Which is better to have?

[Tammy]

Hello all,

 

Right now I currently have 2 blogs. One for my daily life things and one for my book reviews. I personally don't like keeping them seperate since I feel that my reading goes into my everday life.

 

So the question is this:

 

1. Keep the blogs the way they are (1 blog for personal life, 1 blog for book reviews)

2. Bring both of the blogs togther and keep it like that! And just use 1 name!

3. Other?

 

Please let me know your thoughts on this. I don't really want to make more work for myself. But, I'm not to sure what author's and other people look for. I would love to have author's ask me to read their books and do reviews for them. Would love to host a blogtour, do mimes, etc. Any help would be great!

 

Thanks all for your time!

 

Tammy

[Lisalovesbooks]

Put them together.  It's too much to do separately.  For family and friends, use Facebook and limit it to those you know.  The book blog can have splashes of your personal life, too.  I think readers get tired of just reading reviews on blog pages...they like to feel as if they know you, too.  Good luck!

www.booksintheburbs.com

[Patricia Kemp-Blackmon]

What you could do is set up another page for you book reviews on your personal blog.

 

Patricia

http://itstimetoreadmamaw.blogspot.com/

 

http://itsabouttimemamaw.blogspot.com/

[Kristian Alva]

I prefer to keep them separate. My book reviews and book related posts go on one blog, and everything else goes on my presonal site. I think it's better that way. And really, Blogger doesn't charge for the extra website, so why worry?

 

Kristian

http://kristianalva.blogspot.com/

[Bookish Hobbit]

When I go looking for blogs, it's just to read about books and not the blogger's life.

[Gareth Wilson]

To be honest I'd say keep them seperate.  I've seperated my two blogs, one is for Adult Books, the other for Childrens and its the best thing so that theres no uncomfortable questions either getting asked or having to be answered.  What I'd say to do is for you to have a link on both blogs that goes to each other so that if people sign up for one they can check the other.  If they like it they can then sign up for that too.

[Joanne Troppello]

Tammy,

 

Hi. For me personally, I like to keep only one blog so I don't have to maintain two sites. I post author interviews on Mondays, Guest bloggers Tues - Thursdays and twice a month on Fridays, I post book reviews I've done and the other two Fridays are my Readers Corners days. If you ever wanted to guest on my blog, just let me know. Here's the link: http://joannetroppello.weebly.com/blog.html.

 

Joanne Troppello

[Michelle Hodge]

Personally, I'd keep them separate. I have a blog that I do about my college/family life & we just decided to start a book review blog as a family. Although it is a pain in a way to have it separate, I'd rather keep the book review one separate, especially since it involves the whole family too. Even if it didn't though, I think I'd keep mine separate. I've had other multiple blogs in the past that I've combined, but I think if you post a lot to the book one, I'd keep it separate.

[Dimitri Sarantis]

Good afternoon Tammy,

  I am about to publish my new Book on Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble and other channels. The official press release is scheduled for this September 2011. 

   I would highly appreciate if you would consider reviewing this book. Alternatively, I would really appreciate if you could suggest someone else who would do so. 

   Naturally, if you would provide me with your shipping address I would ship it to you, all free of charges.

I attach the book synopsis and also my Book's cover and you can learn a little more about the Book by reading the back cover. I think that what is a great asset for this book are the poems which are original - copy pasted from our emails.

   I have written this Book because it is, to a large extent,  a very real and passionate love story between me and Elaine and we both crave to share this wonderful life journey with as many as possible readers in the world... That is our dream, at least.

   I live in Greece which is now suffering a very deep depression. I am lucky to have my job; for the moment, at least. But, every month or so my income is reduced. And, I definitely foresee Greece's bankruptcy. What then?

With many thanks for your understanding consideration to possibly review,

Dimitri Sarantis  

[Tammy]

Hello Dimitri,

 

I do not know if any of the messages are getting through to you or not. Everytime I have pushed send to write to you, it seems that it is not working.

 

If you would not mind sending me a personal message and maybe we could try it that way. If not I can try and give you my personal e-mail address!

 

The best way if this does not work is to click on the following list and fill out the FORM: http://reviewsbythedragonsden.com/review-guidelines/

 

Hope to hear from you soon!

[C.R. Cummings]

I keep all mine separate. My family doesn't want to see or hear all the stuff about my book and I really don't want others to see my family stuff. It gets a big confusing; 2 facebooks and you have to be logged in on the right one if you are in the blogs or it does post to your personal ones. Even on this site I made the mistake of signing up when I was logged on the other one, now I have to switch if I want to see my posts. It can be a pain.

[BrownGirl]

I had two separate blogs then, to be more efficient, I merged them only to separate them again. I have my own domain so, I re-created a separate book blog under a subdomain. I will never merge them again and I'm probably more efficient. I just needed my book blog to have and maintain its own identity.  Also, the platform I use makes it super easy to go back and forth between the two sites. Best of luck to you. 

 

 

Terri

http://books.browngirlspeaks.com

[Nicolette Kernohan]

Hi Tammy, I personally have several blogs and have just started my book blog.  I have a website so have a blog for that.  I have my personal blog which has lots of photographs, places I go, photography memes, what I am knitting etc on it.  I used to put the odd book review onto it, what I was reading etc, but I decided that it would be better to separate this into a separate book blog.  The reason I have separate blogs now is that for many of the book blogging memes I want to take part in, they specify having a blog that is more than 50% about books, I couldn't honestly have said that about my personal notebook blog.   So I have opted for having separate blogs.  I shall be interested to see what you choose to do.