I’ve just added six more categories:
- Book tour: this one’s obvious. Is for all the posts about book tours. In general, are they a good idea? And specifically, reports from on the road.
- Book challenges: this one’s for censorship, book banning, and challenges, which are sadly common in the land of YA.
- Publishing business: this is for the posts specifically about some aspect of the publishing business. Such as what an editorial letter is, money, and how to get an agent, publishing in Australia etc etc.
- Titles & names: I noticed that I talk about the problem of coming up with a title for my books A LOT. So here’s how you can find those posts in one easy click. I also wacked in stuff about chapter titles, and naming characters.
- Writing goals & milestones: This is more for me than anyone else. It collects together all my deadlines met, books published etc etc.
- Writing life: The whingeing, writer’s block, whether to blog or not, how little we get paid—all aspects of the life of a writer. Or, really, the life of this writer.
- Writing process: The nitty-gritty of writing. My ruminations on how to write a novel, how to rewrite, what I’ve learnt, what I haven’t, and my advice to other writers (for what it’s worth—prolly not much).
As a result of all the extra categories, I’ve gotten rid of the “writing and publishing” category, which was pretty much useless, and amalgamated the MorM books under one category: “Magic or Madness trilogy”.
Wow. I feel so organised. First new year’s resolution is now off the list!
Organising and creating order from chaos is rather therapeutic…
*Looks at desk* Not that I’d know…
Not only therapeutic but excellently procratinatory.
It’s true. Whenever I have a big assignment due my kitchen mysteriously gets a lot cleaner.
i wish i knew about categories before i started my blog. i have been meaning to clean up the tags but it’s such a huge job now, i can’t even begin. you’re so organised justine!
on another subject: i took a video survey of all the books kids in my orbit loved last year and scott got two mentions, and you got one (except the kid remembered the title as Magical Madness!) – view it here
Nice! I need to get organized this year, too. Though I didn’t put it on my resolutions list, for fear of disappointment come February when I’m still laying in a pile of books, scrawled-upon scraps of paper, and chocolate wrappers.
I really like that you have a whole category for bans and challenges. “Like” may not be the appropriate word, because book challenges are about my least favorite thing ever. BUT, I think it’s great that you write about it often enough to devote a category to it. We all should.
Side note: check out the BookKids blog today – I suspect you’ll be pleased 🙂