Category: Misc

I’ve Been Liebstered! 12

I’ve Been Liebstered!

I’ve been awarded the Liebster Blog Award by the kind and lovely Mrs. S. over at Reading on the F Train! I was awarded a Liebster way back last September–but that was back when...

2011 Book of the Year Giveaway WINNER! 2

2011 Book of the Year Giveaway WINNER!

Again, thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway. I don’t care that there were only a handful–the giveaway was about the book, not about getting lots of people to my blog. It makes...

Book of the Year Giveaway Is Now CLOSED To Entries 0

Book of the Year Giveaway Is Now CLOSED To Entries

Note: Any comments entered on the Giveaway page after 11:59 pm, Tuesday, January 31st will not be included in the drawing. I will draw the winning name and announce the winner soon. Keep checking...

Awards and Other Stuff 23

Awards and Other Stuff

Look! I’ve won awards! It may look like only one award, but in fact it’s the same award given to me by two different people. And it’s the Versatile Blogger award, which means these...

That Was the Week That Was…* 10

That Was the Week That Was…*

* See last week’s post for an explanation of the title. It’s Sunday, so here’s a roundup of some blog things, and non-blog things, from the past week! If you’re an aspiring writer and...

On Piracy 5

On Piracy

The folks at YA Highway are not doing a Road Trip Wednesday today, in support of sites like Wikipedia (that’s Wikeepeedia, if you’re Hank Green) that are conducting a 24-hour blackout in protest of...

That Was The Week That Was…* 2

That Was The Week That Was…*

* I stole this title from an early 1960s satirical BBC TV show of this name. The show was notable for the fact that many well-known, and soon-to-be-well-known, people were involved with it, either...

The Truth about Captcha 6

The Truth about Captcha

You know those “Captcha” things you sometimes (or often) have to type in when posting comments or submitting information online? It’s usually a made-up sounding word all bent out of shape that you have...

Book of the Year Givaway! 8

Book of the Year Givaway!

If you saw my blog article from a few weeks ago, you will know that I selected the following book as my book of the year for 2011: I really can’t recommend this book...

The First of Two Announcements Today! 14

The First of Two Announcements Today!

I’ve mentioned on here before how I like to enter the contests Literary Agent Janet Reid periodically posts on her blog. Well, before Christmas she ran a poetry contest, inviting entrants to write a...