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Blogger Blog Tour – The Blogger Girls

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An Insider’s Guide to The Blogger Girls

Hi, everyone! We’re from the review site, The Blogger Girls (TBG), and we’ve come on RJ Scott’s blog today to talk a little about our own blog. We posted our first review on January 1, 2014, so we've only been around for a little over 8 months. TBG is made up of four main reviewers (Heather C, JustJen, Nikyta & Susan65) and a few guest reviewers (Ami, Candace, Gyn, Karen, Morgan, Tina & Trish) and we will basically review just about anything that catches our interest.

When we say anything, we literally mean ANYTHING. When the four of us came up with the idea to start our own blog, we wanted to be free to review whatever we wanted. While we all initially bonded over M/M books, each of us still review M/F when the urge strikes (like with Heather right now who's on a M/F Steampunk kick!) so with our site, we have no issues with reviewing M/F, M/M, F/F and… well, any other pairing out there! If one of us are interested, we’ll read the book and provide a review.


To be honest, none of us had really blogged before we started our site. Sure, we’ve reviewed for a few other sites in the past, but none of us really had experience in running our own blog. It took a lot of trial and error to really get things to where they are now. Every week it seemed like we wanted to add this new feature to the site or start this new trend to make things interesting or even just to add a picture to every post that is distinctive to ‘us’. It took a while before we finally found a rhythm to our blogging, something that we all liked and agreed on, and that was easy to remember to do… since most of us have horrible memories! LOL

We are pleased to say that we’ve reached a point where we are all happy and proud of the blog.

We blog because we love to review. We love to interact with writers and readers. We love discovering debut authors and their amazing books. We love bringing attention to older books and authors who have been around the block for years. We love getting those comments from readers that say “Your review made me read this book and it was AWESOME!”

We have a pretty good following and have a good amount of views for our posts per day. Like Heather’s review of In These Words, Vol 1 by TogaQ & Kichiku Neko, JustJen’s review of Confessions of a Gay Rugby Player 4 by Patrick Darcy, Nikyta’s review of Written In Red by Anne Bishop, and Susan65’s review of Hell & High Water by Charlie Cochet. These are our four highest viewed reviews ranging from 140 to 461 views.

It’s not easy to do, and without the four of us contributing, we wouldn’t be able to make The Blogger Girls such an active blog. All of us have full time jobs, we have lives outside of reading and sometimes we don’t always have the time to read and review, we don’t have the time to create the guest posts but between the four of us, there’s always someone there to pick up the slack. We are a team, and while sometimes blogging can be frustrating (especially when WordPress decides to update their system! Grrrr) and sometimes we come across an author who’s a bit difficult to deal with, we do it because we want to, and we know that out there somewhere, we’ve got an audience that is looking forward to what we have coming up next.

Speaking of what we have coming up next, every day we have an author who stops by our site to talk about themselves, their books or about GRL. We have a different Theme Week and Author Week every month where we like to dedicate a cluster of reviews to either a certain theme or an author. In fact, August Theme Week is Mobster Week which is currently happening right now (Aug, 3 – Aug. 9). We have a lot of fun with those, because we usually find some hidden gems that were forgotten or passed over. We are also trying to expand more into M/F and F/F (most of our reviews are M/M related) so we’ve been reviewing more and more of those (or trying to at least!) and we’ve just recently decided to review audio books. We’ve got multiple author hosted giveaways a week and some freebie stories that we consider Special Treats. We like to think we’ve got something for everyone!

We are still newbies, though, as we have a lot to learn and are in no way experts in blogging. We’ve reviewed thousands of books collectively but we adore our blog. It fits us as individuals and as friends. We are equal owners, and we love having so many authors coming on our blogs. We love chatting with readers AND authors so come on over to The Blogger Girls, check out our site to see what type of reviews we offer and what type of promotional events we have. Feel free to chat with us outside the blog, too, because we are all over the web on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

We’d love to hear from you, whether you’re a reader, an author or even a publisher. Drop us a line whenever you feel like it 🙂 We’ve got links on our main page that you can use to contact us, request a review, see what books will be reviewed soon and even check out our calendar to see which authors will be on our blog for that month.

