Blogger Confidential: Introducing the Bloggers

Have you ever been faced with an issue while reading or blogging and thought: I wonder what other bloggers think about this?  No matter what genre or audience you blog for, we all face the same problems.  Are you a publisher or author wondering what goes on in a blogger's (and by extension a reader's) head?

Blogger confidential is a series of 12 questions asked to 11 bloggers about the nitty gritty details of blogging. Everything from what prompts a blogger to pick up a book, to what happens when a book doesn't live up to its hype.  This series was inspired by Wastepaper Prose's Author Insight series.

This week we introduce this round's bloggers!

Melina from Reading Vacation

Melina is the tween girl behind the Reading Vacation blog. She loves reading middle grade and young adult books for review. Melina lives in Texas and is about to enter seventh grade.

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Jenn from Jenn's Bookshelves

Jenn has been blogging for three years now at Jenn's Bookshelves, but has been reviewing books for over ten years. Her passions include providing underprivileged children with access of books and fostering a love of reading in children.

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Sara from Novel Novice

Sara has a Bachelor of Arts in English, and works in TV news. She started Novel Novice as a way to share her life-long love of reading with others and help promote literacy. She can often be found getting lost in a good book.

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Jacinda and Jasmine from The Reading Housewives of Indiana

Jacinda and Jasmine are sisters who both share their love of reading young adult (and occasionally adult) books and blogging. Visiting their blog and reading their reviews, you can get two readers thoughts on the same book.

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Lynsey from Narratively Speaking

Lynsey is a UK book blogger and a registered nurse. Lynsey had been reading YA books for some time and had no one to share her thoughts with so she decided to set up a blog to give honest reviews about the books she read and so in January, 2010, Narratively Speaking was born.

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Stacey and Pixie from Page Turner's Blog

Stacey Canova is a 29 year-old bookseller and lives in Illinois. Stacey loves to travel when she's not reading. She enjoys a wide verity of books, but has a special place for paranormal and dystopian.

Pixie (Amber) is an avid reader with a great love of books who has always enjoys spreading her love of a good read with those around her. She supports and encourages her children to have strong literacy values. As always she stands ready for a good debate over books and the characters within the pages, whether you want to debate or not.

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James from Book Chic

James is a 25 year old who has been blogging at Book Chic for a little over 4 years, having started in June 2007. He graduated from Lynchburg College with a degree in English as well as minors in theatre and religious studies. He is an aspiring author, currently working on a novel he calls his Funny Gay Paranormal.

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Stacy, Shannan, Nancy, and Sara from Girls in the Stacks

Stacy has a droll sense of humor, and one should never take her serious unless she is sporting her “serious” magnum face. She also has a bad habit of confusing her family with literary characters.

Shannan is a giggling sarcastic kind of gal who brings the life to the party. She likes sushi, the color pink and making silly videos. Plus she likes to talk. A lot. It’s her favorite.

Nancy’s “me” time is reading. It’s her escape. Plus it helps her fend off the doldrums of PTA meetings and cooking endless meals for her family.

Sarah is an English teacher who loves to match students with books that speak to them. To make the magic happen she listens to books on the go.

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Kristi from The Story Siren

The Story Siren was founded in late 2007. I didn't really know what "blogging" was, but as an avid reader I thought it would be a great way to keep track of the books I was reading and share what I thought with other people... which I assumed would probably only be my mom.

The Story Siren features mainly Young Adult literature. Reviews, interviews, giveaways, book news, and anything else that strikes my fancy.

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Enna Isilee from Squeaky Books

Enna Isilee has been blogging at Squeaky Books for over four years. When she isn't reading she's probably sleeping, or working so she can buy more books. She does everything online under her pseudonym, because it makes her feel like a superhero with a secret identity. Her primary focus is YA fantasy, sci-fi, and dystopia, but she believes that a dose of randomness is always heathly.

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Wallace from Unputdownables

I’ve loved reading all of my life (literally). When I was too young to read I still carried books with me most everywhere I went (I have pictures to prove it), and taught myself to read (with the help of my mom) before I went to school… I just couldn’t wait. After realizing that not all of my friends felt the same way I became the book recommender, always trying to find a book to fit a personality. Two years ago I decided to take that online and started my first blog. A year ago, I started Unputdownables.

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Yara from Once Upon a Twilight

Yara began blogging in March 2010 when a few of her TwilightMOMs friend ask her too. They wanted to know what books and adventures she was experiencing. So Once Upon a Twilight was born. Yara is a work at home mom that runs a trucking company which gives her freedom to blog. She invented the saying "What the Bus!" and loves meeting fellow bloggers everywhere she goes.

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Katie from Katie's Book Blog

Katie is a nineteen-year-old college student in Colorado. She has been blogging young adult books at Katie's Book Blog since 2009. She might be almost out of her teens but young adults books will always be her favorites!