Armchair BEA Day 3: Beyond Your Blog

It's Day 3 of Armchair BEA and today's topic addresses the benefits that come along with being a book blogger, aside from the free books:  Has blogging opened up opportunities for you beyond getting free, advance copies of new books? Has it helped you get offers to write or review elsewhere (maybe even for pay)? Have you gotten invites to special events or places you might not have been to otherwise? Well, my answer to the question above...

Armchair BEA Day 2 & 3

Today's Armchair BEA topic is offline networking:  For Day 3, we want you to share your positive experiences of using your blog to get involved in your community. This can involve partnerships with the local literary scene, attending author events and signings, or getting together with bloggers in your area. We want to hear it all! Unfortunately this isn't something that I have had much success with due to the fact that there aren't...

Armchair BEA Day 1 & the excuse I didn't have to give

I was going to write a short post explaining  that I don't have any reviews for you today because I've gotten caught up in watching Community, a fantastic TV show that I just discovered, and which has prevented me from getting anything productive done. But thanks to Ryan I just found out that Armchair BEA has just begun and to participate today all I have to do is talk about myself, which I can easily do without any preparation, so...