This week centred around the use of transmedia integration and channels. It is the nature of book blogging to be on multiple platforms, pushing out content on multiple platforms. Besides maintaining blogs many book bloggers maintain their Goodreads account, post beautiful #bookstagrams on Instagram, push affiliate links and promotion graphics through tweets, reblog fandom related posts on Tumblr, and communicate with other book bloggers in communities on Facebook. This is a lot, that is why the most prolific reviewers, review full time. While many others pick and choose what tasks above to do in order to balance the rest of their life with book blogging. I have been maintaining a Goodreads…
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Author Spotlight on Fiona Cole (and Mini Assignment #6)
For this next installment of author spotlight, I am going to highlight someone I have discovered quite recently. I cannot remember which Facebook group it was but in one of the groups I am apart of I saw someone discuss their love of Fiona Cole’s Voyeur. I decided quite spontaneously to pick it up and by the next week not only had I devoured Voyeur, but I had also subsequently picked up: Deny Me, Imagine Me, and Shame. I sincerely hope you consider picking up some of Fiona’s books after reading my breakdowns and thoughts surrounding them. She has so few reviews on Goodreads but has written some phenomenal stories. I am going to discuss the books in…
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Vi Keeland’s We Shouldn’t Title, Cover, and Synopsis Reveal
I am so excited to be apart of the team revealing the title, cover, and synopsis for Vi Keeland’s new release. We Shouldn’t releases on January 21, 2019! I am such a huge fan of Vi’s so I could not be more excited to reveal so much for you today! Now what you have been waiting for, the cover… Model: Lucas Bloms Cover designer: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative and here is the full paperback cover… Here is the reveal of the synopsis: “Bennett Fox walked into my life on one hell of a crappy Monday morning. I was late for the first day at my new job—a job I’d now have to…
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Emma Hart’s Tequila Tequila ARC Review
Thank you so much, Emma Hart and Social Butterfly PR for the advance copy of Tequila Tequila, which is out today! Here is the synopsis: “Don’t sleep with your best friend. Take it from me. I did it. And it was awful. I-wish-the-tequila-made-me-forget kind of bad. The problem is, Luke has forgotten. He swears that he can’t remember a thing about that night beyond the trays of tequila shots being set on the tables. Except I can’t forget. I can’t forget how good his hands felt until I fell over and hit my hip on the dresser, and I sure as hell can’t forget the entire two minutes of tap-tap-squirt. Awkward. Embarrassing. And…
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Peer Review #3: Train, Eat, Sleep, Repeat: An Exploration of the Fitness Lifestyle
Train, Eat, Sleep, Repeat: An Exploration of the Fitness Lifestyle follows Chris Pham and his fitness goals and journey. Content Chris mentions that he is not an expert specifically saying that he is not “a personal trainer or gym expert.” Due to the effect of minimizing authority that John Suler explains in his piece The Online Disinhibition Effect, it does not matter that Chris is not an expert as the internet minimizes the authority of an expert and further validates the personal accounts Chris provides. The content Chris produces is well informed, his use of hyperlinks is superb. Looking at the posts from a reader’s perspective, someone who does not frequent a gym, but…
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Melanie Harlow’s Only Love Cover Reveal
I am so excited to be apart of the team revealing the cover for Melanie Harlow’s Only Love. The book releases on November 26, 2018. I am such a huge fan of Melanie Harlow’s books, my favourite being the one she co-wrote with David Romanov, Strong Enough. You must check it out if you haven’t already. I am super excited for Only Love as I loved the other two books in the One and Only series world. Now what you have been waiting for, the cover… Cover Designer: Hang Lee Photographer: https://www.instagram.com/miguelanxofoto/ and here is the full paperback cover… Here is the synopsis: “A gorgeous former Marine with a tortured soul.The beautiful, compassionate therapist living next door. A…
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Week 10 Process Post: Google Analytics
I have really enjoyed diving into my analytics. I decided to look at my blog on a large scale and I’ve looked all the way back to when the class started. I’m diving into both my acquisition and behaviour statistics and using those to determine the conversion I should set. Let’s start with Acquisition… My blog tends to acquire an audience from social media. This comes as no surprise to me as I have been actively using social media to recruit an audience. When you dive deeper into Social, my traffic appears to be only coming from Twitter. This also makes sense to me as I have been more active on Twitter…
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Lauren Blakely’s Birthday Suit Cover and Synopsis Reveal
I am so excited to be apart of the team revealing the cover and synopsis for Lauren Blakely’s Birthday Suit. The book releases on January 18, 2019. Who doesn’t love a new release from Lauren Blakely, they are always such enjoyable reads. Now what you have been waiting for, the cover… Photography by Wander Aguiar Cover Design by Helen Williams Here is the reveal of the synopsis: “She’s the ultimate off-limits woman…There are only three rules in life you should truly follow to the letter. One: Always make time to help a buddy. Two: Definitely turn down that last tequila shot. And three: Absolutely, no matter how beautiful, smart, clever…
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Emma Chase’s Royally Yours ARC Review
Thank you so much to Emma Chase and Inkslinger PR for the advance copy of Royally Yours. I was a huge fan of the Royally series by Emma Chase, so I was over the moon when I was given the chance to read the next installment or should I say the prequel for review. That’s right guys this story centers on Lenora, who you will definitely be acquainted with if you have read the other books in the series (Which if you haven’t you really should). Here’s the synopsis straight from Goodreads: “Princess Lenora Celeste Beatrice Arabella Pembrook had an unusual childhood. She was raised to be a Queen—the first Queen of Wessco. It’s…
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What ClaryNathanWill Has to Offer You (and Mini Assignment #5)
