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Status Report 13 – The Numbers Game of Blogging

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 31, 2011

I decided to post these statistics periodically in a series of reports after installing the Count per Day plugin on October 14, 2010. Previous attempts have had to deal with retyping the information because a copy-and-paste procedure messed up the … Continue reading →

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Featured Images and Site Navigation

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshFebruary 15, 2011

When I first began the process of launching this website on a blog platform, my friend and fellow writer Deanna Roy suggested that before we sat down to build it, I needed to have content ready to publish and have … Continue reading →

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Header Aspirin

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 26, 2011

Reference my previous post titled “Header Headaches,” I sent out email queries to three different sources asking for assistance in finding an original image for the WordPress Fighter Theme so I could size it to fit the default header area … Continue reading →

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Header Headaches

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 26, 2011

The first theme choice for the website remains my favorite in terms of appearance. It is dark, overall aqua, with cool transparency effects and “hover” color changes when the pointer is placed over the menu and widget items. The image … Continue reading →

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Entering the ABNA Corral

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 25, 2011

As one of the anxious writers waiting in a virtual line at 11:01 p.m. Central Standard Time on Sunday evening, January 23, 2011, to enter the Wordfight at the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Corral, I logged into my account at … Continue reading →

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Blog Stats – The Referers

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 22, 2011

The count-per-day plugin I installed on October 14, 2010, continues to faithfully monitor the number of visitors to the site and what they read. The information is presented in both tabular and graphical format and includes: total visitors and reads … Continue reading →

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Wordfight at the ABNA Corral

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 21, 2011

At 12:01 a.m. on January 24, 2011, the first entrant in the General Fiction category of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest will step into one-half of the ABNA corral. On the other side of a virtual picket fence, the … Continue reading →

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ABNA – The “Entry”

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 20, 2011

Official Rules for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest total almost 12 pages. The document had to have been written by lawyers, or, at the very least, they evaluated every possible legal implication of each word. In spite of that … Continue reading →

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ABNA – The Pitch Redux

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 19, 2011

Yesterday, my friend and fellow writer Deanna Roy entered a plea for help on facebook. Facing a deadline, she had her query letter ready but couldn’t get the first five sentences of her novel Baby Dust written well enough to … Continue reading →

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ABNA – The Pitch

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Tosh McIntoshJanuary 18, 2011

I would rather hit myself in the thumb with a hammer than try to write a compelling, evocative  blurb about my novel. I realize saying that sets me up for a reader to reply, “That would require your novel to … Continue reading →

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