Welcome to the 2016 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight!
We came up with this challenge last year because we wanted to encourage our fellow book bloggers to not only read more (since there are already lots of challenges for that), but talk more too! Well, it was SO successful last year that we decided to bring it back!
So often book bloggers mean to post more discussions on our blogs, but we just don’t quite get around to it. Well, we wanted to give everyone a little motivation to keep the discussions going, plus give us a place to link up our discussions so that more people will see our precious words of wisdom (or … you know … our GIF-filled rants).
I hope you’ll join us for this challenge and pledge yourself to posting more discussions in this upcoming year. I promise we’ll have lots of fun talking together!
Here’s All You Have to Do:
- The 2016 Book Blog Discussion Challenge runs from January 1st until December 31st, 2016.
- Sign-ups will remain open until December 31st, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Central. (So, you can sign up all year long! Come join us!)
- You DO NOT have to have a book blog to join this challenge. If you don’t have a book blog, you may link up to discussions that you’ve started on Goodreads groups.
- Create a sign-up post announcing your intention to participate and link up below. If you don’t have a blog, you can link up to your Goodreads profile. There is no need to say what your discussion posts will be about – just tell us that you’re joining and let us know what your goal is. (Please note, you may do this in an update post, or a post of other challenges- you’re not required to make a completely separate post- but you can if you’d like!)
- Please link back to both challenge hosts and include the challenge button in your sign-up posts.
- Every month, we’ll update this 2016 Book Blog Challenge Page with the links to that month’s Challenge linky – so you’ll always know where to find the latest link-up!
- Share it! The more people we get to participate in this, the more awesome discussions we can all be a part of and the more fun it will be! So, invite your friends to join us!
- This challenge is to help get us discussing books and book blogging, so talk about whatever you want as long as it’s relevant to book blogging. Discussions can be book related or book blogging related (or generally blogging related – no discussions about things that are completely off-topic like travel or fashion, etc). Discussions can also be about you personally if it’s a get-to-know-you type post.
- There will be a kick-off post on January 1, 2016 on both Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight where you’ll be able to leave your links for any January discussions. At the beginning of every month, a new post will go up on both blogs for that month’s links. New this year – Every month, we’ll feature one randomly chosen discussion from the month before.
- If you forgot to leave your discussion link in the challenge month in which you posted the discussion or the linky list closed before you had a chance to leave it, you can leave it in a future month. (No duplicates, though.)
- There will also be monthly giveaways, so make sure you check in each month!
- Use the hashtag #LetsDiscuss2016 to share your progress and connect with other participants on Twitter.
- Have questions? Feel free to ask in the comments!
The Levels:
1-12 – Discussion Dabbler
13-24 – Creative Conversationalist
25-36 – Chatty Kathy
37-48 – Terrifically Talkative
49+ – Gift of the Gab
I’m shooting for Gift of the Gab, which works out to just less than one discussion per week!
Monthly Link-up Posts & Giveaways:
January Link-Up Post
February Link-Up Post
March Link-Up Post
April Link-Up Post
May Link-Up Post
June Link-Up Post
July Link-Up Post
August Link-Up Post
September Link-Up Post
October Link-Up Post
November Link-Up Post
December Link-Up Post
Use the Linky Below to Sign Up!
Credits for elements used in button: Tracey Monette, Clever Monkey Graphics, B2N2 Scraps, Sweet Digi Scraps, Harper Finch
Nick @ Nick & Nereyda's Infinite Booklist
This is a great challenge! I have some ideas for posts that I really want to discuss next year, and hopefully this challenge will motivate me even more to come up with topics and write them. Thank you for hosting! I’ll add my intentions to sign up on my Weekly Recap and add to the Linky by the end of the weekend.
Thanks for hosting, Nicole! 🙂
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yay! I’m excited that you’ll be joining us! This challenge has been my favorite thing I’ve ever done on the blog.
Julie S
YES! I’m in again 🙂 LOVE this challenge!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Awesome! I’ve loved discussing with you this year!
ShootingStarsMag
I signed up last year and then I kind of epically failed at posting discussion posts. I might try again though because I DO have a lot of ideas I want to discuss. 🙂
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
No such thing as epically failing – join us again! Even if you just post occasionally, we want to discuss with you! 🙂
Silvara
This was such fun this year! I totally want to do it again next year. Thanks for hosting it again Nicole!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I’m glad you’re going to be back. I’ve so enjoyed getting to know you this year!
Terri M., the Director
PARTY TIME! I loved this challenge last year and can’t wait to do my participation post for this year!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yay!! I’m glad you’re joining us again!
