{"id":6898,"date":"2016-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2016-05-02T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:23:05","slug":"thats-a-wrap-another-april-atoz-challenge-is-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6898","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a wrap &#8211; another April AtoZ Challenge in the books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6859\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6859\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=6859\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?fit=320%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?fit=320%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6859\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"logo of April AtoZ blog challenge 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A2Z-BADGE_2016.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I did it!<\/p>\n<p>26 posts &#8211; A to Z &#8211; in April, on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 22 new, no-spoiler book recommendations, plus 3 library-celebration posts and a look ahead to <a href=\"http:\/\/audiobooksync.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">free audiobooks<\/a> all summer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to the April AtoZ Challenge organizers! This is all free, a labor of love to help bloggers build up their blogging muscles and gain readership.<\/p>\n<p>Since I signed up so late (#1532 on the list), I didn&#8217;t get many new followers or comments, but it was certainly worth it for me to get back in my writing groove &#8211; so many great books from debut authors and smaller presses to tell y&#8217;all about! (not enough hours in the day for me to consider covering self-published works, as my <a href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?page_id=353\" target=\"_blank\">policies<\/a> state)<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to find your voice in blogging or just have a super list of blogs to visit and follow, look into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/p\/what-is-blogging-from-to-z.html\" target=\"_blank\">April AtoZ Challenge<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll remind you next March!<\/p>\n<p>Got a favorite, unheralded YA title to recommend?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it! 26 posts &#8211; A to Z &#8211; in April, on schedule. That&#8217;s 22 new, no-spoiler book recommendations, plus 3 library-celebration posts and a look ahead to free audiobooks all summer. Thanks again to the April AtoZ Challenge organizers! This is all free, a labor of love to help bloggers build up their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,98],"tags":[10,82,55,11,16,49,56,61],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reflective","tag-a2z","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-determination","tag-memories","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}