Watching you grow on your journey as a booktuber is such a delight! Your giddiness for books and life is just so contagious! So happy for you and can't wait to see what's in store for you!
Jensee: I bought some leggings because winter is approaching soon. TWO SECONDS LATER Also her: I bought a pair of shorts because summer is not over. Same girl same girl. I will always Gaslight myself into buying cute clothes. I am really proud of you. I only found your channel this year but i have watched most of old videos as well and i can see the struggles you have put in to come to this point of getting recognised. You deserve it 🖤🖤
It's all about balance...a little for summer ☀️ a little for fall🍂...we've gotta be prepared! 😂 And 💖🫶🏻thank you🫶🏻💖 Sometimes I feel like my growth is slow, but I think its enabled us to grow a better community of besties. You guys truly are the best! And it's so crazy, because it's starting to feel like I'm actually talking to friends instead of a camera lol
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who struggled with the editing 😅 I know I’m getting quicker, but it also feels like such a monster. And bad days, I’ve been there too 🫶 thanks for sharing such a fun, candid look at your day 😊
Thank you! 💕 And I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one! LOL I watch so many people that seem to just pump out video after video, and it's so hard not to compare yourself, like "why is this so much harder for me!?" 😅 Thankfully, I think I've also gotten a little quicker, and I do enjoy the more creative edits...but I think I'll always dread that first main cut; she is definitely a monster 🫣 LOL
Congrats on your progress as a TH-camr! I'm excited for your continued success. You are an inspiration for me and I always look forward to your videos each week.
as a small booktuber as well its so interesting to see how different the online space is in America than in Hungary where i live. Its soooo cool for you to have these sponsorships and opportunities!!! We don’t really have these type of things over here but i was lucky enough to work with some publishers and authors so i won’t be greedy 🤗 our hungarian bookish community is sooo tiny its just interesting to see how different everything works there. I really love your videos and i’m hoping you will get the recognition you deserve 🫶🏻
💕Thank you! 💕 I feel very grateful for the sponsorships and things I've been able to do, especially with the size of my channel. I was watching a video the other day where Rachel Catherine was talking about how small and close knit the Australian TH-cam community was when she first started. It sounded so nice to kind of have instant friends ☺️ Is it similar with the bookish community in Hungry?
@@jenseereads when it comes to booktube we have a very close community, we have a discord server with the most of us and with most of our viewers so i would say yes we are quite close! Usually we do meetups a few times a year and have a relatively big book club together with a separate yt channel for live shows. Its really fun 🤗
that PR package was so precious! congrats on everything!🎉 hope you can get your stomach issues sorted - sounds super annoying 😢 i ended up putting both books on my amazon wishlist; they sound quite interesting. 😊 the corduroy pants look sooo comfy and i really like that they have pockets. have a lovely day!
The care and effort the author put into that box is so special 😭 And thank you, I hope so too! 💕 I've been dealing with it for the majority of this year so far, so i'm going a little nuts at this point 🥴 lol Happy reading & I hope you have an amazing weekend! 💖
I haven't even watched the whole video but I love this.. and sooo happy for you 🥹 congratulations on your growing success lovely !!!!❤ you deserve it 🫶🏽
omg i'm so excited that you'll get sent Tell Me It's Right!! i follow Katie on youtube and when she asked for recommendations for bookish content creators to send copies to who would be interested in the genre, i immediately thought of you!! i left a comment with your name and i'm so happy she saw it and that she reached out to you aaaaah
This is such a fun video!! I love seeing all the behind the scenes things, I enjoy editing but when it’s a sit down video I get kinda annoyed eventually LOL I am sadly someone that cilantro tastes like soap for 😓 the pr packages are so cool!! 🥰
Thank you!! 💕 I was kind of nervous to post it, but everyone is being so nice 😭💗 That's so funny! I actually prefer sit down video editing. They take longer to edit (because I don't know how to talk 😂) but I usually only have 2-3 big clips and it feels really straight forward. When I have a bunch of clips from a vlog it always feels overwhelming and I put it off...and sometimes I let too much time pass and I lose interest in the video all together 😅 The amount of half filmed reading vlogs I've never finished haunts me 🫣 LOL Ahh my uncle has that cilantro soap thing! That is such a weird phenomenon! It's my favorite herb, I could literally pile it on anything and be so happy lol 🤤
@@jenseereads haha that’s so fair!! I definitely have some unfinished reading vlogs too, rip to them :/ I’m glad you get the true joy of cilantro LOL 🤣
I’m so happy for you! I love your channel so much! I was wondering if you had any advice for someone wanting to start booktube? It’s been a dream of mine. I don’t have any equipment though, just my phone. What do you recommend to start out? 🙂
Aww thank you so much!! 💕 I don't think you really need anything crazy to start. A phone is a good place to start! I film mostly with a camera BUT I film all of my footage out of the house with my phone, and the quality is always good. A tripod also makes things way easier, and the one I have for my phone was like $20. Everything I use is pretty inexpensive and my set up is really simple (I've got it all in my amazon storefront under TECH, if you want to check that out). Aside from that, the best advice I have is what everyone says, which is to just start. My first video was a reading wrap up, half the books I read were free from the library, I didn't have a bookshelf, and I had about 20 books to my name. So you really don't need much beyond your love for books ☺️ 📖✨
I'd love if you could share some of the resources you were talking about in the sponsorship/email discussion. I am considering giving content creation a go and would love to read some advice for that stuff! I obviously don't expect any of that for several years, if ever, but I like to be over prepared!!
