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Blogs: Do You Read or Write Blogs
http://thereviewhutch.blogspot.com/ me and a group of people review books, interview authors, hold giveaways, etc.
I write a blog that offers writing and plot help to other writers:maeganbeaumont.blogspot.com
and I'm also a regular contributor to Inkspot, a crime fiction and mystery blog.
my favorite blog is Lee Lofland's Graveyard Shift... a great forensic and police procedural blog. :)
Yes. I read a ton of blogs. Librarian blogs, interior design blog, fashion blog, humor blogs, food blogs. I have a tumblr, and blogspot blogs that I update when I hear/season something that interests me or when I have something to say.
I love blogs, love to blog, and get loads of info from them...from tutorials to book reviews. I have also made some wonderful friends. I also blog about everything, mostly everyday life and family...I also do book reviews...http://www.beaderbubbe.blogspot.com
Jac, we usually interview NEW authors. We'll read and review any books the author has written, and formulate some questions to ask.
I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'm not computer savvy, when I get a new phone or ebook, I have to ask my kids how to use it.
Jac wrote: "Do you visit blogs regularly or for reference? What blogs do you visit. What do you use blogs for? What is your favourite blogging site/application?Also do you have a Blog, and if so, what is ..."
I don't blog, but I usually read parts of several book blogs every day. I read reviews to decide what I want to read, and I leave comments if the book is one I read, too.
Some that I visit are readitforward.com, reviewingtheevidence.com, algonquin.com, and booktrib.com.
I have a blog. It can be sometimes hit and miss as to when I post on it, but I've been trying lately for at least a couple of posts a month.. This is the link to it.. http://bill-booksbooksbooks.blogspot.ca/
I started a blog as much as a note to myself on what I felt about books I'd read. I had some reading lists and couldn't remember hardly anything I had felt about loads of books I had read in the past year or so.
http://col2910.blogspot.co.uk/
http://col2910.blogspot.co.uk/
I have two blogs, though neither connected with my writing. One of them looks at murders committed prior to the year 1900, so if anyone wants to have a look out of interest it is yearofdeaths.blogspot.co.uk. I'm starting my writers blog on Monday so will link up afterwards. I want people to be interested in my book, rather than me, so the blog is going to be arranged along those lines.
This is my writer's blog. Would appreciate feedback on it :): http://thechettinghamgazette.blogspot...
Thank you. I wrote everything down in Word and then my husband copied it over to photo-shop and set it up for me. I'm putting another entry out on Monday.I've been wracking my mind to think of a contemporary mystery writer. I can think of thrillers, like Patterson and Lindsay, but am struggling to think of a typical whodunnit. The one off the top of my head is the Aberystwyth books by Malcolm Pryce, which are a parody of the film noir detectives.
Oh of course, the Inspector Rebus mysteries. I knew I had heard of him. I think I've read one of the stories, but I can't be sure.
Jenni wrote: "I've just bought a pile of Ian Rankins to read. And I'm onto our group read The Lock Artist next. So, I'm okay for now. :^)"FYI Rankin just brought back Rebus for another book despite having retired him in Exit Music.
I have an author blog that looks at the elements of motive that fascinate me: encounters, choices, and culture. In addition to information about my books set in mexico and what has inspired them, I also review mystery books that catch my eye and post stories about the places I've traveled to and the people I've met. The blog has been picked up by technorati.com and alltop.com/life and was recently included on the list of the Top 100 Book-related Blogs to Read in 2013.http://carmenamato.net
Please stop by, read a couple of posts, surf through the playlist or maybe the dreamcast for The Hidden Light of Mexico City! Leave a comment to let me know what you think!
I blog ab out books, fashion, beauty and whatever else i want at http://lifeloveandagoodbook.blogspot.com
Jenni wrote: "Nice blog. Are you using your own website name instead of wordpress site's?Yup, I know that about Rankin's Rebus."
Thanks for checking out the blog. I have my own domain and use godaddy.com as the host.
I don't blog myself, but I do read missysmartypants.com (which gives fashion advice for different body types) and flylady.com (organization advice).
I would like to start a blog myself, and I already have the space (and have for over a year!) I just don't know where in the world to begin!
just write about what you are thinking about something that is bothering you or something you like.
Well...I'm not having such a problem with the content, but I just don't know technically how to get started!
Is it Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr? They have built in tools to help you build your site. If not, something like www.wix.com has help with website design.
LOL I think I have one of each to be honest with you! HAHA! I just need to take the time to look at it! I tried with Wordpress, but still wasn't quite sure what to do!
Andrea wrote: "LOL I think I have one of each to be honest with you! HAHA! I just need to take the time to look at it! I tried with Wordpress, but still wasn't quite sure what to do!"To start you off my dear.
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_...
Good luck
leigh anne
Leigh wrote: "Andrea wrote: "LOL I think I have one of each to be honest with you! HAHA! I just need to take the time to look at it! I tried with Wordpress, but still wasn't quite sure what to do!"To start ..."
Thank you so much! Maybe I'll have time to mess with it since I have the day off tomorrow!
