You may have noticed the new template. I really like how “clean” this one is. It’s very easy to read, and the rotating banner photographs make for a nifty feature. Just saw this myself the other day. Given recent events, that “France” has moved up to be my top tag is probably not a huge … More Thoughts To Start This Week
A quick review. Happy January 1st!: Not a huge surprise to learn that. “Officially” it confirms what I had noticed. Those posts drew lots of views all year. (For several posts the comments noted in that snapshot seem “miscounted” though.) If you’re interested, here are links to those posts: 1) “Shades”, 2) “Vampires”, 3) “Minitel”, … More 2014’s Top Views
It’s almost upon us. If you celebrate, I hope you have a Merry Christmas. If you don’t observe it, I’d like to offer you best wishes for the coming year. I almost forgot. You have to see it. Hey, you like our tree? The tree stand is doing its job well: We spent yesterday in … More Merry Christmas
I just discovered, by email notification, that a blogger I follow on WordPress has apparently read my first novel, Passports. The blogger evidently devoted a post to it. Understand that (as of this writing) I have no idea what that blogger thinks of the book because I have not read the post. And I probably … More Rule #1 For Any Author
I’m not sure anyone really craves “a big picture” of me, but otherwise this looks interesting. If you use About.me, let me know. I’m now on it as – yes, as shocking as this may sound – R. J. Nello: In the set-up’s “find friends” auto-search, I stumbled on a small horde of Twitter friends … More About.Me
American Revolutionary patriot and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, is quoted as once saying, “Either do something worth reading about, or write something worth reading.” As writers, most of us probably lean a bit more towards trying to achieve the latter. And that’s not unreasonable of us either. After all, doing something could well mean that something … More In The Global Spotlight
These things seem to happen unpredictably and in bunches. As of yesterday, I had only about 160 shares on social media for the entire lifetime of this modest blog. (And that naturally included my occasional tweets of my own posts here.) This morning – only 24 hours later – that total has jumped to 274 … More Share And Share Alike
My wife pops by here on occasion. She says she likes to keep an eye on what I’m up to…. here on the internet potentially in the view of the entire world. My sublime, groundbreaking interview with myself last weekend attracted her especial attention: “You’re losing it, man!” At least she was laughing – albeit … More Under Surveillance
We had a laugh yesterday. You may recall Tuesday’s Purple Parrot post. About 8:45 AM UK time, I had posted about store-owning friends in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, who’ve said they will stock my novels. In doing so, I had linked directly to their site. About 11:30, I got an email from the Mrs. half … More Was It My “Blog Mob?”
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