Meet (Some Of) The Bloggers (On Video) From The 2nd Annual Bloggers Bash

15 Jun 2016 18 Comments

A chance for you you to meet some of the awesome bloggers who attended the Bash on Saturday!

Can I Get A Drumroll? ANNOUNCEMENT and COVER REVEAL!

14 Jun 2016 130 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cover Reveal, Poetic RITUals, Poetry Book

Well, after months of deliberating, and weeks of to-ing and fro-ing, I am finally ready to announce that my first book, an anthology of my poetry is almost ready for publishing!

Here is the finished cover, lovingly produced for me by the wonderfully talented Story Reading Ape, Chris Graham!

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I’ll be back with more information with regards to the publishing date.

I have spent an age on formatting the Kindle version, and am just awaiting the paperback proof copy!

Ooooh! I am so excited!!!!! And I had to share it with you!

Please let me know what you think of the cover, and the anthology name!

Formatting…

13 Jun 2016 47 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Behind Schedule, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Formatting, I'll BE Back

Grrr!

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Can I just say formatting books sucks!!!!!!!

Sorry I haven’t been on track with Ron’s Fiction and Haiku challenge so far this week… Been doing some rather important stuff!

Still not quite recovered from the bash either, and those school reports are calling my name too…

With a member of my school team off sick, it’s gonna be a busy week, and I have SOOOOO much to do!!!!

But, you know me, I will get onto it all!!! Promise!!!!! ill be back

Second The Best ! #bloggersbash

11 Jun 2016 96 Comments

by Ritu in Awards, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #bloggersbash, ABBA's, Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Second the Best

Today was wonderful and I can’t believe it’s already over 😥

I am most proud and extremely thankful to those of you that voted…
I got second place in my Category Best Overall Blog Award!

There were some huge blogs I was up against so I was so amazed!

Still speechless… (well as gobsmacked as a chatterbox like me can!)

Still, I phoned my Hubby Dearest to let him know the good news and he was so happy for me, and my Lil Man and Lil Princess were jumping up and down, because “You know mummy, second the best!” followed by “Did you get anything??!!”

I said I got lots of claps and cheers, and a tee-shirt!

And I was lucky enough to also win a bracelet from Barb Taub!

I regret that I took hardly any photos but there are a few of my core blogily Erika, Judy and Rich, who I met for the first time in person!

And of the organisers, Sacha, Geoffles, Hugh and Ali!

A wonderful masterclass too by Luca Sartoni, a Growthketeer at Automattic, who gave us some great tips on connecting social media to our blogs, and some interesting info regarding reblogs, and PressThis!

We ended up having to leave a little early, but the time we spent was worth it, every second!

My only regret… not being able to sing “We Are Blogily”!

Sacha/Geoffles/Hugh/Ali – I didn’t get to write in the guest-book, but next time can we have karaoke too??!! 😉

Meeting some brilliant bloggers, and writers, and putting voices and faces to names… I can’t wait to do it all again next year!

Open your diaries, ande book the date NOW!