Tuesday, January 17, 2012

1 Year Blogoversary Day 17 MY POST *Confetti*

It's official! One year of Blogging down for me. I really cannot believe it has been that long. It feels like it's been months.


When I set out to start this blog I was doing this for my friends in real life *hey I have a couple of those*. What are you reading now? What have you read lately that has been really great? I thought I need a place to put all this so they can come see. So I started SupaGurl Books, I use SupaGurl as my online presence and have for years... Why might you ask well... I am a MOM you have to be super to do that everyday! My love for Supernatural also came into play. I have mad, mad love for that show the hubbs and I started watching it from the pilot and yeah I was lost to it. Yeah ok so now that I have bored you with that little tid bit of info LOL.. Here are some things I wanted to mention on my 1 year.


First to all my blogger buddies: 


Thank you to all of you who have answered questions, helped me out and basically been really awesome people! A few in particular are Andrea from The Bookish Babes , April from Sim~Sational~Books , and Rachel from Fikshun and all her other blogs lol. Dee from GoodChoice Reading These girls are amazing and I am so glad I have gotten to know each of them.


The book blogging community is made up of amazing people. Each of them go into blogging for different reasons but we all have major love for books and the people that write them. I for  one have learned to spread the word far and wide on the web and exactly how to do that. We all want people to read and enjoy the great books that we read.


For all and I mean All amazing Authors:


Before I started blogging I would read and be like oh WOW that was great! My husband would let me talk to him about it *sometimes rolling his eyes... alot* Now though I get to jump on the net, hit up facebook or twitter and chat up the authors about this great story I just read. These people are freaking Great!! Before this year I have never met an author before, this year I have got to meet Charline Harris, Myra McEntire, Victoria Schwab, Jessica Workman, and just recently The Cassandra Clare!! Who have all been absolutely yes, you guessed it amazing in person! These people all spend their time writing the stories we all love then they also, take tons of time to talk to everyone on twitter and or facebook. Myra McEntire  is the funniest person ever *I have told her this but she doesn't believe me* Victoria Schwab is super sweet and very funny also *She was also super sweet to my 9 yr old son when we met her*. Jeri Smith-Ready is always on her game and willing to answer questions and interact. Cassie Clare is forever answering questions too. Maureen Johnson is well .. there are no words to describe her LOL!


I am just really glad I got into this so that I can interact with all these authors and more!


Super Special Shout out to Self-Published Authors!!


These are some of the coolest people on the planet! No really I'm not lying! 
I would like to start out with ... If for whatever reason you are not reading Self-Pub'd Books well you SHOULD BE! I have heard it all... they are not edited well, the stories are not any good that's why they are Self-Pub'd and on and on. Totally NOT TRUE for all of them! I have only come across 2 books that I could not finish and if you look at my blog posts well a ton of them are for Self-Pub'd books. Now I have met a ton of amazing Self-Pub'd authors who are really special and of few of them are... Taryn Browning *she is so full of awesome I don't know how she doesn't esplode!* I have been really blessed with a great new friend! Everyone needs to be reading her book!!, Matthew Merrick he is such a nice guy and full of the funny *did I mention he's a hottie* and an intensely great writer *also still waiting on my signed poster if he ever makes them*. Megan Duncan really great, sweet girl and her books are just WOW. Megan Curd is just amazing and great to chat with. If you haven't read her books yet well Why NOT? SupaGreat writer! Angeline Kace and KC Neal *I group them together cause they are BFFs* are two wicked awesome peeps!


Seriously, you really should be reading Self-Pub'd books, they have some of the most interesting, emotional, and jaw-dropping stories and yeah well the Hottest guys ever!! 


MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL!


BOOKS!!


I have been exposed to so many new books since I have started this that I would otherwise Never have read. I have tons of people that I look to for their opinions on books and a few choice people *cough Andrea and April cough* that I trust explicitly because our tastes are so similar. I still find new blogs everyday... yes everyday and I also find new books to put in my huge, overflowing, needs a room of its own to be read pile! 


Followers:


You guys are all super special to me! No really you are I have shrines and everything. I was just super excited when I had 10 and as of writing this I have 290 something... I'm beyond words and am blown away. I adore all of you and especially all the comments. I live for those as I'm sure all bloggers do. Also, everyone should have an April of there very own to comment on their posts cause I don't think I laugh *almost snort my drinks out* like I do when I read her comments. 


