The Penguin Random House 
National Book Bloggers Forum will be held tomorrow to coincide with the opening of the Sydney Writers Festival.
I’ll be attending, along with other Australian Women Writers Challenge participants including Shelleyrae of Book’d Out, Yvonne Perkins of Stumbling Through the Past and Paula Grunseit from Wordsville. There’ll also be a contingent I’ve ‘met’ through Twitter and the Aussie Book Bloggers Facebook page.
I’m looking forward to the program, which includes a “Behind the Scenes” look at what goes into publishing a book, and “insider secrets and tricks to improving your SEO and promoting your blog” by Random House Australia’s digital gurus. (SEO stands for “search engine optimisation”, handy for bloggers wanting to boost relevant traffic to their blogs.)
I’m also keen to hear how Random House’s crime page is going. Together, Penguin and Random House have published some extraordinarily talented Aussie women writers of crime, thrillers and suspense. These include P M Newton, Honey Brown, Jaye Ford, Wendy James, as well as Caroline Overington, Sara Foster, Y A Erskine and debut authors Candice Fox and Dianne Hester. I’m hoping to discover some more. I’d love to talk RHA into putting “Australian author” into their tags for search engines, or creating teacher resources for Aussie crime novels, now HSC English includes “Crime” as one of its specialty subject areas.
Other bloggers planning to attend the forum include:
- Michelle, Book to the Future
- Kat, Book Thingo
- Jess, Never Ending Bookshelf
- Amy, Lost in a Good Book
- R L Sharpe, Inside My Words
- Persephone Nicholas, The Book or Me
- Susan May, Adventures in Words
- Debbish.com
- Duffy The Writer
- Angel, Angel Reads
- Lesley who “vlogs” at Words of a Reader on Youtube
- Nia, Life and Co
- Suzie Eisfelder of Suz’s Space
- The Book Manicurist
Suzy has started a public list of Twitter NBBF participants, and people can follow the day’s events on Twitter via the #NBBF14 hashtag.
I’m looking forward to meeting everyone.
Do you know anyone not on this list who will be attending the Forum? Are there any questions you’d like us to ask?
Devoted Eclectic 
Jess
/ May 19, 2014I’m so looking forward to this conference tomorrow! I’m going as well (Jess from The Never Ending Bookshelf) and I know Amy from Lost In A good Book is going as well. And Rochelle from Insisde My Words:R.L.Sharpe.
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Lizzy Chandler/Elizabeth Lhuede
/ May 19, 2014Thanks, Jess. I knew I was missing some links! Will add them now. See you tomorrow.
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welcometomylibrary
/ May 19, 2014Wish I could go! It sounds like a great program. I’ll definitely be there next year!
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Lizzy Chandler/Elizabeth Lhuede
/ May 19, 2014I do hope they make it a yearly event – or that Aussie Bookbloggers could organise in some way to create their own event. Who knows? The Facebook group might get something going.
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Louise Allan
/ May 19, 2014What a great session—I’m looking forward to hearing how it went!
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Lizzy Chandler/Elizabeth Lhuede
/ May 19, 2014Thanks for stopping by, Louise. Should be interesting!
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