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It’s been a
long time since we’ve had one of these catchall posts that discussed several
things instead of a review. We must be past due for one.
A Kind Voice on Books
This past
weekend I recorded a segment for the BlogTalk Radio show called “A Kind Voice
on Books.” For those who aren’t familiar with A
Kind Voice, this
organization runs crisis hotlines as well as having multiple associated radio
shows on BlogTalk Radio. The one I did is, obviously, about books. For those
who would like to listen to my segment, it will air tonight. The details are
below:
BookLove, a
special episode of A Kind Voice on Books, brings you recommendations for books
you could fall for. Five book blogger/reviewers will review a book they
are passionate about and chat about the wider world
of book blogging and writing. Our featured reviewers include:
Katie Cross of KCross
Writing
Guinevere Tomas of Twinja
Book Reviews
Libertad Tomas of Twinja
Book Reviews
BookLove airs
Wednesday, February 12th at 7pm (EST) and will be available for download for
later listening at:http://tinyurl.com/qgkqory
2013 Indies Unlimited Excellence
Awards
Over at Indies
Unlimited they’re currently
voting for their Excellence Awards. Books and Pals is a nominee in the Best
Book Review Site category. We have our work cut out for us if we hope to make a
decent showing. If you read the fine print, the winner will be decided using an
arcane formula involving the number of votes (that’s where you hopefully come
in), the site’s Alexa
score, and something to do with a Ouija Board. The net effect is, we need a lot
of votes.
Even if you
don’t vote for us, Indies Unlimited is a site you should become familiar with
if you aren’t already. It has content aimed at both indie authors and those who
read them. I’m one of the many contributors there. Unfortunately that doesn’t
give me any influence over who wins the awards. Since none of us have any
influence over Mr Ouijia or Ms Alexa, our only chance is begging all of you for
your vote.
2014 Readers’ Choice Awards
Just as we
did last year, we’ll be giving out our own awards this year, waiting until the
2013 awards season has finally died down and getting a jump on the new year. We
had lots of great nominees and a list of winners that, if you haven’t read
them, you need to. (Look for the link on the upper right of each page of the
site to see the winners and nominees from last year.) The pals and I are in the
process of determining this year’s nominees. Authors of nominated books will be
notified the last week of February with voting tentatively set to begin March
2nd.
And last …
Thanks to
all our readers. Without you, there would be no point in doing what we do.
4 comments:
So excited! I'm listening to the show now.
Just voted and Big Al's is just in front with 24%. :)
Great job on your interview, Al. I really enjoyed it. Congratulations!
Thanks Vickie. The way they're doing this, I need all the votes I can get. :)
And thanks Lauri and Karen. I've done a few radio things (both regular radio and blog talk) over the years and find that everyone else is more impressed than I am. At least if I listen to a recording afterwards. Maybe I should stop doing that. :)
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