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Let’s Talk About… Blogging Fatigue and Book Collecting
Hi everyone! If anyone has been checking in with my blog on a semi-regular basis you may have noticed that I’ve not been posting on a regular basis until very recently. I’ve redesigned my site to try and motivate me to do more blog posts, because I’d love to get back into it. Blogging is an amazing way of keeping up with the YA book community, of learning all the latest news and sharing your ideas. Without blogging, I definitely felt like I was behind on just about everything. For a while, I felt like I was missing out on a lot of new books, as well as more opportunities…
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Let’s Talk About… ARC Etiquette
Hi everyone, I’m not usually one to post something like this, and hopefully it will be a one-off type of post, but there’s been a LOT of drama in the book and author community surrounding ARCs recently, and I wanted to put my thoughts to paper a bit. It’s not meant to be an attack on anyone in our community, or anything like that, just a (very one-sided) conversation about ARC etiquette. What are ARCs? ARCs are Advanced Reader Copies. They are early versions of the eventual published book, released into the world a little early. Sometimes, they are a bit different to the final published version– they might have…