It took me long enough, but I finally finished The Queen of the Tearling series! This post doesn’t contain spoilers for any of the books, so you can safely read everything here even if you haven’t read the first one yet (just skip reading the […]
Turns Out Writing in a Book is Pretty Fun! (warning: Harry Potter #1 spoilers)
I signed up to be part of a “transatlantic book project” with a few other bloggers. Two books were sent around to different bloggers, who then read and annotated them, before passing them on to the next person. To some people, writing in a book […]
The Best Way to Secure Your WordPress Site is to Learn About Security
Do you know the biggest mistake you could possibly make about your WordPress security? Assuming a plugin will handle it all for you. A lot of people just installed WordFence and call it a day. They think their job is done. The plugin will handle […]
I Gutted My Database to Create a Better Book Review System
Confession: Nose Graze has never used the Ultimate Book Blogger plugin. That’s because the creation went like this: Start the Nose Graze blog. Build my own system for formatting book reviews and archives using Advanced Custom Fields. I literally did this on day one of […]
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Your Host to Backup Your Site
This is something I see a lot: Blogger to Host: “Oh no, my site has been hacked! Can you please restore from a backup?” Host: “What backup?” I saw this reported on Facebook as recently as like a week ago. Web hosts are notoriously shit […]
My Favourite WordPress Things are on Sale! (plus 50% off everything from me)
Before I dive into some of my favourite tools that are on sale, I want to let you know about my epic sale that started today! Everything from me… 50% off! Everything in my shop is 50% off, including Tweak Me v2 and the Ultimate […]
Confession: I Hate Selling
I’ve never been one to do a really hard sell (I’ve talked about this before), but this year it seems to have gotten worse and worse. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m no longer just bad at selling, I no longer just dislike selling… […]
I Think I’m Not a Fan of Wonderland
Shortly after starting Heartless by Marissa Meyer I realized something that I probably should have known already… …I don’t like the Wonderland universe… It’s not because of Heartless at all — I just don’t like Wonderland in general. I’m just not a fan of that […]
ARcs are Overrated Because…
They throw me off my flow More often than not, here’s what happens: Awesome new ARC gets put up on NetGalley. I’m so excited and I want to read it NOW! I hit “request”. I’M READY FOR YOU! I SHALL READ YOU TONIGHT! …crickets… No […]
BookExpo America Followup – It’s not all doom and gloom
The biggest problem with the recent BookExpo America news was lack of information. We were told that blogger attendance would be limited and BloggerCon was no longer happening, but key pieces of information were missing: How many bloggers would be allowed? What’s the criteria to […]