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Posted by Justine at 11:44, February 25th, 2008 under Bloggery, Excuses, Writing life |
Some of you have expressed surprise and dismay that I abandoned my
archy and mehitabel policy. They wants to know why and if it's merely a bout of temporary insanity.
The why is easy: I was bored. It was get rid of the no-caps or find a new template. The one takes seconds, the other days. Not a difficult choice.
The no-caps rule lasted quite a long time. To be precise: from 25 May 2005 up till 8 Jan 2008. More than two and a half years. That's AGES.
I don't think the no-caps will return. Been there, done that. By all means continue to eschew them in your comments as homage to the way Things Used to Be. I'm all for ...
Posted by Justine at 11:13, January 14th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 10:35, December 20th, 2007 under Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Writing goals & milestones |
So I finally got
Scott's new look blog up and running. What a hassle that was! I always think it will be just an hour or two. Hah! Try several days of hassles. Especially as there was a migration of his site to a new server. Why is it always so hard?
Anyways . . . It's up and I think it looks great. Go take a squiz and tell me what you think. Though if you have any complaints tell Scott, not me!
All praise to
Sadish Balasubramanian who designed the very nifty and flexible
SeaShore template.
I was planning a redesign here to go with the new book but the very thought of going through that again makes ...
Posted by Justine at 16:10, December 16th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, Scott's books, Whingeing |
Okay, I'm not quite sure how I did this but I just accidentally deleted some of your comments. So, if you notice a comment you made has gone AWOL that would be me. Sorry! Feel free to re-comment. The technologies they mess with my mind!
Posted by Justine at 8:03, December 2nd, 2007 under Admin |
I'm getting reports that my blog is eating some people's comments. Could you let me know if this is happening to you and exactly what it was my blog would not let you post. Preferably by way of the comments. But if that's not working:
jlATjustinelarbalestierDOTcom
To make the address work substitute @ for AT and . for DOT
So far it seems to have something to do with posting HTML and URLS.
Thanks!
And if any wordpress users have had this happen to them and have solutions---fire away! I have nothing blacklisted.
Update: I've been trawling through the spam filters and found quite a few comments which I've now marked as non-spam. Please let me know if my spam filters eat your comments and I ...
Posted by Justine at 10:40, November 10th, 2007 under Admin |
Not my tour but
Scott's tour for his latest book Extras. It pubs on the 2nd of October and is deeply awesome. In fact, it's my favouritest of the Uglies series. Aya is my new hero.
I'll be along at most of the
public events. If you're around come and say hello.
I plan to keep blogging everyday. You know, on account of I'm addicted. I managed it every day we were away at Dragoncon so I don't see how a little tour will stop me.
Hey, does anyone who's been on a book tour before have any survival tips? (Other than
bring lots of shoes?)
Update: I'd be delighted to sign books. I may have to skip a few of ...
Posted by Justine at 6:25, September 28th, 2007 under Bloggery, Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, Praising, Scott's books, Travelling |
A friend of mine, who doesn't blog or read blogs, asked me why I blog. "Don't you feel weird sharing your personal life with total strangers?"
Their question surprised me because I don't blog about my personal life. This isn't that kind of a blog. I explained that to my friend. They didn't believe me. "You talk about your writing, don't you? That's personal."
Um, no. Writing is my job.
"But what about when your writing's not going well? Aren't the bad times personal?"
First of all, I don't blog about when the writing's going really badly.
Second, when I blog about the harder aspects of writing I do so to let people know that the writing life is not as glamorous as ...
Posted by Justine at 6:16, September 27th, 2007 under Bloggery, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 11:33, September 20th, 2007 under Bloggery, Whingeing, Writing life |
I am in crunch time. I am in crunchy crunch time. The busyness I have been complaining about has rebounded on itself and leapt to a whole new level of busy. In a word: Aaaarggghh!!!!
I'm going to keep blogging. I made a little bet with myself to see if I could blog every day of July and so far so good. I hate to lose bets with myself. Especially fun ones. Also blogging kind of clears my head. Dunno why but when I'm deep in writing, blogging really helps me to unwind---that and a glass of wine.
However, I'll no longer be replying to comments as much as I have been (which I know has been down on what it used ...
Posted by Justine at 11:44, July 28th, 2007 under Bloggery, Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Whingeing |
So apparently it's
de rigeur for the first entry of a brand new blog to feature the cover of the blogger's latest book. I mean, if the blogger in question happens to be a writer with a brand new cover to display to the masses, which this particular blogger does. To wit the cover for the second book in the Magic or Madness trilogy:
Colour me very happy indeed. Aside from anything else, that photo of the tree there? I took it! It's a moreton bay fig. In fact it's the fig tree just past the front gates of Camperdown Cemetery in Sydney, which cemetery makes an appearance in both Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons. The photo on ...
Posted by Justine at 0:09, May 25th, 2005 under Admin, Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy |
