Happy Blogday to me!
It was one year ago today that I started this blog. I can’t believe it’s been that long!
When I first started recapping Sweet Valley High, I really didn’t expect anyone to read it besides a few friends. I remember one day being super psyched because I got a whole fifteen hits. Fifteen people read my blog!
Eventually, word got around and by the time I finished the series, I was getting 500-1000 hits a day.
Then on Tuesday, Entertainment Weekly included a link to my blog in their article about Sweet Valley Confidential. Since then, my numbers have gone through the roof. So thank you, Entertainment Weekly! Then yesterday, I was quoted and linked to on The Guardian’s website, which is also a pretty big deal for me. For those of you visiting via the EW and Guardian articles, welcome! I hope you’ll stick around!
For my regular readers, thank you so much for spending the past year with me. I have had so much fun writing this blog. In fact, it’s been so much fun that I’ve decided it’s time to resume regular posting. Get started on your back-to-school shopping because Senior Year starts Monday!
By the way, I just want to mention that if I had known this blog was going to end up being so popular, I would have come up with a much more creative name than Shannon’s Sweet Valley High Blog.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I loathe you for starting this blog. For I can see hours, HOURS of an otherwise productive day slipping away into Sweet Valley nostalgia… GAHHHH!
Your morals are cracking my sh!t up by the way. They’re funny ‘cos they’re TRUE!
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Shannon Reply:
February 13th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Ha! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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February 13th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations! Entertainment Weekly is my most favorite magazine of all time. It’s so awesome that they linked to your blog. I started reading your blog around your review for book 10, I believe, and it always helped make me day a little bit better. It was also nice to see that I wasn’t the only one who read these books and thought “omg, it’s so unrealistic that in one book Jessica’s in a cult and the next book it, like never happened.” Along with racial diversity and poor people, PTSD is another thing that doesn’t exist in the utopia of Sweet Valley, CA. Happy blog-anniversary!
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February 13th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Congrats, Shannon!
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February 14th, 2010 at 12:49 am
Congrats!!!!!!
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February 14th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Yay congrats! I saw your EW link and was so stoked for you! Looking forward to senior year recaps, I’ve never read those
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February 14th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Thanks, everyone!
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February 14th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
yay! that’s awesome!
have fun with Senior Year…they kinda suck!
No Lila!
And…..yucky Connor….boo!!
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Shannon Reply:
February 14th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Yeah, so far I am definitely no fan of Conner’s.
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Lindsay Reply:
February 14th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Wait, there’s no Lila?! I cannot condone that.
Can we just kinda write Lila in?
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Shannon Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 9:01 am
She’s still around a little bit, but not nearly as much as she should be.
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February 14th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
CONGRATS SHANNON! An EW mention? KICK ASS! That’s my boyfriend’s favorite magazine I have to look for that mention next time I stay @ his place!
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Shannon Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Thanks! I don’t know if it actually made it into the printed magazine, but that would really be awesome, wouldn’t it?
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February 15th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I’ve been lurking for months now, and just wanted to say A) happy blogday! and B) your blog keeps me in fits of giggles every time I come by here. It’s almost enough to make me want to create my own SVH blog…almost. If I ever summon the courage, you will be the first to know
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Shannon Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Thank you so much!
Please do let me know if you ever start your own. I wouldn’t recommend it though. I feel like I was about ten times smarter before I started this project.
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February 16th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
So glad you did this blog! And now you’re all big time!
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February 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 am
Congratulations! I can’t believe you made it all the way through!
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Shannon Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Thanks! I’m a little surprised myself!
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March 5th, 2010 at 12:03 am
I do think this is a most incredible website for proclaiming great wonders of Our God!
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Shannon Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 11:03 am
This spam comment is so funny I decided to let it through.
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Sucky Stackhouse Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I’ve always thought you were rather Christ-like.
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