YA Book Blogs discussion

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Hey everyone! How's it going? Hope you've checked out the group and I hope that you enjoy it! Please tell me if anything needs to be changed or you want something to be added and above all, enjoy! Remember to introduce yourself and I look forwards to getting to know you!

How’s blogging going?
(Where is everyone???)

My blog is doing great! Thank you so much for asking. Still a pain to put my rants in an enclosed space, but what can I do. How’s yours?

I'm doing okay on mine, but I'm having trouble coming up with discussion post ideas. On the bright side, I gained some followers on my blog and Bookstagram. Anyone have any ideas for blog posts?

Ooh that’s great! Hey everyone FYI when you post there’s a place where you can comment what you posted on this group to get people interested! And Katie thanks for the idea, I think we should do something with post ideas, we can set up a discussion where people can comment ideas for posts.

Ha ha I just realized we already have something like that topic. It's the discussion called, "What to write?" in the blog help folder.
But a topic for how to gain more followers might be useful. Katie, how were you able to gain more followers?

Just set up a topic all about getting new followers. SOMEONE PLEASE TEACH ME THE WAYS OF THE BLOGGER WITH MANY FOLLOWERS

Someone please tell me if they like my blog more now that there's the big banner that says books with wings at the top or less because I'm really not sure how to feel about it.

I seriously don't know if I like it more or not, someone please help.

Well you can find my blog on my profile or right here:
https://yabookswithwings.wordpress.com/

I'm beginning to lean towards no but I want to hear the opinions of you guys.

Okay, yeah, I'm leaning towards that as well.
Thank you for your opinion, I will see what others have to say and then decide if I should change it or not.

I've finished two posts today! They're all ready to get published! I'll probably wait a bit to publish them and I'm trying to decide if I should post them both today. They're both super different (one's a book review and one's something else I'm working on that will be revealed later) so I think I will be posting them both today.
I'll probably wait a few hours, until like 12 MST (mountain standard time) because that way it's around the middle of the day for everyone in the US (Sorry I'm only thinking about the US not really england or anything) and therefore I think more people will see it then (this is my logic for getting more people to look at my blog, lol. Idk if it actually works.)

Anyways I just took off the thing at the top, I agree that it didn't look very good.

Any ideas on how to post every 7 days? I am legit feeling like the girl from the Ring, I swear.

What do you mean? Like posting consistently?

Hmm. Well I think that we're going to send out a newsletter sort of thing for this group--like a message to everyone every sunday. So maybe that can sorta remind you? I dunno.

@Katie...how have you gained eight followers in two days??? What is your secret???? Even with my challenge (which is wildly unsuccessful so far, unfortunately....uuuuuugh it's gonna be a total dud and an embarrassment) I've only gained two followers!

Yes, I meant posting consistently. I don't have that many words in my arsenal.

How do you know how many followers I have? I just blog hop sometimes. I don't really think that's a secret though.

Phoenix (she/her) wrote: "@Katie...how have you gained eight followers in two days??? What is your secret???? Even with my challenge (which is wildly unsuccessful so far, unfortunately....uuuuuugh it's gonna be a total dud ..."

Girl! You are lucky! Some other people*ahem* me. Have no followers. No pity, please!

Booktastically wrote: "Phoenix (she/her) wrote: "@Katie...how have you gained eight followers in two days??? What is your secret???? Even with my challenge (which is wildly unsuccessful so far, unfortunately....uuuuuugh ..."

Oh! I didn't know that! Umm well....I mean how long have you had your blog up? Sometimes it takes a while to get people to notice. Also you got to really promote your own blog. For example, when I first started my blog, I went around to a lot of goodreads groups promoting it. They probably hate me now but hey I got like eighteen followers from that. You also gotta make your blog stand apart. Make a logo. Give it pizzazz. I dunno. And participate in challenges and stuff (to be fair I have never actually done that but I think it helps?)

Katie (The Storybook Sisters) wrote: "How do you know how many followers I have? I just blog hop sometimes. I don't really think that's a secret though."

Oh yeah so to tell how many followers someone on wordpress has, go to the reader, look up their site, click on it and it will sorta show you a preview, not bringing you to the actual site, where it will show how many followers someone has.

Katie (The Storybook Sisters) wrote: "How do you know how many followers I have? I just blog hop sometimes. I don't really think that's a secret though."

Wait when you say blog hop do you just mean like look through blogs, make comments, like and follow people?
Also how many people have you followed?

