You want to start a book blog? Looking for tips and tricks, personal experiences about book blogging, writing blog posts, planning content, getting ARCs, engaging with the bookish community and more?
You’ll find below all of our blog posts on said topics. Here’s to hoping these resources can help you in your blogging adventures 🙂
Keep an eye out for our brand new book bloggers series, where book bloggers will share their experiences on various blogging topics!
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Table of contents
- MY BOOK BLOGGING RESOURCES
- Book blogging for beginners
- Book blogging: goals and success
- My personal experiences as a book blogger
- Book blogging struggles
- Book blogging: writing blog posts and content planning
- Book blogging and reading
- Book blogging and book reviews
- Book blogging and ARCs
- Book blogging and statistics
- Book blogging: engagement and interaction
- Book blogging: find new book bloggers to follow
- Book blogging and social media: book twitter, bookstagram, pinterest…
- Support book bloggers
- Book Bloggers Matter: bloggers share their experiences
My book blogging resources
Self-host
I use Lyrical Host as my web host and couldn’t be happier with my choice. As someone who’s not tech-savvy at all, I found a place right at home with them.
Lyrical Host has helped me migrate my blog at no extra cost (from WordPress.com), they answered my endless questions quickly and patiently and made me feel like my blog was safe with them, something I appreciate a lot.
Some other great things about Lyrical Host:
- All the basis included in their prices: free SSL certificates, email addresses, automatic daily backups, malware scanning…
- The possibility to pay monthly instead of yearly, ideal for book bloggers on a budget,
- REAL fees that don’t increase after a month or a year, they stay consistent,
- Free migration of your blog from your previous host,
- A LOT of free resources: guides to wordpress, plugins, free stock images, blogging tips…
- Anniversary tree planting on your hosting birthday!
Most of it all, Lyrical Host has an incredibly kind support service, fast and reliable, ready to help and care about your blog as much as you do.
You can check out Lyrical Host right here.
You can sign up with them using my code DRIZZLERESOURCES to get 10% off your first payment!
WordPress Themes
I use the AMELIA theme from 17th Avenue Designs on my blog. I loved the clean aesthetics of this theme SO much and, thanks to all the support on the 17th Avenue Designs website, how easy it was for me to put it together and make it look the way I wanted it to, too. They also include step-by-step instructions when you’re buying your theme, so it’s easy to set it up even if you don’t know much (like me!).
Other things I love about 17th Avenue Designs:
- All of their themes are responsive on all devices,
- They’re SEO-friendly,
- They’re easily customizable with built-in pages templates and more
- All of their themes include the Genesis Framework in their prices (alone, it’s $59!), a parent theme to your website that has TONS of advantages: a better SEO, better security, tons of customization available, dedicated plugins and more.
- They’re all so beautifully aesthetic, I just love them all??
You can check out 17th Avenue Designs and all of their beautiful themes right here.
Looking for other amazing WordPress Themes? I also recommend Bluchic’s beautiful themes for your blog!
The Ultimate Book Blogger Plugin
The Ultimate Book Blogger Plugin by Nose Graze is the best plugin I have invested in as a book blogger, really. It makes writing and formatting reviews quicker and easier and it’s just so useful and so easy to use, too.
This plugin is connected to goodreads and, by simply adding its ISBN, it will fetch ALL of the data you need. Book cover, synopsis, publishing date and more. You can also include with one click a FTC disclosure, add genres to the books you’re reviewing and very easily and automatically generate ENTIRE archive pages for your reviews. It’s super easy to install and use and a worthy investment if you’re reviewing books.
You can check out this wonderful plugin for book bloggers right here.
Book blogging for beginners
- 8 things you need to know about book blogging
- How to find your blogging voice and your best blogging-self
- My book blogging essentials
- What makes a REAL book blogger ?!
- How to: grow your blog
- Being original : a must for book bloggers ?
- On book blogging expectations vs. reality
- Are you a book blogging cliché? 10 steps to figure it out!
- Shining a light on book bloggers’ work: what do we really DO?
- Time Management Tips for Book Bloggers
- How to self-host as a book blogger: my experience
- My book blogging tools (updated!) – coming soon!
