Tales Events – UKYABA Blogging Workshops at YALC!

 

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*Blows off cobwebs and curses my was broken now fixed laptop*

Back in July 2015 I was lucky enough to have taken part in a blogging workshop at YALC!

This was thanks to the UKYABA where I won an award for Champion Newcomer back in March 2015!  It was an unexpected, nerve wracking, lovely added bonus to winning the award and an opportunity and experience that I feel so honoured and thankful to the UKYABA and YALC for.

You can find out more about when I found out about the Blogging Panels at YALC here

You can also find out about the UKYABA awards and why I love UKYA here and also find out what we got up to at the UKYABA awards night here

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Blogging 101 (Blogging for Beginners) Workshop

So the panel I was on was called Blogging 101 (Blogging for Beginners) Workshop and I was with the fabulous Andrew ( @PewterWolf13 ) and lovely Laura ( @SisterSpooky ) and chaired by the brilliant Andy Robb !

 

 

 

 

 

 

The scene was set and we all wondered how one earth all these seats would be filled!  I mean who would want to come and see us yapping on about blogging?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean look how terrified we were!

But people did come!  I know!  How did that happen?!  It was so wonderful to see all these people enthusiastic about blogging and books if I wasn’t so nervous I think I would have shed tears of happiness (okay so this may have happened afterwards)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My lovely husband filmed the workshop!  There was quite a bit of back ground noise so the quality of the video is not the best, but it gives any one who could not attend a chance to see what was discussed.  I have not edited the video so it is the full 45 minutes long.

I present to you the Blogging 101 (Blogging for Beginners) Workshop!

At the end of the workshop I gave out some goodie bags which I put together specifically for the workshop.  I popped books, bookish swag, copies of reviews and a mini review guide (which I will pop up on my blog soon) into the bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A huge thank you to Jessie at Stripes Publishing and Jazz at Chicken House for providing me with some swag to pop in the bags and an even bigger huge thank you to the lovely Maggie at Egmont for offering and providing me with two of my favourite books of 2015, Seed and The It Girl to pop into the bags also.  I am so so thankful for all of your kindness and generosity xx

Also huge thank you to my husband and son, Corey who helped carry 80 books and swag across London and helped me pop the bags together in the Green Room at YALC as well as lovely Lucy Saxons lovely Mom who helped us pop the items in the bags!

So there you have it!  It was so much fun!

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Taking your Blog to the Next Level Workshop

So next up after our workshop was the Taking your Blog to the Next Level Workshop with the brilliant Vivienne ( @Serendipity_Viv ) , the awesome Jim ( @YAYeahYeah ) and the super Lucy ( @LucyTheReader ) again chaired by the brilliant Andy Robb !

I stayed to watch this panel and take some pictures!  It was a brilliant workshop full of advise and again it was wonderful to see so many people come to the workshop all interested in blogging and books!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again my lovely husband filmed the workshop (I took over for a bit at the start)!  There was quite a bit of back ground noise so the quality of the video is not the best, but it gives any one who could not attend a chance to see what was discussed.  I have not edited the video so it is the full 45 minutes long.

I present to you the Taking your Blog to the Next Level Workshop

At the end of this workshop I had arranged with the other blogging workshop panellists to put together a little thank you to Andy Robb for all his hard work for the UKYABA and for providing us with support during the lead up to the workshops and always!  He is a top man and one that I am very proud to have got know through my time blogging.

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Love for the Blogging Workshops

It’s also been AMAZING to see the people who attended the workshops reaction and response on twitter!  I’m sure I speak for us all when I say that this has been truly amazing and we are so so thankful to everyone for their support and kind words.

The UKYABA Blogging For Beginners Workshop was also featured on the Booktrust Website – check us out here !

I wrote about the Blogging Workshops and UKYABA prior to YALC here

Check out this fab article in the Guardian about taking your blog to the next level by @lucythereader – here

I also loved this blog post by panelist Viv about taking your blog to the next level that she wrote prior to the workshops here

Fab blogging workshop panelist @sisterspooky wrote a lovely post about her workshop experience here

The awesome @pewterwolf13 wrote about his YALC and blogging workshop experience here

Theres a fab write up here from the lovely @livilev all about the workshops – here

Also another fab write up about Yalc and the blogging workshops by @unbeatablebooks –  here

and @howtoreadbooks – here

We are here to help in anyway that we can so please do feel free to contact us at anytime 🙂

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Before I go….

Before I go I just wanted to thank every one who came to either of the blogging workshops!  It was amazing to see everyone there!

A huge thank you to Andy Robb, UKYABA and YALC for making this happen, supporting bloggers everywhere and giving me the some confidence in public speaking back!

Thank you to the publishers who helped me put together the goodie bags in a short amount of time and to Maggie at Egmont who attend the blogging for begginers workshop and live tweeted!

Thank you to my lovely husband for filming the workshops, Lisa over at @City_Of_Ya for taking lots of photos on my phone and also providing me with photos she had taken too.

Thanks to my workshop buddies Andrew and Laura who made the workshop so much fun and made me laugh so much and to Jim, Lucy and Viv for an inspiring, fun second panel.

Most of all thank you to the UKYA blogging community!  I feel honoured everyday to have met and know such wonderful people.  Sometimes I have to pinch myself!  The bloggers, publicists, authors and friends I have made!  You are all wonderful and I am so so proud and thankful to be a part of it!

Thank you!