Lillie David Bowles at Writing the Western Sagas tagged me to tell five things about myself you probably don’t know. Then I get to tag five more bloggers by leaving comments on their blogs, and they tell five things about themselves, and each tag five more, and on, and on, and on. If you read this blog … Read more
I wrote about Fuel My Blog, the Great Wall of Blogs a few days ago when I first signed up and promised you an update. The number of blogs on the home page has more than doubled since I added my blog, along with Devotionals from Father Chip for my church and Writing the Westward … Read more
Like most writers, I’m a big supporter of literacy. The Literacy Council of Fort Bend County has been, in the words of the organization’s slogan, “changing lives through literacy since 1987.” The 7th Annual Book & Author Dinner will be held on February 18, in Richmond, Texas. Four authors will be guest speakers, and another fourteen … Read more
Here’s a powerful post on the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade: Think of Me Turning 34 Today. As a Christian who believes that every life is a gift from God, I pray that we will come to respect life and give every child the inalienable right to life described in the Declaration of Independence … Read more
These tips apply to editing your own work – a manuscript you’re submitting to a publisher, a letter to the editor, a report for work, a blog post, an entry in your personal journal … or anything else. Not everything you write requires all of these steps – an e-mail to a friend may just need … Read more
The President has declared January 16th as “Religious Freedom Day, 2007” in the United States. It’s a good day to give thanks for the religious freedom we have in this country and to pray for those who are persecuted for their faith. To realize how much persecution goes on in the world, to be inspired … Read more
Pixel advertising seems to be the new craze on the Internet. According to Pixel Traffic Watcher, “traffic from sites selling advertising space by way of selling blocks of pixels is one of the hottest things going on the internet.” It seems this fad was started by a British student to earn money for university – and … Read more
After bemoaning the many spam comments on blogs, I downloaded the Akismet plugin for WordPress … and I haven’t had a spam comment since! According to Akismet’s Web site, it is catching more than 600,000 spam comments a day, and 94% of all comments are spam. If your blog is being buried in spam, I recommend … Read more
Author David Bowles just received a glowing judge’s commentary on his historical novel Spring House from the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards. Congratulations, David. [tags]self-publishing, awards, David Bowles, Spring House, Westward Sagas[/tags]
I wrote about spam in an earlier post. The problem with comment spam in blogs is getting worse; I’ve found some plug-ins for WordPress that I will try and let you know the results. Update: Success with Akismet! But until I get the plug-ins installed, I’m manually rejecting dozens of spam comments every day. The latest … Read more