The Lowdown
with Laurie
Laurie Garrison
Book blogging is a hobby that’s a labor of
love; it’s not something that makes money.
Most people think opening and running a
review blog is a grand thing. Well, if you
ask most book bloggers, you will find a
totally different story. Most book bloggers
are burned out by our third year because
of the load we carry. This load will either
cause us to change our ways on how we
blog and to go back to it as a hobby or just
simply shut our blogs down from the stress.
Your average reader or most authors, for
that matter, have no clue about the time
and money we spend on our hobby. We
give countless hours reading and writing
our reviews. Then let’s not forget the hours
of time we spend sharing our posts on all
kind of social media to get the word out, be
it for a review or a guest post. There are
days where most of us beat our heads on
the desk asking ourselves why we even
started blogging in the first place. Granted,
there are a lot of advantages of running a
review blog, like meeting new bloggers and
authors, but there aretimes when things get
out of control, and some will have to back
off.
A Labor
of Love
When I stated my blog over four years ago,
I never knew what a book blog would turn
in to. Heck, it’s a hobby, not something that
would spin out of control. I live a full life
with lots of other hobbies.So since Bitten
has basically taken over my life, it feels
more like a job with no pay to me. This
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