You are now a huge reason why I blog! Thank you so much and I hope you all continue to stick around with me :) Keep the comments coming cause I eat those for breakfast and you don't want me to starve do ya?




WOW that was alot... jeeze I feel like if you made it through all that well You deserve a chance at my 


Blogoversary Giveaways!!


Note! There are several different Raffle Copter forms below 
so you can enter for what you WANT to WIN


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Swag Giveaway has totes, bookmarks, stickers, temp tats and more!
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New Audio book of Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan


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Audio book of All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin


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54 comments:

  1. Yay, thank you for the shoutout! Congrats on 1 year with the blog, here's to another great year! :D

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  2. it's so sweet of you to do this kind of post,

    congratulations for blogging all this while!

    cheers,

    =)

    regards,

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    1. Thank you :) and thanks so much for always stopping by

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  3. Congrats and thanks you for this post

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    1. Thank you for stopping by :) and your welcome

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  4. ok, first off....she is MY April, and NOT urs! i had her first (well, technically, my brother did)! second.....LOVE supernatural *dean is quite yummy*.
    ur lucky ur husband only rolls his eyes when u talk about books.......mine rolls his eyes if i talk about anything OTHER than sex! haha
    ok, so truly a congrats is in order! CONGRATULATIONS!!! see, i had alot more to say this time than "thanks for the giveaway!" :P

    hope to see you again next year for ur 2 year blogoversary.......wait a sec.....that came out wrong......im sure ill see u again before that...i meant i hope u .....oh nevermind, u get it! lol

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    1. I want to clarify, when Mrs Coxinhermouth states that her brother HAD ME first.... he only held my hand and walked me to class. Occasionaly a late night phone call. So racey! It was middle school, I hadn't become a whore yet.

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    2. im so glad i came back thru this blog to make sure i commented on everything.....you lie! u were always a whore! lolol (my brother was dork, huh?) :P

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  5. Oh Heather... I have a feeling you could be a second April LOL

    My husband actually reads too, and he reads alot of what I read but he doesn't want to go on and on and on well ya know about it.

    Thank you so much!! for the awesomeness!

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  6. Congratulations on your first year anniversary as a book blogger. More books to come for you this year! And thank you so much for this amazing giveaways! It should be us who should be giving you gifts right now! But anyway, thank you!

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    1. Awww thanks I do love prezzies but this is for all my stalkers .. I mean lovely followers :)

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  7. Wow a year already. Happy anniversary and 10 more years of blogging at least. I read books because of your reviews, and you light my day with your giveaways. thanks.kisses and best wishes
    You're awesome

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    1. Sweet! I love seeing/hearing that my reviews are helping choose books!! YAY

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  8. Congrats!!! It's well deserved :D Keep up the amazing work.

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    1. Thanks so much Vivien! Love when you stop by keep coming back

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  9. Congrats on the one year! That's awesome! I'm so glad to have met you this year on Twitter! I can't believe I wasn't a follower, because I stalk your blog.

    I love the shout out to the Indie Author's. It's true, there are some pretty amazing authors out there who take the time to create stories that are exciting and who love their work and present it in its best light. I haven't yet discovered all the authors you mentioned but I hope to.

    Happy Blogoversary! :)

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    1. Girl!! thanks so much! I am so glad I've met you Love when we get to chatty chat about books. I stalk all your blogs LOL Your awesomesauce.

      Thanks so much for the awesome comment. Thanks! I think everyone should take a good look at the Indie Authors, they really have great stories that are well thought out, and executed!

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  10. Congrats on finishing up your first year. Here is to many to come! Thanks for the great giveaway. I hope I win one of the audiobooks!

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  11. Congrats on your anniversary!!! And having a fabulous blog! AND on winning a free digital ARC of ExtraNormal! Thanks for joining the I HEART YA carnival! I'd send the arc off today except my 90-year-old mama just read it and she found four typos that she is snail mailing to me. How cute is that? So like I tell my kids, be patient with Grandma, she's 90. At least she found my typos. Kudos again, and it'll be there in the next couple days!

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    1. Thank you so much! and also for stopping by :)

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  12. Just wanted to stop by and wish you a Happy Blogoversary! That rocks lady! Woohoo! :-)

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    1. Amber! Thank you so much :) and thank you for all your help spreading the word about the blog!

