#AtoZChallenge: Blogging A to Z Reflections

Dear Kim,

To honor your inner statistics nerd, I prepared our #AtoZChallenge Reflections by the numbers. Straighten those spectacles and get out your highlighter, here are stats on last month's challenge.

Blog Stats
Number of visitors to our blog April 1 - 30, 2016 in the #AtoZChallenge.

Average views per day: 201

Average views per post: 163

Average shares per post (Twitter and Facebook analytics used as well): 48

New subscribers: 13

Total April Traffic: 5,003 visitors

#AuthorApril Stats
Content on our blog April 1 - 30, 2016 in the #AtoZChallenge.

Authors featured:
Picture Book Authors: 7
Middle Grade Authors: 4
Young Adult Authors: 17
Adult: 2

Illustrators featured: 6

Book Reviews: 34

Giveaways: 3

Comments from fellow A to Z Bloggers: 24

Post viewed the most: "B is for Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira"

Post viewed the least: "X is for X: A Novel authors, Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon"

Kim, my dear data-nerd friend, you may wonder: How did the #AtoZChallenge traffic compare to our regular flow? Content wise, we nearly tripled the number of posts to our blog this month in comparison to other months. The average traffic was up a bit too. We usually see about 150 views per post compared to the #AtoZ crowd at an average of 163. Shares and comments were down a little from our regular posts but the overall monthly visitors grew by nearly 3,000.

As far as featuring awesome authors and illustrators, no change there. Ink Sisters Write is all about spreading the book love and shouting about new and favorite authors of books for kids and teens.

We did it! #AtoZChallenge 2016 SUCCESS!

Looking forward to the 2017 #AtoZChallenge. Until then we'll keep sharing the writer love one letter at a time.

Much love,
Alison

Comments

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FIRST SNOW by Bomi Park: Classroom Activity and Review

Dear Kim, Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! We had fun with Bomi Park's gorgeous FIRST SNOW last week. We used the book as a mentor text to explore personal narratives and poetry. We also explored watercolor resist techniques. (We also made a mess-- which is kind of my modus operandi during writing workshop. Sorry, Kelley! ) I used the sentence starter from the jacket copy: Look up. One flake falls, then another. And just like that—it's __ __ __ __ __ __ __ . The kids worked cooperatively at their table groups to discuss what word might fill in the blank. I love hearing them chat. "Well it is a snowflake because 'one flake'." Followed by: "No. It has seven letters, snowflake has nine." And: "It is an action. A-- what's that called-- a verb because it is something falling." Eventually we filled in the blank by using spelling clues to check our thinking, which might not sound like a whole lot of fun, but spell

SCBWIEPA Pocono Highlights #2: Get into Character

Dear Alison, I am a closet illustrator. I admire illustrators' ability to capture a moment, a feeling, a thought, an action in a single illustration. I even went to Zachariah OHora's Illustrator Session (I'll talk about that session another time) in hopes that I could glean some of his creative genius. I was so inspired I decided to create a post through pictures. So here goes... The Pocono Retreat 2016 was all about character and we kicked off the weekend Friday night with a costume party... Willowdean, Bellatrix and Max Quacks, Ducktective AKA Alison, Kim, and Donna Opal from Because of Winn-Dixie AKA Susan North Belle AKA Phoebe AKA Author Isabel Bandeira and Val Jones, Author of Who Wants Broccoli Dana Kramaroff Sophie from Sophie's Squash AKA Virginia Law Manning Strider from Lord of the Rings AKA Wes Loder Sophie from Sophie's Masterpiece AKA Chrissa Pederson Harold's Purple Crayon AKA Andree Santini Ano

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