July's Featured Bloggers

[Diane]

Hot days call for cool, quick reading. Check out our featured member blogs for the month of July including poetry, essay, author bio/interviews and fiction:

OOSAOnlineBookClub Authors On Lock

Stafford L. Battle The Truth In Historical Fiction Wows Readers

Suzanne Elizabeth Uzzell Let There Be Peace Pg 5 Chosen Words

Princess Carroll Ayo Durodola My dad passes over

Beautiee An Invitation

[Diane]

If you'd like your BAS blog featured, follow these rules:

1) Add something of value to the entire community, not just "come buy my stuff". Add a poem, essay, tip, or any idea/information that will interest readers.

2) Make the entry coherent and topical. Book reviewers that blog are always interesting, Poems that have an introduction with information telling why or how you wrote the piece are great for featuring.

3) Don't just insert a video with no explanation or lead-in text. Why? When? Who? How?

4) Don't just put up a title and a link to another site. This tells the potential reader absolutely nothing. Why should they bother to click the link? Give at least a paragraph or two of teaser text. I normally take the first paragraph of the item from another site, then add "Click here to continue" or something to that affect. It's also just downright rude to this site - you show you obviously don't care about sharing real information, just getting someone to your website. If you provide good content and goodwill, they will come.

5) Add keyword tags to your blog entry. This will make it easier to find your work when searching the site. Remember that the blogs and discussions on this site are twittered every 4 to 6 hours.