While researching website themes, I ran across an excellent set of pointers for authors from the coder at Nose Graze Limited: 5 Things I Like to See on an Author’s Website. Please visit the site, and read the comments, too, which detail more must-haves for authors. The item that wouldn’t leave my subconscious is under […]
I’ve read the typical author is an introvert. It’s true of me. Introverts don’t like to be on stage, but these days everyone needs a photo, an icon or something to represent themselves. My dear husband will not friend anyone without a profile picture. Doesn’t matter what, you just gotta care enough to have something […]
Have you posted a NaNo photo? Or are you floundering like I was? The instructions are blessedly clear that the photo must be 100 x 100 pixels and less than 30KB. But how to do that? I vaguely remembered my NA kid’s instructions and another writer friend and I stumbled through the steps with success. […]
Ah, man, I feel like such an idiot. I logged on tonight to post my next Six Sentence Sunday, only to discover that I never let last week’s post out of the ‘draft’ box. (sigh) I’ve done this one other time in my blogging history – on my squirrel blog. I ran around (Okay, I […]
I’m offering another short lesson in blogging shortcuts I’ve learned. Back a few months ago when I started my nature blog, and was trying to get attention for it, a chapter mate suggested tweeting it with Tiny URL. What? I don’t know the history, but someone devised a way to condense URLs into short versions […]
Most of you computer-savvy people out there will shake your heads at me, but I’m thrilled I figured this out and posting the process may help someone else. I can’t write HTML code, but I wanted to add a link in the text under my Gravatar. I knew WordPress does it for you when you […]
In the last few weeks, I’ve run across this phrase, online presence, several times: At a talk by an agent at one of my writing chapters, Washington Romance Writer’s, listening to a editor panel lecture from last year’s RWA National Conference CD and then very thoroughly at this week’s Maryland Romance Writer’s workshop, Online Book […]