Summer 2018 Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Winter 2018 Mini Bloggiesta taking place June 23-24! Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Update series links on (minimum) 10 series
• The Emperor's Edge
• Dragon Blood
• Encrypted
• Fallen Empire
• Flash Gold
• Sky Full of Stars
• Dana McIntyre Must Die
• Gideon's Riders
• 2B Trilogy
• Dred Chronicles
• Razorland
• Research and Desire
• Brides of the Kindred
• Cougarville
• Found
• Snowcroft Men
• Male Model Chronicles
• Through the Veil
• Project Alpha
• Dragons of Preor

Bout of Books

• NOTHING this time

Kelly Apple

• Format and schedule Series Shorts for July

Spring 2018 Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Spring 2018 Bloggiesta taking place March 19-25! Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Sat posts (4/14, 5/26, 6/23)
• Draft review request posts
• Create dividers for RtP planner

Bout of Books

• Finalize IG Photo Challenge and schedule posts (day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Kelly Apple

• Sort through rebranding options
• Schedule Series Shorts for April
• Create and schedule SS IG posts in Later
• Plan and schedule social media posts (FB, IG, Twitter)
• Create Monstrous Revelations series page
• Create series tagline, social media posts, etc - Wellll, I created a tagline and such, but I don't know it I love them. So...these might get an overhaul.
• Create placeholder covers for books 1, 2, & 3

Winter 2018 Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Winter 2018 Mini Bloggiesta taking place February 3-4! Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Nothing this time around!

Bout of Books

• Put together BoB 22 IG Photo Challenge and schedule pictures

Kelly Apple

• Brainstorm Friday blog post ideas - DONE
• Schedule Later IG posts - DONE
• Schedule FB posts - DONE

Fall 2017 Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Fall 2017 Bloggiesta! Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• I'm sure I have things to do. I just, you know, can't think of them.

Bout of Books

• Update Asana with BoB 21 tasks and due dates - DONE!
• Draft BoB 21 posts - DONE!

Kelly Apple

• Plan/schedule short story snippets for Oct/Nov blog posts
• Update purchase links on books (as needed) - DONE!
• Update Tidbits w/ extras for series/books - DONE!

Summer 2017 Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Summer 2017 Mini Bloggiesta running June 17-18. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I got WAY ahead on scheduling reviews on my book blog at the beginning of the year. So this Bloggiesta, my main focus is going to be on filling in the gaps in my schedule (Saturday "Spotlight" posts!) with a few minor tasks on my other sites.

Reading the Paranormal

• Brainstorm and prep Spotlight On posts through end of year (7/8, 7/15, 10/14, 11/11, 12/9) - DONE

Bout of Books

• Check to make sure BoB 20 tasks have been assigned and have due dates in Asana - DONE!

Kelly Apple

• Draft newsletters for July-Sept releases - DONE!

Spring 2017 Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Spring 2017 Bloggiesta running March 20-26. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts through November - 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 - DONE through the end of 2017. Yessssss!

Bout of Books

• Nothing? Am I caught up on pre-work for BoB 19? I THINK I AM!

Kelly Apple

• Social media graphics for backlist books (Grimwood, Monstrous Matchmaker) (and more if I have the time) - DONE (I have at least a set of graphics done for every series but one and that series is just waiting for updated covers)
• Draft newsletters for March-June releases - DONE!

Winter 2017 Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Winter 2017 Mini Bloggiesta running January 13-15. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts through June (5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/20, 6/27)
• Draft Week in Review posts through June (6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2) - Drafted through October! WOOT!
• Prep Spotlight On posts through April
• Draft review request posts (7/3, 7/24, 7/31)

Bout of Books

• Hahahaha. No.
• Okay. Fine. MAYBE I'll draft up the BoB 19 posts. Possibly. - Drafted! Future Kelly is going to loooooove present Kelly!

Kelly Apple

• Draft newsletters for Forgotten Monsters releases (Wisp, Deep, Dream, Echo) - DONE!