It's never too early to get prepared! I got my first email at 350 subs, so you never know! Which, that being said, the biggest tip I have is to make a separate email for business things and put it in the bio/ description of everything! Even if you're just starting out and it seems silly, again, you never know!! As for the tips from the professionals 😋 here are some of the standouts that have really helped me so far.... * A website that I reference often is: helloemilyerin.com (creator tips under Resources tab) * Here is basically a step-by-step email guide that gives a good idea of what to expect: allysalarson.com/blog/2021/5/5/how-to-negotiate-brand-collaborations * Influencer 101 blog post from thestylishwordsmith.com was really helpful with rates and things like that (I also started following her on insta, she just started creator tips series on there) * One of my most helpful sources has been @tessbarclay (she's on TH-cam & tiktok). She has tons of videos with helpful tips! * I've also recently started looking things up on tiktok, and idk if I've really found anything super helpful, but people are surprisingly candid on there and I feel like that can be valuable. Annnnd I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones I can think of right now. I hope it helps!! ☺️✨
How am I just now finding you?? I’m also a small booktuber. I have another channel that I no longer upload to that grew really fast and I can attest to the influx of emails after 5k. Also yes! Start editing as you go. It makes vlogs so much more manageable. ❤
lol I'll have to check out your channel too!! ♥️ Idk why editing as I go is so hard for me 😅, but reading vlogs take me a million years if I don't, so my system definitely has to change lol
I used to do the same thing so I totally get it!! I think mine reasoning stemmed from not wanting to "waste" the money, but these are so inexpensive for how many you get I don't feel bad about it. Plus it does actually make my dry skin feel more moisturized...and it's just really nice to have a little mini pamper sesh every day 😋✨
dude! congratulations on all the things! every time I see Halara - youtube ads or IG ads, I'm always like, 'ooooh. I want.' but at the moment only their bottoms, I would not trust my boobs (or stomach) in any of their clothes. Having an author reach out to you must feel so amazing, but also very... nerve wracking? cos, like what if the book isn't for you? and then you (aka me) would feel so badly, and 'thank you so much, I'm sorry if I don't like your book.' that pr book package is amazing! I know you didn't say, but I'm kind of hoping it's a paranormal/shifter romance.
Thank you!! 💖 The last couple weeks have felt like the twilight zone LOL Ahh I'm so afraid of not liking the books 😬 Thankfully the ones I've gotten have sounded like things I would like...but it's still a worry...cuz yea what am I supposed to do if I don't! 🫣 As far as I know neither of the books I got are shifter romances (though I agree I need more of that in my life), but I'll definitely be reading them this fall, so we'll see! Speaking of shifter romances, have you read or heard anything about The Rogue King?? It's a dragon shifter romance I saw at the bookstore the other day and I've never read a dragon fantasy romance like that so I think I need it 📖 👀
@@jenseereads I read a fated mates/dragon shifter/why-choose a couple months back and it was amazing times three, I had not heard of this Rogue King, but I started reading the sample, and it sounds pretty good. I might have to buy it. in the first little bit that I read it mentioned a dragon shifter (obviously), it also mentioned a phoenix and a polar bear shifter! and I don't know why that last one makes me giggle, but it does. I've even read a book where a person shifted into a bear, and I was like, yeah okay. with a bear shifter but for some reason polar bear is making me giggle and snort. I'm almost certain she's not going to play a role in the story - just that one mention of her. Right then. I think you should also read this book.