Megan @ Love, Literature, Art, and Reason
Awesome Challenge. I’m excited to participate.
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
So glad you’re going to be joining us! Welcome!
Lee @ Rally the Readers
Writing more discussion posts is something that I wanted to focus on in 2016, and this challenge is perfect! Thanks so much for hosting!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yay! I’ve had so much fun with this over the past year! Glad you’re joining us!
Kaja
There, I just signed up! I didn’t know about this challenge at the beginning of last year so “more discussions” was one of my personal resolutions, but I can’t wait to discover other participants’ posts!
Thanks for hosting this!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Perfect! I’m glad you’re joining us! By the way, I just finished reading Locke Lamora a couple of days ago – thanks for encouraging me to read this great series!!
Zeee @ I Heart Romance & YA
I really enjoyed this challenge this year so I am hoping that I will have more topics in 2016!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I’m glad you’re joining us again!!
Amber @ bookstacksamber
I’m so glad I found this challenge! Just went back through all the 2015 link-up posts and jotted down a bunch of ideas 🙂 I’m going to be ambitious at 49+!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Woo hoo! It is ambitious. I actually meant to reduce it slightly this year but forgot! I think I made it last year, but I’m actually not sure – now I’ll have to go check!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Oops! Only 42! But that’s okay – I like that this challenges me to write a discussion every week and if I aim for that high number I’m WAY more likely to do it!
Daniela Ark
my 2015 year wasn’t too good but I just signed up for 2016!:) looking forward to this challenge. My first discussion post “5 lessons I learned when my theme crashed” already scheduled! Thanks for hosting this wonderful feature Nicole! 🙂
dex
this will be my first year doing a reading challenge! i’m excited. this seems like it will be a lot of fun.
Britt @ Please Feed The Bookworm
I’m doing it Nicole!! I love you and Shannon’s discussion post so i am taking the plunge! This is my most scary challange cause I feel like I never have any oroiginal idewas. Hopefully this will amke me dig some up. So excited and thank you for hosting. PS love the new look! Ive been mia for a bit!
<3 Britt @ PleaseFeedTheBookworm.com
Anthea
I’m no good at challenges at all, but I’m definitely going to give this one a go!
Lory
I’ll definitely be continuing with a monthly discussion post. So glad this is happening again!
Sarah @ The Country Bookworm
I just have to say that I am lovig this challenge already. I originally only set my goal for 12 discussions becuase I wasn’t sure what I would possibly write about. Now I have 6 post ideas already 🙂 I’m trying to make my way to everyone’s post by the end of the month.
Lily @ Bookluvrs Haven
I love that you are hosting this challenge, as I really wanted to get more discussions on the blog this year. I was thinking of having one a month, so this challenge is perfect to keep that goal in line. I have a few post ideas already so I think that this will be quite doable for me, even with a brand new baby days away from coming!
I look forward to reading everyone’s posts!
Lily @ Bookluvrs Haven
Penni @ Penni's Perceptions
I just stumbled upon this challenge and so excited to participate in it. I am new to book blogging and want to become more active in it. I just completed a blog challenge and really enjoyed it. It allowed me to meet new book bloggers. I am looking forward to participating in this challenge.
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yay! I’m so happy you’ll be joining us! Welcome! Make sure you stop by the challenge link-ups and check out some of the awesome discussions that have been posted. 🙂
Got My Book
Tried a couple of different browsers and couldn’t get my link to post in the linky. So here it is http://gotmybook.booklikes.com/post/1391547/introducing-gbm-2-0-posting-schedule-features-and-more
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Huh … I’ll have to look at why it’s not working. I actually realized that I used the thumbnails view, which I don’t normally do for the discussion link-up. Hopefully that didn’t cause a problem. Anyway, I’ll add your link!
Got My Book
Thanks, it seemed to choke at the add an image stage. It wouldn’t let me post without one, but it wouldn’t take one of any size either from my computer or hosted online. (It kept saying it wasn’t a image or was too large – I tried jpg & png and various sizes.)
Faith Hope & Cherrytea
Serendipity! meeting via #CleanSweepthon on Saturday led to exploration of your blog and this fantastic challenge – hapPy to signup and get discussing – Thanks so much, Nicole!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
So glad you’re joining us!! You actually won my #CleanSweepThon Challenge, so make sure you check your email! 🙂
Discussions
Very helpful post. Sharing fair point of view, experience and/or opinions by posting comments, reviews, discussions always helps us and others.