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My Thoughts: Plagiarism, Copying, Stealing - Combining my work experience, life lessons and observations into a fun new topic that pertains to the book community, MY THOUGHTS will be a monthly featured post on the first of every month. [...]

My Thoughts: Judging a Book by its Cover - Combining my work experience, life lessons and observations into a fun new topic that pertains to the book community, MY THOUGHTS will be a monthly featured post on the first of every month. [...]

    The lovely Jamie at Perpetual Page Turner is hosting The Third Annual End of Year Book Survey and it looked so much fun, I just had to partcipate! Best In Books 2012   1. Best Book You Read In 2012 Best Book(s) of 2012 Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama and Unravel Me by [...]

Blog Tour: Fire by Shauna Granger Excerpt and Giveaway [...]

Today, I’m excited to join the WinterHaven Sleigh Tour hosted by WinterHaven Books. This week, I am writing Santa a letter for my book wish that I hope to receive this season. To see who else has written to Santa, go to WinterHaven Sleigh Tour for a list of participating blogs or check the list out [...]

  ‘ve always been an opinionated person, usually a black or white kind of person with very little shades of grey.. (See what I did there? Haha) so reviewing books were just so easy to do. I do this because I love books. I do this to help people with their decision whether to buy [...]

f there weren’t any readers, the book industry wouldn’t even exist. Readers and the people who keep the book industry running need to work together to survive. If one part of the book industry machine conks out, there wouldn’t be any books sitting in my bookcase. Can I thank Johannes Gutenberg for creating the printing press? (Bless [...]

started Book Nerd after my employment ended sadly at the magazine (gotta love the economy!), but that didn’t stop me from pursuing it. Writing reviews wasn’t part of my job description but being able to read books were so much fun, it didn’t feel like work! I only actively started to approach other publishers when I [...]

hat can I say about authors? Hmm *thinks* They’re my type of celebrity. People follow the big movie stars, and find out what they wear, and watch all their videos, and probably even stand in line to buy TIFF tickets. But not for this book blogger. I follow the authors. I read their books. If [...]

Check out my one year blogaversary! You can enter to win my giveaways as well! [...]

here would Book Nerd be without its readers? I remember starting my blog and having no one comment. I would comment on other blogs and visit, but I was still so new that no one knew who I was. And that’s where I steamrolled right into Twitter. Twitter, the micro-blogging service that was supposed to [...]

ook Nerd was started with the mission to help other people decide if a book was for them. I remember getting a sense of satisfaction when someone thought my review was helpful on the Chapters/Indigo community portal. I helped someone, and that’s the main goal I sought to achieve. I can’t believe Book Nerd has [...]

  Vampires are known to be beautiful, yet mysterious and deadly. As soon as InkSpell Publishing had this blog hop about vampires, I immediately signed up. I just knew I had to feature these creatures of the dark. From books to movies, vampires are everywhere. Find out which vampire is my favourite.. Vampires are good-looking Handsome [...]

Publication dates, blog tours, giveaways, cover reveals, what do all of these have in common? Each one has a dead line. It can get overwhelming at times when you have so many things to watch out for..Or in this case read!  This is why you should get organized. It’ll make your blogging schedule a lot [...]

Getting visitors to your blog isn’t hard. It just takes a lot of time to get it together. You won’t see results right away since you’re a newbie, but you will gain a following if you work hard, and keep blogging every day. Here are some tried and tested methods that I myself have used, [...]