Since November 2009New In 2010
January 5th, 2010 by Leah2009 has been pretty successful for the site but we want to be the best chick lit review site ever and we’re always coming up with new ideas. Here are a few ideas we’ll be trying in 2010:
What It Takes To Become A Published Author
We’ll be posting 12 posts, one a month, from a fantastic top secret author on what it took to become a published author. I’ve read one of their pieces and it’s going to be a fab series. We’re also hoping to get some guest posts from other authors telling us how their books were made into books.
Interviews With Those Working In The Book Industry
One of my favourite ideas over the past month was to interview multiple publicists/editors/whoever for your reading pleasure so you can see just how much work goes into making a book publishable. We also plan to re-interview all of authors and catch up with them and see what’s happened in the last year.
Writing Competition
This new feature is pending people sending their writing in and if it was anything like our short story fiasco, I’ll be gutted. We want your stories - be it a chick lit book, a YA (young adult) book or a women’s fiction book, we want to read it. The book doesn’t have to be finished but it needs at least 5 chapters. We can’t promise a publishing deal but people working in fiction do visit our site so who knows what will happen? Send your works to our usual email address: [email protected]
Interview With The Editors
We’ll be looking for someone to interview us. Kind of turning the tables on us and have us answering your questions. If you’re interested in being Chloe and I’s interviewer, leave a comment!
Sophie Kinsella Week
In September we will have a week dedicated to the fantasticness that is Sophie Kinsella. Every single one of her books will be reviewed and we’ll (hopefully) be chatting to one of her biggest fans if she agrees. I’m hoping to also have a few surprises for that week also so stay tuned!
Ratings Change?
Currently we rate all our reviews between 1-5/5 but were thinking about changing our system to 1-10/10. It would take a while to re-think our previous ratings but it could easily be done. However - as always - we want to know what our readers think. So let us know your opinions and then Chloe and I will discuss the idea before deciding for sure!
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Happy New Year Chloe and Leah! I’m looking forward to your posts in 2010!
Hi Chloe and Leah
It sounds like a fantastic line up for the coming year. I will be emailing my novel for your writing comp shortly.
Keep up the good work.
Sibel
Love the site and looking forward to 2010! For me, I think the 5 star rating is perfect, 10 might make things a bit too complicated
Hii, I’m from Brazil, but I do love your site - I love Chick-lit !!
I enjoy that “Sophie Kinsella Week”, she is one of my favourite authors!!
Happy New Year, and I’m looking foward to your coming reviews!
I love the Sophie Kinsella week, I am a real fan of hers. I think the ratings of 1-5 works well, I think 1-10 will just confuse people. I say the less ratings on the grid you have the better.
I think that changing to a 1-10 rating scale would dilute the potency of each rating! Stick with the 1-5, which I find more helpful!
I vote for the 5 rating too, but whatever you choose to go for! Can’t wait for the Sophie Kinsella week!
And I’m interested in being your interviewer, sure!
Sorry, should’ve commented with this account.
I think leave it at 1-5 - agree with Jenny! But its up to yourself, the website is brilliant regardless!!
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Sounds fab. I’m particularly looking forward to Sophie Kinsella week. I think you should stick with the 1-5 rating scheme too!