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Charlie - Yes there a lot of excellent YA fiction ...

2010-02-18T10:33:31.027-07:00

Charlie -
Yes there a lot of excellent YA fiction out now. There is a of junk too. I have "The Hunger Games" here on my shelf.

I do think you would like "Feed".

Audio is so nice you can do it passively - when driving... we are listening to it on an ipod speaker thingy...

"The Knife of Never Letting Go" is supposed to be really good too.

As for the number of followers and comments... John and I were both thinking and talking about that.

He had a few comments when he first started posting reviews and the last several reviews he has gotten nothing.

I am of course new to this so am at a loss. I have thought of a variety of reasons that I won't list here.. some understandable others not so great.

My thought about your blog and the large number of comments is that it is very personal in nature. You have also been doing it for awhile so have built relationships with your followers. Me/us - we/I am still working on that... but you can't do that for 200 plus followers. It becomes impersonal at a point.

I have also seen bloggers burn out trying to keep up with comments. I also know a bunch of bloggers whom do not respond to their comments or just to a few. I also see bloggers who get tons of comments on each post.. they are so so busy.

I have an anonymous commenter who just suggested that I need to give more opinions if I want more followers... but his/her English and writing is poor.

Interesting thoughts... yours are of course are welcome as always. :)

BTW - my new nook needs a new battery... hows that for funny?

You know, Shellie, I think the big advances in pub...

2010-02-18T09:45:39.439-07:00

You know, Shellie, I think the big advances in publishing are in the YA area. I loved Suzann Collin's "The Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire", and I'm waiting for the final in the trilogy.

Perhaps more adults are reading YA than YA because of its creativity. "The Book Thief" is a good example.

What gets me is you have a ton of followers, but where are they at comment time? You work very hard at this blog, but have no real feedback to what people are thinking.

Angela - You are so welcome.. I thought it was int...

2010-02-17T19:40:56.117-07:00

Angela -
You are so welcome.. I thought it was interesting as well.

I love foretelling....

Charlie -
I know what your saying...you should read this newer YA sci fi called "Feed". Very good, satire - I am bordering on a 5 star for this one. I think you would relate.

Some folks don't have the option of sitting back and waiting for readers to come to them.

I had a real aversion to twitter as well for awhile and it does have its MAJOR annoyances... but it looks as if Social Media is moving beyond twitter to include something more - even if we aren't part of the movement...we can still watch.

Thanks for the comments.

It will be interesting to sit back and see.

My very first thought: 1984. As far as the "socia...

2010-02-17T19:04:43.270-07:00

My very first thought: 1984.

As far as the "social" sites, I am a wallflower and prefer to remain one.

And Twitter: I just can't force myself to be constantly stupid in 140 characters or less.

I don't go phishing for new readers; rather, I wait for those who find me because they like the content of my blog.

These are my personal opinions and are not meant to reflect on anyone else.

very interesting article! thanks for sharing it :...

2010-02-17T17:54:20.390-07:00

very interesting article! thanks for sharing it :-)