as winners. The winners will get to chose from the following books:

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