tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41167628257677858102024-03-05T18:02:24.760-08:00BloglinkhoppersSavvy, supportive, spider-loving authors get together to post all their blog links in one place for convenience and to increase traffic and get the attention of spiders and other beloved web crawlersRowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-32088092140346808892010-06-27T07:14:00.000-07:002010-06-27T07:14:30.345-07:00Repost<br />
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<blockquote>Dear Scott Turow, Allison Kelley, John Scalzi,<br />
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Thank you very much for everything you do to defend authors' copyrights against copyright infringement. We very much appreciate having an address to which to send our complaints, and the comfort of knowing that you compile a database of the most egregious "pirates" and pirate sites.<br />
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Despite small triumphs, ignorance persists among honest readers; lies about the legality of "sharing" go unchallenged, and the problem is getting much worse.<br />
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Please Scott Turow, Allison Kelley, John Scalzi will you talk to one another, set up one powerhouse task force, meet regularly, share resources, engage your members, give authors one central "Go To" address where we can submit complaints, report piracy sites, blogs and yahoogroups, cc our individual take-down notices.<br />
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One forceful industry voice could shut down an entire account and insist on a hosting site complying with their own TOS where their TOS has been repeatedly violated, instead of individual authors taking down one file at a time.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
Rowena Cherry (IWOFA)</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-57315665305976012102009-07-12T14:32:00.000-07:002009-07-12T14:45:09.515-07:00Blogs Are Like MagazinesBlogs are supposed to be a quick read, a flip-through-the-web and browse experience.<br /><br />So lately topics are being separated into different blogs so you can subscribe or follow with rss and not waste your time. <br /><br />We now offer the following blogspot blogs: <br /><br /><a href="http://editingcircle.blogspot.com">Editing Circle</a> for writing students<br /><a href="http://whatsnew.simegen.com">Territorial News</a> for keeping up with the doings of Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br /><a href="http://ListsForYou.blogspot.com">Lists For You</a> - handy checklists such as 10 Things That Belong In The Trunk Of Your Car<br /><a href="http://geezer-chick.blogspot.com">Geezer Chick</a> Staying fit past 60, means learning a lot of new and modified exercises and doing everything possible to maintain an active sex life.<br /><br />Each of these is a "magazine" with an "editorial slant" and a "beat" to cover. <br /><br />Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br /><a href="http://www.simegen.com/jl/ ">http://www.simegen.com/jl/ </a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Jacqueline Lichtenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613040740264804278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-1548175889915482612008-11-16T12:48:00.000-08:002008-11-16T12:49:46.127-08:00OT. General Motors and gunk punkI'm a Science-fiction Romance writer. I look at History (which repeats itself) also current events, and I wonder What If...?<br /><br />Not that I write it, yet, but Steampunk is where the writer changes one invention from the time of the industrial revolution, such as H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine". That was the "age of steam", hence steam punk.<br /><br />More recently, there is "cyber punk" which I suppose relates to choices made in Silicon Valley in the 1980s. One of the hallmarks of punk writing is that it explores the road not traveled and the consequences of a different decision whether made by a scientist, a businessman, or a politician (I assume).<br /><br />I'm using "gunk" punk because if steam is what the Nineteenth Century machines are remembered for, then gunk might be what petroleum-driven cars leave behind. Or maybe I've been watching too many STP commercials.<br /><br />Gratuitous decoration<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwVKlDVevFjD4kLNpA7dpRZl9iwX-D__MjIdYHB7tj6e_c7dLhZjXhi99kdChRgJm8WTMT45PMGXLSIMdwKTgxksycPmrhrT-2DPincC0q1yiiJ0Z8z4-p70PSHAOcM-QBGXSzCQdiLDU/s1600-h/03_hel_cad_vrs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwVKlDVevFjD4kLNpA7dpRZl9iwX-D__MjIdYHB7tj6e_c7dLhZjXhi99kdChRgJm8WTMT45PMGXLSIMdwKTgxksycPmrhrT-2DPincC0q1yiiJ0Z8z4-p70PSHAOcM-QBGXSzCQdiLDU/s400/03_hel_cad_vrs.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269271096365148418" /></a><br /><br />This is a car made by my husband, with his own hands and the help of a few people he contracted with privately. He burned his hands on hot clay, he came home with his eyebrows covered in dust from sanding... he lost 10lbs from all the exercise. This photo was taken at SEMA by Jonathon Ramsey for Autoblog.com <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5kv9jf">http://tinyurl.com/5kv9jf</a><br /><br /><br />So, what if... in the 1940s American didn't have a manufacturing industry and depended on Germany and Japan? I'd probably be blogging in German, right?<br /><br />History is being made right now, that's why I'm laying claim to "gunk punk" (unless someone has already thought of it, or someone has a better name). Peter M DeLorenzo of autoextremist.com <br /><a href="http://www.autoextremist.com/current/">http://www.autoextremist.com/current/</a> may have done so, but he doesn't write fiction as far as I know. He has a jaw dropping rant going on.<br /><br />Peter is also selling an alarming book (non-fiction) titled <a href="http://www.unitedstatesoftoyota.com">"The United States of Toyota."</a><br /><br />Alarming cover art.