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Our topic this week is favorite podcasts and blogs we’d
recommend.
I’m not a huge podcast person. I don’t get my information
that way – I get restless and start feeling guilty that I should be doing something
and before I know it, I’m off somewhere else while the podcaster talks to empty
space where I was. Shrug. Even in school I had to take copious, detailed notes
to make myself pay attention and not go off daydreaming. If there’s information
I desperately need to retain, I do better consuming it in a written format.
I do listen to Jeffe’s First Cup of Coffee podcast
on occasion. She and I are friends and I can sit still and listen to her and
sip my tea while she drinks her coffee. She keeps my attention!
I used to like the one author Lindsay Buroker co-hosted, focused
more on the business aspects of writing, but which is apparently no longer
occurring. Shows you how up to date I am (not)!
When it comes to blogs, I think the world of blogging has
slowed down and lost many contributors. I wouldn’t say I follow any blog
regularly – except for SFF7 of course! – but I do like the Whiskey With My Book Blog. Riley Moreland reviews a wide variety of books
in my favorite genres (and others) and I’ve enjoyed many of her ’finds’.
I visit John Scalzi’s blog on occasion, Chuck Wendig’s, Gail
Carriger’s, Pauline B. Jones’s…usually it’ll be an author I follow on social
media who may have posted (or has a guest poster) on a topic that interests or
intrigues me. I go and do a one-time read.
The Passive Voice is
another place I visit occasionally, to read up on issues in publishing, but
again, in response to seeing a post mentioned on social media.
I’m going to add a plug for one specific weekly post on my
own blog – the curated roundup of New Releases I do for scifi romance, fantasy
and fantasy romance, and paranormal. I also add in some time travel, cozy
paranormal mysteries and other related genres. I usually have between 50-90+
books spanning these genres and it is – to my knowledge – the only place to
find a weekly list of new releases in those genres only. I make a big effort
to include indie authors and am committed to diversity and inclusion in my
listings.
Here was the most recent post: https://veronicascott.wordpress.com/2020/02/26/new-releases-in-scifi-fantasy-and-paranormal-romance-for-wednesday-feb-26/
Each week I pick eight scifi romance covers to feature and
eight fantasy/PNR/Other covers to feature in my social media.
Happy listening or reading or however you consume words!
