New Books Just one new book this week but I’m INSANELY excited for it!!! I adore Lauren Miller. Free to Fall by Lauren Miller Goodreads Blog Designs Jessie Marie Reads (client work) I feel weird for fangirling over my own design, but I LOVE THIS […]
Month: May 2014
Why I Hate Relying on Third Party Plugins
Third party plugins break! I’d been using a plugin called MyMail for a year now to send out my email newsletter about new posts and everything was peachy. Then I update to WordPress 3.9 and it breaks… while I’m in Boston with family (the worst […]
Do You Let Your Friends & Family Read Your Blog?
Hi, I’m in the middle of creating my blog and I was wondering when did you make yours? Did you have help? And do you let your friends/family read your blog? EM I let my family and friends read my blog Honestly, my blog is […]
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Okay, WHAT THE HELL was that ending? And I don’t mean that in the “HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AMAZING!” way; I mean it in the “what was that pointless, unsatisfying ending?” way. To be clear, I adored Gone Girl for about 90% of the book. […]
Do Your Social Media Avatars Have to be the Same?
I’ve been looking closely at the ins and outs of the social media icons on blogs lately. I came across one that said to “make sure all of your media sites are the same” (same favicons, icons etc.) so that people will know that it’s […]
Why Are People Deleting Old Posts?
Recently it came to my attention that folks were deleting old posts that were no longer necessary. For example: giveaways, cover reveals, read-a-thons etc. I know 404’s are ok and that a hard 404 is better..but what is the correct way to delete them? Should […]
Sitting at Starbucks: New Books & Perfect Wedding Shoes
New Books Here are the new books I got this week: Prejudice Meets Pride by Rachael Anderson Goodreads The One by Kiera Cass Goodreads I already read and LOVED The One! That series is so addicting. Wedding Shoes I found THE CUTEST shoes ever, that […]
Covet by Tracey Garvis-Graves
Covet had an aura of sadness and tragedy around it. Claire desperately wants her husband Chris’s attention and affection. Chris wants to give it, but feels like he needs to work really hard to impress his boss and secure his job. They both want to […]
Renegade by Debra Driza
I feel like I’ve been saying this about every “middle” book I’ve read lately, but here it goes: MILA 2.0 was a pretty good book, but it also had that second book lull. Most of the problem was in the first three quarters of the […]
Should You Start a Blog on Blogger or WordPress?
Hi, I’ve come across your blog today—nice!—in search of solutions to improving my Blogger blog for my novel series. I have a basic question for you: Which is better, Blogger or WordPress? I’m not keen to switch to WordPress, but if you think it would […]