The Mystery Blogger Award was given to me by J Lenni Dorner around June 6th. I do say on my ‘policies’ that I don’t accept this type of award, but there’s always an exception, especially when I need a blog
Have you met Kristen Twardowski?
I met Kristen Twardowski a little while ago when the Story Reading Ape reblogged one of her amazingly insightful posts. Then he reblogged another one and I decided to follow her by email. I don’t know about you, but I like
May day, mayday: what I really did in April
May day brings a sense of relief. The AtoZ Challenge is over for another year, and I can get back to more relaxed blogging. Strange that just two more posts a week (in general) should create such extra stress and
How’s it going? #AtoZChallenge
#AtoZChallenge: week one is done, so I thought I’d check up on How you’re doing for my post for the letter H today. Do leave a comment below to tell me how it’s going for you. How am I doing…
Book Blogger Hop | Negative Comments
Negative comments are the subject of this week’s Book Blogger Hop. The BBH happens weekly, but I usually do the last Monday of the month. How do you handle negative comments left on your blog? Maybe it’s a sign that I don’t have
My 2017 A to Z Challenge #AtoZThemeReveal
Yes, it’s Theme Reveal time for this year’s A to Z Challenge. It’s not essential to have a theme if you’ve decided to join in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. It’s just – well, many of us
Two weeks with Yoast
I installed Yoast SEO on this site a fortnight ago, so I thought I’d give you some feedback–but I’d like feedback from you too. What is Yoast? It’s a plugin for WordPress sites that helps you attend to your Search Engine
More thoughts on the 2017 #AtoZChallenge
A week after the great A to Z Challenge announcement, I thought I’d try to make some sort of sense of it all before making a final decision for this year. In short, the organisers have decided not to do
Self-hosted WordPress | Three years on
This is probably one of those posts that is set to tempt fate, but three years after moving to the self-hosted version of WordPress, I am mostly delighted I made the move. You may remember that two years ago I
What do you think of Instagram?
I know I should be active on social media. As an author, the best way to get people to see your books is to be out there, saying hello and mixing with the crowd, rather than spending money spamming people
A2Z Roadtrip – goodbye
I have come to the conclusion that I am a complete wannabe at blog visiting, because however much I think I should visit and comment and like posts, I don’t. I know it’s the key to making more friends and them knowing more
Rebuilding my Viridian Series follower list
Those of you who signed up to follow the Viridian Series website by newsletter have heard nothing from me for ages, not even about the withdrawal of the Perihelix. That’s because my newsletter system went wrong and lost all my
A to Z Roadtrip 2016 – June
Hi, and welcome to my first stop on the A to Z Road trip this year. I’m aiming to post every second Wednesday of the month, or sometime near to the 15th of the month, whatever makes it easiest for
#AtoZChallenge – theme reveal
Yes, it’s the great and wonderful A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal day, when those who can’t resist a theme tell you all about it, and you nip round to all those who are exposing themselves their theme to the
To Post or Not to Post… #atozchallenge
… in the A to Z April Challenge – that is the question! I’ve done the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the last four years. I was a minion to Damyanti the year before last – hard