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  13. Happy Blogoverary, my dear <3! You know how I feel about you -- you are totally awesome-sauce and I totes luv ya! I have been so fortunate to make a great friend. Too many more years *cheers*! :) Your blog is amazing!! XO

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    1. Haha, I got a little excited and added an extra "o" to the "to"! LOL :)

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    2. Taryn!! Yay! So glad to have made a great friend!! Hoping to get to actually meet and hang with you at BEA this year

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  14. This is an awesome giveaway, thanks! It's cool that you've meet so many great authors :)

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    1. So glad you stopped in! make sure and come back always something going on :)

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  15. Congratulations on your first year! I totally feel you on the reading something amazing and then trying to talk to that brick wall of a husband of mine. It's kind of why I started mine. Even if it isn't as amazing as yours. :)I'm happy to have found your blog!

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    1. Awww thanks so much!! So glad you stopped by and yeah mine is totally just not near as awesome as a lot of them out there but I love it !! will be heading over to yours YAY.

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  16. Heather - you're energy and enthusiasm is infectious! I am so glad we're friends and so glad we got me meet in real life. You're awesome and I'm so happy for you!

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    1. Andrea!! LOL atleast I didn't scare you away... Thanks so much, and I am soo glad we got to meet up and totally hope we can again sometime!

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  17. I hopped over from Goodreads today and just have to say Happy Blogoversary and thank you for all your awesome contributions to this community. I am about a year into the discovery of the world of book blogging and cannot express how grateful I am for all of your efforts. Congratulations on this milestone and may the next year be filled with joy and snoring laughter with good health and much success :)

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    1. Thanks for coming over Denise :) Hope you stop by again and again!!

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    2. LOL I just realized I said snoring laughter - OMG - typos here!!! I meant JOY and LAUGHTER :) Of course if you want to laugh while you snore that is okay too!

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  18. So... congrats on your one year! Woo hoo! Shouts and shoots awesomesauce everywhere! lol You may need to wash up a bit now.

    My hubby also rolls his eyes. Especially when I'm blabbing about books. lol, But he listens for the most part.

    Thank you for all the amazing things you said about me. I'm soo glad that we have gotten to know each other and I'm sooo looking forward to celebrating your 2 yr with you. :)

    I totally lol'd at you trusting my book recs, especially after getting good ole' miles in mail today.. ha! you should totally send that to Andrea when your done.. don't even tell her.. just mail it. She'll be like.. WTF?

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    1. Ahhh there is my Awesomesauce *giggle* April!!

      I love you and thanks for always putting a smile on my face :)

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  19. Congratulations on your anniversary! I really enjoy reading your posts. Here's to many more anniversaries!

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    1. Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoy them that makes me Super Happy!!

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  20. Happy blogoversary!! You have made it into a tremendous event that is sooo fun! :)

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    1. YAY!! I tried I wanted it to be made of AWESOME :) Thank you for coming and joining in

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  21. Happy Blogoversary and thx for all of the awesome giveaways

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    1. Thanks Anna hope you keep coming back for more!

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  22. Happy blogoversary!
    I am amazed by all of your awesome giveaways, and I hope that all my tweets have not only annoyed my followers but made more people aware of your awesome blog!

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  23. Thanks for the giveaway!
    dontkillkittens8@netscape.net

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  24. Happy blogaversary!! That is such an awesome milestone to reach. Your blog is fantastic, and I hope you have many, many more blogaversaries. I am glad I came across your blog and your twitter. (Twitter first I think) It has been great to chat with you and get to know you. Your blog design is fantastic and your personality really shines through in your posts. It is easy to tell that you are a fun person.

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  25. Happy Bloggoversery :) I mean this is fantastic on your blog part. I have my own blog, hopefully I can reach my bloggoversery.

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  26. HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY!!!!!!You are awesoome!!!

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  27. Happy Bloggerversary to you!
    It's always nice to know people who shares the same passion as i have.
    We're here because we all love reading!
    We live in different places and it's the love of books that unites us.

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  28. BTW:
    for some reasons, whenever i click the enter for following twitter it's not going through. i tried clicking it many time but still not gooing trough.

    Twitter follower: chixmoza

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  29. Happy Blogoversary! Congratulations on making it a year! :))

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  30. Congratulations on your first year anniversary!!! I wish you many more and thank you for the great giveaways!
    Demitra G

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  31. Happy Blogoversary! Here's to many more! **cheers** Thank you for the giveaways!

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  32. Thanks so much for the very generous giveaways! Happy Blogoversary! I wish you many, many more to come!

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