@@jenseereads ps. I read Assistant to the Villain, and I very much enjoyed it a lot - gave it 4 stars and now Apprentice to the Villain is on my Libby holds
@@Micmezle YES!! The Phoenix shifter! I've always loved the idea of a Phoenix, so I'm intrigued by that! ...did not know about the polar bear though - which also made me giggle🤭 It seems so random next to a friggin dragon and a phoenix lol. But I'm totally sold!! ...well technically I just put myself on a book buying ban for the next two months 🥴 but after that I am totally getting it! 😋
@@Micmezle Ahh yay! I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was so cute and fun!! And I literally JUST placed a hold for Apprentice at the library! Hopefully I can get to that one in September ☺
Watching you grow on your journey as a booktuber is such a delight! Your giddiness for books and life is just so contagious! So happy for you and can't wait to see what's in store for you!
That's so sweet 😭 Thank you so much!! 🤗💕✨
I literally love this for you! It's great seeing your channel grow. I genuinely say you're one of my favorites.
Thank you so much!! 💖 This has truly been one of the best decisions and I'm so happy to see us grow ☺️
Jensee: I bought some leggings because winter is approaching soon.
TWO SECONDS LATER
Also her: I bought a pair of shorts because summer is not over.
Same girl same girl. I will always Gaslight myself into buying cute clothes.
I am really proud of you. I only found your channel this year but i have watched most of old videos as well and i can see the struggles you have put in to come to this point of getting recognised. You deserve it 🖤🖤
It's all about balance...a little for summer ☀️ a little for fall🍂...we've gotta be prepared! 😂
And 💖🫶🏻thank you🫶🏻💖 Sometimes I feel like my growth is slow, but I think its enabled us to grow a better community of besties. You guys truly are the best! And it's so crazy, because it's starting to feel like I'm actually talking to friends instead of a camera lol
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who struggled with the editing 😅 I know I’m getting quicker, but it also feels like such a monster. And bad days, I’ve been there too 🫶 thanks for sharing such a fun, candid look at your day 😊
Thank you! 💕 And I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one! LOL I watch so many people that seem to just pump out video after video, and it's so hard not to compare yourself, like "why is this so much harder for me!?" 😅 Thankfully, I think I've also gotten a little quicker, and I do enjoy the more creative edits...but I think I'll always dread that first main cut; she is definitely a monster 🫣 LOL
I love seeing you thriving 🥹🥹🥹
✨💗Thank You 💗✨
Congrats on your progress as a TH-camr! I'm excited for your continued success. You are an inspiration for me and I always look forward to your videos each week.
💕Aww you are so sweet!! 😭 Thank you so much for watching and for your kind word, they mean so much to me 💕
as a small booktuber as well its so interesting to see how different the online space is in America than in Hungary where i live. Its soooo cool for you to have these sponsorships and opportunities!!! We don’t really have these type of things over here but i was lucky enough to work with some publishers and authors so i won’t be greedy 🤗 our hungarian bookish community is sooo tiny its just interesting to see how different everything works there.
I really love your videos and i’m hoping you will get the recognition you deserve 🫶🏻
💕Thank you! 💕 I feel very grateful for the sponsorships and things I've been able to do, especially with the size of my channel. I was watching a video the other day where Rachel Catherine was talking about how small and close knit the Australian TH-cam community was when she first started. It sounded so nice to kind of have instant friends ☺️ Is it similar with the bookish community in Hungry?
@@jenseereads when it comes to booktube we have a very close community, we have a discord server with the most of us and with most of our viewers so i would say yes we are quite close! Usually we do meetups a few times a year and have a relatively big book club together with a separate yt channel for live shows. Its really fun 🤗
@@sannas_bookshelf Awww I love that! It sounds so fun!! ☺ I need to join an in person bookclub. I think the community of that would be so nice 💕
Ahh cannot wait for you to launch your book club!! 📚
Yay! Thank you! ☺💖 I'm not sure when exactly but I'm hoping for October 🤞🏻
that PR package was so precious! congrats on everything!🎉
hope you can get your stomach issues sorted - sounds super annoying 😢
i ended up putting both books on my amazon wishlist; they sound quite interesting. 😊
the corduroy pants look sooo comfy and i really like that they have pockets.
have a lovely day!
