Monday, 7 April 2014

Shiny New Books is LIVE!

The four editors (Annabel, Victoria, Harriet, and me) have just had our final Skype conversation, playing around with menus and links to reveal all the pages that lay hidden on the Shiny New Books site, and (enormous drum roll please) SHINY NEW BOOKS IS NOW LIVE!


Please head on over and start to enjoy!  You don't have to read it all in one go, of course - we're hoping it'll be the equivalent of the quarterly review magazine in print - that you dip in now and then over the course of three months (although we will have updates before the next issue in full).

I hate to sound like an overly proud parent, but we really are proud of it.  It's been such fun putting it together, as well as quite a lot of hard work, but all our discussions about the logo and the site and... everything - they definitely all feel worth it now.

Over the coming weeks I'll be linking to some of the reviews, particularly the ones I've written which qualify for A Century of Books (!) so I hope that's ok with everyone.  First things first, I'll mention that there's a competition in the first issue (on the homepage) which I'd love to enter if I could...

If you wrote for us, or sent us a book which we've reviewed, we'll be in touch as soon as we can be - and we'd love to hear from other bloggers who'd like to write for us (see our Review For Us page).  For now, I'm off to work... and I hope you enjoy it all!

Posted by StuckInABook at 08:18

11 comments:

  1. Dark Puss7 April 2014 at 09:03

    Fantastic! Congratulations to everyone involved.

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  2. BooksPlease7 April 2014 at 09:30

    Simon, you are quite right to be proud! Congratulations to all of you - I really like Shiny New Books!

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    1. StuckInABook8 April 2014 at 00:15

      Thank you, that means a lot! And thanks for your support

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  3. Anonymous7 April 2014 at 10:20

    It looks wonderful Simon - so much to read that I don't know where to start! Well done to all, and I was really happy to be involved!

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    1. StuckInABook8 April 2014 at 00:15

      Thanks Karen! We look forward to more of your pieces there.

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  4. Claire Thinking7 April 2014 at 12:58

    Congratulations Simon, just had a look at the new site, can't wait to go back and have a proper read this evening!

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    1. StuckInABook8 April 2014 at 00:15

      Thanks! Hopefully there is plenty to keep you occupied there over the course of days and weeks...

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  5. Marsar7 April 2014 at 14:16

    Wow, congratulations to everyone involved! I just took a glance at the new site, and it looks fantastic! Can't wait to delve deeper into its contents :-D.

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  6. Claire (The Captive Reader)7 April 2014 at 14:47

    It looks wonderful, Simon! I'm off to work now but will be dreaming all day about getting home and having the time to read through the reviews.

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    1. StuckInABook8 April 2014 at 00:16

      Heehee! Thanks Claire - hope you have a fun evening looking through SNB, and I'm excited that you'll be contributing to the next issue.

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