SIGN-UP: Speculative Romance Challenge 2012!
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Speculative Romance Challenge 2012!
Welcome to the Speculative Romance Challenge 2012! Over the last year I have read more and more romance, mainly paranormal and especially angels (hence the button LOL), but for a girl who didn’t read romance at all it’s pretty good. This is the reason for this challenge, to read other sub-romance genres under the ‘speculative’ umbrella. So I hope you will join in too! For more details see below.
If you would like to keep track of my progress, you can HERE.
SIGN UP
To sign up you MUST make a post on your blog about participating in the challenge – you then use the DIRECT URL of the post to sign up to the challenge by adding it to Mr Linky below. DO NOT just add your blog URL – this will be deleted.
You must add the button to your sidebar – make sure that it links back to this post so others can join the challenge if they wish. Easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the code displayed below!
CHALLENGE DETAILS
- Timeline: 01 Jan 2012 – 31 Dec 2012
- Rules: There are FOUR (4) LEVELS to choose from:
- One Sexy Demon: Read 6 Speculative Romance novels in 2012
- Two Sexy Werewolves: Read 12 Speculative Romance novels in 2012
- Three Sexy Vampires: Read 18 Speculative Romance novels in 2012
- Four Sexy Archangels: Read 24 Speculative Romance novels in 2012
- You don’t have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.
- You can join at anytime. All books read in 2012 count towards the challenge regardless of when you sign up.
- At the beginning of Jan 2012, you will find a link to specific month to add your reviews.
- Audiobooks do not count, but all other formats are accepted.
- Only fiction, no non-fiction.
- This challenge can crossover to other challenges.
- You DO NOT have to write reviews of the books you read, but if you decide you would like to then Mr Linky will be available each month so you can link up your reviews.
- You don’t have to have a blog to join in – for those without a blog but who use Goodreads, Amazon, LibraryThing etc, you can add the URL to where you track your books. If you don’t have a URL at all then choose a name you would like to use and then copy and paste the following link: http://www.bookchickcity.com/2011/12/sign-up-speculative-romance-challenge.html
GENRES
- Paranormal romance
- Dark fantasy romance
- Urban fantasy romance
- Steampunk romance
- Sci-fi romance
- Apocalyptic romance
If you can think of any other sub-genres let me know by leaving a comment and I will add to the list. I often get emailed asking if such and such a book is classed as romance – in my opinion as long as the main plot line is the romance element then you’re good to go! Also remember, this is ‘speculative’ romance so no historical or contemporary allowed 
UPDATE: Due to the migration of Book Chick City from Blogger to WordPress, all previous links were unfortunately lost during the process. Therefore, please feel free to sign up again 
38 Comments
I can't wait for this challenge. Should be an easy one for me. I am always reading Romance books.
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Challenge accepted!
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This is great! I've only discovered these genres recently and love them!!
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That should be Amber at Views from the Reader Side. *sigh* The trouble with having multiple blogs.
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Romance books are my life so this challenge I accept. =)
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This should be an easy challenge to do – all the categories are topics I love to read about! –julie Can't wait to start!
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My favourite genre, can't wait!
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Wish we could get started on the challenge now! LOL Happy Holidays! *hugs* <3
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I signed up. I read these types of books all the time, so I'm ready.
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Ok, signed up for this one, too
And again, thanks for hosting this challenge, too 
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yay!!! can't wait!!!
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My favorite genre! Excited for this one!
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Thanks for hosting!
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i'm not sure i got the whole thing but i'm in!!!!!!
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I'm not sure i got the whole thing but i'm in!!!!
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i'm in. i'm in. i'm in
wooh, this one of my fave genre so i'm excited. yay!
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I'm in on this! Hope I will be able to finish the challenge!
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looking forward to this one
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I'm in!!! =D
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I will own this! Another awesome challenge hon. Thank you
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thanks for the Challenge Im looking foward to participating, and I have recently gotten into a kick of Angels, fallen angels , Angel Warriors so the button is perfect!! thanks
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Have signed on:) Looking for some Love in 2012:)
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I've recently rediscovered my enjoyment of Paranormal Romance, so this will be a fun challenge.
And as a fangirl of all things angel the badge is perfect!
Shelagh
The Word Fiend
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Very excited about this challenge! Good luck everyone!
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woohoo.. my favorite genre..
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I'm so glad I found your challenge! I'm on an angels and demons kick right now. Can't wait to get started.
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Sounds like an interesting challenge, so I'll give it a try
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also just started reading this genre, excited for the challenge and to see what others are reading! thanks for hosting.
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Awesome challenge! Can't wait to see everyone's reviews and progress!
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Ok, what the heck… I signed up for the paranormal/urban fantasy challenge, so I'll hit this one too.
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Is there a place to link up our reviews for this challenge?
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Hiya, BCC! Is there a link where we can post our reviews for this challenge? I can't seem to find it. Thanks!
julie
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super excited! i shall do the sexy archangels
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Hi,
I want to join, so I added your challenge to my *impossibly long* post of challenges, but it seems the linky doesn’t want to show for me, nor the emailing thing works. I’ll try again later, but just in case:
http://topchochan.blogspot.com.....-post.html
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I am excited for this challenge. The speculative fiction genre is my bread-and-butter. However, I am having problems with the button. It won’t show up. Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks!
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Ok, finally got it to work. Html is not my friend.
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Re-signed up! I have finished the Two Sexy Werewolves level and am moving on to the Three Sexy Vampires level! Of course I haven’t written any reviews really, but still, I’ve read the books! lol!
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