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I finally got over the cold I had before Christmas and made it through the holidays. Then I thought it was time to dig into working on this website again. Only that appears to be a slow process at the moment due to having to switch note-taking apps. The problem started when Evernote decided to go bonkers and double their subscription price last fall. Which I ain’t paying. I’ll keep a few things on the free version but, seriously? No, Evernote is not worth that price. It also ticks me of that they are limiting the free version to so few notes. And one, yes,Read More →

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The reorganization work I’m doing behind the scenes is going really well but it will be a long process. When I’m not working on that I have been reading a lot lately. Most of the books I’m enjoying right now, though, are either very short or really, really big. Wheel of Time I’m looking at you. Yes, I am. So, anyway, I decided it would be easier to track my reading activity immediately by actually using my Goodreads account. At least until I get caught up on the background work around here. I’ve updated and refreshed the Goodreads widget on the site so that itRead More →

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I recently came to the conclusion that one of the main reasons I’m having problems writing posts for the website is Evernote and not simply life in general. To the point I was seriously considering looking for another note taking application. Then I had a light bulb moment and realized the biggest issue was that I simply hadn’t organized my notes in Evernote the same way I’m organizing the site. You know, to make it easier to find what I need when I need it. So I’ve been working on correcting that problem and making a lot of progress. Translated, though, that means I’ve beenRead More →

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I was able to carve out some time this afternoon to start work on this project and got two pages formatted and one backlist post reformatted & updated. More done than I thought I would. Check them out: All My Favorites Shelly Laurenston (author) Shelly Laurenston backlist with commentary I’m keeping things simple but I think this is going to work. Onwards and upwards!Read More →

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I’ve decided to focus this month on working on some “behind the scenes” projects and general maintenance so what posts I do manage to write will probably be fairly short. Mainly, there’s one project I’ve been thinking about for a while which is creating pages for My Favorite Things so the last week or so I’ve been playing around with how I want to format those. Another project I’m working on is expanding the About page.  In the meantime, I ran across an article about combining genres and thought I’d share because I thought the opening paragraph was very intriguing:  From a writer’s perspective, theRead More →

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When I decided to restart blogging on this site, I knew it would be a struggle at times due to other commitments as well as some minor health issues. Still I mentally set a goal to post regularly at least 2-4 times a week and worked out a plan to make it happen. Of course I knew that I might not reach that goal at all some weeks. To be honest, I’m in fairly good health for my age but I do have some issues that I have to deal with periodically. One of those cropped up a couple of weeks ago when I startedRead More →

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After diving in head first and posting like mad to test out some features and plugins for the last month or so, I decided it’s time for the real blogging to begin. But first I spent some time today begining to update the About page. It is by no means finished but it’s a start in the right direction. Also just so everyone knows, my plan for now is to post 3 or 4 times a week. Usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday with the occasional Saturday Superhero post just for fun. Ok, sure, that doesn’t mean I won’t be posting about superheroes the rest ofRead More →

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Sometime last year I realized how tired I was of endlessly discussing romance novels online. Yeah, there I said it. Okay, to be fair, it wasn’t so much talking about them altogether as the repetitive way we romance fans tend to beat some topics surrounding them to death at times. That may or may not sound like a strange, rather contradictory thing to say, but it’s a true one, nonetheless. Then again, I also considered that maybe it had more to do with personal perspective than actual topic repetition. What I mean is simply this, as both a longtime reader of romances and someone whoRead More →

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In the spirit of spring cleaning, I did something today I’ve been thinking of doing for some time. I switched my Facebook account around to focus on a page specifically for Bev’s Books instead of the individual account and got a personal account in my real name, which I’m not sharing here. 😉 Yeah, I could’ve probably done all that with the account I already had but it was giving me fits attempting to do it, so, I finally just started all over from scratch. On the plus side it allowed me to clean up some stuff. Anyway, the links you may have won’t work anymore and this is my new Bev’sRead More →

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I don’t have much time this morning before some really bad weather is heading our way but I thought I’d take a few moments to list several of the changes I’ve made to the blog in the last few weeks as part of my reorganizing & simplification efforts this year. I’ve changed to a greatly streamlined theme with only one sidebar. This is major for me because I tend towards prefering themes that are full screen and fluid with sidebars on left and right but I fell in love with this Notepad theme when I ran across it recently. I have a thing for making listsRead More →

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For years now, I’ve used Readerware as my database for cataloging my books. I love Readerware even though there are probably better programs out there. It’s simply reliable, proven and easy to use. Recently, though, I’ve wanted to find an online database that I could use with the blog and finally settled on Goodreads. I’ve used LibraryThing in the past and never truly liked it. For some reason, Shelfari never impressed me past the “checking it out” stage. But Goodreads is a program I find myself actively liking to use, which is always a plus. 😉 I’ll probably add books both sporatically in groups and as I readRead More →

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I’ve just added the WPTouch plugin to Bev’s Books that should allow at least some mobile readers to see content here. Since I’m not sure who will be able to see what or how it will look, yell out and let me know what you are able to see and how it looks on your end of things. Not that I’m all that sure I’ll be able to change all that much regardless, but at least it’s a start. 😉Read More →