I may need some pointers Agnes. Do you blog everyday? How often do you do your dog reviews?
Ok, I'm not quite understanding the whole wordpress thing and what I need to download. Why do I need to download anything? Which is the easiest site to work with?
I also am having difficulty in coming up with a name for my blog. It would mostly be for book reviews and maybe a little about sewing.
Ohhhh...those are good Jenni! Thanks! I would never be able to come up with that!
I did come up with Andrea's Awesome Gifts for my Thirty-One private group on Facebook! That's about as good as I can get!
My favorite blog is probably R. Scott Bakker's blog Three Pound Brain .Mr. Bakker was at one time pursuing his PhD in philosophy and he uses the blog mainly for his philosophical musings about belief, cognition, consciousness, neuroscience and the myriad ways in which we humans delude ourselves. He does, on ocassion, post some topics that are more realted to literature and his crticisms of the literati and academia.
A couple of my favorite blog posts related to literature are:
1. His review of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest titled, "Alas, poor Wallace: A Review of Infinite Jest".
2. His essay "The Future of Literature in the Age of Information".
During 2012, he also posted, as a serial, a draft of his anti-literary work, "Light, Time and Gravity", which is very much worth reading.
Jenni wrote: "Wow, pretty cool blog, Dharma. How did you come across it?"I found it a couple years ago when I was googling the author trying to find the release date for one of his books.
I write a blog with posts about religiosity and Paris. I call it The Psalter. It's at http://galenwatson.blogspot.com I also post blogs on Goodreads.
I started a blog initially to promote my book on Kindle. However, I very quickly got interested in other blogs and adding comments to give my slant on things. I post about the things I am interested in, sailing, flying, Irish history etc.Ned Kelly
http://williamvkellyauthor.wordpress....
I had a blog with BlogSpot a number of years ago and found it not very user friendly. It may be better now. Wordpress is quite intuitive and I found it easy to use.
I couldn't quite figure Wordpress out because it said something about downloading something and I wasn't sure if I needed to or not!
2 considering reader and freshly pressed to see other blogs and comment
I chose No. 1 (Blogspot) because it was easy to learn, and I didn't want to spend a lot of time figuring out how to post a reasonably professional-looking blog with photos. Also, since Blogspot is Google owned and hosted on Google servers, I reasoned that my blog would get higher placement on Google (don't know if it's true--hope it is). One downside, I link my website http://galenwatson.com to my blog, and blogger seems to take a loooong time to load.
Maybe I should check out blogspot. Like I said before, I am almost certain that I have a user name for both and I couldn't quite figure out Wordpress. I even read the beginner thing and couldn't figure it out but I know nothing about it! I wish I had a super techy best friend because I would just have them make it! Or I wish I could find a place that said here is your format fill in the blanks and then you could learn to change the main format as you go...kinda like myspace was
I haven't been on it for YEARS! Since Facebook became popular, but it was easy to set up!
Andrea wrote: "I couldn't quite figure out Wordpress. I even read the beginner thing and couldn't figure it out but I know nothing about it!"Blogspot is pretty intuitive; you just propagate fields. First you choose the style of template you want. I chose magazine because I tend to write article-type posts. You can add photos, choose what size—small, medium, or large—move them left, right, and caption them. There’s also a page to propagate for your profile. It’s a bit tricky to learn how to get your written copy to wrap photos properly, because it’s HTML and not text, but still pretty simple—just trial and error. One hint, don’t ever use the tab key. It really screws up the spacing. The best thing is that you can do each step and preview the page before you go live. If something doesn’t look right, just do it over.
Galen wrote: "Andrea wrote: "I couldn't quite figure out Wordpress. I even read the beginner thing and couldn't figure it out but I know nothing about it!"Blogspot is pretty intuitive; you just propagate field..."
Thank you very much! I'll give it a try!
How did you guys come up with your blog names? That's my next biggest hurdle!
All ideas would be greatly appreciated. I would mostly use it for book reviews (which I may have 1 or 2 a week) but I also enjoy cross stitching and such.
HAHA! Certainly books and reviews and a little bit of cross stitching and certainly maybe some of my family and such.Of course, my name is Andrea, I am a wife and mother, a reader and a stitcher! Ewww...that may have a ring! LOL!
I don't really have a nickname...sometimes my hubby calls us The Corley Clan but nothing else really (even though I've always wished that I did have a nickname!!)
Andrea wrote: "HAHA! Certainly books and reviews and a little bit of cross stitching and certainly maybe some of my family and such."I called my blog The Psalter because it was the name of my novel and psalters were the world's first book--hence writing and writer's musings.
You're into books, family, stitching--holding things together. How about Warp and Woof or Warp and Weft--cross-woven threads in fabric that hold things together?
Galen wrote: "Andrea wrote: "HAHA! Certainly books and reviews and a little bit of cross stitching and certainly maybe some of my family and such."I called my blog The Psalter because it was the name of my no..."
Ohhhh...those are good!
I really like those too Jenni! Gosh I wish I could be that creative!
Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
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