Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
I met a parrot last weekend. Kazoo. His owner led him right to my hand. Kazoo quickly gravitated towards my big silver hoop earring. The world is Kazoo’s playground, his owner said. He thinks everything is a joke.
Have you read Heckled By Parrots? I asked. Rebecca K. O’Connor’s blog?
And so, as Kazoo’s beak got frighteningly [...]
NEW BOOKS:
It’s no secret that I love a good medieval and this week GERRI RUSSELL released a book seemingly just for me: Seducing the Knight, the second book in the Brotherhood of Scottish Templars. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: a content-rich page filled with great info to tie real history to Gerri’s sweeping story.
LOIS FAYE DYER, [...]
Right now — as in today, through midnight Thursday, April 29 – there is a competition among six very deserving high schools to bring President Obama to deliver the commencement address. Whatever your politics may be, you have to admit that the opportunity to have the sitting president deliver your high school commencement speech is [...]
It’s witty, enticing, and makes me smile. Exactly what one would want from a book video promo:
It is, obviously, the Book video for Julia Quinn’s upcoming book Ten Things I Love About You, created by Brady Hall, Harper Collins’s go-to guy for video. And yes, I know I called Julia’s last video (also Brady’s work) [...]
I recently got a query from a Wax client who wanted to know how to change her WordPress self-installation to only do a single-line-space each time she hits the Enter key. She would much rather do her double-spacing manually.
It’s a straight-forward challenge, with a not-quite-as-straightforward solution.
NOTE: if I get too technical for you in this [...]
