Just Contemporary: November 2011!

Jul 21, 2011 by shanyn

If you’ve been around this blog a little while, it’s no secret that my true love is for contemporary YA. I’ll pretty much read any contemporary YA with no gripe, which is not always true for any of the other genres.

One day, I was hanging on Twitter (as I do), and Ashley of Basically Amazing Books was talking about maybe having a contemporary YA month! I immediately jumped in with ideas, and she so kindly offered to let me co-host So here we are! The bottom of this is written by the lovely Ashley – we want you to all to participate, so please read on if you think you might want to participate at all!

It is important to know that this is all still a little tentative. Depending on the amount of interest we get from both bloggers and authors, many of the specifics are still liable to change.

This is going to happen in the month of NOVEMBER. The full month of November will be nothing but Contemporary YA on both mine and Shanyn’s blogs. Our author spotlights, interviews, book reviews, guest posts, discussion topics, Waiting on Wednesday’s etc will all be completely devoted to Contemporary YA.

We would love to have as much participation from other bloggers as possible! We don’t really expect anyone else to devote the entire month of November to Contemporary, because that is a really long time (although, if you really wanted to, that’s totally awesome too!) But we do want to get more Contemporary love going round! So, pull those Contemporary books off the shelf that you keep pushing down the tbr, grab that review notebook to finally write up those Contemporary reviews you’ve beenmeaning to write for months now and brush off your persuasion skills to convince the world that Contemporary is the best.

We hope to get a huge turn out for this, a chance to prove that Contemporary YA really IS well loved by SO many people. We want to get as many people as possible involved, excited and talking, not only about this event, but more importantly, about Contemporary YA in general.

We also have a button and a banner that you can add to your blogs- Katie of KD Designs is the genius behind these fabulous images! Isn’t she AMAZING?! So, grab the button for your blog, and use the banner in a post to tell all your friends!

<a href="http://chickloveslit.com/2011/07/just-contemporary-november-2011.html"><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/9bhybm.png" alt="Just Contemporary" width="200" height="200" /></a>

We want to give everyone the opportunity to participate as much as possible, and to post, not only on their own blogs, but to also write guest posts. Because we hope to have a huge amount of interest, we decided to make a Blogger Guest Post Swap for the month. There will be fiveopportunities to guest post. You are welcome to participate in as many as interest you.

Each of the five guest posts will be assigned a topic and a corresponding week in which they will all post. Below is a list of the post topics and the tentative weeks they will post. There is also a form at the bottom of this post that you can fill out if you are interested. Note- Fill this out even if you aren’t 100% sure you will be able to do it. This is to get a general idea of who is interested in what topics. We will be asking in September for a more specific list of who wants to participate and we will be assigning blogging buddies on October 1st.  Your blogging buddy is who will postyour guest post on their blog, and you will post their guest post on your blog. (Any questions?)

Here is our tentative list of Guest Post Topics-

Week 1: Why I love Contemporary YA

Week 2: The Tough Stuff

Week 3: Romance!!

Week 4: Top Ten Lists!

Week 5: What I’d like to see more of in Contemporary YA

If you want to participate in the Just Contemporary guest post swap, fill out this form here! You do NOT have to commit to an entire month of YA contemp to participate in the swap (but can if you would like). We’re excited to work with all of you and celebrate the contemporary side of YA!

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