Featuring Bloggers like YOU!

So I've been thinking. (I do that too often sometimes.) It's really hard to start a blog, and to gain a loyal following. Much like it's really hard to first break into the publishing world. You're expected to be brilliant, and witty, and funny, and original, and creative... all while being 110 percent appealing. It's only when you've become an established name and presence that you can kind of, well, slack off a bit, and come out with bits of mediocre work occasionally.

Around the YA blogosphere, there are a few bloggers whom everyone knows and everyone follows. These are the lucky few who have insider access to what's being published and when, contacts with exciting authors, and, of course, numerous contests to pique interest.

But what about the rest of us? What about those of us who cannot afford a contest every week, but who still produce great content on their blogs, content that often, sadly, remains unseen by most of the world?

Introducing the latest on my blog: Featuring Bloggers. Where, once every couple of weeks (depending on how free I am), I showcase/interview bloggers who are either just starting out and have great potential, or who write well and deserve to get a little more attention. This isn't a contest; rather, it is based on communication. Leaving comments on one another's work, writing great reviews that actually make me read every word of it... All are ways to catch my attention and thus have the potential to be showcased on my blog.

So how about it?! What do you guys think about this idea? Just start leaving comments (not all of them have to be brilliantly scintillating; God only knows how not up to par I am in my writing sometimes). Just be yourself. I'm always up for promoting the new and the good.