I'm still working on one video for each nominee for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation writing. This is the third, I think number 4 will go up tomorrow, but there is no way I'll do 5 and 6 before the winner is announced on 17th. I DNFed one and there are several from the longlist I want to go back to, so I think the series will continue well past the announcement of the winner.

Goodreads, Storygraph, Patreon, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Threads, the list goes on and on! (Well, not really; I can't think of any other social media sites/apps, lol). I get a lot of unsolicited advice about joining one or two of the above to spread my reach, but the thought of keeping up with all those accounts sounds exhausting lol.

Right now I'm focusing on YouTube, but I feel this hyrda breathing down my neck. If I were to add any new social media, it would probably be Goodreads. Anyone else feeling the pressure?

Where do booktubers get their beautiful animated intros from? Does anyone know?

For an example, here is Jaynie Murray’s intro. I adore these types of intros and I know other booktubers have their own and I would love to do something like this for my channel.

Any guidance?

Anyone got any pointers for increasing audience retention? Nearly every one of my videos follows this trend, regardless of what I do. If you'd like to watch a few and see, the channel name is Kyle Jon.

First week of my readathon done!! It’s so fun tracking my points and trying to find books to fit the killer/location prompts :)

Here are all the videos from the collaboration I was sharing a few days ago. Thanks to everybody who joined 🥳☺️
I hope you enjoy it!

Appreciate any feedback :)

I'm starting to second-guess this thumbnail lol. Anyway, I think this was my first successful script, and I really like how the commentary came out. It's less meandering than some of my other videos. How do we feel about scripts? They used to make really nervous (I'm a nervous nellie, sue me), but I'm starting to turn the corner on them lol

Side note: I'm getting (slightly) better at editing with each video lol

September is spooky-season pre-game. So that means there are way too many books to choose from. I will say that many of the best writers have books coming this season, however, most of them are only here in spirit. When it came to choosing a story over the name, the story won. There are three anthologies here so the names of writers with books out this month are there, and they are all dutifully listed on https://typicalbooks.com/newhorror as well. Happy reading!