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At 20four12 Today

Well, by the time you’re reading this I’m on the road travelling, but for posting purposes today I’m posting at 20four12.  I went outside Caleb’s usual reviewing material and chose to review Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, a great story for young girls who are struggling with their self-esteem.  It’s also a great story for older girls and women who struggle with their body-image.  So go on over and check it out!  While you’re at it, check out what Caleb usually reviews.  He has read more science fiction in one year than I will likely ever read!

My First 20four12 Guest Post

Today I’m posting over at 20four12 and this time I’m reviewing a zombie book that isn’t really a zombie book.  What to know what I mean?  Go on over and check out Autumn by David Moody.  You won’t regret it, I can promise you that.

Introducing my New Guest Poster: Caleb Flanagan of 20four12

Caleb Flanagan of 20four12 has been a regular commenter here on The Mad Reviewer for many months and we’ve had some very interesting conversations.  Naturally, we have developed a professional relationship and when he wanted to expand into guest posting, he contacted me first (which was very flattering).  Although I resigned at We Heart Reading on Wednesday, I am still very much interested in guest posting.  So why did I resign?  I wasn’t getting any content in return.

The reason I love guest posting with The Streetlight Reader is that we do exchanges: she writes one review for me, I write one for her.  At We Heart Reading, I would post every week for no content in return and significantly less traffic.  However, the way Caleb and I have worked things out will give us each regular content.  I will be posting for him every other Friday and he will be posting for me every other Friday.  My first post for him will be today, the 7th and his first post for me will be on the 14th.  And we’ll take things from there.

Since Caleb did an amazing post introducing me to his readers, I might as well introduce him.  Here’s a section from his about page:

My name is Caleb Flanagan. I’m a former English major at Brigham Young University who now works as a Front-End Web Developer for a marketing firm in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am married to an amazing woman by the name of Holly, and I’m lucky enough to be the father of two totally awesome kids, my son, Jack, and my daughter, Lucy.

20four12 is a blog that focuses on books and how I perceive them as a whole as well as the more nebulous topics behind being an avid reader. My personal reading taste leans quite heavily to the science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian genres. However, I have been known to cross over into just about any genre if I think the book has an interesting concept behind it. Lately I’ve been discovering that I quite enjoy the characters and plots that can be found in YA fiction, something I never really thought I would be all that interested in. It’s always great to discover new things with books.

Occasionally you might find posts here that deal with topics other than books, but I promise that if you do, they will always be interesting!

Other interests that I spend time on include following sports news quite voraciously, watching movies (especially in the theater), and a little bit of online gaming when time and mood permits.

So if you haven’t already checked out 20four12, you should now!  Caleb does some amazing in-depth posts about books chapter-by-chapter as well as reviews, articles on gaming, movies, etc.  He caters to a more adult audience, but I know for a fact that many teens will love the books he reviews.

Farewell to We Heart Reading

As you probably don’t know, last Wednesday was my last day posting over at We Heart Reading.  I know my ‘resignation’ is pretty sudden and you’re probably all asking yourselves why did I quit, but I’m going to keep things brief:

1.  I want to focus on my own blog more.

2.  In September I’ve taken on a lot of projects, most notably my collaboration with Mark of The Masquerade Crew on his first anthology.  My role as developmental (content) editor will take up a lot of my time and the fact is that guest posting regularly takes a lot more time than just posting on my blog.  Both Mark and I are hoping that there will be more anthologies in the future, so to put it bluntly: editing pays and guest posting doesn’t.  I am human and would like to make a little extra money, so I feel that my energy is better spent on paying work than on We Heart Reading.

3.  It wasn’t meeting my expectations.  I’m a perfectionist and when things don’t turn out, I often lose interest in them.  This is no one’s fault but my own.  We Heart Reading hasn’t turned out nearly as well as I thought it would; it was just not a good fit for a control freak like myself.  However, for non-control freak book reviewers I would highly recommend joining it.  It’s a great place to build a community of book reviewers and fellow book lovers.

Even though I’m saying ‘addio’ to We Heart Reading, that doesn’t mean I’m saying farewell to guest posting in general.  It’s just that I will be guest posting less frequently, as in once every two weeks.  But more on that later.

For now, just know that I will no longer be posting at We Heart Reading, but I will still do everything I can to help the site out.  It was a great place to meet fellow book reviewers and book lovers and I’m going to miss it.

The Naming by Alison Croggon

Well, it’s Wednesday today so you know what that means: guest posting.  Today I’m over at We Heart Reading, reviewing The Naming by Alison Croggon.  If you like epic fantasy, you’ll love how Alison Croggon mixes old tropes with her own new ones to create the world of Edil-Amarandh.