Booklover Book Reviews Recap

It seems like after only a few glorious Spring days in September we’ve now leap-frogged straight into steamy Summer weather here in Brisbane. October storm season, here we come…

Hey, that’s another great way to rationalize having multiple e-reading devices (I recently added a Nexus 7 to my collection – more on that soon), keep them charged and you’ll never be short of something to do in a power outage. ;)

Here is a quick recap of what happened at Booklover Book Reviews during September:

Book Reviews Published:

Click on the pictures to read the reviews

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Other Bookish Banter:

We celebrated a double birthday this month – that of this website (4 years old) and my own (a considerably bigger number). To honour the milestone I’ve run a month long International Birthday Book Giveaway where you get to choose your own prize – still a few hours left to enter before the month officially ends – don’t miss out!

Looked at the titles short-listed for the Crime Writer’s Association Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award 2013. In particular congratulations to Mick Herron for his title Dead Lions, a personal favourite of mine, making the cut.

Interviewed Mark Green, author of The Travel Auction where we discussed the significance of book covers, ebook pricing and marketing and pitching for a movie! We also launched an international giveaway of a signed paperback of The Travel Auction – entries close 5 October.

Compiled a selection of Book releases by Aussie Authors in October 2013 for you to get excited about – lots of big names authors releasing titles this month and next.

I had some extra time while on leave so took the opportunity to do some tidying up on this site, so for those interested in the behind the scenes stuff…

I’ve added new subscriptions icons to my sidebar and created a new subscription options page.

I’ve also started using an image optimiser plugin that should make the page downloads faster.

For a while now I’ve been looking for a way to have advertising on my site that’s much more book-centric and have now achieved that by joining the Litbreaker advertising network. I hope you’re enjoying seeing ads for upcoming book releases at the top of my sidebar rather than the more general fare previously shown there… I know I am. By the way, I get no extra commissions etc for mentioning Litbreaker in this post, but they were extremely helpful with the setup and I know they’re interested in adding a few more Aussie book bloggers to their publisher network.

What’s planned for October?

I’m hoping to feature the following titles

Click on the pictures for book information

I’m going to be pushing it for time but I really want to participate in German Literature Month in November organised by Lizzy and Caroline. Realistically I think I’ll only be able to manage two titles, one male and one female author. So this month I just need to decide which titles, get myself copies and start reading so I’ll be in a position to publish my reviews during November.