Welcome to My First Armchair BEA
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I've been to Book Expo America in the past, but this year, I had to opt out and spend time with my newborn daughter, "Wiggles." So . . . this is my first Armchair BEA!
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I'm taking my experience with this event slowly. I've got an intro post (see this post) and an interview later in the week with another participant, who's been a lurker of my own blog! I finally get to find out who one of my lurkers is! That makes me smile. I'm hoping more lurkers will start saying hi!
Ok, so me?! I'm a new mother to a baby girl, "Wiggles," and I've been blogging at Savvy Verse & Wit for nearly 4 years (the blogiversary is next month). What genres do I read? Everything! Ok, not everything . . . no westerns . . . no cheesy romance . . . no self-help . . . you get the idea. What's one of my favorite genres? POETRY! If you don't believe me, check out some of my recent reviews and the Fearless Poetry Reading Challenge I'm hosting this year. Oh, and I'm heading up the voting committee for the Indie Lit Awards in Poetry! (Please submit any 2011 titles for consideration in September, and if you want to add them to my suggestion list, please do.)
Please do feel free to poke around the blog, there's a handy navigation bar at the top with guest posts, interviews, challenges, memes, etc. And an easy to use search engine, and of course, the necessary places to link up to the blog or me on social networking and book sites.
What I'm most looking forward to? The interviews of course. I just love those, but I'm just taking it one day at a time and poking around. Maybe I'll start lurking on some of your blogs. Better watch out because I'm looking at you! :)