New blog for reviews

[Bainespal]

I finally decided to start my own blog as a platform to publish my reviews, on the rare occasions that I actually get around to reviewing the things I want to review. (This is the link; click here.)

My first post is a review of The Windrider Saga by Anomalien Rebecca P. Minor.

I'm not sure if this announcement should go here or in the sub-division of this board. If it should go in the sub-board, can somebody put it there for me?

[beckyminor]

This is completely fine a spot for your blog announcement--I see the sub-board as more of a place for publication announcements and the like. A sort of open arena for shameless self-promotion. And I am deeply honored that you would kick off your review site with my work. Your review is awesome. I hope you get a lot of interest and traffic--I will link to you in my social media spots.

[Bainespal]

If you started reading the review and began to feel a strange sense of deja-vu, it might have been due to the fact that the whole review was somehow pasted into itself! Beckyminor told me, and the problem is now fixed.

[morganlbusse]

Good review I like the blogsite.

[j2starshine]

wow, that was a good review. I left a comment but i don't think blogger likes wordpress identities I've been having trouble commenting using my wordpress identity. Oh well. I look forward to future reviews! How often do you think you will post a review?

[j2starshine]

by the way, when I read "projects" I thought my study group was kind of a project, but now I see I should've put the invite here. Does anyone know how to change the location of a thread?

[Bainespal]

Mar 9, 2012 13:29:00 GMT -5 j2starshine said:

wow, that was a good review. I left a comment but i don't think blogger likes wordpress identities I've been having trouble commenting using my wordpress identity. Oh well. I look forward to future reviews! How often do you think you will post a review?

I just saw your comment, and replied. Thanks for stopping by! I don't think I'll post reviews very often. I have some previously-written material I can put up soon (mostly reviews of interactive fiction games, plus two old book reviews I put on Amazon). Wait -- I can put up the capsule reviews of the T2C stories I posted here! That will keep them from getting lost.

That's a really cool website you have! It looks totally professional; you can't go unpublished long with a website like that! Your blog looks professional too. Some of those WordPress themes look great, but I mainly chose Blogger because Blogger lets you get your hands dirty with the CSS and HTML.

Does anyone know how to change the location of a thread?

I think you have to be an Administrator, but I could be wrong.

[beckyminor]

Mar 9, 2012 13:30:56 GMT -5 j2starshine said:

by the way, when I read "projects" I thought my study group was kind of a project, but now I see I should've put the invite here. Does anyone know how to change the location of a thread?

There ya go...I moved the thread to out of projects and into the main "Bios, blogs..." board. Please do let me know if I haven't placed it properly!

[j2starshine]

Oh wow, oh wow! Thank you Becky for moving it! That is great!

I am humbled, bainespal.

Thank you. I'm glad you like the website. I can only take partial credit for it. My husband is web programmer/developer. He designed my previous website but I wanted to be able to update it myself. I don't do all that code stuff, so I picked out the design and graphics and told my husband how I'd like it and he put it together. Eventually I want to use more of my artwork up there. I really like wordpress so far. The blog is only a template, but I'm glad you like it. :-) I'm discovering with blogger if I use my name/url to leave comments rather than my wordpress identity it works fine.

Now I gotta go check out your reply

[metalikhan]

Hey, Bainespal.

Very nice blog! And I have to say I've always looked forward to all of your reviews of the Cross and Cosmos's stories (not just my own stories, either). You do a fine job as a reviewer!

One little glitch, though. I've tried a couple of times to leave a comment on your Byzantine Apple review, but it doesn't seem to want to take it yet. Am I missing something? (Techno-challenged as I am that wouldn't surprise me!)

Anyway, great job, dude!

[Bainespal]

Oh, I only just noticed your reply, Metal. Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately.

Thanks for trying to comment. I don't know what went wrong. I had the permissions set to allow anyone to comment, even anonymously, with no need for the comments to be approved by me before they appear. The only thing I can think of is that "word verification" was turned on -- it's that annoying anti-spam thing where you have to type the weird distorted letters in the picture before your message or log-in will go through. I just turned that off, too. I hadn't noticed that it was left on; I find that feature very annoying.

So, I just published an interview with Melissa Turner Lee about her novel The Earth Painter on the blog.

[pixydust]

Really lovely blog!

[Bainespal]

If any readers of Terry Brooks's Shannara books care to compare notes with me, I've put up a review of The Elfstones of Shannara. I've only read the original Shannara trilogy so far, and I still have conflicting opinions about Brook's writing in general.

[Bainespal]

I put up a review of Jacob Lindaman's story from Issue 13 of The Cross and the Cosmos, "Hit Points: Gettysburg Generals."

[fluke]

Paul,

I am currently working on my author's website and would like to use your reviews of my short pieces that were published in TC2. Do I need permission to use a small quote of each? I would like to link to each review in full. Would you be moving those to your blog soon?

Frank