Book Blogger Appreciation Week Post

O.k., I received a lot of feedback and am very grateful to everyone who let me know their thoughts so I could decide on the posts I will submit for my Book Blogger Appreciation Week registration.

I am registering Jen's Book Thoughts in the Thriller/Mystery/Suspense/Crime Book Blog niche and the Author Interviews Feature Category.

For the Thriller/Mystery/Suspense/Crime Book Blog niche I decided on the following reviews:

• SO COLD THE RIVER by Michael Koryta
• THE KILLING OF MINDI QUINTANA by Jeffrey A. Cohen
• And my audiobook review of THE COLOR OF LAW by Mark Gimenez

For the other two posts, I've decided on:

• Detectives Around the World
• The final post for Crime Writers Caught Reading Crime.

Then I need to identify an additional five posts that will help distinguish the Author Interview Feature Category. The interviews I decided on are:

• Video interview with Tom Schreck
• Craig McDonald
• James Thompson
• Audiobook narrator Jeff Woodman

The last post can be one of my choosing that isn't an interview, so I'm opting for Ken Bruen's guest post during Detectives Around the World. While I didn't interview Ken, he does open up a part of himself for us, and whew what a glimpse we get!

Well, I tried to give a rounded view of what Jen's Book Thoughts represents. I hope I've done at least a decent job doing that. It was hard to make choices. The six-word memoirs aren't represented this year, but that's o.k.

Thanks everyone! And if you have your own book blog and you haven't registered yet, stop over and check out the options you have for registration, not all include this post.

Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010

I'm headed out to Printer's Row in Chicago this weekend, but while I'm gone, I thought you all might be able to help me out a little.

Book Blogger Appreciation Week has been announced for 2010. It will take place September 13 to the 17. There have been some changes to the process and I need to register Jen's Book Thoughts this year. As part of the registration process, I need to highlight and link to five past posts that "distinguish" Jen's Book Thoughts as a crime fiction blog.

This is how the BBAW Executive Board defines the "Thriller/Mystery/Suspense/Crime Book Blog":

"This blog offers the best consistently excellent reviews, recommendations, analyses, and other content in thrillers, mysteries, suspense, and/or crime. The blog may cover several of these subgenres or just one."

These five posts are going to be ones used to evaluate Jen's Book Thoughts later in the process. So, I'd really like your input on what posts I should use to best highlight Jen's Book Thoughts. Obviously I need to include at least one review (note: I need to include three and work on my reading of directions) since they specify reviews in the definition. So tell me what reviews you liked best - tell me your top two favorites - and then what other posts you think are the best representation of the blog!

Then, here's the next part. I want them to consider Jen's Book Thoughts for Best Author Interviews. Here's what they say about that:

"This blogger does his or her research and asks the questions no one else does. These interviews are top-notch. Note that this award reflects the quality of the interviews, not the popularity of the person being interviewed. [Note that nominated bloggers for this award are required to submit 4 interviews; 1 post is left to their discretion.]"

I have impressions of what interviews I liked best, but I want to know which ones YOU liked best. If you want to go back and re-examine any of them, they are all listed over in the side bar with links. So, tell me what three you liked best.

I'm going to take everyone's input into consideration as I craft my registration post. So, please, please, please let me know what you think is best to represent the blog. You can leave me your choices in the comments or feel free to send me emails.

And if you're a fellow book blogger, don't delay! Get over and register for this year's BBAW. You can register without being considered for awards if you don't want to do this post selection part; it isn't mandatory.

Most of all thanks for your help and for always hanging out with me to talk about books!