Showing posts with label bbaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bbaw. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2009

BBAW: Setting Goals

Setting Goals!
 Write in 50 words or less…what do you like best about your blog right now and where would you like your blog to be a year from now?

Lorin actually asked me about my goals in my interview. This is more than 50 words so feel free to skip. I replied:

Where do you hope Color Online will be in a year?

In one year, we will be regularly publishing our e-zine at our website. At the moment, we're thinking a quarterly schedule. I previously had a successful stint doing this so we're not reinventing the wheel with this venture. Publishing provides another opportunity to showcase the talent of teens and women of color. One year from now we will be hosting our second annual poetry and essay contests for teens.

One year from now, I hope we are closer rather than farther from achieving 501.3c status. Ultimately, I want to run Color Online full-time as a non-profit literacy and diversity organization. One year from now, I see Color Online as a recognized, grassroots, multicultural and diversity in publishing advocacy group.

What I like most about my blog is that visitors and members are introduced to incredible writers they might not have learned about otherwise. What I love about Color Online is that we are a community.

Monday, September 14, 2009

BBAW: Better Than Football!

Yesterday kicked off football season. In my house, it was about FOOTBALL. For my guy that is. Well, today is the beginning of BBAW and to kick it off, we get to send a shout out to the blogs we love. With so many bloggers blog hopping this week, I decided I had to pull out the stops so grab your nachos and a cold one and get ready for a BBAW blogfest! Here are a few of my favorite blogs shortlisted according to BBAW categories:

Best Literary Fiction Review Blog
A Striped Armchair
Eudaemonia
Lotus Reads
Fresh Ink Books
Bookslut


Best Cultural Review Blog

papertigers
La Bloga
Listeranista
Shen's Book Blog
Brown Paper

Best General Review Blog
Page247
Sakura of Doom


Best History/Historical Fiction Blog
Rhapsody In Books



Best Publishing/Industry Blog
Chasing Ray
The Rejectionist
Amy Bowllan at SLJ
Editorial Anonymous

Best Kidlit Blog
A Year of Reading
The Happy Nappy Bookseller
Mother Reader
Into the Wardrobe
creative literacy
The Children's book Blog Tour

Best YA Blog
Reading In Color

Best Nonfiction Review Blog
Feminist Reviews

Best Special Interest Blog
Authorslatino.com
The Brown Bookshelf
Poetry For Children
Feminist Reviews
My World-Mi Mundo

Best Graphic Novel Review Blog
Glyphs at PopCultureShock(Rich Watson)
Afrogeek Mom and Dad
Seeking Avalon

Best Speculative Fiction Blog
A Working Title
Seeking Avalon
Ndendi's Whala Zone

Best Design
In Spring It is the Dawn
papertigers
Kids Lit
Crazy Quilts

Most Eclectic Taste
Crazy Quilts
kiss a cloud
Taste Life Twice
Fill in the Gaps 100 Project
Sakura of Doom

Best Name
Nnedi's Whala Zone
The Happy Nappy Bookseller
a wrung sponge
The Bottom of Heaven
Afrogeek Mom and Dad
A Striped Armchair

Best Commentator
Worducopia

Best Published Author Blog
Justine Larbalestier
Mitali's Fire Escape
Neesha Meminger
Fledgling
Tayari Jones

Funniest Most Humorous Blog
Hello Ello 2

Best Book Club Blog
RAWSISTAZ

Best Challenge Host
Weekly Geeks


Best New Blog
Reading In Color
Taste Life Twice
BronzeWord Latino Authors

Most Extravagant Giveaways
Presenting Lenore

Most Prolific Blogger
A Striped Armchair
Becky's Book Reviews

Most Altruistic Blog
Readergirlz
papertigers
Shen's Books

Best Series or Feature
Writers Against Racism, Amy Bowllan at SLJ
The Tigers Bookshelf at papertigers
The Multicultural Minute at Shen's Books
Because of a Book at Write for a Reader

Best Challenge
Writers of Color 50 Book Challenge
Diversity Rocks! Challenge

Best Community Builder
White Readers Meet Black Authors (Carleen Brice)
BronzeWord Latino Authors (Jo Ann Hernandez)

Best Writing
Fledgling
Eudaemonia
Booksluts
Lotus Reads

Best Reviews
Feminist Reviews
Eudaemonia
A Striped Armchair
Lotus Reads

Best Collaborative Blog
A Year of Reading
The YA YA YAs
Bookslut

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Color Online's BBAW Book Giveaway

Congratulations, Jasmine and Paradox!

Thanks to all for participating.

Monday begins Book Blogger Appreciation Week. We love any excuse to share books so in conjunction with the week-long schedule of activities, we are hosting a BBAW Giveaway. At Color Online our winners get to pick a book from our Prize Bucket, a great bounty of books numbering more than 50 titles!

To enter comment to this post with your email addy and you're in. It's that easy! Earn extra entries by:

+ 2 comment to any post on this forum and post a link to your comments.
+2 for each Stumble, tweet or sidebar link. Leave a link to your CO BBAW promo here.
+5 Tell a friend about Color Online. All visitors who say you referred them, earns you 5 more entries and the visitor earns +2 if they enter the drawing. Post all entries to one comment.

Giveaway will run Saturday, September 12th through Thursday, midnight est. 2 winners will be announced Thursday, September 17th sometime after 5pm. I use random.org to draw winners. Contest limited to US residents. Find more giveaways here.

We're glad to have you. Hope you'll pull up a chair, get comfy and sit a spell with us.

Happy blog hopping!