Indie Book Club discussion

This year I will once again be participating in the A-Z blogging challenge. It is a pretty simple idea where in the month of April you blog every day except Sundays and each day goes through a letter of the alphabet.

Last year it was a pretty huge month in terms of traffic and the blogfest as a whole had over 1000 participants. This year I would like to have as many guest spots as I can to fill in the letters. If anyone has any interest in doing a guest post featuring a specific letter topic let me know. I will be prescheduling everything as much as I possibly can so the sooner the better.

Just as an example April 14 would be the letter "L" if Big J wanted to do a post about the world his fantasy takes place in (Lentari) that would work perfectly. Just let me know if there are any takers.

Sign me up for "L"!! People can ask for certain letters and then you could tell them which day it would fall on.

Big J

Still looking for guests. Last year this was a very high traffic month for my blog so it's a chance to get seen by a lot of people. There are already 300 participants and sign ups have only been open for a few days.

Here is the link of available letters if anyone is interested. http://indiebookblogger.blogspot.com/...

I'm very new here and still learning my way around, but I've been looking for places to guest post. Is there a specific place/way you want people to sign up/announce interest?

Mia - my e-mail is bookblogger.indie(at)gmail.com just send me a message with which letter you would like to post under and I will reserve it for you.

Hi Scott,

Bugger, just saw that T is one of the few already booked! I was going to talk about Throne of Blood, Book 3 of the Nexus Wars Saga! Hmmmm.... and I can't even have V for Valdieron!!! :( maybe I can have K and talk about the making of Kil'Tar!! OK, pencil me in for K please mate! That also puts me before Bog-J talking about Lentari haha ;)

~Rob

Got the spot reserved for you Robert. Thanks for participating, although I'm a bit disappointed to miss out on the info about book 3 myself lol.

I'd happily take P and do something about Pirates. My indie book is about pirates, but I would quite like to link it to indie piracy as well.

I did a blog (below) a few months ago so I could deliver something similiar with illustrations if that would suffice

http://l-e-fitzpatrick.blogspot.com/2...

Weaksauce, K is taken. I'd like to participate, but I'll have to think of a letter.

LE got you reserved on the tab for pirates.

To all who are participating if I can have the posts emailed to me by the end of the month it would be fantastic. Thanks.

End of the month. Not a problem!

Dim problem, no worries

Can I take M? M is for Magic Systems.

Ok Steve I have your letter reserved. Thanks for joining in it's shaping up to be a great month.

If you don't fill up all the letters, let me know. I'll twist something around and take another letter!

Scott, do you have a target word count for these posts? I think I've got a solid draft, and it's coming in around 1500 words.

Word count does not matter a bit to me. Since there are so many participants I think that if they get too long they will most likely get skimmed through, but I don't think 1500 is excessive. Images/videos are also very nice to give it a little more visual appeal.

I could probably do W for World Building or E for Elements, whichever is fine, I'm planning to write both on blog regardless.

How about E Sky. I have a bit more time leeway on the stuff at the end of the month so I'm really hoping to get the earlier letters filled in soon.

Sure, E is fine.

Scott - I'm working on "L" now... If you'd like, I can take "B", too. I can chat a bit about "Bakkian Chronicles".

Big J

Fired off my "L" post, Scott!

Got the post loaded into the blog and scheduled for release Jeff. Thanks very much!

Nice! Wasn't too sure how to write about Lentari, and someone mentioned an interview with a fictional character, and I thought, "Bingo".

Might even use that excerpt in book III.

Ohh just saw this. I'm hoping to have a book titled "Orlind" (Draykon #3) coming out around the middle of April... could I bagsie "O" to talk about that?

Even though I have no idea what bagsie means I'll guess it's a form of reserve. I'll make a note that "O" belongs to you.

Thanks =)

If you're having trouble filling in remaining letters and wouldn't mind someone doubling up, I'd be happy to take A, too. Totally up to you. Just throwing that out there.

Mia it looks like doubling up will be a necessity to fill in some blanks. I'll give it a few more days before I commit to someone getting two letters, but most likely you will be able to have "A" as well.

Jeff I'm pretty sure "B" is still open as well so Bakkian could be in your future if you were still interested.

Yeah, bring it on! I'll take B if there are no other takers! To be quite honest, I didn't think I'd have Ls post done so soon, so I have no problems writing another one!

Just say the word!

Ditto, just let me know. If someone new grabs it, all the better, but will be standing by otherwise. :)

Ok A got snagged, but I still need a B so if you are still available Jeff I'd appreciate it. Still 8 letters to go if anyone else wants to jump in.

I'll take B!

Thanks Jeff. I'll get that reserved for you right now.

Crap I just realised I don't have anything penned for you for my topic... when is my deadline Scott? :)

The sooner the better but I need to have everything by April 1 at the latest.

OK. I'd better get writing, too!

It is getting a bit close to those who have promised posts and haven't seen them in yet. So far I only have 7 posts presheduled with 2 more in my inbox waiting for me to get them formatted for the blog. Please get all posts in ASAP.

Thanks!!

Scott, I'll have E to you tonight, just need to finish putting in the links. Also, if you don't have D yet, I've already written a D is for Dungeons & Dragons post for my blog that I believe is fairly fun and would love to share.

Sky I would love to have a post for the letter D as well. I tried to respond twice on my phone last night and neither one worked so hopefully this actually goes through. I got your post about E this morning btw, thanks very much.

Just saw this! What letters do you have left Scott? I might be able to come up with something quickly.

J, N, Q, and X are still available with Sky grabbing D and I've decided to dedicate Z to my daughter Zoey. If you could speak on any of those letters it would be awesome!

Scott, I'll get D over to you today. Just need to find a few pictures and remember a character's name...

If J is still left unclaimed at the end of all this, I could always write something about 'jhorun'.

I might be able to do something with 'N' but I will probably need until Sunday - is that ok?

As long as I can get it about a week in advance I'm totally good. What would the subject be so I can add you to my master list?

Also thanks for joining in!

I'm going to tentatively say Naming - but I haven't decided for sure yet. Thanks for letting me in on the fun!

I could take Q. I'd talk about the unexpected role of the character Quintus in my Adelheid stories.

D, J, N, and Q are now all reserved on my master list for you Sky, Jeff, Tricia, and Mia. Thanks again for the posts especially the multiples. I really was procrastinating trying to figure out things for myself lol.

Just emailed mine mate. Let me know if you don't get it, or if you need more.