Fall Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Fall Bloggiesta running September 15-18. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things, at least. LET'S DO THIS!

Reading the Paranormal

• Brainstorm Spotlight On posts for 2017

Bout of Books

• Prep rafflecopter for 18 (confirm prizes)

Kelly Apple

• Check links and pages for accurate information

Summer Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Summer Mini Bloggiesta running June 18-19. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

This is a short Bloggiesta, so I'm going to keep things easy this time around...

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Spotlight posts through end of year (10/29, 11/26) - DONE

Bout of Books

• NONE!

Kelly Apple

• Draft newsletters for releases through end of year - DONE (Bonus: I suddenly remembered the awesome book title I never wrote down and now I have all my books titled through the end of the year. YESSSSS!)

Spring 2016 Bloggiesta!

I'm going to be participating in the Spring 2016 Bloggiesta running March 21-27. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things. Nothing too major.

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts through July - DONE!
• Brainstorm Spotlight posts for Saturdays in April and May - DONE! Scheduled through the end of June!
• Draft Week in Review posts through July - DONE!

Bout of Books

• Assign due dates for Bout of Books 16 tasks (IT'S COMING!) - DONE!

Kelly Apple

• Map out Tag Line Tuesday and First Line Friday posts for Operation Minotaur and Operation Gargoyle - DONE! OM scheduled, OG drafted.
• Prep release day newsletters for Operation Minotaur, Operation Gargoyle, Operation Sasquatch, Operation Date Night - DONE!

Winter 2016 Mini Bloggiesta

I'm going to be participating in the Winter 2016 Mini Bloggiesta running January 16-17. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things. Nothing too major.

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts for April (4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26) - DONE

Bout of Books

• none! (I'm not mentally prepared to play with BoB stuff yet)

Kelly Apple

• Prep a few graphics for posts. Because why not? - DONE
• Prep and schedule Tag Line Tuesday posts for Future Perfect (1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9) - DONE
• Prep and schedule First Line Friday post for Future Perfect (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12) - DONE

Fall Bloggiesta 2015

I'm going to be participating in the Fall Bloggiesta 2015 running September 17-20. Who's excited!?!?!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page)

I have THINGS I need to get done. A few things. Nothing too major.

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts through the end of the year (11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 12/29) - DONE!
• Schedule KA promo posts on Saturdays with no posts. - September and October scheduled

Bout of Books

• none!

Kelly Apple

• none!

Summer Mini Bloggiesta 2015 Goals

I'm going to be participating in the Summer Mini Bloggiesta 2015 running June 13-14. Wheeeeee!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page - and what a fine page it is!)

I have THINGS I need to get done.

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts -DONE
• July (7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28)
• August (8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25)
• September (9/1, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29)
• Draft any undrafted review requests - DONE
• Catch up on reviews - DONE
• Finn by M. Malone
• Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane
• Rock the Beat by Michelle Valentine
• Midnight's Kiss by Thea Harrison
• The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
• Gill Man's Girl by Carolina Connor

Bout of Books

• Ermmm... Nothing this time? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

Kelly Apple

• Draft newsletters for upcoming releases - DONE
• Schedule a post or two for the blog (SERIOUSLY) (I scheduled one. I'll consider that a win given the lack of everything on that blog lately.) - DONE

Spring 2015 Bloggiesta Goals!

I'm going to be participating in the Spring 2015 Bloggiesta running March 23-29. (YESSSSSS! A whole week to work on STUFF! THIS IS EXCITING!)

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page - and what a fine page it is!)

I have THINGS I need to get done. Well, I have a few things. Not a ton. YAY to that!

Reading the Paranormal

• Schedule Top Off Tuesday posts through June (6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30)

Bout of Books

• (subject to Amanda's availability) Add linkies Google docs shizz and other stuff (STUFF!) to drafted posts

Kelly Apple

• Go through all pages to check for broken links, completed publishing info, etc.
• Update Extras page
• Brainstorm blog posts for April
• Draft newsletters for upcoming releases

TECHNICALLY, I didn't finish the Bout of Books stuff. But BUT Amanda and I joined Asana and put all our remaining tasks into it and gave ourselves due dates. Which is kinda LIKE finishing the tasks, AMIRITE? No? Well, fine. I didn't finish that task. But I did get everything else done plus a few things I didn't know I needed to do. Like update my Kelly Apple FB banner and website banner. Okay, technically, I reverted the website banner back to an old banner, BUT WHATEVER. It's done. I also edited a book this weekend. So, you know, WOOT!

Mini Winter Bloggiesta 2015 goals!

I'm going to be participating in the mini Winter Bloggiesta running January 17-19.

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page - and what a fine page it is!)

I have THINGS I need to get done. (and I'm starting early because I'm feeling motivated and you don't argue with motivation!)

(In case you're wondering, this is how an argument with motivation goes:

• Me: I have things to do, but I'd rather rewatch season 1 of Supernatural.
• Motivation: You can watch while you update.
• Me: Yeah, but those Winchesters are kind of distracting.
• Motivation: Those posts won't write themselves.
• Me: Maybe they will. You know, if the Winchesters are somehow involved.
• Motivation: You have two choices here - you can either laze around watching episodes of a show you've seen many times or I CAN DRIVE YOU CRAZY WITH TERRIBLE VISIONS OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON YOUR BLOG IF YOU DON'T GET UP RIGHT NOW AND GET SOME OF THIS DONE.
• Me: *small voice* Well, when you put it that way.

There might have been some bitch-slapping and name calling somewhere in there, too. It was a very confusing time in my life. Needless to say, I started working on the blogs.)

Reading the Paranormal

• Create new Top Off Tuesday button
• Update all upcoming scheduled ToT posts with the new button
• Update ToT template with new button, etc.
• Add linkies to the ToT posts
• Schedule ToT posts through March and April
• Draft review-a-thon posts through June
• Draft reviews for all review requests
• Clear out review request emails
• Get caught up on reviews 
• Radio Silence (NG)
• The Crawling Darkness
• A Ghostly Gift
• Love Singer
• Lord of Misrule
• Blood Deep
• Trade Me
• A Cold Winter's Bite
• Dangerous Distraction
• Breaking the Stag

Bout of Books

• Finalize posting schedule for BoB 13
• Draft pre-BoB posts (call for help, call for experts, sign up, schedule)
• Draft BoB daily posts (days 1-7, wrap-up, grand prize winner)
• Update Click to Tweet tweets on posts
• Prepare Rafflecopter for BoB 13 Grand Prize
• Update BoB website, remove links for anything BoB 12 related

Kelly Apple

• Brainstorm upcoming posts
• Update books pages (links, covers, blurbs, etc) as needed

And that's about it.

Bloggiesta Spring 2014 goals!

I'm joining Bloggiesta for the Spring 2014 event!

What's Bloggiesta? you ask. Excellent question. Allow me to let the fine folks behind this event explain...

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! - (from the Bloggiesta About page - and what a fine page it is!)

Although I've followed along with what others did for past Bloggiestas, this will be my first time participating. My goals are fairly simple and mostly revolve around Bout of Book 10 (TEN!) which is coming in May.

Bout of Books

• Draft posting schedule for BoB 10
• Draft pre-BoB posts (call for help, call for experts, sign up, schedule, goals)
• Draft BoB daily posts (days 1-7, wrap-up, grand prize winner)
• update dates on BoB website, remove links for anything BoB 9.0 related

If I have time once those tasks are complete Since all those tasks are complete, I'll play with my Kelly Apple site

Kelly Apple

• Draft newsletters for future releases (books 7, 8, 9, 10)
• Draft release day posts for the blog - Done through April
• Draft cover and blurb reveals for future books - Done through April
• Brainstorm for non-release blog ideas

If I make it through all THAT Now, I'll work on this site

Reading the Paranormal

• Draft posts for author requested reviews
• Brainstorm and write Saturday posts for April/May

 And that's about it.