Thursday, August 13, 2009

Behind the Blogs: Profiling Our Favorite Romance Bloggers

Written by Kat Meyer

Dear everybody,

The other day on Twitter, we announced that we were going to do our darnedest to profile the fantabulous people who work so hard to bring you the latest news and reviews about goings on in the world of romance reading, writing, and raconteuring (actually, we didn’t announce it quite that way, but as I’m feeling all alliterate right now, I am just going to go with it) – ROMANCE BLOGGERS!

So, now it’s my chance to shout out (as loudly as this monitor will allow me to): THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PIPING UP WITH SO MANY WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS!

Thanks to you guys and gals, we’ve got a bunch of romance bloggers to choose from, and they are no ordinary romance bloggers – they are all STELLAR bloggers with much to recommend them. What’s even more fun, some of the recommenders were actually recommended by other bloggers! – proving yet again just how supportive and generous a community romance bloggers (and twitterers) are.

Also, just from this random group of suggested romance bloggers it’s quite clear that romance knows no national boundaries.  It’s quite exciting – bloggers from Australia, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, and more.

Below I’ve listed the “nominees” so far.  (I apologize in advance if I missed any – and if I did, please let me know.) I’m going to start setting up interviews ASAP with each of these incredible bloggers and we’ll be devoting a special section of our website to “Behind the Blogs.” In all seriousness, these bloggers deserve mucho respect and admiration for the work they do, and we’re going to do our best to give them the attention they deserve.

In the meantime, please please please – add your suggestions about other romance bloggers you’d like to know more about. Use the comments section, or drop us a line via our contact form.

AND, feel free to suggest interview questions. (who wants to hear the same old same old? let us know what you really want to find out about your fave romance bloggers!)

And for now, please take a gander at the suggestions we’ve received so far! Thanks again to each and everyone of the tweeps who took the time to nominate bloggers to be profiled. We greatly appreciate it.

From the TwitterStream:Twitterers tweet their suggestions for the romance bloggers they’d most like to see profiled here at Quartet Press’ blog

@sarahtanner: @avidbookreader @booksmugglers @romancerookie @Leontine1976 @katiebabs @heidenkind @smexybooks @mcvane @jane_l

@CheekyReads: Smart Bitches & Dear Author

@DYockman: @smartbitches! @dearauthor @historicals Dirty Sexy Books – that is a start…will have to see who else!

@susanmpls: @smartbitches and @dearauthor

@jodywallace: Heather Massey from Galaxy Express would make for an interesting profile (romance bloggers); Rebecca at DirtySexyBooks.com also seems pretty funny and interviewable.

@mcvane: Off my head: Gossamer Obsessions; Rip My Bodice; The Galaxy Express; Racy Romance Reviews; Aneca’ss World

@aprilrickard: I love the historical romance authors/bloggers, The Chatelaines

@katiebabs: [who, by the way has recently very cutely "madmenned" her twitter avatar]: def @booksmugglers @kmont @myfriendamy @trelaina

@shilohwalker: @katiebabs even though she has scarred me horribly. @trelaina @bookbinge

@girrlitsbooks [from Down Under!] SarahT + Doc Sarah soo many to choose from how do you pick one blogger? @BookThingo @SuperWendy @redwyne @Karenknowsbest Ell yeah!

@sarahtanner:  @BookThingo @SuperWendy @redwyne @Karenknowsbest

@redwyne:  @bloghappy, @cranberrytarts, @limecello, @jmc_bks, @dogzzz (cindys), @wearedevilcow, @romancerookie @mcvane