Welcome to the I Miss
You Blogfest,
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Here’s the rundown:
The
bloggers we really miss…
and the ones we would really miss!
Do you have a couple blogger buddies who aren’t posting as often? Those who’ve pulled back and seem absent from the blogging world? Do you have blogger buddies you are grateful they are still around and would miss if they vanished? Now is your chance to show your appreciation and spotlight them!
On November 16, list one to three bloggers you really miss and one to three bloggers you would miss if they stopped blogging. Then go leave a comment on those blogs.
Our blogger friends are special – time to let them know!
and the ones we would really miss!
Do you have a couple blogger buddies who aren’t posting as often? Those who’ve pulled back and seem absent from the blogging world? Do you have blogger buddies you are grateful they are still around and would miss if they vanished? Now is your chance to show your appreciation and spotlight them!
On November 16, list one to three bloggers you really miss and one to three bloggers you would miss if they stopped blogging. Then go leave a comment on those blogs.
Our blogger friends are special – time to let them know!
I only blog on Mondays, my day to post and make
the rounds, but there are a couple of blogs I visit every day or every day I
know there’ll be a new post. And while I
follow and love so many blogs, and most of them are active, there are a couple
of bloggers who don’t post as much as I would like.
First, two I miss because they don’t post as often as they
used to:
Jennifer Hillier at The Serial Killer
Files – Jenny’s a big time author now with two incredibly popular books,
her 2011 debut, Creep,
and this year’s follow-up, Freak,
plus she’s working on a new novel, so it’s no wonder she doesn’t post as
often. But I really, really miss her,
especially since she moved away from Seattle
almost a year ago. Lucky for me, we chat
via text, email, Facebook, and phone calls so I never truly lose touch.
Janet Reid’s Query Shark – Yes, I
know, Ms. Reid has her own regular
blog here, but I really love Query Shark.
I’ve learned so much from that blog.
But she hasn’t posted since September 30th, and for months
before that, her posts were sporadic, at best.
I miss waking up on Sunday mornings and tuning in to read how The Shark
has ripped to shreds yet another query written and submitted by someone who’s
failed to read all the other queries, as directed. Better still, I miss those few queries that
hit it spot on the very first time, even when they break all the rules—like the query for Josin Mcquein’s
Premeditated. I realize I’m past
this query stage, but I still learn a lot from reading them.
Which brings me to a blog I would miss if it were to ever
disappear: In fact, when this blogger
took a short break earlier this year, I found out just how much I did miss it. And him.
And that blogger is…
Matthew MacNish at The QQQE or The
Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment – Much like Janet Reid, Matt
has serious skills when it comes to dissecting and analyzing queries and
determining what works and what doesn’t then suggesting ways in which to fix
it. So if you have a query you are
thinking of submitting to agents, send it to Matt first. The man knows what he’s talking about. And his commenters help a lot, too.
And finally, the one blog I never, and I mean NEVER, EVER miss, is your friend and mine…
Alex J. Cavanaugh - There are
very few bloggers out there who are as consistently and truly inspiring,
relentlessly selfless, and remarkably entertaining as Alex. He is the highlight of my Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday mornings. In fact, I
typically read his posts before I even get out of bed in the morning. So if Alex’s blog were to ever cease to
exist, I would be crushed. He is a
lesson to us all on how to be humble and pay it forward. And what's more, I've met most of my Blogger friends through Alex, so he's kind of a matchmaker of sorts. Many thanks and cheers to you, Alex!
With less than 3 weeks until the December 6th
launch of Lisa Regan’s debut
novel, I’d like to share with you her book trailer for Finding
Claire Fletcher. So without further
ado…
