I’ve hosted guest bloggers on Muse Interrupted for over two years now. Throughout the last half of 2010, I considered going on hiatus or changing the guest blogging schedule to one guest every 6-8 weeks. I loved hosting guest bloggers and doing all those book give-aways (thanks to my guests’ generosity) for the last two years, but I set up a schedule where, at one point, I had a guest every week for one month. Then I had guests every 3 weeks for the rest of that year. Then every 3-5 weeks in 2010. For 2011, I thought a guest every 6-8 weeks would work. Now that 2011 is upon me, though, I don’t find myself posting to my various published author loops looking for authors to host.
This must mean I need a break.
Not that hosting my guests was a strenuous effort. I enjoyed every one of my guests. However, for the first part of 2011, anyway, the time I took these last two years to send out reminders, promote my guests, and formatting the posts will now go toward my own writing. And toward my own guest blogging opportunities. With HEAD OVER HEELS coming out in audiobook February 14/15 and WHERE SHE BELONGS releasing in library hardcover in December—and the possibility of more releases as Cindy between those two (I don’t want to say more now because that project is still in development)—I plain ol’ don’t have the energy or energy to host guest authors on my blog. I might change my mind in the second half of 2011, but that’s how it sits for now.
So, thank you to all my guests from the last two years! And thank you to the readers who took the time to read the blogs and comment—and win books!
Cindy, I was planning to do an excerpt every weekday for my blog for the month of January but that didn’t last. lol Now I’m doing it 2 times a week. The work comes first. I think you made a good decision.
I’m looking forward to hearing your news!
Edie, one year I had a guest blogger every week during the month of March. I called it Guest Blogger March Madness. It was nuts. Never again.
I liked having guest bloggers, because then if I didn’t have anything to blog about I didn’t really have to stress. My guest bloggers took up two posts per week, so I could write just one for that week and feel okay about it. Now, I’ve decided if I just write one post for the week, so be it. The work comes first, like you say.
And right now the work is beckoning!