Calling all Montreal Area Book Bloggers!

Beyond Books

Jun 18

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Hello blog reading friends! I come to you today with a subpar graphic (because I am now on a macbook pro and do not have all my fancy fonts and whatnots from the dead pc laptop) (but the Montreal skyline image was taken by my father who does some pretty great amateur photography) (but I digress)...and an announcement!See, only a couple of weeks ago I thought there were only three Montreal-area book bloggers in the world. Myself, Tynga of Tynga's Reviews and Melissa from YA Bookshelf. I mentioned on twitter that it would be nice to get together sometime this summer and meet up. Then others piped in - I'm from Montreal, too!Then I thought I would try and email everyone to get things organizes, especially after Simon & Schuster Canada joined in with "We want to be part of the meet up, too!" Only that was proving more difficult than I thought, so I made a Facebook group, which is by invite only for those of us in the area to chat about what we want to do in July, etc.I originally thought we could just all go to dinner and then shop at a bookstore (I mean, really, we LOVE books, right!?) and that we'd be a handful of people. But no.WE ARE 15 PEOPLE IN THE GROUP!FIFTEEN!!I had no clue there were so many Montreal-area book bloggers! I have been online since before it was called being "online". I used to be the rare Montreal area person in whatever group I was in. Mostly it was Toronto or the West coast. Now in book blogging, publishers rarely have English author events here. It's always in Ontario or the West. We want to change that! We want to let the Publishers know that there is a book reading, blogging and loving community in MONTREAL (I cannot figure out how to do accented letters with this macbook...).So, are you in the Montreal area? If you are, leave me a comment and I will reply to you (since I get them via email). You don't have to tell me where you are exactly in the comment so that others can't see if you want to keep your privacy all private ;)). We can be friends on facebook if you're on there and interested and I can add you to the group!15 people!I had NO idea. So whatever we're going to plan is going to be a little bigger than just some dinner and shopping. It's a pretty large group to stick in a restaurant. Do we want to try and contact a bookstore (mostly all Chapigos here and I am not keen on that. But there is a kid lit bookstore downtown now called Babar en Ville.). If you have had meet ups in your own area, do you have suggestions?I love that all of us book bloggers have varying areas of reading preference, too! We're a pretty well-rounded group when it comes to genres.We've been compiling a list of all our blogs, this isn't complete, it is just what I have copied from the list we're filling out so far. I'll update it when I have a little more time. :)