I was thinking the other day what are my goals in terms of my book review site, what type of reviewer do I want to be, and what information do I want to present.
In terms of goal, my current goal is to have 30 people subscribed to my newsletter on that site. I don’t think it’s unattainable. The newsletter for the book blog goes out once a week, Mondays, and that’s it! Less emails than this blog in fact. There are at least two full length book reviews, sometimes some short story reviews as well. I need to build a widget to display how many followers I have and what not.
I want to be an insightful reviewer. I do not give information that can only be made sense of if you read the novel, I hope to provide interesting tid bits and things I found fascinating to encourage you to read them. For those who have read them, I hope they provide my point of view on these issues. I want my writing to be beautiful, I get too caught up in the writing for my school and what not, that I want it to be a playground of beautiful words.
I have been debating about whether I should put a short synopsis. I think I will, but I want to challenge myself to perhaps only write one sentence (ideal scenario since I haven’t written any yet).
I want the site to grow with me. My ideas are baby ideas, still in the mushy unformed state. So are my reviews. They could use expansion, contraction, a whole lot of stuff. They need refinement, polishing, and a certain style. I want to develop this on that platform. To explore the things I can say about books, my passion in life, and all the ways I can make them beautiful. To help people see the love and tenderness I feel, the highs and the lows, to make people fall in love with them just as I have.
What I still need to do: promote my blog through my friends on facebook, connect it to bloglovin (a blog platform), and pick a logo/icon for the facebook page.