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This blog changed my life.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

I know, it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve been active. Long gone are the good old days \u2013 saying this makes me feel like 100 years old, but well, when you\u2019ve been book blogging for 10 years, you\u2019re not a dinosaur anymore. You\u2019re like, neolithic or something. ANYWAY. <\/p>\n

Long gone are the good old sparkling days<\/strong> of book blogging. Now this all feels rusty, not shiny enough, not fast enough, just plain not enough.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

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Book blogging changed my life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

10 years ago<\/strong>, I was studying at university, really far away from home for the very first time. I remember that quote, hanging in my bedroom, that famous John Green quote everyone knows by heart -or at least, fans or the novelist.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Funny how a quote I love started this whole thing. <\/p>\n

Funny how, here I am, 10 years later. Writing on a couch instead of my bed, as a full-time employed person instead of a student, AS A FREAKING PUBLISHED AUTHOR<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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Excuse me. Pause because I\u2019m tearing up right now.<\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019m back with tissues, now. <\/p>\n

I started this 10 years ago thinking this would be a fun venture<\/strong>. Talking about books with people on the internet! Finding new books to read and scream about! <\/p>\n

It was fun. It\u2019s been fun, but also, it\u2019s changed my life. I\u2019m probably saying this to be sappy, but it\u2019s also so, very true. <\/p>\n

Growing this blog made me more confident, in my writing, in my own self, in my passion. Growing this blog made me feel like I was actually good at something<\/strong>. Growing this blog made me want to write again, made me write one, two, three, four different books. Growing this blog made me the writer I am today, the person I am today, as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all sunshines and rainbows. Sometimes it\u2019s thunderstorms, black holes of no inspiration<\/strong> I disappear into, heart shattered at writing for so long with no feedback, no page views, no comments. It\u2019s hoping, foolishly, to somehow, someday, make money book blogging only to end up disappointed because some dreams can\u2019t be real. It\u2019s people leaving<\/strong> for brighter skies \u2013 read: faster skies, social media, hello. It\u2019s losing touch.<\/p>\n

Yet, and yet. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also creating connections<\/strong>, meeting people from all across the world, some of whom I talk to on a daily basis, never, ever about blogging anymore, but somehow everything else. It\u2019s connection sparkling from a love of books, blossoming into something else. Real friendship. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s falling in love with the process<\/strong> of writing, getting back to this little corner of the internet I made mine over 10 years ago, now. It\u2019s finding sparkles for writing, it\u2019s watching readers of a dumb old, dinosaur-like book blog buy my book, read my book, recommend my book. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s ending up, impossibly, at one of the biggest young adult book convention<\/strong> in the UK as an author. Standing there, all nerves and excitement, and hearing:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been following your blog for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s tearing up while writing this post because, while my mind has been too busy trying to make it on these new platforms<\/strong> everyone is on, now (because they seem so necessary as a brand new author) ; <\/p>\n

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This place is, has always been and will always be one of the biggest parts of me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not sure how to end this, except with thank you. For reading, for following, for commenting, for supporting my author endeavors, for buying, reading, reviewing my book. <\/p>\n

For the endless book recommendations<\/strong>, for making me discover new favorite authors, for making me fall in love with reading, over and over again.<\/p>\n

For everything, really. Thank you<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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