I just realized today that I haven’t updated my MySpace page in almost a year…but I don’t think anyone cares. Does anyone actually use MySpace anymore? I’ll check my messages now and again (usually because I get a notice by e-mail) but I don’t visit any pages anymore.

So of course I set up a poll, because there’s nothing more fun to do on a Friday night, right?

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If you are including a link in your twitter post, then give some indication to what it is that you’re linking. It’s not enough to say, “A must read post! http://link.com”

Please, please, please give some indication of the content … “A must read post about My Little Pony! http://link.com”

There are simply too many links online to click a random one. So be kind to your followers, and tell them what you’re linking. They’ll appreciate it (and probably be more likely to click.)

Will you please send it again? My server went down, and they used a restore point from Friday night at midnight, which means that I’ve lost everything sent to me from Friday night to about 5:30pm Saturday.

If you won a copy of Demon Blood over at Odd Shots, you might have to send me your address again.

I currently have the addresses for these winners:

Mireyah Wolfe
Stacy S
BarbaritaV
Margaret
Laria
Pam P.

Thanks, and sorry about this!

Here’s a plug-in worth having: WPTouch

I’ve done a surprising amount of browsing since I’ve bought my iPhone, and I find that the blogs and sites I visit most often are the ones that I can easily browse — i.e., the blogs that have been mobile-enabled.

I was reminded of this recently when the Book Smugglers enabled their blog. Before, it took forever to load, you had to do the pinch-and-open thing to your screen to read any content, and so on. Well, it’s the difference between –

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Now, you DO lose some pretty formatting, and knowing how hard we all work on making our websites pretty, it does hurt to get rid of that theme. But for the mobile user, LOSING THE PRETTY IS WORTH IT. And I’ve recently upgraded to WP Touch Pro version — I haven’t had a lot of time to play with it yet, but there are options for changing the look of your mobile site. I imagine that more will be coming, and that before too long, it will be relatively simple to individualize mobile sites via this plug in (or others like it.)

And there are some issues. For example, a long word won’t hyphenate and wrap correctly next to a picture, so you’ll get breaks like this:

Right now, my Upcoming page doesn’t look pretty at all in the mobile theme — but it loads quickly and is easily navigable, which is a MILLION times more valuable to me while I’m poking around on my phone than keeping everything perfectly aligned. So if you’ve got a WordPress site, seriously — it’s a simple FREE plug-in (though I’m finding the Pro version is worth the $29, too.)

Unless you’re on a feed reader, you’ve probably noticed the changes to the site. I’m still tweaking a few things, but everything should be navigable — the look has changed, but the content hasn’t. If you notice anything missing or broken, please feel free to drop me a line or a comment.

I’m trying to decide between getting up — and risk falling flat on my face — and bearing the pain of walking around on a leg as it’s coming back to life, or just never moving again and having a numb leg forever, even if it means I have to pee on myself.

…and to relate this post to romance novels, that metaphorically resembles the decision that an emotionally stunted hero must make at the book’s climax. It also explains why dogs like to hump my leg — they are channeling their inner stunted alpha.

I think that makes me a doormat by default, though.

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Also, I’m starting to plan the website update in preparation for the new steampunk series. Is there anything on this site that you’d like to see that isn’t currently available? Anything about the current site that you wish wasn’t there, or that you wish was done differently?

Okay, not really. But after some consideration, I’ve decided to take the summer off from blogging. Looking back at the last few months of posts, I feel like I’ve lost my blogging mojo (maybe it’s to be expected after 5 years?) I haven’t been reading enough to have anything interesting to say about books, when I have been reading I haven’t had time to talk about them, my posts have been sporadic and I’ve been using contests as filler, and this summer is going to be a busy one both personally and writing-wise.

I will still pop in on Twitter, Facebook, and on other blogs, just because I like the social aspect of the internet, but I’m going to step back from this blog until I feel like I can make it entertaining again — for myself and for my readers. I will schedule a few things — like the reminders to nominate favorite covers — but this post will remain as a sticky on the top. If I have news, I’ll post it on the front page of the website and the News page (although, if I have really big news, I’ll post it here, Twitter, and everywhere else.)

As always, I’m available via my Contact page.

Have a great summer!

I updated WordPress, then messed around with the theme a little bit … and broke it all. My Lazy Meljean theme files were just gone, the main site was gone (eek!) and it was a big mess.

So I finally did what I’ve been intending to do for a while (although I had wanted to put it off until after DEMON FORGED was done.) I’ve transferred all of the pages from my main site over to WordPress pretty much by copy/paste, so that means a lot of links (especially in the primer) are out of date. This blog will also have many of the images missing until I figure out how to redirect all of the uploads in one fell swoop. 

I think that most of the links to my book pages should still be active; I’m not sure about the blog (it’s in another directory now). If you have come here on a link to an archive page, if you take the /blog out of the address, I imagine it will work.  

I’ll probably take fifteen minutes or so a day updating the links, but it’s not a priority, because the guts are there and the site is navigable. However — if you do find something that is a horrible, horrible problem, please contact me (via the handy-dandy CONTACT tab in the above menu.)

ETA: You will need to update your feed settings! Gah! The RSS link is on the META sidebar.

ETA2: I think I fixed the permalink problem.

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