Bulletin Board******Have YOU entered the Second Chance at Summer [Reading] Re-Gifting Giveaway yet? Click on that link to get the details. You’ve got until this coming Friday, September 5, to leave a comment on that post to enter (US residents only, please)!*******And in related news, my friend Karen is having a back-to-school giveaway on her blog, Nouvelle Blogger, inspired by this past week’s Ten on Tuesday topic – but you only have to tell her […]
Tag: blogs elsewhere
Appreciate your local Book Blogger!
I mentioned in a recent Saturday Review that the first Book Blogger Appreciation Week is taking place from September 15-19. Here are some more details, via its founder, My Friend Amy: Book Bloggers: You work hard. You read books, you write reviews, you maintain relationships with your readers, publicists, and authors. You are constantly running to the post office to mail your giveaways and participating in carnivals to help boost traffic. You sometimes want to […]
Saturday Review 8-23-08
Bulletin Board****** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT here TOMORROW, so be sure to check back!******Blog Action Day 2008 will be held on October 15 – this year’s issue topic is “Poverty.” Find out more here. (I haven’t signed up yet as a participant myself, but I think it’s good to have plenty of lead time for these things, so I wanted to help get the word out now.)New in Google ReaderThe Big Piece of Cake, via AllMediocreCitizen Reader, […]
Saturday Review 8-17
Bulletin Board – the shameless self-promotion edition(I usually use this section to mention events around the blogiverse, but this time it’s [almost] all about me :-).)*******Have you been to the Bookworms Carnival yet? If not, please add it to your weekend calendar :-)! To those of you who found your way here because of the Bookworms Carnival – WELCOME! Thanks for coming by, and I hope you’ll visit often. Also, I’d also like to give […]
Saturday Review 8-9-08
Bulletin Board ********THANK YOU to everyone who submitted posts for the Bookworms Carnival! Stay tuned here, and I will post the Carnival in the next few days.********We’re a little ways into the month now, but have you been Blogging the Recession? I’ve encountered a few bloggers who are, and I’ve been trying to do my part, although I haven’t officially signed up for it. It’s the brainchild of Kristen from Motherhood Uncensored, and it goes […]
Weekend Assignment #227: Tell me something good
This week, Karen says: It seems as though bad news is coming at us from all directions at the moment, including from this house and this blog. (She and her husband have just had to say goodbye to a beloved four-legged family member, but they are moving on.) Let’s try to balance things about a bit: Weekend Assignment #227: There must be something positive happening in your life right now (I hope!). Tell us the […]
Saturday Review
Bulletin Board: *******The Bookworms Carnival submission deadline is this coming Friday, August 8! Please get your posts up and e-mail the links to 3.rsblog AT Gmail DOT com! Need to check the details? Here’s the scoop. *******Interested in being part of an author’s virtual book tour of blogs? Find out more from a new kid in town – TLC Book Tours, founded by Lisa at Books on the Brain and Trish of Hey, Lady! Whatcha […]
The Saturday Review of Scraps
The Bulletin Board: *********I haven’t moved, but my blog has a new address: it’s now being published on its own domain. Welcome to www.3rsblog.com! I’ve changed the Feedburner settings, and bookmarks and links will redirect from the old address, but if you notice any problems, please bring them to my attention! ********Submissions for the August Bookworms Carnival, Edition 14 are already coming in – thanks, early birds! The deadline is Friday, August 8th. Please e-mail […]
Traveling again…
I’m holding down the fort at Sunshine‘s place today. She issued an invitation a few weeks ago for guest bloggers to contribute posts talking about what’s great about their home states. My current state of California was already spoken for, but this is where it comes in handy to have moved around as much as I have – I was able to but in a bid to post about one of my previous home states. […]
Bookworms Carnival #14 – The scoop
It occurs to me that my announcement that I’ll be hosting the August Bookworms Carnival might need a little background information, especially if this is your first invitation to the Carnival. The monthly Bookworms Carnival is organized and facilitated by Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf, but each individual Carnival is conducted by a volunteer host. While the Carnival’s aim is to help build the book-blogging community, please note that you do NOT […]
Midweek Scraptacular: News and notes and links and stuff
I didn’t have a lot of links to share this past Sunday – partly because work was so busy last week that I skimped on blog reading! – so I decided to keep the collection open a little while longer this time. Announcements: ******** I have set up a FriendFeed – it’s yet another way to share online activity, centralizing your participation in various services. In my case, it’s recapping blog posts, Twitter updates, LibraryThing […]
Scraps & snippets on Sunday – holiday weekend edition
Announcements: ******* This was just cool: my Road Trip Diary post this past Wednesday was picked up by the Yellowstone Newspaper Online – (slightly belated) “hello” to everyone who’s found their way here via that link! I kind of wish we’d known about this resource before the trip, though :-). Also, if you’re interested in the adventures of someone who’s spending her whole summer at Yellowstone, read this blog. ******* Speaking of travel, Sunshine at […]
