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MEME: Genre Book Review Blogs
SF Signal — John Ottinger is trying to get an updated list of genre book review blogs. See Grasping for the Wind for details. A Dribble Of Ink Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews The Galaxy Express Graeme's Fantasy Book Review Grasping for the Wind Fantasy Book Critic Fantasy Debut Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin' Blog Jumpdrives and Cantrips Neth Space ...

A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
Bibliophile Stalker — From Grasping for the Wind: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what you can do is take the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That way, I will be able to track it across the web from back links, and can add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to your blog, and ...

A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
Variety SF — John Ottinger III at Grasping for the Wind is running the meme. His list includes some bloggers I wasn't aware of - so my automated reviews tracking bot can hopefully track a few more sources. ...

A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — Nacked from John at Grasping for the Wind (and mentioned on GalleyCat!) So take this list, add it to your blog, and add a link to your blog on it. If you are already on the list, repost this meme at your blog so others can see it, and find new blogs from the links others put up on their blogs.* Everybody wins! Be sure to send the list around to others as well. *Bold/Italicize the ones you add (I added that little part) A Dribble Of Ink Adventures in Reading (Joe Sherry) ...

A Book Reviewers Link-up Meme - SF Books
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Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
Fantasy Book Critic — ... In order to update his blogroll, John from Grasping for the Wind has come up with the clever idea of a Book Reviewers Linkup Meme to find new blogs. Click HERE to find out more about this great idea and be sure to check out any blogs below that you may not have heard of yet. Websites I added to the mix include Blood of the Muse, Darque Reviews, Dave Brendon’s Fantasy & Sci-Fi ...

Book reviewer linkup meme
FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT — ... came up with a nifty way of collecting links to book review blogs . His meme works like this: (1) he started with a list of links, (2) other reviewers are to add their sites to the list (inserting alphabetically) and post the new list on their own blogs, and (3) John then updates his master list from the trackbacks. So this ever-growing list of links to a variety of book review sites gets passed around so lots of people can see it and hopefully find something to their liking. Great idea. A lot of these are new to me, so I’ll have to spend some time exploring. Here’s the list: ...

Help a Brother Out and a Few Shiny Links
The Galaxy Express — ... Grasping for the Wind’s John Ottinger III is in the process of updating his blogroll of fantasy and science fiction book reviewers and needs your help. Specific details are here for bloggers that want to participate. ...

Meme: SFF Review Blogs
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. — John Ottinger, of Grasping for the Wind, is trying to making a list of as many of the people reviewing fantasy and SF online, and he decided to crowd-source the task. His idea was that anyone who does review SFF should repost his ever-growing list, include themselves on it, and backlink to his master list (so he can update it). ...

The Meme
Neth Space — ... From John: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what ...

Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
SciFiChick.com — Grasping for the Wind has started the daunting task of collecting links of fellow book reviewers. If you are a reviewer and don’t see your name on the list, all you have to do is take the list from ...

Icebreakers: Calling all SF and Fantasy book reviewers
Tor.com — ... is doing some community-building and compiling a list of SF and Fantasy blogs across the net—and he’s making it interactive! See below. ...

A book reviewers' linkup meme
Hassenpfeffer Archive — John at the SF book review site Grasping for Wind posts: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what you can do is take the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That way, I will be able to track it across the web from back links, and can add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to ...

Going Viral
Fantasy Debut — ... add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to your blog, and add a link to your blog on it. If you are already on the list, repost this meme at your blog so others can see it, and find new blogs from the links others put up on their blogs. Everybody wins! Be sure to send the list around to others as well. There is an easy to copy window of all the links and text at the bottom of this post to make it even simpler to do." Go back to his original post to get the links out of his text box. It will be more up-to-date than this ...

Essay: Book Covers and the Internet
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Last Monday, I was uploading my book reviews to my blog and I thought of Grasping for the Wind's Book Reviewers Linkup Meme. These days there's a proliferation of book review blogs (not necessarily limited to the science fiction/fantasy genre) and in retrospect, that's only possible thanks to online infrastructures that are now present. For example, when blogs first came about, many of the free online blogging sites didn't offer commenting features. You had to subscribe (and some still do) to commenting ...

Reviewing the Reviewers
The Crotchety Old Fan — Now that the SF/F review blog meme has gotten a thorough distribution (and grown by about seven times during the process) I have begun to take a look at each and every blog on the (current) list. My purpose is two-fold: first - do I want to/should I add the blog to my own blogroll? second - just what are those other guys saying and writing about? I’m doing this alphabetically and the number of blogs covered each day will vary - mostly by how interested I am in someone else’s blog. Rejection here does not mean the blog in question is a bad blog - it might only mean that the ...

The Very Large Genre Book Blog List Thingy
Big Dumb Object — ... There are now far too many Genre blogs reviewing books for me to read. But if you want more to read there's a large list over at Grasping For The Wind.  ...