Haaaaaaaaa more people visited my blog today then I have followers.
Apparently people will look at my blog but NOT follow it.
We need to get more people into this group (this last thought was unrelated but hey I think it's true).

Phoenix (she/her) wrote: "Katie (The Storybook Sisters) wrote: "How do you know how many followers I have? I just blog hop sometimes. I don't really think that's a secret though."

Oh yeah so to tell how many followers some..."

Oh I've done that. Okay. Yeah, that's basically all blog hopping is. A lot of the people that visit my blog won't follow either. I can relate. I'm so picky on who I follow.

Katie (The Storybook Sisters) wrote: "Phoenix (she/her) wrote: "Katie (The Storybook Sisters) wrote: "How do you know how many followers I have? I just blog hop sometimes. I don't really think that's a secret though."

Oh yeah so to te..."

How many people do you follow? I've followed like...you, my irl friend's blog and...that may be it. I guess I'm SUPER picky.
Okay yeah I may do more of that stuff. I still think you have picked up on the secret superpower that all bloggers have and have hidden said superpower from me. I mean, people aren't even interested in my TOTALLY AWESOME CHALLENGE that I worked SO VERY HARD ON and isn't even HARD TO DO and it's EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE and like you don't even have to DO ALL OF IT and yet no one or like one or two people are the only ones actually doing it.

Aaaaaaah I actually need to do schoolwork tomorrow and stop procrastinating even though I JUST WANT TO BLOOOOOOOOOG.

Wow. Just wow. I'm only allowed to send one broadcast message to a group a day?

Guys okay so I’ve never done a book tag before but just got tagged to do one...that means I’m supposed to do it, right? If you are tagged you do it? I think that’s how it works but just wanna make sure.

NOOOO!!! Okay um....no way to undo or anything? Um....let's see...uuh I don't know what to do...

Also don't say you want to die. I'm sorry if I sound overbearing or whatever but that's not something to joke about. If you aren't joking about it, please get therapy but don't say it just because of something like this. That's not something to be taken lightly.

Aw I'm really sorry that's always awful. I hope that you are able to rewrite it? That's super frustrating when that happens but hopefully you can get past this.
(yes, thank you for adding that, I appreciate it.)

@Phoenix, I said that if you didn't have time to post or do the tag, you didn't have to do it. It's not mandatory or anything.

Ooh, okay. Well I'm literally almost done already (I be fast) so I guess I'm doing it. I'm too committed already. Question (again): are we allowed to tag people who don't have wordpress websites?

Lol. You're welcome for the tag, by the way. Um I don't know. I guess? Who are you tagging?

I do not know yet, actually. I don't know many people in the blogging community so I was just thinking of tagging some people in the group, some of whom don't have wordpress blogs. The problem is, they won't get a pingback or whatever.

(also yes thank you for the tag)

Alright everyone I mean I know most of you don't even care but I'm exhausted and I just did a whole lot of blog editing so I'm gonna go vanish now. In case any of you were wondering I started a short stories section of my blog, there's one post there. The page doesn't look very good because I put it together super quickly but hopefully I'll be able to edit it more tomorrow to make it look better. One thing (and I put this in the post) I ask you to subscribe before you read the short story? I'm not gonna force you to or whatever but please please please. You're reading my original writing and....I just ask that of you. Thanks guys.
More awesome stuff to come tomorrow maybe possibly depends we'll see. But yeah that's all for now.
-Phoenix

How's your blog doing, Phoenix? Has the short story section (hopefully) helped you get more followers?

Nope, still no more followers...ugh how do I only have twenty??? Much disappointment.

Aw that sucks.

Hey, it actually sucks for you guys. I'm not posting part two of the short story till I get ten more followers.

Lol. I can wait however long it takes. But how do you expect other people to just get you some followers?

I dunno.
It's true that it doesn't make sense.
But whatever. If they really want, they can advertise.

can you guys just be my test group and check if this works? It's supposed to be a book giveaway. (you can enter if you want. It says you have to follow my blog but you guys don't have to. Just make sure to put in a name I will recognize you by or tell me what name you enter with).
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/disp...?

Never mind it works!

@Phoenix
Question; what is The Deception?

The Deception is a book.

No, I mean, I got that part. But if I look up The Deception I'm going to get tons so on tons of books titled that. I mean which one?

hmmm good question.

Question; Would anyone here be offended if I advertised their blog? I have a page on mine that's just for listing other great blogs I reccomend, and if it's okay with you guys I'd like to put up yours as well. But if you don't want me to or anything that's fine; I just wanted to see if that's a thing y'all would be okay with. Again, totally fine if you don't want me to.