thank you, YA blogger friends.
(This one’s kind of a long one, sorry)
I’ve been meaning to do this for approximately 20 #FFs, but never got around to it. Now that I’ve actually got a few breathing moments to do another personal post, I figured now’s as good a time as any.
Oh, and hey look, it happens to coincide with Christmas Eve. ;)
This year has been an interesting year in the world of blogging. A little history, if I may. I started blogging back in 2004 when I was still in college (if you’re interested, my ramblings on Xanga are still kicking around on the internet). I then moved over to Blogger, thinking I’d post more if I had more flexibility in my blog layout. Heh, I was wrong. Then I landed here, on tumblr.
And then I started my little YA cover design blog, That Cover Girl. And then my blogging world kind of exploded, and in a good way.
I’ve always read blogs, whether they were personal, tech-related, media-related, news-related. I’ll read anything I find interesting on the web, and blog posts draw me in like a moth to a flame, especially if you add in doses of your own personality and humor. But the YA blogging world is an interesting one. Mostly populated by teenagers and women ranging in ages young to “awesomer,” you’ll find a variety of thought processes and opinions all across this spectrum of avid fans of YA writing. It’s a breath of fresh air, this little community.
This post is dedicated to both two different camps of folks in this realm — the newbie bloggers who enrolled unknowingly into this rather-close-knit little Class of 2010, and the veterans who’ve helped me shaped my opinions about YA and blogging along the way. (Links will lead you to their blogs, not their Twitter user page)
@GReadsBooks, also lovingly known as “G.” She was one of those Twitter users who I’d never heard of before until a mutual Twitter friend (@CrookedCarla) blasted out a tweet saying I should head over to G’s new YA blog. So I did. I discovered shortly after that we had a lot of things in common, freakishly so. Our love of sweet things, sisters and Christmas cards and our foray into the YA realm via Twilight bonds us in some sort of weird and unique way.
@CrookedCarla & @annareadsbooks. These are funny girls, y’all. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know a lot of funny girls, so when I find one (nay, TWO) that make me laugh, it’s an instant-connection. These girls don’t even have to read YA. Carla’s profession of wanting to lick covers and Anna’s chapstick/Blistex fight with me on Twitter make them top-notch hilarious girls of the most amusing variety.
@melaniegoodman. I hope you like being called “Mel,” Mel. If not, I’m sure you’ll let me know in the near future. ;) Mel’s definitely a conversationalist, and a lot of my @replies are filled with back-and-forth topics with her that range from food to books to tech to jokes.
@makeshiftjen. I would’ve included Jen in with the “Funny Girls” category with Carla & Anna, but I’m not sure what degree of singing beauty Carla and Anna live up to. If they’re both as awesome as she is, my bad. Because Jen, you have an absolutely beautiful voice. =) Jen is one of those girls who I can talk to about anything under the moon. We keep promising ourselves that our love of sweatpants and chai tea lattes will bring us together some day. And it’ll happen, I promise.
@lindsiking. We both love to bake. I’m not quite sure what to say after this, because this is the driving force behind our twitter and blogger relationship. It’s based on sugar. And that’s pretty sweet.
@brokeandbookish, @hobbitsies, @taramq. I haven’t had a ton of conversation with these girls on Twitter, but I’m subscribed to all of their blogs, and love what they write to boot.
@stephxsu & @thestorysiren. These two are who I call my encyclopedias. They’ve read a lot, and they review a lot, and I care about these opinions. Together they’re like, the YA internet. Whenever I’m looking for a particular book and I can’t remember the name of it, I know I can go to their Goodreads accounts and look at (read: ogle) the covers of the vast amounts of books they’ve read. Which equates to a lot of ogling. But that’s besides the point.
@4everYA. Wow. It’s really hard to put into words how much I love these girls. How do you take a group of girls who post such hilariously legit stuff seriously? Yeah, well, there’s a balance, I suppose, and these girls have it. Everything they write = immediate #fistpump.
@tinamats. Salamat po, Tina, for introducing me to the beautiful tunes of Dave Barnes. I am forever indebted to you for this. I also love all of the thoughtful, introspective reviews that Tina writes. We also both love pancit and lumpia. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with basing friendships off of mutual love of food that’s deliciously bad for you.
@brimeetsbooks & @jordynface. I will continue to stalk each of these two bloggers until they have published books. Just yesterday we discussed the notion of me bragging extravagantly if I ever got one of their (future) ARCs in my grabby hands. I love reading through their writing processes and they’re always up for conversation as well.
Last, but certainly not least, @SnarkyWench. She’s the one I’ve been friends with the longest. She’s the one I was friends with before I knew she even liked YA. She was the one who kept me in the YA world after I’d read Twilight, and suggested some other far more wonderful titles that made me never want to leave YA, ever. She helped encourage me to start That Cover Girl. I will hug your neck one day, Sweets.
Thanks for making this year a spectacular year for YA blogging, friends. <3
thank you, YA blogger friends.
