Exciting exciting exciting NEWS

omg omg omg

(okay tomorrow I won't be as pumped but I guess it's time to MILK it while I can)

I could be a book blogger! As in, a REAL book blogger. All you have to do is contact a publicist from a publishing house, and if they like your blog, they will send you review copies! Or advance reader copies, which are BETTER. eeep I mean you have to have an audience and things, and you have to have reviewed stuff before, but the thing is I HAVE :D

Ok maybe not the audience part, but I've reviewed stuff before and they have gone in the retarded youth section of the sunday paper but STILL that is kind of ish a portfolio! AND if I review stuff from publishing houses I get free books! Which are way better than movie tickets that the paper sometimes forgets to send.

Additional motivation? A few months ago I came across this channel, and the person on it reviews books, and she reviewed something and I was like: "Where the HECK did you get free ARCs?" and she replies, all cool and everything, "Oh, it's nothing, the publishers send them to me."

EEP and it's not even work to me! I love writing reviews I love reading books it's not that hard to hoar myself out on the interwebs (okay it is pretty hard to get an audience but just ignore that part please) And it's... idk I like thinking about books I like going deeper into themes and motifs and going all Lit on it-- it's not _hard_ Heck, if they want me to bootlick them I might even consider it. One year of GP (general paper) has given me all the experience I need to be a sweet-talking smartass. Because! Free BOOKS! (it's the cheap student in me talking) Although. Readers might be a bit skeptical about my reviews if I say even crappy stuff is good... but they WOULDN'T KNOW, right? If they gave me ARCs, it means no one else has got them yet, so no one will know if the book is good or bad!

Though. Seriously. I don't think I'll say I like something if I really don't; I'll be doing enough of that in GP, thanks. Don't need to sell my soul to something else.

More about book bloggers:

What would be your do’s and don’ts for new book bloggers wanting to get in touch with a publicist about requesting a book for review?

I think really the only advice I could give is to show your keenness – try to have reviewed some books off your own back already, because it’s difficult to send out review copies when you can’t see anything that gives you a feel for how that blogger works. If they started their blog six months ago and have only updated once a month, I’m probably going to be a little more hesitant about sending review copies. That said, I will usually always send out at least the first request – if a review never appears, I might think twice the second time…

Also – one thing I would do if I were starting out as a blogger is take advice from some of the girls who run the bigger book blogs, because they’re all very friendly and in the know. Some of my favourites are Waiting on Wednesday and In My Mailbox (this as a v-log is really fun too!)– it brings a nice variety to the blogging format.

an interview with a publicist from Simon and Schuster here: http://bit.ly/6U9mpE