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Wednesday, 23 March 2022

A photo of a tablet, proped up on a light grey, fluffy duvet, at an angle so the screen faces the botyom left of the photo. It's open to Once Upon a Bookcase's review policy. In front of the tablet, to the left of the photo, is a pale green, hardback notebook, and a pink pen.

Guide to Book Blogging: Writing a Review Policy

Following on from my last posts for Guide to Book Blogging series - Getting Started Part 1 Setting Up Your Blog and Part 2 Creating Content and Engagement - this is the next installment in the series; Writing a Review Policy.

So you've been blogging for a while now, have a variety of reviews and various discussion posts and other content, are receiving steady traffic and have decent stats across your blog and social media, you're almost ready to try testing the waters to see if publishers will consider sending you ARCs. But before you do that, you need a review policy.

Wednesday, 16 March 2022

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Guide to Book Blogging: Getting Started Part 2 - Creating Content & Engagement

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A photo of a tablet propped up on it's side, facing the bottom left corner of the photo. It's open to Once Upon a Bookcase's homepage. In front and just to the left of the tablet, to the left of the photo, is a pale green, hardback notebook with a pink biro on top. They're all on a light grey, fluffy duvet.

Ad: Titles with an asterisk (*) were provided to me for free by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Guide to Book Blogging: Getting Started

Part 2: Creating Content & Engagement

I'm continuing with my Guide to Blogging with the second part of Getting Started, which is focusing on starting to create content. If you haven't yet, be sure to read the first part, Setting Up Your Blog, because until you've set up, you can't move forward.

Ok, so you've set up your email address, decided on a blog title, chosen a platform, have your theme and template, and your first few pages. Now it's time to work on your content and engagement.

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Guide to Book Blogging: Getting Started Part 1 - Setting Up Your Blog

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Guide to Book Blogging: Getting Started

Part 1: Setting Up Your Blog

On Saturday, it will be my book blogging anniversary! I will have been blogging for 13 years. It's mad, it doesn't seem like quite so long. Blogging still brings me a huge amount of joy, and I can't see me giving up any time soon. I've learnt a few things over the years, and as I've had some questions about blogging recently, I thought I'd put together a few guides to book blogging for anyone thinking of starting.

This first post on getting started with blogging ended up being far too long, so I've split it into two parts. This one is on setting up your blog. Once you've read this, you can check out the second part, which is on Creating Content & Engagement.