New post today for my writing group blog, Stonehenge Writers! You may have noticed a bit of a focus on fantasy around here recently…so in keeping with that theme, my post today shares a great resource for building a fantasy world. Might be interesting even for non-writers, to think about all the elements that go into these fantasy novels we enjoy so much! Come by to read the post: Building a Fantasy World.
Tag: Blogging
Stonehenge Post: Hidden Horrors and Disappointing Reveals
I have a new post up today on my writing group blog, about learning from a writing device that doesn’t work. I’m not usually a reader of horror because I don’t like being disturbed…but there is one way to tell a horrible story that ends up not bothering me. Though that’s not at all what the author intended! Come by and read the post, and then let me know if this is just me, or if you have the same experience with Hidden Horrors…
Stonehenge Post: Reading with Multiple Minds
As you may remember from last month, my writing group, Stonehenge, has started a group blog. I have a new post up there today, about how writing can affect reading, and how reading from the wrong mind can sometimes cause trouble… I hope you drop by to take a look!
Blog Hop: Finding Book Blogging
I’m participating in the Book Blogger Hop again this week, which invites book bloggers to answer a bookish question and visit each other’s blogs. Hosted at Knitting and Sundries this week, here’s today’s question:
How did you find out about book blogging and what made you decide to start one yourself?
This is a funny one, because I don’t feel like there was a point when I found out about book blogging as a thing. I’d been involved in my company’s blog in the past, so I’d done some writing and knew how to use WordPress. I toyed with the idea of starting my own blog for a while, but didn’t know what I wanted to write about. I needed a topic that I knew I could generate ideas around for a long time, and eventually it occurred to me that, considering how much I read, book reviews were probably a good direction to go…
I didn’t actually read book blogs before I started my own, which maybe is odd…but it never really occurred to me that it was a thing. I suppose I assumed that other people had the same kind of idea and that there was probably a blog community of sorts, but it wasn’t until I started writing myself that I explored that community. And then I was lucky, because I started right around the Cybils, and lots of blogs were linking to the blogs that were judging the awards…which gave me ready-made lists of bloggers focusing on the same genres I was interested in.
Since then, I shake-up the list of blogs in my reader every so often. I love finding new blogs that old favorites are linking to, or by participating in blogging events.
I know lots of my readers are also book bloggers–how did you get started?
Guest Post Invitation
As regular readers know, I’m planning a trip to London and Paris (!) this September. Between preparing, traveling, and catching up when I return, not to mention managing the usual busyness of life, I expect to have some challenges finding enough blogging time! But I hate to lose my flow of regular posts, so…I have an invitation for writers out there.
Would anyone be interested in writing a guest post? You can review a book (YA and/or fantasy preferred but not at all required), or write about an aspect of writing or reading. And of course you can link back to your own blog if you have one. I read the blogs of a lot of people who read mine, and I’d love to help more of you find each other. 🙂
If you’d like to do a guest post, send me an email at cherylmahoney42@gmail.com letting me know what you’d like to write about. And if you’re ever having a busy time and would like someone to write a guest post for your blog, I’d be happy to help…only, not in the next couple of months!
Tales of the Marvelous 