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herhandsmyhands , 5 months ago to Romancelandia group

Hey, @romancelandia, please boost and share!

#RomancingTheVote, a genre romance authors-led effort that raised over US$750,000 for the 2020 and 2022 elections, mostly through silent auctions and funneling donations to Democratic candidates.

They're ramping up their efforts again, but since Xitter is, well, shitty, you can sign up for email notices here:
https://forms.gle/h4yHf8VKQmsGaNQS8

For more context, here's a write up of the group from 2022:
https://www.themarysue.com/romancing-the-vote-stacey-abrams-fair-fight-midterms/

#USPolitics #2024Election

herhandsmyhands OP , 5 months ago

ICYMI, @romancelandia:

#RomancingTheVote, a genre romance authors-led effort that raised over US$750,000 for the 2020 and 2022 elections, mostly through silent auctions and funneling donations to Democratic candidates and voter registration initiatives, are ramping up their efforts again, and you can sign up for email notifications here:
https://forms.gle/h4yHf8VKQmsGaNQS8

Want context? Here it is:
https://www.themarysue.com/romancing-the-vote-stacey-abrams-fair-fight-midterms/

Please share and boost!

herhandsmyhands OP , 5 months ago

@romancelandia ICYMI:

#RomancingTheVote are ramping up their efforts again, and you can sign up for email notifications here:

https://forms.gle/h4yHf8VKQmsGaNQS8

Context:
https://www.themarysue.com/romancing-the-vote-stacey-abrams-fair-fight-midterms/

Please boost and share.

#USPolitics

herhandsmyhands OP , 5 months ago

@romancelandia

Romancing The vote, 2024 edition

#RomBkBlog

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/romancing-the-vote-2024-edition/

herhandsmyhands OP , 5 months ago

@romancelandia

And they're back!

#RomancingTheVote, 2024 edition

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/romancing-the-vote-2024-edition/

herhandsmyhands , 8 months ago to random

I have posted 73 book reviews this year.

Holy crap.

#Reading #Reviewing

herhandsmyhands OP , 8 months ago

So I'm at 75 reviews for 2023.

Will I make it to a hundred?

::suspenseful music::

(if I manage to post two reviews per week until the end of the year, I'll hit 98, so...doable?)

herhandsmyhands OP , 8 months ago

So I just noticed that if I keep pace, I can make 100 NetGalley ARC reviews by the end of the year (I'm at 83 today).

I will never reach 80% feedback ratio (you don't wanna know how many digital ARCs I have sitting in ye olde kindle--those seven plus years of not reading...), so I wonder if the "100 reviews" badge will make a difference for publishers who have been giving me the side eye.

herhandsmyhands OP , 7 months ago

Turns out that I had not tagged a bunch of posts correctly at my blog; the actual number of book reviews I've posted in 2023 so far is 87.

There are nine and a half weeks left in the calendar year; if I manage two reviews per week, I will definitely hit 100 reviews this year.

And at 85 NetGalley ARC reviews, I'm also within striking distance of the next reviewer badge there.

The wonders of reality-avoidance through reading, huh.

herhandsmyhands OP , 7 months ago

I'm sleep deprived and my arm is sore, and work is being...work.

Which is why it just hit me, out of nowhere, that a person posting just one review per week on their blog could rack a cool 50 posts per year.

mind, blown

(did I mention sleep deprived and sore arm? and I think the COVID shot is messing with my concentration too)

herhandsmyhands OP , 7 months ago

90 reviews down for 2023, just ten more to go to hit 100 this year.

Can I manage it??????

::cue suspense music::

#Reviewing

herhandsmyhands OP , 7 months ago

96 reviews down for 2023--if I don't lose steam, I will get the 100 reviews/ year for the first time since 2009.

And I'm at 93 on NetGalley, so I may also get that 100 badge there.

See? Not everything in my life has sucked acid lemons this year.

herhandsmyhands OP , 6 months ago

I'm sitting at 99 book reviews published in 2023, which means I absolutely can hit the 100th before the end of the month/year.

However, I'm mad at myself: I didn't realize until right now that the review of Crime and Parchment I published on Wednesday (Nov 29, 2023) was my 500th review.

Go me!

herhandsmyhands OP , 6 months ago

And...100 reviews published in 2023!

woot woot!

(sitting at 96 NetGalley ARC reviews--may indeed make the 100 there too before the end of this year)

#Reviewing

herhandsmyhands OP , 6 months ago

98 NetGalley ARCs reviewed so far.

Can I manage to read and review two more ARC in two weeks?

::cues suspenseful music::

(self-imposed deadline; I want to start the year with the new badge)

#Reviewing

herhandsmyhands OP , 5 months ago

....and I made it, with a full day to spare too!

100 NetGalley ARC reviews in the bag, with my review of A Murder for the Books,, by Victoria Gilbert. Apparently the author's debut and the beginning of her long-running Blue Ridge Library series.

@romancelandia

#RomBkBlog #Reviewing

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/a-murder-for-the-books-by-victoria-gilbert/