Take my blog. Please!

Okay, no. I don’t mean you. And not you either, so quit salivating over the URL. It’s not waterproof.

No, what I mean by that title is that I’m starting a series here on the ol’ blog, in which I highlight and promote the book releases of some of my favorite people around the interwebz. I mean, I know you’re going to miss the regular humorous and helpful content I’ve been posting these past few months (:cough:), but you can deal with it. I have faith in you, dear readers.

See, a lot of lovely folk around the blogosphere have accomplished wonderful writerly things recently, from agent signings to sales to book releases, and I’d love to introduce you to these hardworking folk, and perhaps entice you to sample their wares, yes?

I’ll warn you in advance, though: some of my bloggie-friends write YA. I know, right?

“Simon,” you’re saying, “you’re…not a YA kind of guy. What with the alcoholism and stories about sex and violence and all that.”

Case study in why my blog isn’t YA, part 1. Also, hai, Cristina.

And I totally agree. I don’t do YA. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the work of those who do.

I used to have a policy for the blog, I confess. I wasn’t going to review YA, since I haven’t made any particular efforts to make the blog YA-friendly. But then I realized that, despite my non-YA-ness, I have a lot of YA-writing and reading readers, if you follow. So why not promote my YA-publishing friends?

Thus it went.

So. You can expect a series of indeterminate length over the next few weeks, promoting my friends’ stuff. Why not, after all? What’s the good in having a blog if you can’t help people out every now and then? It’s good karma.

And my karma needs all the help it can get.

Now where’s my vodka?

Oh. There it is. Anna stole it. Give it back, you vixen!