Feature and Follow Friday Blog Hop! 9/12/14

Feature and Follow

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs! More info at the bottom of the post.

This Week’s Question

Before blogging (dark times people!) how would you find out about new books or did you?

Question provided by: The Pegster Reads 

This is kind of a funny question to me. The short answer is shelves first, then when Amazon got big, their Top 100 List.

The slightly longer answer… I stumbled across a few romance writers years ago, when we still found them by looking on the shelf and…”judging a book by it’s cover.” Lol. Since I’d found ones I liked, I stuck with them, that way I wasn’t disappointed. The thing is, I’m the only person I know who reads this genre, plus my family is super conservative so it makes it difficult to share. Eventually, I’d read almost all of their books. I went scrolling through Amazon’s top 100 and took a chance on J. Lynn’s (Jennifer L. Armentrout) “Wait For You.” I was now completely hooked on her. So, I started looking for books through this list. I discovered Aurora Rose Reynolds, Penelope Douglas, Abbi Glines…and so many more that I now 1-click whenever they have a release. I also find authors through anthologies. Like "Alpha's On Top." K. Webster and Rochelle Paige were discoveries from that collection. 

Through a Lux read-along, I all of the sudden had friends to talk to about the books I love! I started looking at their recommendations, blog reviews, and recomendations of the new authors I’d come to love. Now that I blog…it’s similar (recommendations from friends and authors), however, I find them through blog tours too. Lol. I find that I look at blog recommendations more now than I did before I started blogging though...is that weird? 

Did you ever use Amazon’s Top 100 List?

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• ·         (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee &Alison Can Read}
• ·         (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• ·         Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• ·         Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say “hi” in your comments and that they are now following you.
• ·         If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• ·         Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• ·         If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• ·         If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This is a blog Hop! 

Check out the other blogs participating!!