Do you love me? Please vote for me!

**If you already saw this at the new blog, please disregard. I’m sorry I double-posted, but I wanted to make sure the word got out! (You would double-post this, too. Maybe you wouldn’t. But I did.)

Vote for this blog for the Independent Book Blogger Awards!

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So, there is a thing. A thing where, if I win, I get to go to New York City and attend the BEA (Book Expo of America), and they will pay for my airfare and hotel. If I don’t win, there’s basically no way I will probably ever get to go to this thing because I am completely poor and I live in Ohio, so I can’t even stand outside and hope that someone will take pity on me. I will be sitting at home the whole weekend with my nose smushed against my bathroom window, which generally faces northeast, and thinking about how rad it would be if I weren’t too poor to afford to go to NYC and go to a sweet book expo. I will probably cry a little, too.

Oh-ho, you’re saying, but what’s in it for me to spend my vote on you? (Actually, most of you guys are totally awesome and definitely are not as opportunistic as I just made you out to be, so I apologize.) SO MANY THINGS. For one, so much blogging about the event. I will blog about all of my experiences. It will be like you actually get to go, but with someone cool and not someone who is going to suck up to the publishing industry, because you know that I’m mouthy and have a healthy dose of skepticism. I will also bring back ALL THE NEWS that I am allowed to blog about.

Also? Because of my Asperger’s, I often have hella meltdowns when traveling. This means that there might be funny angry blogs about my experiences on the plane, the hotel, and in NYC in general. I might get lost! I might have to go off on a concierge and possibly be banned for life from the hotel! YOU NEVER KNOW. I keep things exciting and unpredictable. There’s the possibility, of course, that this trip will go off without a hitch and I won’t be angry at all. I bet something will happen, though.

Plus, if I find something cool in New York, I will purchase it and have a giveaway. This isn’t so much a promise because I don’t know if I will find anything suitable, but I might! There might be prizes! There might even be expo swag, and if there is, and if I’m allowed to give it away, I will! I will unselfishly only play with it until I get home, and then it is all yours.

And, finally, it will make me so happy. I will be the happiest. It will basically be the best thing that has ever happened to me in my adult life. Er, wait. I should probably say that getting married was the best thing to happen in my adult life. And then meeting all of you guys and starting this blog, because that was pretty great and it is a gift that keeps on giving. Okay, well, this would definitely be on my top five list of most awesome things ever to happen to me in my adult life. I will be eternally grateful to everyone who votes, even if I don’t win, because I will know that you guys tried.

So, please vote for me and share this so other people will also vote for me. Vote because you love me, and I love you. Or, vote because you hate me and you want me to have to go through the stress of traveling to New York and possibly mouth off to TSA agents and be arrested. Vote because you like reading this blog. Hell, vote because you pity me and my poorness. Any reason works for me, and as you can see, I don’t really have anything that might be considered “dignity” in this matter.

Thank you from the bottom of my bookslutty heart.

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Reading Rage Tuesday + The Author’s Guide to the Internet

Why am I drinking? You'll have to go to the post to find out! Also, this is not actually me. Also also, the photo links to Flickr, not a post.

Hey, book fans! Thought I forgot about you at our shiny new blog, didn’t ya? Aww, I could never forget you guys. Especially since you keep following this blog!

Well, it’s been a busy week of reading and writing, as usual. We’re still running the giveaway until March 18th–that’s FIVE DAYS left to enter to win free things! Like t-shirts! That have designs like this:

We also did a Reading Rage Tuesday today. I wrote about blurbs. It’s the best blog I’ve read since I wrote it! Brilliant! Remarkable! Witty, yet poignant. On Saturday, I wrote another post in the same vein as the post I wrote about using Twitter to market your books, only this one is a primer on launching your social media presence if you’re an author (though I think the basic concepts would apply to a lot of different people). A lot of people found my social media post helpful. I AM HELPING PEOPLE, YOU GUYS. Just call me St. Bookslutty.

Hate waiting for these infrequent posts? You can get realtime updates of all of our posts by subscribing at the new blog, following us on Facebook, or following @thebooksluts on Twitter. Don’t wait for sporadic updates here; get your bookslutty fix immediately. We’re like drugs that are good for your brain.

Reading Rage Tuesday: Your clever writing slays me. Literally, I am dying.

Uh-oh. Did you miss this week’s reading rage? FEAR NOT. I wrote one. But it’s been posted over at our new blog, along with a new review that went up just today. Pop on over–we won’t bite. Much.

SURPRISE! Moving giveaway! Win a t-shirt!

So, this is our last night here at WordPress.com. We’ve really loved being here and I wish we could stay–but the longer we stay here, the harder it will be to move to our own site later, and I have super secret future plans that will, eventually, require that we have our own site. You can find us now at InsatiableBooksluts.com.

We started posting this about a week ago, and about 2% of our subscribers have subscribed at the new blog so far. (We’ve also been getting an  uptick in new subscribers here. I love new subscribers! But if you guys stay here and don’t visit our new blog, you will miss all the new posts! Also, I will miss you.) I know it’s kind of asking a lot to shift everyone over to a new venue–in fact, it’s a pain in the ass for everyone, and I know, and I’m so sorry. So I thought, how can I make this more exciting for everyone? I checked my Skreened account earlier when I was making some new designs (see above), and lo! I have credit! And Skreened credit means I can do a t-shirt giveaway! Upon further inspection, I found that I also have a small amount of Zazzle credit, so I’ll throw a few Zazzle items in for good measure!

We’re hosting the giveaway itself on our new site, because you’re going to have to go there anyway, right? The giveaway will be open until March 18, so head on over early and maximize your chances to win a free shirt!

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So, I made a mistake.

When I first started writing this blog, I thought, oh, I should probably make this blog self-hosted. Then I thought, eh, money is tight and it’ll be a long time before we can build up a readership, so I’ll just start writing now and work on self-hosting as I go.

Well, things happened more quickly than I thought, thanks to our Banned Books Week post being featured on Freshly Pressed. As we started getting more subscribers, I thought, well, it’ll slow down once the Freshly Pressed stuff dies down. I was, again, wrong; I completely underestimated the awesomeness of people out there who wanted to participate in our bookslutty community. Around Thanksgiving, I knew I was going to have to switch over at some point to a self-hosted blog, as we were having a lot of cool ideas that we couldn’t implement well due to the limitations of being hosted on WordPress.com.

I waffled. I waffled so hard that Eggo called me and asked for my recipe.

I finally decided to bite the bullet today and switch the blog over. After this week, we won’t be posting here at WordPress.com anymore; starting March 5, we will be exclusively posting at our very own blog, InsatiableBooksluts.com. (Until then, we will continue to post only here, so people don’t get double notifications.) There’s a link on the new blog’s sidebar where our old subscription link used to be; if you’d like to stay subscribed–and I truly hope that you do want to stay subscribed–please pop on over and subscribe to us, or update your rss feed to http://insatiablebooksluts.com/feed . As always, we can also be found on Twitter and on Facebook.

I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please feel free to give me 40 lashings with the thickest book you have at hand. After you go subscribe to the new IB, that is.