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So, I've gone and done it.

I started up a YA book blog. The reason for this is simple, I'm an adult who has an unhealthy addiction to reading and I read a lot. I read mostly genre fiction of the romance and YA variety but my book blog, Book Binge is more of an adult fiction blog. Most of the readers over there are adults who don't really give two craps about Young Adult fiction. They don't love reading YA books the way that I do and well, I needed some place where I could squeal with joy over new YA books that are coming out and I needed a place where I could do my happy dance over YA books that I read and loved.

I also needed a blog that would be okay for my 12 year old niece Chaylene to read without getting in trouble. You see, Chaylene would ask me about my reviews on certain books that I reviewed over at Book Binge and I'd send her a link on Facebook to this review and she would click, click, click and end up on this review.

Needless to say, her Mom wasn't too happy with her or with me so I started kicking around the idea of starting up my own YA blog so that I can read, review and discuss all things YA. I plan on having contests and giveaways to share my love of books with the people that stop by and I'll have my friends stop by and blog with me as well so there should always be things going on over here (cross my fingers!)

Wish me luck!

CONTEST ALERT: To get this party started, I'm going to host a GET MY BLOG NAME OUT THERE contest where you help me get people to notice my blog and I'll reward you with BOOKS! Pretty shameless, huh? Yeah, well sorry 'bout it. If you wish to enter the contest, all you have to do is any of the following:

1. Post the above picture on your blog, link to my blog and steer some readers my way by telling them about this contest and blog.
2. Post about this contest on your Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, etc...I don't really care how you do it as long as you pimp me out.

For your troubles, I'll reward you with:

3 books of your choice.

It could be anything, a book you've been dying to read but haven't gotten around to buying, a book that's in hardcover but you're too cheap to buy since you only buy in paperback (like me) or a book that's not even out yet and you haven't had a chance to pre-order. eBooks, Print Books, I don't care. You're in charge of your book winnings destiny. Your wish is my command.

So what do you say? Help a sister out?

I'll leave this contest open for two weeks and then I'll close the contest and announce winners on June 4, 2010. ETA: Please leave a comment here or shoot me a tweet (http://twitter.com/thebookscoop) to let me know that you've pimped me out and I'll add your name to my list of entries!

Thanks so much!

Happy Reading,