I didn't write anything yesterday. I had just given my critique on the blog of a classmate in Book Blog Tours class, when I realized one of the questions dealt with pages. Pages? Pages!? Back to this blog. I made a sincere attempt at it, thinking I could change all the elements on each page just like you do a web page. Nope. Not on blogger, anyway. When I got back to my main page, all that was left was my followers and my blog entries... oops. So, I spent all of yesterday and some of this morning trying to correct my faux pas...
I hope you like the changes, and the way it looks. Any suggestions from any of you would be great, as my old brain is still in the pen and paper era! (if you think that's bad, some people are worse off than I am!)
Naturally, you'll be thanked for your opinion, but the webmistress (me) has the final say as to whether it goes up or not! LOL!
I am having a blast, though! I enjoy giving my opinion (for what it's worth) and writing on a computer is lots easier than writing with pen and paper, as corrections are only as good as crossing through or starting over with pen and paper. I still remember having to cross through on an old mechanical typewriter!
Life is fun! I was commiserating with myself yesterday afternoon, when someone decided to tell me about her disagreement with her husband over whether they should go to a cabin this year. After about a half hour, I began to feel a whole lot better! Nothing like talking to someone to be grateful for your own circumstances!
My parents taught me to enjoy every morsel of food on my plate. That particular lesson went something like this... "There are children in Africa that have nothing to eat." (They knew I'd never believe them if they told me children in America go to bed hungry.)
My dad loved the phrase from Dr. Seuss. "Try it, try it, Sam-I-Am. You will love green eggs and ham."
That lesson goes for today. I am blessed! I am thankful, since there are people who do not have the ability to make themselves a part of the economy. They were not taken camping as children. They do not know survival skills. They do not count themselves blessed with whatever they are able to do, that others cannot, or will not. They cannot see a future in which they will wish they had what they have today.
Age makes us all equal. Even though I don't believe that days exist in the energy realm, Carpe Diem!
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9/11/10
New Webmistress for the Kurt Maxxon Series!
I am taking over web duties for Jim, because I love to read about Kurt Maxxon, and I am listening to Jim swear at the computer. I'd rather have him writing...and he'd rather be writing. Kurt Maxxon is a wonderful character, and I want to get to know him better! I can't do that when the computer won't do what Jim wants it to do.
The Kurt Maxxon Series is the most fun I've ever had as a reader. When Jim felt like he was floating in limbo with Masonville, I asked him to let me read it. A few days later, I got a gift box, full of paper, each page lovingly printed for me. I read it as carefully as I could (and believe me, I was not an editor at that point) GENTLY taking care of this baby. Like an artist's first piece of art, we may only re-edit Masonville if we re-issue it in e-format.
Well, life has changed a lot. After deciding to edit the next book,Kings Rapids, by email, and exchanging daily emails for a year, Jim proposed to me with a business card. It contained my first name, and his last name. I knew from the emails what my answer would be.
Kurt Maxxon has filled out a lot as a character. Our readers can't wait for the next book, to find out who Kurt has befriended this time, and who he is helping, and what he has decided to do. It really is a soap opera... I think Jim ought to be doing a serial story like the ones you would find in magazines years ago. Maybe I'll get him there this year.
We published Carpentier Falls in April 2010. We are very proud of it.Centralia, the fourth book, will be released in 2011.
I am taking a class in book blog touring and will be checking in with other blogs... I'll keep you posted which ones.
I also am having fun with Marian Allen, who has done a fabulous job with Book Blog touring... She has a contest going for her new release, EEL'S REVERENCE. You'll have to try it - especially if you're looking for ways to promote your own blog... you don't necessarily have to be a writer!
By the way... My classmates are Kara Petersen (Impatient Polly and a pending novel about Mermaids), Anne Randolph (writers' tips and hints), and Mary Montague (Monti) Sikes (Romance). You can find their blogs in my blogroll list to the left... Enjoy your travels! I'll ask Jim to drop in once in a while with some of his thoughts.
Drop in tomorrow...
Hugs! Karen
The Kurt Maxxon Series is the most fun I've ever had as a reader. When Jim felt like he was floating in limbo with Masonville, I asked him to let me read it. A few days later, I got a gift box, full of paper, each page lovingly printed for me. I read it as carefully as I could (and believe me, I was not an editor at that point) GENTLY taking care of this baby. Like an artist's first piece of art, we may only re-edit Masonville if we re-issue it in e-format.
Well, life has changed a lot. After deciding to edit the next book,Kings Rapids, by email, and exchanging daily emails for a year, Jim proposed to me with a business card. It contained my first name, and his last name. I knew from the emails what my answer would be.
Kurt Maxxon has filled out a lot as a character. Our readers can't wait for the next book, to find out who Kurt has befriended this time, and who he is helping, and what he has decided to do. It really is a soap opera... I think Jim ought to be doing a serial story like the ones you would find in magazines years ago. Maybe I'll get him there this year.
We published Carpentier Falls in April 2010. We are very proud of it.Centralia, the fourth book, will be released in 2011.
I am taking a class in book blog touring and will be checking in with other blogs... I'll keep you posted which ones.
I also am having fun with Marian Allen, who has done a fabulous job with Book Blog touring... She has a contest going for her new release, EEL'S REVERENCE. You'll have to try it - especially if you're looking for ways to promote your own blog... you don't necessarily have to be a writer!
By the way... My classmates are Kara Petersen (Impatient Polly and a pending novel about Mermaids), Anne Randolph (writers' tips and hints), and Mary Montague (Monti) Sikes (Romance). You can find their blogs in my blogroll list to the left... Enjoy your travels! I'll ask Jim to drop in once in a while with some of his thoughts.
Drop in tomorrow...
Hugs! Karen
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