Have fun with Facebook. :-)

I have all Juliet’s books that are translated to Portuguese. Her writing is fantastic. I bought her first book by accident.

I think it was in 2001, I enter the bookstore and tell to myself: – I don’t want to read anything more about reality! I need fantasy!
I went to the romance fantasy section and started to look around when I saw sevenwaters series and I thought to myself… a trilogy can’t be bad. And I loved it!
Since then I never left fantasy reading again.
I lent the first sevenwaters books to so many friends (more than 10 for sure) and it’s funny cause people who like the first book (and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t), don’t ask me for the second cause they go to the store and buy the first and all the others so they can have their own book at home.
And that’s because someone said the best 2008 was that Juliet book (I gave it like a present to a friend) :)

The sad think is that books in Portugal are very expensive. This Christmas a book price was around 20€ !!!

Have you read any of Anne Bishop books? She’s also a great writer and she has this unlimited imagination. But the best about her books is that she makes me smile a lot with the funny book characters.

Sorry if I’m writing too much but when I start talking about something I like I just don’t shut up! :)

Your my first friend in facebook. I’m gona take a look at your facebook so I can also learn how it works.

ClaudiaV, did you not LOVE Juliet’s book? She’s brilliant. Now you can move on to the others in her Sevenwaters series!

(I have a Facebook account but I’m still a bit intimidated by it. Don’t quite know how to work it. It seems to be a process).

I think Spanish for you is like French for me. I don’t have any confidence when I try to speak French. I read French emails everyday (I work for a French company ) but if I try to talk I only remember English words.

I’ve been in Epcot this last Summer. I miss Orlando, I had a lot of fun there!

Well I joined Facebook (new world for me) I didn’t had much time to explore it but I tried to place a photo. Don’t know how people join yet but I think it’s with the mail. (Mine in facebook is )

I think your question is a great one, and I wonder if you’ll let Kath and me tackle it next week for a “From the Mailbox” post?

Congratulations, Therese, on your sale in Brazil – and thanks for this post. I’m an unpublished fiction writer and, after reading all the comments, I have to confess that I’m a bit intimidated by all this. Why? Because I’m unpublished. I have a finished manuscript and I’m preparing to search for an agent….so here’s my question for the day:

How do I shake the feeling that, without publication, I’m not worthy of promoting? I recently created a blog, but it’s almost as if I’m keeping it a secret. I admire how all of you can create great sites and just put yourselves out there. Darnit, I want to do it too!

Thanks for reading.

There are two steps to getting a good search rank: constructing your pages according to web standards so the search engine can parse it efficiently, and getting lots of people to link to your site.

You can accomplish these with a site hosted anywhere. There are lots of blogs on LiveJournal and WordPress.com with low ranks because they don’t have interesting content that people want to link to, and/or the authors aren’t working to build their networks by joining the conversations at other sites.

Whether you’re hosting your own site or starting one on a blog network, you need to choose your template (or theme) carefully. Many WordPress templates are optimized for search engines; many are not. Blogger’s newer themes are very good. LiveJournal’s are iffy, and in general I would say that being on LiveJournal is, if anything, detrimental to your search engine rank. However, the writing community there is so good that I wouldn’t warn you away from LJ entirely; I’d just encourage you to maintain another site (yourname.com) in addition to it.

Look for templates that say they are standards compliant (some will say ‘W3C compliant,’ or ‘valid HTML’). This is not a guarantee that they are optimized for search engines, but it does show that the designer took some care with her work, and chances are good that a site using that template will do well with search engines.

Once the site is built, you just have to decide on a standard format for your address — for example, whether you’re going to use the www. prefix (it usually doesn’t matter) — and use the address consistently in your email signature, your profiles on message boards, and your comments on other people’s blogs.

Writing blog posts that people will link to — that is left as an exercise for the reader. ;)

Congrats on your foreign sale! As for designers, Brian at LowFatDesigns.com is fantastic to work with. I love my site and it’s easy to manage content too. Best of luck with yours. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Lynne

I don’t have a lot of confidence! :)

I wonder if there’s a way to build a mini-blog application into a News page. Hmmm…

If you join Facebook, give a holler out, ClaudiaV.