Do you schedule posts ahead much?  I do… sometimes.  I am far from consistent about it though.  So, Anna, over at Herding Cats & Burning Soup has this Blog Ahead Mini going on for the beginning of May.

So go over to the   Sign Up Page Here   and check out the limited amount of “rules”  It’s so easy and we’ll get a head start on the coming months when vacations, family events and just summertime is out there waiting to be experienced, ya know?  So this is good.  Really good.

If I could get some basic weekly stuff up and ready to go ahead of time, that would give me more time to take care of other stuff… set up a system and I’d be good to go.  That is my overall goal of this.  With one main blog, and a few specific genre blogs it can get backed up.  So good habits start right now.

Interested?  Then go on over and check it out.

I love NetGalley.  The idea of it, the variety of novels offered there, just about everything.

Ah yes, that “about” thing.

I am a fast reader, I review rather quickly but always trying to keep the reviews within a week of a novel’s release.  Some publishing houses request that, and it simply makes sense to talk about a book when it is due to be launched.

I have a decent ratio at around 78% to 89% – it fluctuates depending on how many novels must “wait” for the reviews to go live because of release dates.  I am trying desperately to keep my requests to only a month or two ahead so that the ratio stays in a reasonable area.

Yet, I’m pulling my hair out over three publishing houses.  So, I’ve decided to simply no longer request from them, especially Harlequin.  I do not want a long list of declined requests on my profile.  And that is just a personal dislike, I don’t know that it affects the approval rate or not.  I’ll stick with the houses I’ve reviewed for already, and maybe branch out to smaller publishing house divisions.  But I will not touch the “big guns” again for at least a year, if ever.

It’s not as though I cannot go out and purchase Harlequin novels myself – and I often do.  It’s not that I’m looking for freakin’ free books.  It is that I enjoy the various lines at Harlequin and their authors.  But, nope, not going to get myself in a hissy-fit any longer.

To be honest, I don’t know if this blog will ever be “big” enough readership-wise for those “big publishing houses”.  And I shouldn’t let it bother me so much either.  I know this.  That damned pride, ya know?

Ah well, I’ll wait them out for a year or two.  I can be patient, in spite of these current words.  I can be.

So, how long did it take your blogging to reach the point where the larger publishing houses thought your blog worthy of their offerings?  Just curious.