Happy New Year’s Day! Because its the beginning of 2016, I’ve decided to do a bit of reflecting on this past year. Along with starting this blog in July 2015, I started an Instagram account filled with bookish photos. While the blog has been a great platform to share my words with the world, Instagram has been a way to show my photos. These photos are mainly of what I’m currently reading, my cozy socks, creamy lattes and mugs of tea!
In the past few weeks I’ve made some big jumps in the Instagram community that I am VERY excited about! It’s the type of excitement that has me literally jumping up and down. Here are the highlights of 2015:
1.Random House (@randomhouse) reposted my photo on their account for over 35,000 followers!
To make it even sweeter, my photo of Sara Gruen’s At the Water’s Edge, made Random House’s top nine photos of 2015 based on the number of likes!
2. Hachette Book Group (@hachettebooks) reposted one of my photos of After The Crash on their account.
3. Books and Beans (@booksandbeans) is a popular account with 126,000 followers and one of my photos was reposted on their account.
With just over 2,000 Instagram followers, I still can’t believe that this many people want to see my posts! Please feel free to look me up at @dreambyday_bookreviews, I would love to connect with you all on Instagram!
Dream by Day 
Following your bookstagram 🙂
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Thank you, that’s so nice of you! 😊
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Awesome stuff. I love your pictures and comfy socks. Congratulations.
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Thank you so much!! 😊
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Wow that is so amazing! Your photos are incredible so it’s all well-deserved. Around November the Tor Teen Instagram account reposted one of my photos (Truthwitch & Vicious) and then followed me back. It was definitely one of my favourite moments of 2015!
I’m sure you’ll get even more traffic since your Instagram is awesome & you have a great blog! Happy New Year!
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Thank you Adriyanna! That is so nice of you to say! Congratulations on being reposted my the Tor Teen Instagram account- that’s so awesome! Haha I totally understand the feeling, it’s so exciting to be reposted!
Happy New Year to you too! I’m looking forward to seeing your blog posts this year. 😊
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Thank you! Your post has me now thinking of highlights of 2015 – like being reposted & authors I’ve met. Such a good year! 😊
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I’m so jealous that you have been able to meet authors! That is definitely something that I want to aim for this year!
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Yes I’m very lucky and most events are free because they’re hosted by a public library. I’m lucky to be in Toronto. Usually that and Vancouver are the most popular tour spots in Canada.
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That’s awesome! I’ll have to do more research this year to find where my favorite authors will be touring!
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You should! No joke, every month I look at the events page of book retailers (Chapters Indigo) & libraries to see who’s coming. 😂
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That’s a great idea!! I’ll do that 😊
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Congratulations! Bookstagram is such a great community and lots of fun!
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Thank you! I had no idea that such an incredible community was out there, but it’s so awesome!!
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I follow you! Your instagram is great! I want to do more with mine, but it’s so time consuming sometimes!
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Thank you! I totally agree though, it definitely takes a lot of time and energy to post regularly… But it’s the New Year so here’s to a fresh start! 😊
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I’ve always been stricken by the photos on your blog! They’re amazing and so eye-catching. I rarely do Instagram, but I’m going to have to check yours out!
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Thank you, that’s so sweet of you!! Most of the photos from my blog come from my Instagram, I just post there more often!
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I’ve been trying to bookstagram but it’s a struggle keeping 1 personal instagram and one for books 😦 I made a Facebook page instead
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I totally agree! While I spend a lot of time on my bookish account, I’ve definitely stopped used my personal one as much. A Facebook page sounds like a good alternative though!
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Congrats on the awesome reposts! I put a lot of books on my instagram, but it’s pretty much just a what’s making me happy/driving me crazy and more often than not it’s books 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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