Friday Follow: A Celebration of Followers

I'm home from work ill today and thus confined to bed. My laptop doesn't care if I'm contagious or if my voice won't work and I can lay down and rest while not going totally bonkers from boredom.

Here's one of my new finds I thought you might enjoy, too. I love to find new blogs and make new bloggy friends, so here goes. I'm game.

 

 Today's Friday Follow Sponsor.

Here's how YOU can join the celebration:

•* Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below. Only need to add on one blog to be seen on all the blog hops.

•* Grab the Friday Follow and Sponsor buttons and include both on your Friday Follow blog post.

•* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots.

•* Follow as many other blogs on the linky as you like

•* Comment on the blogs telling them you're from Friday Follow

•* Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow

The list is new each week. The links do not carry over. Please link up each week for new participants to find your blogs. The list is only open to add your blog links on Fridays. It will be visible all week to visit the blogs listed.

The hostesses realize the time required to participate in Friday Follow. Due to the overwhelming number of entries each week, they understand everyone, including ourselves, may not be able to follow every blog. To keep it fun, follow what you can at your own pace. They appreciate your understanding and thank you for your continued participation!

Friday Follow Blog Hop (March 12)

Hosted by Rita @ One 2 Try Tami @ Hearts Make Families and Lynn @ Midday Escapades . Join us every Friday as we celebrate followers! Link up your blog name and URL below to follow and be followed!

Want to be a part of this Blog Hop?

Click here for instructions and code...

Click here to enter your link in this Blog Hop

Let's make this year the best ever for blog followers! Spread the word about Friday Follow by grabbing our button and come celebrate again every Friday. Feel free to also send out a tweet, blog, stumble or share the news in your own special way!

What Prompts Me To "Follow" A Blog

It's the weekend and so I get some free time. Perhaps I should be writing (fiction writing, not blogging) but I'm doing another favorite activity - blog hopping.

Why I Visit Blogs
I visit blogs for many reasons. I like to keep current with the romance writing/reading/promotion news. I like to learn new things about writing and publishing so I read editors/agents/other writers/and even readers blogs. I can get lost in blogland for hours.

In the course of visiting other blogs, I find some I love, some I like, and some I don't like so much. Usually the ones I like share useful information about writing/promoting/or publishing. I also enjoy blogs that share gossip, opinions and news about the romance writing community. I also like to read about writers' day to day lives.


Why I follow a blog
Before I "follow" a blog I read several posts on the blog. Sometimes I may visit several days before following. If I enjoy the posts, if the blogger follows me, if the blogger comments on my blog and befriends me, I follow them.

However, I don't follow blogs that only post excerpts from their books. I also don't follow blogs that are purely book reviews. I don't follow blogs that bore me.

I want to learn and/or be entertained. I want to connect with other writers and readers. I want to meet interesting people. I want to get ideas for blog posts.


Why do you follow a blog?
Why do you follow blogs? Do you follow many?

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