The care and effort the author put into that box is so special 😭
And thank you, I hope so too! 💕 I've been dealing with it for the majority of this year so far, so i'm going a little nuts at this point 🥴 lol
Happy reading & I hope you have an amazing weekend! 💖
I haven't even watched the whole video but I love this.. and sooo happy for you 🥹 congratulations on your growing success lovely !!!!❤ you deserve it 🫶🏽
Ahhh thank you bestie!! ✨🫶🏻✨
This was so much fun to watch! I had a huge smile on my face and am just so excited for you!! 🥰
Awww thank you!! ✨🫶🏻✨
@@jenseereads of course!! 💕✨
I love the coin for flipping 😂
Isn't it cool!! ...I'm not really a responsible nighttime reader, so my answer is always 'one more chapter' 😋 but such a fun idea! lol
Awww I loved this video! Both of the books you got sound so good!! 🖤
Thank you! 💕 And right! I've got a good start to my fall tbr for sure ☺📚🍂☕✨
I just started watching your videos a month or so ago. So glad cool things are happening for you :)
Thank you! 💕 This channel has been so fun, and everything extra is so surreal 😋
omg i'm so excited that you'll get sent Tell Me It's Right!! i follow Katie on youtube and when she asked for recommendations for bookish content creators to send copies to who would be interested in the genre, i immediately thought of you!! i left a comment with your name and i'm so happy she saw it and that she reached out to you aaaaah
Ahhhhh omg! Thank you so much for recommending me!! That makes it even better 🫶🏻💖😭💖😭💖🫶🏻
This is such a fun video!! I love seeing all the behind the scenes things, I enjoy editing but when it’s a sit down video I get kinda annoyed eventually LOL I am sadly someone that cilantro tastes like soap for 😓 the pr packages are so cool!! 🥰
Thank you!! 💕 I was kind of nervous to post it, but everyone is being so nice 😭💗 That's so funny! I actually prefer sit down video editing. They take longer to edit (because I don't know how to talk 😂) but I usually only have 2-3 big clips and it feels really straight forward. When I have a bunch of clips from a vlog it always feels overwhelming and I put it off...and sometimes I let too much time pass and I lose interest in the video all together 😅 The amount of half filmed reading vlogs I've never finished haunts me 🫣 LOL Ahh my uncle has that cilantro soap thing! That is such a weird phenomenon! It's my favorite herb, I could literally pile it on anything and be so happy lol 🤤
@@jenseereads haha that’s so fair!! I definitely have some unfinished reading vlogs too, rip to them :/ I’m glad you get the true joy of cilantro LOL 🤣
Great vlog 📚🧋
Thank you!! 😊
Great video 🥰
Thank you! 🤗
I’m so happy for you! I love your channel so much! I was wondering if you had any advice for someone wanting to start booktube? It’s been a dream of mine. I don’t have any equipment though, just my phone. What do you recommend to start out? 🙂
Aww thank you so much!! 💕 I don't think you really need anything crazy to start. A phone is a good place to start! I film mostly with a camera BUT I film all of my footage out of the house with my phone, and the quality is always good. A tripod also makes things way easier, and the one I have for my phone was like $20. Everything I use is pretty inexpensive and my set up is really simple (I've got it all in my amazon storefront under TECH, if you want to check that out). Aside from that, the best advice I have is what everyone says, which is to just start. My first video was a reading wrap up, half the books I read were free from the library, I didn't have a bookshelf, and I had about 20 books to my name. So you really don't need much beyond your love for books ☺️ 📖✨
I'd love if you could share some of the resources you were talking about in the sponsorship/email discussion. I am considering giving content creation a go and would love to read some advice for that stuff! I obviously don't expect any of that for several years, if ever, but I like to be over prepared!!
It's never too early to get prepared! I got my first email at 350 subs, so you never know! Which, that being said, the biggest tip I have is to make a separate email for business things and put it in the bio/ description of everything! Even if you're just starting out and it seems silly, again, you never know!!