SF/F Review Blog Linkup Meme - The Musical!
SF Signal — There's only one way to one-up a meme: with music! In this case, the meme is the SF/F Review Blog Linkup Meme started by John Ottinger at Grasping for the Wind. The one-up is from SciFi Song-ster John Anealio who offers up "Grasping for the Wind (The Linkup Meme Song)"

The Book Swede in a Song!
The Book Swede & His Blog — ... , who hosts and organises many of the discussions and cool things that go on between the bloggers, had an idea for a meme which has proved very popular and has so far collected almost 200 science-fiction and fantasy blogs, old and new. Now, I was woefully inattentive at the time, and didn't repost the meme here, but The Book Swede was lucky enough to have been included anyway... And now it's in a song. John Anealio at ...

Hasenpfeffer immortalized in song
Hassenpfeffer Archive — You might think it's hard to work Hasenpfeffer into a song lyric (except, of course, for the theme song to Laverne and Shirley), but John Anealio at Sci-Fi Songs has managed it, as one line in a tribute song about the recent The SF/F/H Book Reviewers Linkup Meme started by John Ottinger at Grasping for the Wind (which I posted about here). Take a listen and check out the lyrics at Grasping for the Wind (The Linkup Meme Song). I'm thrilled to be included! (And actually, as you'll see, Hasenpfeffer was hardly the hardest ...

An Interactive Version of John Anealio’s Song GRASPING FOR THE WIND
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... Bookspotcentral and the Bibliosnark SF Signal and the Accidental Bard The Crotchety Old Fan and Blood of the Muse OF Blog of the Fallen and Fantasy Debut Andromeda Spaceways and the Deckled Edge The Fantasy Cafe and AurealisXpress The Antick Musings of the Hornswaggler Gent . A Dribble of Ink and the Galaxy Express Chorus I’m Grasping for the Wind with this Linkup Meme I don’t know where to begin with these RSS feeds Speculative Fiction ...

For Indian readers: Science Bloggers Association of India
Variety SF — ... ). It's a small list right now, but I wonder if we can take inspiration from John's very successful meme a couple of weeks back that he used to compile a huge list of sf book reviewers. Zeashan - interested in initiating the meme? ...

A Proposal for Book Bloggers
Fantasy Debut — So I had this wild idea for a Book Blogger Convention. I mean, why not? Trekkies (or Trekkers?) have conventions annually, and with the success of John's link-up-meme, which even ...

A Book Reviewer’s Linkup Meme
Enter the Octopus — ... I’m participating in this rather remarkable meme. More details here. Looks like a bit tardy to the party. Apologies. HUGE LIST OF BOOK REVIEWERS AFTER JUMP 7 Foot Shelves The Accidental Bard A Boy Goes on a Journey A Dribble Of Ink A Hoyden’s Look at Literature Adventures in Reading The Agony Column Andromeda Spaceways The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. Ask Daphne aurealisXpress Australia ...

Fantasy Debut's Proposal for Book Bloggers
The Soulless Hermeneutics Machine — ... “So I had this wild idea for a Book Blogger Convention. I mean, why not? Trekkies (or Trekkers?) have conventions annually, and with the success of John's link-up-meme, which even ...

Sipping from the Firehose: Using Online Tools to Monitor and Create Content for Book Publicity (Part I)
Enter the Octopus — ... material is a good way, but perhaps not the best, to start to build your subscription base. A supplementary method - but one that takes a lot more time - is to find a few popular blogs on your topic matter and then subscribe to the sites that they link to. After a while you should be able to build up a comprehensive database of blogs. If you’re a sci fi or fantasy fan, reviewer John Ottinger recently assembled an great list of litblogs focusing on speculative fiction at his blog Grasping for the Wind. Check it out. ...

New Theme, New Header Image
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... wordpress (yes), self-hosted wordpress (yes) livejournal (yes) and myspace (no). My research has yeilded several ‘did support it/no longer/may drop myspace’ posts, a few hacks (none worked).  I then tried to simply stick an RSS feed into my MySpace blog (three different versions/widgets), and none worked. I really hate the idea of having to post the same entry twice, but I’m running out of options. Now I’m going back and adding all of the genre review blogs from Ottinger’s meme (little glitches like file size too large ...

(Another) Book Reviewers Meme
Neth Space — ... This probably won't be as successful as the Book Reviewers Linkup Meme, but I certainly would find it useful to know what reviews are considered their best by the writers themselves. ...

Hugo: Best Fanzine
Bibliophile Stalker — ... qualifies as a fanzine, but that's one example of that model. The other is that of the webzine blog, which is what Martin cited when he recommended Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. There's a lot of these going around and Grasping the Wind's book reviewers meme is an example of this new phenomenon. ...

Essay: On Book Review Blogs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... when it carved for itself a unique niche: catering to the book reviewer audience. John did this late last year by creating the Book Reviewers Linkup Meme, listing all the book review blogs in the genre. Currently, along with Diana Pharaoh Francis, they're assembling ...