If there’s ever a book to inspire you to go out for a run, it’s Breathe, Annie, Breathe. This book had me dying to go out and run 10 miles, even though there’s no way I could do that at the moment. But it was […]
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What to Use as Tags for Your Blog Posts
When adding labels/tags to blog posts, which do you think are necessary? Do you think it’s necessary to have a label for every book series mentioned on the blog, etc, such as ‘Divergent’ ‘The Hunger Games’? I’ve had my blog for a few years but […]
Review: Battle Angel by Scott Speer (Immortal City #3)
The Immortal City series didn’t quite go the way I hoped it would. I’m not sure if it was necessarily a bad, ending—it just wasn’t the ending that I wanted. Because of that, I’m not left with particularly fond thoughts of the book. The #1 […]
Chloe: A New Premade WordPress Theme!
New Books When by Victoria Laurie Goodreads Is this called When or Death Date? NetGalley and Goodreads/Amazon conflict each other! Either way, I read this book already and it was FAAAABULOUS! New WordPress Theme I finally released a new premade theme that has been finished […]
Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover (What the heck happened here?)
Oh gosh, you guys. My feelings for Ugly Love are so weird and complex! Do you ever feel like you’re really starry-eyed and EVERYTHING IS AWESOOOOME, then suddenly a veil is lifted and you see all the imperfections? That happened to me while reading Ugly […]
How to Block Spam Comments That Get Through Akismet
Hi Ashley! I’m positive you’ve discussed this recently, but I can’t seem to find the post. So sorry! Basically, spam comments are slipping through the Akismet spam filter more and more lately. I had 11 that I had to delete recently, just from the last […]
How to Write Discussion Posts
Hi Ashley. I’m a huge fan-girl of your blog and find all your posts to be interesting. You have inspired me to start my own blog, but I can’t seem to find really good discussion posts. Everytime I have an idea and try to write […]
Restructuring Your Blog
I’ve been thinking a lot about Nose Graze and where it’s headed. I recently talked about why we should stop being obsessed with ‘features’ on our blogs, but that has also gotten me thinking about my category structure on Nose Graze. I have a lot […]
Twitter Spam… Or is it Marketing?
I kind of got into a mini argument with an author on Twitter and I’m curious to see how you guys feel about it. Some authors will tweet things like: Epic new fantasy novel out now! Only $0.99 on Amazon! [url] They’re talking about their […]
Web Developer Income Report (July & August 2014)
July and August were soooo slow for me. July had two major reasons for it’s slowness: My wedding in Florence! I got sick and was out of commission for like two weeks! Then in August I didn’t have any new client work scheduled, but instead […]