Sorry that it has taken me so long
to get back in the habit of posting, but I’m making changes in my life and of
course that means changes in my blog. I
have a couple of January deadline books to work through and a whole lot of
(well no more than 5 at this time) reviews to get posted. Over the holidays I took an unscheduled
hiatus from my reviewing (hence the backlog) but that gave me time to think. If
you have followed my blog for a while, you have probably picked up on the fact
that I will read just about anything. I want to help new authors get discovered
and to promote their work, I guess you could say that it is my way of paying it
forward in the hopes that one day when it is my turn someone else would do me
the same courtesy. So these two things make it very hard for me to say no when
someone asks me to review their books. Unfortunately, that means that I am
going to have to start. I am still going to accept books for review, but I am
going to have to be more selective about the books that I am accepting.
I have started two new things, one
will continue starting this Saturday and the other I am changing up a bit. I
started doing a Short Story Saturday to bring attention to some amazing short
stories, and I have found that I really like doing that. So I will keep that as a weekly thing. The other weekly thing that I started was New
Author Monday. This will be back in
February, but it will be a monthly highlight. It’s kind of hard to coordinate
this if the author is participating, so instead of it being something that
appears and disappears on a whim, I am going to start slow and then build up as
I can.
The only other big thing I have
decided is to follow a monthly theme to help tailor my reading. This is to give
me an excuse to dig into books that I’ve been dying to read but put off so that
I can get the reviews done. I have even
planned out the first 5 months’ themes. What this means is that I will still be
reading my review books but in addition to that (unless I can get super
organized) I will be reading books that I apply to the theme. The themes, so
far, are:
January –Netgalley Month
February- Multicultural Month
March-Finish That Series Month
April- Netgalley Month
May-Favorite Authors Month (Ted
Dekker)
I will be participating in 2
challenges this year. One is the 2012 Debut Author Challenge hosted by the Story Siren And the other is the first ever Freedom of Speech Banned Book
Challenge, hosted by me. I will post information about this challenge this
weekend in case anyone else wants to participate. That’s all that’s in store for now, and sorry
if it seems that I have pulled a disappearing act. But I am back and as soon as
I get caught up on those reviews I mentioned earlier, I’ll be even more
consistent.
Always Shine,
Starr K
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