Feature and Follow Friday #138

Welcome to the Feature & Follow

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Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post. A lot of blogs are transitioning to Wordpress in which they do not have the luxury of GFC, so an RSS subscription is appreciated or if you choose an email subscription. If you don't have GFC please state in your post how you would like to be followed.

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How To Become a Featured Blog?

We pick our featured blogs randomly each week from the blogs who participated the week before.

Please be sure to feature your e-mail address clearly on your blog. Either on the main blog, on a Contact page, or on an About Me page. If I can't find your email easily, I will choose a different blog to feature.

Our Feature - Megz Madd Readz

1. When did you start blogging?

I started blogging a couple years ago, starting with a food blog, then a Bible study blog, a writing blog, and finally ending up with a book blog in December of 2012.

2. What is your favorite part of book blogging?

Definitely getting to share all my favorite books with other people. I think I've actually become obsessed with doing book reviews :) Once I read a book, I can't wait to tell others what I thought of it.

3. What type of books do you mainly blog about?

Lately, it's been mostly YA. I read a little bit of everything, from Dystopian to Romance and all the odds and ends in between.

4. What is your favorite book(s)?

Well, right now it would have to be the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. I've read the first two and I'm on the third right now. They're amazing!

5. What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

Meeting all these amazing new people. I am having a blast connecting with other book bloggers :) Most of the channels I've subscribed to on YouTube are book videos. Like I said earlier, obsessed.

Q: Confess your blogger sins! Is there anything as a newbie blogger that you've done, that as you gained more experience you were like -- oops?

*The bar exam is over!!!!!! I'm looking forward to getting back into blogging. Planning to have things back to normal on Monday.

What mistakes did I make as a newbie blogger? I can't really think of anything I did "wrong" as a newbie. Actually, I'm much more critical of myself now. Lately, I've been making a lot of blog mistakes. Not writing reviews as soon as I finish the books, not posting as much, not commenting as much, not having as original ideas. I put it down to laziness. It was partly due to being busy studying, but also just going through a lazy spell. Luckily, I've had a break and time to recharge. So hopefully I'll be a much better blogger starting next week.

The only mistake I made as a newbie was accepting books for review indiscriminately. I was, as almost all new bloggers are, so excited to get review offer that I accepted books I didn't think were that good or self-pubs that were horribly written (not blanketly criticizing self-pubs. There are some great ones, but a few I accepted were really, really bad).

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Now for the Follow Fun!

With GFC going the way of the dodo bird for many bloggers, there is no better time to start following blogs via RSS feed. If you use a reader, it would be great if you followed my RSS directly.

We have a new button, so update your blogs if you are used to doing this meme!

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RULES

To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
2. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say "hi" in your comments and that they are now following you.
5. If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn't have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
6. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
7. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
8. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

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