As for the tips from the professionals 😋 here are some of the standouts that have really helped me so far....
* A website that I reference often is: helloemilyerin.com (creator tips under Resources tab)
* Here is basically a step-by-step email guide that gives a good idea of what to expect: allysalarson.com/blog/2021/5/5/how-to-negotiate-brand-collaborations
* Influencer 101 blog post from thestylishwordsmith.com was really helpful with rates and things like that (I also started following her on insta, she just started creator tips series on there)
* One of my most helpful sources has been @tessbarclay (she's on TH-cam & tiktok). She has tons of videos with helpful tips!
* I've also recently started looking things up on tiktok, and idk if I've really found anything super helpful, but people are surprisingly candid on there and I feel like that can be valuable.
Annnnd I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones I can think of right now. I hope it helps!! ☺️✨
How am I just now finding you?? I’m also a small booktuber. I have another channel that I no longer upload to that grew really fast and I can attest to the influx of emails after 5k. Also yes! Start editing as you go. It makes vlogs so much more manageable. ❤
lol I'll have to check out your channel too!! ♥️ Idk why editing as I go is so hard for me 😅, but reading vlogs take me a million years if I don't, so my system definitely has to change lol
@@jenseereads they definitely do take a lot of time. I don’t think people that don’t vlog realize it!!
@@Bookish_Melissa I definitely didn't until I started doing it myself! Everything takes 5x longer when your filming it lol
Idk why I’ve never thought about using face masks often, I hoard them and use before a special occasion lol
I used to do the same thing so I totally get it!! I think mine reasoning stemmed from not wanting to "waste" the money, but these are so inexpensive for how many you get I don't feel bad about it. Plus it does actually make my dry skin feel more moisturized...and it's just really nice to have a little mini pamper sesh every day 😋✨
i have at least 20 followers your not small. I also don´t know how to edit, so there ya go, i also cant drive myself so thats a problem too
dude! congratulations on all the things! every time I see Halara - youtube ads or IG ads, I'm always like, 'ooooh. I want.' but at the moment only their bottoms, I would not trust my boobs (or stomach) in any of their clothes. Having an author reach out to you must feel so amazing, but also very... nerve wracking? cos, like what if the book isn't for you? and then you (aka me) would feel so badly, and 'thank you so much, I'm sorry if I don't like your book.' that pr book package is amazing! I know you didn't say, but I'm kind of hoping it's a paranormal/shifter romance.
Thank you!! 💖 The last couple weeks have felt like the twilight zone LOL Ahh I'm so afraid of not liking the books 😬 Thankfully the ones I've gotten have sounded like things I would like...but it's still a worry...cuz yea what am I supposed to do if I don't! 🫣 As far as I know neither of the books I got are shifter romances (though I agree I need more of that in my life), but I'll definitely be reading them this fall, so we'll see! Speaking of shifter romances, have you read or heard anything about The Rogue King?? It's a dragon shifter romance I saw at the bookstore the other day and I've never read a dragon fantasy romance like that so I think I need it 📖 👀
@@jenseereads I read a fated mates/dragon shifter/why-choose a couple months back and it was amazing times three, I had not heard of this Rogue King, but I started reading the sample, and it sounds pretty good. I might have to buy it. in the first little bit that I read it mentioned a dragon shifter (obviously), it also mentioned a phoenix and a polar bear shifter! and I don't know why that last one makes me giggle, but it does. I've even read a book where a person shifted into a bear, and I was like, yeah okay. with a bear shifter but for some reason polar bear is making me giggle and snort. I'm almost certain she's not going to play a role in the story - just that one mention of her. Right then. I think you should also read this book.
@@jenseereads ps. I read Assistant to the Villain, and I very much enjoyed it a lot - gave it 4 stars and now Apprentice to the Villain is on my Libby holds
@@Micmezle YES!! The Phoenix shifter! I've always loved the idea of a Phoenix, so I'm intrigued by that! ...did not know about the polar bear though - which also made me giggle🤭 It seems so random next to a friggin dragon and a phoenix lol. But I'm totally sold!! ...well technically I just put myself on a book buying ban for the next two months 🥴 but after that I am totally getting it! 😋
@@Micmezle Ahh yay! I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was so cute and fun!! And I literally JUST placed a hold for Apprentice at the library! Hopefully I can get to that one in September ☺