A quick post because I’ve been visiting several kit lit book review sites, adding blogs to my blog roll on All About Children’s Books and I’ve noticed lots of posts with wonderful pictures in them. Picture book lovers are great for putting pictures in their posts.
But I often see pictures with no vertical or horizontal [...]
Entries from March 2009
HTML Tip ~ Space Around Pictures
March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Blogging Tips
Blog Touring Tutorials
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Blog Touring 101: Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days is a good post on running a blog tour for any of you authors who want to set up tours.
At the bottom of that post are links to related posts. This one: Virtual Book Tours: An Interview with Steve Weber has some great ideas for bloggers. How [...]
Tags: Author Promotion · Kidz Book Buzz Bizz
Jimmy’s Stars Out in the World
March 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Here’s some news from our old friend Mary Ann Rodman. She was our first blog tour author and she sent us all wonderful hardback copies of her book Jimmy’s Stars.
What do you think of that paperback cover of Jimmy’s Stars? Mary Ann told me that’s the cover for the UK version, so I’m not sure what [...]
Tags: Awards
Booksquare on Publishers and Bloggers
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Here’s an interesting post by Booksquare on the “New Think for Old Publishers” panel at South by Southwest 2009. One bit of advice she gives publishers is:
Might as well address the blogger question. It’s quite simple. Find the bloggers big and small in your various genres, develop a relationship with them, understand their tastes, like, [...]
Tags: Kidz Book Buzz Bizz · Publicity
Our Famous Bloggers
March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Kathryn Fitmaurice decided turnabout was fair play and she interviewed three of our bloggers. She interviewed Becky, from Becky’s Book Reviews, Noel, from Never Jam Today, and Meredith, from Dolce Belezza.
Wonderful interviews all. Check ‘em out!
I must admit that I’m partial to this question and answer, from Noel’s interview:
Kathryn Fitzmaurice: How do you order books for [...]
Tags: Kidz Book Buzz Bizz
Becky’s Book Reviews = Awesome Blog Tour Blogger
March 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments
So Becky won the Amazon gift certificate this month.
And she had such a commanding lead it makes me wonder if she’ll win every month.
She has so much content on her blog that she has made herself a vital stop in the kidlitosphere and she deserves to win every month if she’s introducing the most readers [...]
Tags: Kidz Book Buzz Bizz
