Voting is now open at the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards.

Bibliophile Stalker Charles Tan, The Bibliophile Stalker, is having computer issues; I can sympathize. He’s a promoter of Philippine speculative fiction, a niche that hadn’t occurred to me but sounds interesting. In addition to speculative fiction, he enjoys and reports on RPG’s, anime, and manga. He’s a Neil Gaiman fan, and it looks as if a lot of his links are directed toward aspiring authors.

Dribble of Ink Aidan Moher is also an aspiring author of fantasy/scifi, and the emphasis at his blog looks to be sword and sorcery, wizards and witches. He also has a BIG List o’ SF blogs here which would be a fine resource for those looking for more speculative fiction blogs.

Scifiguy.ca I entered SciFiGuy’s Catching Fire promotional giveaway because I’m ready to read the sequel that we’ve all been hearing so much about for months. Doug Knipe, the blogger at SciFiGuy, says he reads and reviews “Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, SciFi, and Fantasy.” Look at these pictures of his library, and you’ll see that he’s serious about the genre.

The Book Zombie Joanne Mosher, The Book Zombie and the first female blogger in this category, is an enthusiastic reader. She says, “I read constantly and I have been known to read instruction manuals, cereal boxes and the YellowPages if I am without a book.” It looks as if her tastes run to zombies, vampires, and mystery/horror with a few other kinds of books thrown in for spice, when those are available to substitute for the phone book.

The Galaxy Express is subtitled “adventures in science fiction romance.” So, probably not my cup of tea, but definitely another niche I hadn’t thought about. Of the many authors Heather lists in her sidebar, I know and have enjoyed books by Anne McCaffrey, Ursula LeGuin, Connie WIllis, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, and Stephanie Meyer. I have a lot of others to check out.

I’m going to vote for SciFiGuy in this category because he looks like the one with the closest taste to mine, and he’s giving away stuff! No, really, I just enjoyed his blog and his style and will visit again when I get through all the nominees that I’m visiting for BBAW.