Here’s a great nonfiction book for all my blogging friends by Terry Schrandt over at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives: Better Blogging with Photography–great hints on using photos (and images) legally in your blogs 5/5 As a teacher author, I spend lots of time worrying about the legal and practical use of photos in my blogs … Continue reading
Category Archives: blogs
Top 10 Commented-on Articles in 2018
When readers take time to leave a comment and/or click through to a link I include in a post, it means they trust me, are engaged, and find what they’re reading valuable–want to extend it. This year, I had many more comments than in 2017–about 7700. This compared to over 35,000 during the life of … Continue reading
2019, I Resolve…
New Years–a time for rest, rejuvenation and repair. A time to assess life. Do we settle into our routine, enjoy where it’s headed, or is it time to grab our purse, our iPhone, our car keys, and get out of there? As a teacher-author, New Year’s Resolutions are more of a To Do list. I … Continue reading
10 Hits and Misses for 2018
Since I started this blog eleven years ago, I’ve had over 2.471 million visitors, 3300 on my busiest day, with over 35,000 comments on the 1,623 articles I’ve posted about writing. I have several columns: writer’s tips (sign up by clicking here) book reviews (usually Fridays) tech tips for writers (occasional) How I’m Doing (on my latest … Continue reading
End of Year Tech for Writers: Image and Backup Your Computer
This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of writing you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live): Update Your Online Presence Speed Up Your Computer Backup and Image … Continue reading
End of Year Tech for Writers: 19 Ways To Speed Up Your Computer
This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of writing you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live): Update Your Online Presence Speed Up Your Computer Backup and Image … Continue reading
Yearly Tech Maintenance: 13 Ways to Update Your Online Presence
This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of writing you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live): Update Your Online Presence Speed Up Your Computer Backup and Image … Continue reading
Tech Tip for Writers #127: Back up Your Blog!
Tech Tips for Writers is an occasional post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future Tip. Q: I’m paranoid of losing my writing projects and family pictures so I back … Continue reading
Come visit me at Ronel’s for a #Bookblast
Today, I’ll be over at Ronel’s blog, Ronel the Mythmaker: Ronel Janse van Vuuren is the author of New Adult, Young Adult and children’s fiction filled with mythology and folklore. Her dark fantasy stories can be read for free on Wattpad and on her blog Ronel the Mythmaker. She won Fiction Writer of the Year 2016 for her Afrikaans stories … Continue reading
Some Very Messy Medieval Magic — Now Available!
I am very excited to announce the launch of C. Lee McKenzie’s new book, Some Very Messy Medieval Magic. I’ve read almost all of Lee’s previous books and loved them. I have no doubt this one will live up to the high standards she’s set in the past. Some Very Messy Medieval Magic May 15, … Continue reading