{"id":5175,"date":"2007-05-16T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/16\/calling-all-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:29:33","slug":"calling-all-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2007\/05\/calling-all-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Bloggers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to be helping out with the old day job for about two weeks while somebody is on vacation.\u00a0 Then I’m going on vacation.\u00a0 White sands, beach, sun…. (at least there better be sun) here I come.<\/p>\n

So instead of letting the blog sit dormant for a few weeks, I’m playing with the idea of having a few guest bloggers.\u00a0 Readers, pubbed\u00a0& aspiring authors, editors, cover artists, reviewers, the neighbor’s cat(provided she can write a blog post)…all are welcome.\u00a0 If you have an idea that you’d like to blog about, email me and we’ll talk about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I will need the posts in advance.\u00a0 I’ll either figure out how to set posts to post at a certain time or I’m going to con,<\/strike> uh, politely ask a friend to help me out while I’m gone.<\/p>\n

There are going to be a few rules…hey, I’m a bit of a control freak, what can I say?<\/p>\n

The rules…<\/p>\n

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  1. I’m going to read the post.\u00a0 If I decide I don’t want to post it, that’s my call.<\/li>\n
  2. For authors, nothing totally promo based.\u00a0 Sorry, but this is my blog.\u00a0 I can and do promote authors I enjoy, but straight promo crap…. the read me, buy my book, it’s so awesome<\/em>…is too boring for words, IMHO.\u00a0 If you have a book coming out, or already out, that you’d like to talk about…provided you’re not just doing a promo push, then write the post and email it to me and we’ll see.\u00a0 Humorous things, weird things, things about getting published that you weren’t expecting, these are entertaining…and they are promo…and this is fine.\u00a0 That kind of stuff is interesting.<\/li>\n
  3. Courtesy!\u00a0 If you send me a post that you’d like me to use as a guest post, it needs to be courteous.\u00a0 FYI, courtesy isn’t the same as if you can’t say something nice<\/em>.\u00a0 Not the same at all.\u00a0 The Ja(y)nes criticize books all the time, but they do it in a way that manages to be generally courteous.\u00a0 I have no issues with snark, but if you send me a post that’s little more than flamage, I hit the delete key.<\/li>\n
  4. No hot spots.\u00a0 I don’t know why anybody would want to discuss politics on a romance blog anyway, but just in case…no politics, no religious discussions.\u00a0 Not that I’m opposed to these in theory, but I’ve seen too many of these ‘discussions’ boil down in to a flame fest where one side insults the other side, and then the other side insults right back.\u00a0 I don’t like my beliefs and opinions mocked any more than any other person, so in order to avoid this happening, we just won’t go there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Hmmmm…. that’s all I can think of for now.\u00a0 If anything else comes to mind, I’ll add it in later.<\/p>\n

    For those who are interested, you can email me your general idea and a roughed out draft of your post.\u00a0 If I want to post it, I’ll get back to you.\u00a0 email is shilohwalker@gmail.com<\/a> and put guest blog submission<\/em> in the subject line.<\/p>\n

    Disclaimer…<\/em><\/p>\n