After months of tinkering with the Thesis framework, I decided that I wasn’t happy with it. Not that Thesis is a poor framework. Far from it. The problem is, I just haven’t mastered the fine art of coding and decided that I don’t really want to. I’d rather write actual words and create eye-catching designs [...] Read more »
Blog to Book Conversion: First Project with FastPencil
Converting my blog into a book is something that I’ve wanted to do for at least three years. But I couldn’t find a converter that worked properly, so I set the idea aside to work on my other projects and forgot about it until I discovered FastPencil. I decided to give it a try. The [...] Read more »
Things to Consider Before Buying Thesis
After all my research on Thesis, I finally found one post that doesn’t glow with kudos. Raju of Technically Personal feels that Thesis is way over-hyped for what it is. He contends that you can find free themes that may suit your intended purposes equal to or better. Three weeks after my purchase, I have [...] Read more »
Saying Goodbye to Free WordPress Themes
I’m in the process of changing this blog’s design, hopefully for the very last time. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, then you’ll know how many themes I’ve gone through. Too many. For one reason or another, I’ve never been quite happy with the themes that I’ve installed on here, [...] Read more »
Creating WordPress Themes with Artisteer
I played around with the trial version of Artisteer on my husband’s laptop last Friday and liked what I was able to do. Once I finished the preliminary design, I exported it into the WordPress format and uploaded it to see what it looked like. Other than the watermark going down both sidebars, the design [...] Read more »
Blog Upgrades and Overhauls
Last night I began fiddling around with themes, testing them out and chucking them until I found the one that you’re looking at now. My highest priority was finding a theme that I can customize for my How to Create a Custom Twitter Background, blog so that it integrates nicely with my ecommerce site. I [...] Read more »
Some Questions for You
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the goals for my blogs. I’ve cut out one and plan to cut out another when I return. That leaves this blog, The Writers Buzz, and Self-Publishing with Lulu. Is The Writers Buzz of any value to you? Do you read it anymore? Why? So far, I’ve gotten [...] Read more »
The Dark Room
I’ve added a new link category as well as a very interesting blog on the subject of horror writing and writers. Guy Adams, the author of The Dark Room, is a published author and Senior Editor of Humdrumming Publishers. For those of you who are interested in this genre (thinking of you, Ben and Fred), [...] Read more »
I’ve Been Interviewed
This is an excerpt of an interview of me, given by Laura Spencer, who writes for Associated Content. I’ve given interviews of other writers for The Buzz in the past, but this was the first time I’ve ever been interviewed. Deborah Woehr’s popular blog, The Writers Buzz, highlights the work of new authors by posting [...] Read more »
Blooks: A New Trend in the Publishing Industry
I found “Blooks” Are in Bloom while researching for information to answer a question for an interview. Yes, I’m being profiled. More on that later. Big-name publishers such as Putnam and Little, Brown & Co. have begun releasing books based on blogs. “I am now more open to blogs than I would have been [before],” [...] Read more »
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