(This one’s kind of a long one, sorry)
I’ve been meaning to do this for approximately 20 #FFs, but never got around to it. Now that I’ve actually got a few breathing moments to do another personal post, I figured now’s as good a time as any.
Oh, and hey look, it happens to coincide with Christmas Eve. ;)
This year has been an interesting year in the world of blogging. A little history, if I may. I started blogging back in 2004 when I was still in college (if you’re interested, my ramblings on Xanga are still kicking around on the internet). I then moved over to Blogger, thinking I’d post more if I had more flexibility in my blog layout. Heh, I was wrong. Then I landed here, on tumblr.
And then I started my little YA cover design blog, That Cover Girl. And then my blogging world kind of exploded, and in a good way.
I’ve always read blogs, whether they were personal, tech-related, media-related, news-related. I’ll read anything I find interesting on the web, and blog posts draw me in like a moth to a flame, especially if you add in doses of your own personality and humor. But the YA blogging world is an interesting one. Mostly populated by teenagers and women ranging in ages young to “awesomer,” you’ll find a variety of thought processes and opinions all across this spectrum of avid fans of YA writing. It’s a breath of fresh air, this little community.
This post is dedicated to both two different camps of folks in this realm — the newbie bloggers who enrolled unknowingly into this rather-close-knit little Class of 2010, and the veterans who’ve helped me shaped my opinions about YA and blogging along the way. (Links will lead you to their blogs, not their Twitter user page)
@GReadsBooks, also lovingly known as “G.” She was one of those Twitter users who I’d never heard of before until a mutual Twitter friend (@CrookedCarla) blasted out a tweet saying I should head over to G’s new YA blog. So I did. I discovered shortly after that we had a lot of things in common, freakishly so. Our love of sweet things, sisters and Christmas cards and our foray into the YA realm via Twilight bonds us in some sort of weird and unique way.
@CrookedCarla & @annareadsbooks. These are funny girls, y’all. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know a lot of funny girls, so when I find one (nay, TWO) that make me laugh, it’s an instant-connection. These girls don’t even have to read YA. Carla’s profession of wanting to lick covers and Anna’s chapstick/Blistex fight with me on Twitter make them top-notch hilarious girls of the most amusing variety.
@melaniegoodman. I hope you like being called “Mel,” Mel. If not, I’m sure you’ll let me know in the near future. ;) Mel’s definitely a conversationalist, and a lot of my @replies are filled with back-and-forth topics with her that range from food to books to tech to jokes.
@makeshiftjen. I would’ve included Jen in with the “Funny Girls” category with Carla & Anna, but I’m not sure what degree of singing beauty Carla and Anna live up to. If they’re both as awesome as she is, my bad. Because Jen, you have an absolutely beautiful voice. =) Jen is one of those girls who I can talk to about anything under the moon. We keep promising ourselves that our love of sweatpants and chai tea lattes will bring us together some day. And it’ll happen, I promise.
@lindsiking. We both love to bake. I’m not quite sure what to say after this, because this is the driving force behind our twitter and blogger relationship. It’s based on sugar. And that’s pretty sweet.
@brokeandbookish, @hobbitsies, @taramq. I haven’t had a ton of conversation with these girls on Twitter, but I’m subscribed to all of their blogs, and love what they write to boot.
@stephxsu & @thestorysiren. These two are who I call my encyclopedias. They’ve read a lot, and they review a lot, and I care about these opinions. Together they’re like, the YA internet. Whenever I’m looking for a particular book and I can’t remember the name of it, I know I can go to their Goodreads accounts and look at (read: ogle) the covers of the vast amounts of books they’ve read. Which equates to a lot of ogling. But that’s besides the point.
@4everYA. Wow. It’s really hard to put into words how much I love these girls. How do you take a group of girls who post such hilariously legit stuff seriously? Yeah, well, there’s a balance, I suppose, and these girls have it. Everything they write = immediate #fistpump.
@tinamats. Salamat po, Tina, for introducing me to the beautiful tunes of Dave Barnes. I am forever indebted to you for this. I also love all of the thoughtful, introspective reviews that Tina writes. We also both love pancit and lumpia. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with basing friendships off of mutual love of food that’s deliciously bad for you.
@brimeetsbooks & @jordynface. I will continue to stalk each of these two bloggers until they have published books. Just yesterday we discussed the notion of me bragging extravagantly if I ever got one of their (future) ARCs in my grabby hands. I love reading through their writing processes and they’re always up for conversation as well.
Last, but certainly not least, @SnarkyWench. She’s the one I’ve been friends with the longest. She’s the one I was friends with before I knew she even liked YA. She was the one who kept me in the YA world after I’d read Twilight, and suggested some other far more wonderful titles that made me never want to leave YA, ever. She helped encourage me to start That Cover Girl. I will hug your neck one day, Sweets.
Thanks for making this year a spectacular year for YA blogging, friends. <3
