FLYLēF turns 2! To celebrate, an amazing group of bloggers and I have planned posts for you to enjoy, all centered around the theme…
Please make sure to visit them, and perhaps make a new friend along the way.
Friendship comes in all shapes and sizes. And these days, with the internet and social media, a friend can even be someone you’ve never actually met in person. I feel like I have made so many friends through blogging, and so when I do get a chance to meet them in person, it is even cooler! I have so many fellow bloggers that stop by and visit me all the time, and I try to make sure to get back to them as well! Then there are those bloggers I follow by email and make sure to try to comment on their blogs when I get a chance as well. Every year I blog I meet more and more great people as I find new bloggers as well as running across the blogs of those that have been around awhile.
Along with bloggers, I feel that I have been able to form friendships with authors through blogging as well. One of the first authors I feel that I really became friends with was Cara Lynn Shultz, author of Spellbound, Spellcaster, and The Dark World. We bonded on Twitter over favorite songs, movies, and tv shows. When I went to NYC to visit my sister for the first time back in 2011, she followed my travels as I did the touristy thing, and then when I asked if she might want to meet up with me somewhere, I got the chance to hang out with her and I feel make a new friend. Recently I feel there’s another author that I’ve become friends with, Nicole Archer, author of Road-Tripped and Head-Tripped. Again, I “met” her through blogging by reviewing her book and then just really communicating through Facebook with her. I hope one day to get to meet her in person.
I “met” Lonna fro FlyLef last year when I found the Comment Challenge that she hosted along with Alicia from A Kernel of Nonsense blog. Through that wonderful challenge, I’ve made many other blogger friends, people I might not have found without participating in this challenge.
❖ May 15th – Bookfever: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 15th – A Reader Writer: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 16th – Milky Way of Books: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 16th – Lisa Loves Literature: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 20th – A Kernel of Nonsense: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 21th – SUSANLOVESBOOKS: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 23th – fallxnrobins: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 27th – Utopia State of Mind: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 28th – Book Briefs: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ May 30th – Foxes & Fairy Tales: Spotlight / Giveaway
❖ June 1st – The Caramel Files: Spotlight / Giveaway
Lonna Yen is the creative mind behind FLYLēF, (pronounced like flyleaf) who enjoys reading late into the night to satisfy her insatiable addiction to mostly young adult and adult novels: romance (contemporary and historical), fantasy, and paranormal (especially vampires). She believes in the magic of spellbinding words coming together to build breathtaking worlds in our minds’ eyes. Happiness is just a book away, find it at FLYLēF.
She is also the host of FLYTIP and Book of Choice Giveaway Hop, and co-host of The Comment Challenge.
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How fun! I love all the bloggy friends I've met online. I know going to BEA last year I was finally able to meet some new ones, and it was great! I'm headed to ALA next month and I'm already planning to do a dinner or something with two bloggers that I met last year and would love to see again.
-Lauren
http://www.letsgetbeyondtolerance.blogspot.com
It's so cool to get to meet fellow bloggers at conventions and such! Would love to get to meet you one of these days!
I'm in between book right now.
Hope you pick up a good one next! Thanks for stopping by!
It's nice of you to help spread the word about this blogoversary!! Friendship is a fantastic theme, of course. 🙂
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I thought it would be a fun thing to join into. Thanks for visiting! You are definitely a blogger friend I hope to meet some day as well!
Hi Lisa! Thank you for celebrating with me! I love the topic you've chosen. So it's true; author friendships are attainable?! You're my hero.
Lonna @ FLYLēF
Well, happy anniversary to you! I think author friendships are pretty similar to just regular friendships, since they kinda are just regular people. The ones that I feel I've become friends with are ones that I just seem to have things in common with, as well as same personalities or sense of humor, etc. Thanks for coming to comment today!
Currently I'm reading Excalibur Rising Book One by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts.
Haven't heard of that! Hope you're enjoying it, thanks for stopping by!
kill without shame by alexandra ivy
Thanks for visiting!
Believe it or not, I am reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Ooh, that's a good one! Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by!
I'm reading Kindred Spirits and My Heart and Other Black Holes.
My Heart and Other Black HOles sound good. Hope you're enjoying it. Thanks for visiting!
I'm trying to clear space on my shelves so I'm binge-reading all of Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels! Then they'll go to a charity shop where, knowing me, I'll pick up another armful so I'll be back at square one 🙂
You're so good. When I like a series, I end up having to keep them on my bookshelves. Which is why I keep having to buy more bookshelves. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
right now I am reading At The Waters Edge
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I'd love to hear about that one! It looks good. Thanks for visiting!
I am currently reading the Upside of Unrequited! It is adorable!
I'm hearing great things about that one! Thanks for stopping by!
I'm currently reading Unbroken by Emerson Rose
Don't know if I've heard of that one. Will have to go try it out.
I am almost finished with Internet Famous by Danika Stone. It's adorable
Sam @ WLABB
I need to try that. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for the giveaway and what a cool way to celebrate an anniversary. I am currently reading Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly. 🙂
I don't think I've read that one either, but I do like that author. Thanks for visiting!
I'm currently reading ONE OF US IS LYING!
I saw that one and it looks good. Thanks for stopping by!
I am currently reading When it's real by Erin Watt.
I almost bought that one this weekend. Until I realized how broke I am right now. 🙂 Thanks for visiting!
My cousin rachel by daphne dudebabe@hotmail.co.uk maurier
Thanks for stopping by!
Am currently reading "Let them eat dirt"
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