Aw man, I haven’t done a Links Luau in way too long! Time for more links love, and this one is gonna be bigger than usual xD

Books:

Ever want to find lots of indie books? Look no further than Awesome Indies, a whole site devoted to finding indie books :D

As a book reviewer, I do from time to time have to give negative reviews, which makes me cringe, and so this post about how authors should respond to negative reviews made me feel much better. There are people out there who hate puppies and chocolate, much worse than disliking a book!

I love this post at Coffee, Cookies and Chilli Peppers of Sue’s favorite books in the past 12 months since it has so many books that are to-read for me!

I didn’t attend the BEA Book Blogger Con this year, but it sounded like an overall bad experience, and I thought this post did a good job of gathering together a lot of people’s opinions on the matter from Read, React and Review.

Blogging:

I will be writing a post about my transition to wordpress self-hosted, but until then, check out this delicious list of wordpress plug-ins if you’ve recently moved!

SEO is scary, but backlinks are really important, and I liked the new ideas that I read about in 10 No-Nonsense ways to build backlinks

I realized that getting a new design for the site is going to take a while, and so at least picked out a pretty background, and found Subtle Patterns, site with lots of pretty background patterns for free :D

Again, I’ve been doing some research to figure out this whole wordpress self-hosting thing, and another great article I found on it is here at Problogger, all about WordPress :D

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Whew, the Bout of Books read a thon is wrapped up today and so that means we all have lots of free time to go check out community links right? Right?! :D

Books Soulmates wrote a genre breakdown post that I found very helpful since if you couldn’t tell by my “Genre-ish” section in reviews, genres confuse me!!

I found a Discworld Reading Guide which is awesome since I’ve been wanting to start on this set of books for a while but haven’t known where to start :D

Finally and best there is a giveaway at Biblitropic for The Testament of Jessie Lamb!! This is a post-apocalyptic book about a young heroine and her scientist father and I really want to read it!

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Yey more awesome links!

Lord Voldemort interviewed Veronica Roth and I’m flabergasted that I never found this blog written by Lord Voldemort himself ( ;-) ) before! So funny!

This is the map for the Spring Carnival Giveaway and Hop which I think is such a fun way to do a blog hop and giveaway week :)

Fantasy Cafe does it again with a list of book recommendations to wrap up the women in Sci-Fi/Fantasy month!

I’m still learning SEO (in my vast amounts of spare time) and if it scares you too, check out this SEO resources for beginners from Daily Blog Tips

What other cool posts were out there this past week? I’m sure I missed something awesome, tell me

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Time for another luau of links!

April at Good Books and Good Wine posted about her favorite minor Harry Potter Characters which I just loved since it’s been a few years since I read the last book and this was a fun trip down memory lane!

Janicu’s Book Blog posted author’s book recommendations that brings together the book recommendation pages of a lot of well known authors and they all look awesome! (And I don’t think I’ve read a single one D: )

S. M. Boyce wrote a letter to new writers about thick skin which I think is very relevant for book bloggers to understand the perspective of the authors that they are reviewing about.

Rie at Mission To Read presented a list of 5 Free Web Apps for Bloggers that was too good of a list not to share!

What other cool posts were out there this past week? I’m sure I missed something awesome, tell me

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