Literary Blogging 101: The Literary Blogging Community
The moment I crossed the threshold and entered the literary online community, my mind was instantly blown away! I was a kid with a sugar addiction, unleashed in a new world with all my favourite and yet to be discovered favourite treats. The online liter ...
Literary Blogging 101: Why Your Blogging Voice and Style Matters.
Blogging Authenticity Why blog if you won't let yourself be heard? Each and every one of us, who take blogging seriously and are now members of the Blogosphere has a voice. The Voice I'm referring to is showcased in the way we write, what we create and ...
Literary Blogging 101: Content Creation for Literary Blogs.
Consistently putting out blog content can be very hard or easy depending on if you've figured out your niche(s), what works for you and your schedule. But you don't have to worry about figuring out your niche since this is a guide for Literary Blogging. Y ...
Blog Design 101 for WordPress Beginners
Blog Design 101 I didn't get the hang of designing my blog until recently and I am absolutely not a pro at it. What I did was Google. Google is key people and extremely important (also you need to know what you're googling, to find the goodies) Googl ...
Literary Blogging 101: Writing Book Reviews
Introduction A book review should be full with nothing but the reader’s honest opinion. Doesn’t matter if you bought the book, borrowed it or got it from the author or publisher. Every writer has a voice, the voice is what determines a review ...
Spotlight: My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite + Author Q & A
Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.
Literary Blogging 101: Blog Hosting
Research and planning is the key to successfully starting any kind of blog. This enables you to know the pros and cons when it comes to the niche(s) you’ve decided on embarking on. But in this case, you’re already decided as this is to give you an idea of starting a Literary Blog.
Introductory Post
The main aim of Bookish Species is to grow and encourage the reading culture, in Nigeria. Therefore creating a space and platform that brings together and grows a community of literary readers, as well as also being a guide for readers on becoming new or better literary bloggers and also introducing them to the online literary community.