Book blogging: goals and success
- How to make it as a book blogger
- Being a successful blogger: what does it really mean?
- Feeling validation as a book blogger and why it matters
- Pageviews, followers, the community: goals in blogging
My personal experiences as a book blogger
- How has book blogging changed in the past 5 years
- 5 lessons I’ve learned in 5 years of book blogging
- 5 years of book blogging – I’m answering all of your questions!
- A love letter to book blogging to celebrate 4 years of blogging
- 4 things book blogging brought me and I am eternally thankful for
- How two years of blogging changed me
- How much time do I spend blogging?
- How has book blogging changed in the past 5 years
- 5 lessons I’ve learned in 5 years of book blogging
- 5 years of book blogging – I’m answering all of your questions!
- A love letter to book blogging to celebrate 4 years of blogging
- 4 things book blogging brought me and I am eternally thankful for
- How two years of blogging changed me
- How much time do I spend blogging?
- 6 years of book blogging: a look back and forward
Book blogging struggles
- Book blogging with anxiety
- How to stay positive while book blogging
- How to deal with a blogging slump
- How to: NOT stress out about blogging (or at least, try not to)
- The struggles of being an international book blogger
- How to stop comparing yourself to other book bloggers
- On blogging envy
- The truth about taking a blogging hiatus
- 5 book blogging insecurities I have
- How to practice self-care as a book blogger (and why you should) -coming soon!
Book blogging: Writing blog posts & Content Planning
- How I plan my book blog’s content
- How to give your book blog posts that extra spark
- How to: write a great blog post
- How to: find new ideas and inspiration to blog
- Do you need to have a blogging schedule ?
- How to: organize your book blogging life (ft. my spreadsheets!)
- On popular blog posts
- Why are book tags and memes so popular?
- Why I will (and won’t) read your blog
- How to write a blog post people will read
Book blogging & reading
- Reading or rushing? How to better pace yourself with all the books
- How to organize your reading life as a book blogger
- Book bloggers: do we still love reading?
Book blogging & book reviews
- 5 reasons I keep on writing book reviews
- Am I not critical enough while reading books?
- Book bloggers: do you need a reading schedule?
- Sharing my 4 points method to how I rate my books (ft. very approximative stats)
- On rating books, how, why and the complicated feelings of it all
- How the hell do you review a book?!
- Do you have to review books to be a book blogger?
- How I write my book reviews (coming soon!)
Book Blogging & ARCs
- My story with ARCs as an international book blogger
- How to get ARCs as an international book blogger (coming soon!)
Book Blogging & Statistics
- The truth about book blogging statistics
- On blogging stats, letting them defining us, popularity and so on
Book blogging: Engagement & Interaction
- Why I don’t believe in fake engagement in blogging (+ tips and tricks to engage and build genuine connections!)
- My top 5 tips to interact with the book blogging community
- Why don’t you comment on blog posts?
- How do you like to interact with the book blogging community?
- How to blog hop, why I do it and think you should, too
- How to gain followers and interactions
- How to: be on top of your commenting game
- How to: keep up with the blogging community
- On the importance of comments
- How to: buddy read
- How I engage with book bloggers now (coming soon!)
Book blogging: find new book bloggers to follow
- My nominations for the 2nd annual book blogger awards
- My nominations for the 3rd annual book blogger awards
- Winners of the 4th annual book blogger awards
Book blogging & social media: Bookstagram, Book Twitter, Pinterest…
- My first steps as a newbie bookstagrammer (and my worries)
- Twitter: the dark side, or the light of the blogging community?
- Is book blogging still relevant ?
- How to use Pinterest as a book blogger (coming soon!)
- Book Bloggers on social media: a must? (coming soon!)
- Is book blogging a dead art? The book influencers today (coming soon!)
Support book bloggers
- Why and how you should support book bloggers
- How to support international book bloggers
- Why I believe book bloggers should get paid
- 5 easy ways to support book bloggers
Book bloggers talk
Any book blogging topic you wish us to cover on the blog? Feel free to ask!
