Concluding my Celebration of Bloggers Tour is Julie Valerie, founder of Chick Lit Chit Chat on www.julievalerie.com. I introduced myself to Julie when I heard that she planned to read and review a chick lit book a week during 2013. Being a chick lit author, I immediately reached out to Julie and asked if she wanted to review A State of Jane. At the time, I had no idea that I would actually meet Julie just a few months later when she volunteered to help out at the Book Buzz author event I co-organized with several other authors in New York City. Julie’s assistance that day was invaluable. As you will see from her blog post below, Julie has such a great sense of humor. She’s a whole lot of fun and I truly cannot wait until her debut novel is released so that I can return some of the support she has generously bestowed onto me and so many other authors. She’s really an amazing person and I like her so much, even more than…bacon!
Blogging vs. Bacon
By Julie Valerie
I love bacon. Almost as much as I love blogging. If I had to make a list of things I love, it would look like this:
1.Blogging
2.Bacon
Since this is a post about blogging, I’m going to stay on topic and talk about blogging. Not bacon.
Blogging rocks.
It’s cool because it’s both private and public at the same time. It’s something you do from the privacy of your home, but once done, instantly travels the globe.
And blogging offers some real benefits.
For one, blogging gives you an outlet to express your thoughts, opinions and/or feelings about something. Something … like bacon. I’m sure there’s a gazillion blogs about bacon. (See why blogging’s so great?)
Two, through blogging, you can share your talents and expertise with others and they can share their specialties with you. Bacon? Not so much. It can’t talk back.
Three, in my case, as a book blogger, blogging is the perfect platform for celebrating the arrival of a new book, or talking about an old book in a new way.
Now I ask you: What’s better than that?
Bacon?
Not even close.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I love bacon. Almost as much as I love blogging. But bacon can’t help you market or promote things that are important to you. It just sits there. On your plate. Being bacon-y.
Bacon doesn’t let you demonstrate what you know about a topic. Bacon doesn’t help you establish yourself in a field. Bacon doesn’t network. It doesn’t make connections. It can’t link, like, tweet, post or comment.
Because it’s bacon.
And that’s why, on the list of things I love, blogging comes before bacon.
With one exception: Every morning, when I’m still half asleep and oh, so hungry?
My list looks like this:
1. Bacon
2. Blogging
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Julie Valerie
Book Blogger & Writer
Julie Valerie’s Book Blog
P.S. Meredith, thanks so much for inviting me to be a part of the Celebrating Bloggers Tour to help kick off your August 28 release of Blogger Girl. I can’t wait to read all about Kimberly Long and her “Pastel is the New Black” blog. I know she (like me) has loved chick lit since the first time she read Bridget Jones’s Diary. And I know I’ll feel like Kimberly is a kindred spirit when I’m reading her because I have an entire category on my blog that’s dedicated a re-reading of Bridget Jones’s Diary, that watershed book that catapulted modern chick lit into the hearts and minds of readers.
Cheers to you and Kimberly! Yay for Blogger Girl!
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Connect with Julie:
Blog: “Julie Valerie’s Book Blog” www.julievalerie.com
Facebook: Julie’s Author Page https://www.facebook.com/JulieValerieAuthor
Facebook: Julie’s Personal Page https://www.facebook.com/julie.valerie.165
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBValerie
Google+: gplus.to/JulieValerie
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15137376-julie-valerie
Blogger Girl (coming 8/28)
What happens when your high school nemesis becomes the shining star in a universe you pretty much saved? Book blogger Kimberly Long is about to find out.
A chick lit enthusiast since the first time she read Bridget Jones’s Diary, Kim, with her blog, “Pastel is the New Black,” has worked tirelessly by night to keep the genre alive, and help squash the claim that “chick lit is dead” once and for all. Not bad for a woman who by day ekes out a meager living as a pretty, and pretty-much-nameless, legal secretary in a Manhattan law firm.
While Kim’s day job holds no passion for her, the handsome (and shaving challenged) associate down the hall is another story. Yet another story is that Hannah Marshak, one of her most hated high school classmates, has now popped onto the chick lit scene with a hot new book that’s turning heads–and pages–across the land. It’s also popped into Kim’s inbox–for review. With their ten-year high school reunion drawing near, Kim’s coming close to combustion over the hype about Hannah’s book. And as everyone around her seems to be moving on and up, she begins to question whether being a “blogger girl” makes the grade in her off-line life
