{"id":980,"date":"2008-07-04T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2008-07-04T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:29:00","slug":"new-bookish-matchmaking-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/07\/04\/new-bookish-matchmaking-service\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bookish Matchmaking Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SG4lsTgaGiI\/AAAAAAAABuI\/moiGX2Px_LA\/s1600-h\/mtbannernl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SG4lsTgaGiI\/AAAAAAAABuI\/moiGX2Px_LA\/s200\/mtbannernl.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Those <a href=\"http:\/\/mother-talk.com\/wp\/\">MotherTalk<\/a>-ers have got it going <span style=\"font-style: italic\">on<\/span>.  They&#8217;ve just launched a matchmaking service for Books Seeking Reviewers, called <a href=\"http:\/\/mother-talk.com\/wp\/?page_id=371\">Connections<\/a>.  The listings it seems are typically from authors or small presses who are looking for online reviewers but not a full-blown blog tour. To submit your own book for a listing, email info@mother-talk.com with 500 characters or less and include the book title(s) and contact information.  To become a reviewer, get in touch with Melissa at melissa@mother-talk.com.  Among others, they are currently seeking reviewers for <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mama PhD<\/span><\/a> for a blog tour that starts July 30.<\/p>\n<p>And yet another reason I&#8217;m BUMMED I won&#8217;t be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/\">BlogHer<\/a> this year:  The MotherTalk &#8220;First Drink On Us&#8221; party at BlogHer on Thursday, July 17th from 5-8 pm at Caruso\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.  They&#8217;ll be giving away nearly 300 fabulous books, and author Shari MacDonald Strong will be on hand to sign copies of <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Maternal Is Political<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know.  I have a good excuse.  I&#8217;m getting married.  (Have I mentioned that?! YIKES &#8211; it&#8217;s now 2 weeks away!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those MotherTalk-ers have got it going on. They&#8217;ve just launched a matchmaking service for Books Seeking Reviewers, called Connections. The listings it seems are typically from authors or small presses who are looking for online reviewers but not a full-blown blog tour. To submit your own book for a listing, email info@mother-talk.com with 500 characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,3109,21623],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-motherhood","tag-mothertalk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}