{"id":1903,"date":"2008-07-24T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:30","slug":"toon-thursday-arc-tastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: ARC-Tastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226658039526298450\"<\/a>Hey, we’re topical around here, yo. I’ve been keeping up with the discussion, even though I’ve only been able to start contributing over the last day or so. After being out of town for a couple of weeks, I really was fiending for my blog fix. The break was nice, but I just missed you guys way too much. \ud83d\ude42
So, much as I’m worried that my toon will be upstaged by those awesomely adorable knitted Daleks down there, I offer my two cents on the bloggers-inundated-with-review-copies kerfluffle. (And believe you me, I have had my share of unrequested and inappropriate review copies. Chronicle Books, I’m talkin’ to you! Thanks for your interest, but YA fiction only please! “My Mommy’s Tote”–not so much!) What appalls me most is the waste–in packaging and postage costs, but also in the sense that I’m unlikely to read some of these titles, so the publishers are quite literally wasting their time sending it to me. I’m much happier getting sent a specific request from an author or publisher, or a catalog that I can peruse. But I’m NOT a full-time reviewer. I don’t get paid for any of this. I want to be able to give due attention to the books I do write about. I hate having to ignore anyone who was kind enough to send me a review copy simply because I’m swamped with them, but that’s what tends to happen when I find myself inundated–it will take me ages to get to the review, which isn’t really fair to the person who sent it to me; and it will turn into a chore.
I know the “blogging-as-chore” thing has been on a lot of minds in the kidlitosphere lately, and I’m right there…but cutting down on my blogging time has really helped. I have paying work, and a life, and of course I have my creative work (paid or not…). So at one point I decided that I would focus on trying to put out two blog posts per week; no more. One of those would be Toon Thursday, with or without additional commentary or links. The other would be more of a soapbox or link roundup. Book reviews would trickle in to Readers’ Rants as I have time to do them. I’m trying to give the blog–and the kidlitosphere–its own niche in my working life, without feeling like it’s an enormous obligation. After all, I do this because I WANT to. I’d like to keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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