Category: Musing Musers

5 Reasons the Bella Swan YA Heroine Exists

5 Reasons the Bella Swan YA Heroine Exists

Kat Kennedy expounds on five conspiracy theories at to why the Bella Swan type Mary Sue heroine exists in Young Adult literature today.

Five Step Method To Ensure Non-Plagiarism Real Good

Five Step Method To Ensure Non-Plagiarism Real Good

Good people, great bloggers, wonderful friends of ours have been hit with the big P. I’ve named it the Plagiarism Plague in honor of the event. Find out how you can avoid it!

We The Book Bloggers Petition

We The Book Bloggers Petition

Kat Kennedy, intending to start a movement, has created a petition. It’s time that we got those sequels we so desperately need. Now. Check it out, nominate a book and sign away.

Best Dressed Covers of 2012

Best Dressed Covers of 2012

This year we’ve seen some not so great covers that have caused us to quiver with fear. And then there are the truly amazing and creative covers that make you say, “Hell yeah, I’d hang that in my living room.” So, who brought their A game in 2012? Today, we are revealing a few of our favorite covers of the year, along with the help of special guest, Christina from Reader of Fictions!

The Night Before Bloggermas

The Night Before Bloggermas

One night Kat woke up wild and weary and penned this tale hopeful and teary! That you would click through and find wonderous and true – a way to win great books for your friends and you.

5 Products they need to make for Book Bloggers

5 Products they need to make for Book Bloggers

Sometimes things are invented with such a limited use and small fanbase, that you wonder how even one person could conceive and invest in it, let alone several. These crazy things somehow exist out there, but I could easily think of five products that bloggers desperately need right now. Why haven’t they been invented? Why hasn’t some enterprising entrepreneur begun mass marketing a new invention to make book blogger’s lives useful?

5 Tips for a Happy Cobloggership

5 Tips for a Happy Cobloggership

Kat Kennedy divulges her five tips for a happy cobloggership. Come read her amazing formula to successful blogging with your bestfriend and blogmate.

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Kat Kennedy details five awesome methods for surviving truly horrible book reading experiences. Read on to find out how you too can be a book ninja!

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Ever struggled to generate interest in your book and hook book bloggers into reviewing it? Looking desperately at the magical 50 reviews on Amazon and wondering how best to make it happen? Kat Kennedy lays down some tips and advice based on the many, many review requests that Cuddlebuggery receives and the experience we have with the requests we approve. What’s the difference between acceptance and rejection for us at Cuddlebuggery? Read on to find out!

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

Kat Kennedy breaks down 5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck and covers many of the baffling and not so baffling ways that teenagers are written in YA these days. Read on to find out more!

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

Kat Kennedy runs through four great reasons to be reading self-pubbed novels, if you’re not already. Check it out to see what you could be missing.

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Stephanie Sinclair muses about bad romances in YA literature, how it portrays unhealthy relationships and gives her list of the 6 Worst Male YA Love Interests.

5 of the Worst Breakups in YA Part 2

5 of the Worst Breakups in YA Part 2

Warning: This post may contain spoilers for the novels listed. All the books mentioned are published and available to the public. Advance with care.

Last time, we discussed worst breakups in the sense that the were done prickishly with horrible intent by the breaker-uppers. This time, we’re looking at the most heart breaking, tragic, saddening breakups written in YA. Breakups suck. They rip your heart out and tear your to pieces and leave you a quivering mess for the conceivable future without the benefit of a quick death to look forward to.

Come read 5 of the worst breakups YA has to offer!

How To Contact Your Favourite Author

How To Contact Your Favourite Author

Read Kat Kennedy’s patented guide to contacting authors and becoming super duper best buddies with them!

Blogging Anonymously Part 3 – Covering your internet footprint

Blogging Anonymously Part 3 – Covering your internet footprint

Kat Kennedy finished up her three part Blogging Anonymously series with a technical post about internet habits that may expose your identity. Read and find out what you can do to keep your personal information secure while using the internet.

Blogging Anonymously Part 2 – Creating a Pseudonym

Blogging Anonymously Part 2 – Creating a Pseudonym

Kat Kennedy blogs about creating a pseudonym in the second of a three part series on blogging anonymously. What to do with your email, what information to provide – or not provide, and more.

Blogging Anonymously Part 1

Blogging Anonymously Part 1

It’s a sad fact that bloggers have to protect themselves and their identities. This is one in a series of posts helping bloggers to protect their identities, protect their anonymity and be able to blog without fear that they will be stalked and harassed in their real life.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Reviewer?

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Reviewer?

Gather ’round kids while Stephanie Sinclair tells you the bedtime story everyone’s been talking about. It’s frightening and it’ll make you quiver with fear. Everyone beware the Big Bad Reviewer.

Kat Kennedy’s Autobiography

Kat Kennedy’s Autobiography

Kat Kennedy, in response to a desperate, public plea for more information about herself indulges – sharing a few personal tidbits and making some small, factual corrections for the wealth of people out there invested in knowing as much about her as possible. And are stalking her for that information.

5 of the Worst Breakups in YA

5 of the Worst Breakups in YA

Kat Kennedy ruminates on five of the worst, most horrible break ups in YA involving: zombie dumping, let’s just be friends lines and some of the most evil, diabolic pain dished out in the name of, “It’s for your own good. You’re better off without me.” Read more to find out which couples rate and which are better off seeing other people.

10 Ways not to be a douchebag with your ARCs

Kat Kennedy expounds on 10 things you can do with your unwanted ARCs OTHER than sell them on ebay like a douche. Read to find out what they are.

Happy Fathers’ Day Special – Four of the worst fathers in YA

Happy Fathers’ Day Special – Four of the worst fathers in YA

Kat Kennedy runs down a list of four of the worst fathers in Young Adult fiction as an homage to father’s day! Read to see who rates and why they will not be getting an obligatory store-bought card and five minute phone call today.

Three ARCs I’d sacrifice my children for

Three ARCs I’d sacrifice my children for

Kat Kennedy lists three ARCs. Just three. These three ARCs she would do unspeakable things for. Read to see what books have Kat Kennedy waiting on tenterhooks and what unspeakable things she’d do for them. Stick around and tell her which three ARCs would make your list.

10 YA Love Interests I’m Probably Too Old to Swoon Over

10 YA Love Interests I’m Probably Too Old to Swoon Over

Stephanie Sinclair, slightly embarrassingly, shares her top 10 YA love interests that she’s probably too old to swoon over, but possibly does anyway. She is also not responsible for the swooning that may ensue while reading this post.

Five of the worst ways to ask for print ARCs

Five of the worst ways to ask for print ARCs

Kat Kennedy breaks down some of the worst ways people could conceivably request Print ARCs of books. And then admits to doing one of them. Read to guess which one!