Now! Since you’ve oh so graciously stuck around through that loooooooong post, we’ve decided to host a giveaway! We’re offering up a chance to win a $20 Gift Card to Amazon.com! All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter giveaway and you’re set! This giveaway ends on Friday, August 15, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Lillian Francis says

    August 8, 2014 at 11:14 pm

    Don't worry, we learn from each other all the time.

    I've added you to my feedly link 🙂

    Reply
    • Nikyta (The Blogger Girls) says

      August 8, 2014 at 11:54 pm

      Awww, thank you! <3

      Reply
  2. Danielle Maas says

    August 8, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    great post ladies 🙂

    Reply
    • Nikyta (The Blogger Girls) says

      August 9, 2014 at 12:01 am

      Thanks, Dani!!!! Mwaaaaaaaaauh!

      Reply
  3. Heather C says

    August 9, 2014 at 12:07 am

    Thanks for having us, RJ!

    Heather C

    Reply
  4. Jen CW says

    August 9, 2014 at 12:11 am

    Thanks for the great post. I admit I've thought about running a blog site more recently, but I don't think I could do it on my own. 🙂 I love your site though, you are doing it well.

    Reply
  5. Barbra says

    August 9, 2014 at 1:07 am

    I don't know how you do it, but I'm really glad that you do. Keep up the good work! 🙂

    Reply
  6. Jbst says

    August 9, 2014 at 2:51 am

    I really enjoy your blog and the mix of reviews that you have. Hard to believe that you've been around only eight months.

    Reply
  7. Tammy says

    August 9, 2014 at 11:52 am

    I really enjoy your blog. It's actually the first one I followed – I'm new to blogs. I can always count on you guys for recommendations that I trust. I've also discovered new authors on your blog. Thanks for the great book recommendations and for the giveaway!

    Reply
  8. ShirleyAnn says

    August 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    I enjoyed reading your post and I always look forward to visiting your site and reading your reviews.

    ShirleyAnn(at)speakman40(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk

    Reply
  9. Lisa says

    August 9, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    I admire anyone that runs a blog/review site. Seems like a lot of hard work, but I'm glad you do it. 🙂 I really enjoy checking out The Blogger Girls each day.Thanks for the giveaway!

    Reply
    • Lisa says

      August 9, 2014 at 7:19 pm

      Forgot my email address:

      lkbherring64(at)gmail(dot)com

      Reply
  10. H.B. says

    August 9, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    I've recently just come across your blog and so far I like what I've seen.

    humhumbum AT yahoo DOT com

    Reply
  11. Lisa G says

    August 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    I visit your blog everyday and have won some great books during your contests. Your reviews are spot on and have help me build a pretty impressive wish list 🙂 Thanks for all your hard work.
    lgrant1@san.rr.com

    Reply
  12. Serena91291 says

    August 9, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    It's been a while since I found your blog but I think it's great. It must not be easy to run it but you're doing wonderfully. Thanks for all the nice posts!
    serena91291@gmail.com

    Reply
  13. Sula says

    August 10, 2014 at 2:49 am

    I recently de-lurked and started joining in and following lots of blogs and great giveaways, I have never had so much fun when meeting authors, bloggers and reviewers as well as fellow readers like myself. I now have to get the confidence up to write reviews for all the wonderful books I have read and I wonder what tips anyone can give me, as I would never write anything negative or nasty which is not productive for the author or other readers.

    Thank you Blogger Girls, I have enjoyed reading your reviews and entering your giveaways 🙂 And RJ for hosting this blog post 🙂

    Reply
  14. JustJen says

    August 15, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    Thanks so much for having us, RJ! And thanks everyone for following and liking what we do. Itis feedback like that which helps make it so fulfilling and the hard work worth it. Couldn't do it without each of us though, and being able to be a part of it with my friends is the best. 🙂

    Reply
  15. Kim Williams says

    August 15, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    Great post. Book blogs are a great way to find new books.
    kimandpete(at)me(dot)com

    Reply
  16. Nikyta (The Blogger Girls) says

    August 17, 2014 at 3:05 am

    Congratulations to Dani! She's the winner of the $20 gift card to Amazon.com! Dani, we'll be emailing you shortly to verify your email. To everyone else, thank you so much for participating and reading about The Blogger Girls. And thank you so much, RJ Scott, for having us on your site!

    Reply

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