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQKoq1DCpGa7X7N1YD92Vxx0GZx1k9PmNmLQV0q2EtsVu6Ql_bxOduabPLgJt-FWnc_PD7LDohA3hh_c9S7luDQ_9PZv49iT-0IOv9uT6f5P4-2TjDP1G7_IcgPLs79JqdhPYjUCQ3Ug8/s1600-h/51-8VSo0ujL._SL500_AA240_.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQKoq1DCpGa7X7N1YD92Vxx0GZx1k9PmNmLQV0q2EtsVu6Ql_bxOduabPLgJt-FWnc_PD7LDohA3hh_c9S7luDQ_9PZv49iT-0IOv9uT6f5P4-2TjDP1G7_IcgPLs79JqdhPYjUCQ3Ug8/s400/51-8VSo0ujL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269275532309743538" /></a><br /><br />I am now imagining myself as a writer in, say 2020 (hindsight pun!) looking back on the third week of November 2008 when Congress made a catastrophic vote NOT to make a loan to the last American car companies.<br /><br />It's a "Mad Max" world now. Or perhaps it's Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" world with a touch of "1984". The Jesuits and the Japanese rule. We have an Emperor. And a Pope. And a third Minister of some sort, because good things come in threes.<br /><br />Onstar speaks to us in Japanese in our cars. We cannot turn it off. They got Murdoch, too. And Comcast. All our Direct TV has Japanese subtitles. We cannot turn it off. Big Brother looks a lot like Vladimir Putin with Botox to get rid of the ugly Western crease in his eyelids. He tells us what to think.<br /><br />America is bankrupt. When the world bank foreclosed, one of the creditors took Hawaii, another took the island of Manhattan, another took the Great Lakes for the water. No one wanted Detroit... I could go on. In a grim way, this is rather fun.<br /><br />Maybe my imagination is overactive. I hope so! I was having trouble fitting any kind of Romance into my budding novel of milieu.<br /><br />My point is, pay attention to the information that is available, and store it up for future reference. (Thank goodness for flashdrive!). There's a massive dissonance right now between the truth and what people are saying in the media. <br /><br />If interested in GM's version of car myth vs fact visit <a href="http://gmfactsandfiction.com/">http://gmfactsandfiction.com/</a><br /><br />Best wishes,<br />Rowena Cherry<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-64640613882001298852008-09-29T14:11:00.000-07:002008-09-29T14:11:03.824-07:00Star-Crossed Romance: Guest - Rowena Cherry<a href="http://star-crossedromance.blogspot.com/2008/09/guest-rowena-cherry.html#links">Star-Crossed Romance: Guest - Rowena Cherry</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-288153081360500702008-05-11T11:08:00.000-07:002008-05-11T11:11:36.759-07:00<div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We give each other traffic.<br /><br />If you are reading this page, please click the links....<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Group Blogs:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Futuristic Fantasy Paranormal (and SFR) Group Blogs</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/">alien romances</a><br /><br />(rowena cherry, linnea sinclair, jacqueline lichtenberg, margaret l carter, susan kearney, colby hodge, susan sizemore)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://outdamnedstory.blogspot.com/">Out Damned Story,</a><br /><br />FFP Romance outtakes<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Cross-genre Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://males-and-other-animals.blogspot.com/">Males and Other Animals</a><br /></span><br />Deborah Macgillivray, Josh Artemeier, Jade Lee (author), Rowena Cherry,<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Historical Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://unusualhistoricals.blogspot.com/">Unusual Historicals</a><br />jacquie rogers, 25 authors<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adult Romance Group Blog</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://thehussiesblog.blogspot.com/">the hussies</a><br />sahara kelly and friends<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suspense Group Blog<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://killerfictionwriters.blogspot.com/">Killer Fiction Writers</a><br />Gemma Halliday, Cristie Craig ...<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Special Interest Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://survival-romance.blogspot.com/">Survival Romance</a><br />Rowena Cherry, Annalee Blysse, Janet Miller, Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">General Story telling</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a href="http://goddessesofstorytelling.blogspot.com/">Goddesses of Story-telling</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Cindy Spencer-Pape<br /><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:green;" ><span style=";font-size:12;color:green;" ><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Individual Romance Author Blogs</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://rowenacherry.blogspot.com/">Rowena Remarks</a><br /></span><br /></div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://jacquierogers.blogspot.com/">Jacquie Rogers</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.kathrynekennedy.com/blog.html">Kathryne Kennedy</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.jenniferonwriting.blospot.com/">Jennifer Ashley</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.boxingoctopus.blogspot.com/">Colleen Thompson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://eilisflynn.blogspot.com/">Eilis Flynn</a><br /><br /><a href="http://elainecorvidae.livejournal.com/">Elaine Corvidae</a><br /><a href="http://todaythedragonwins.blogspot.com/">Sandy Lender</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dianagroe">Diana Groe</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/emilybryanromance">Emily Bryan</a><br /><a href="http://www.kathrynekennedy.com/blog.html"> </a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://wetnoodleposse.blogspot.com/">Norah Wilson</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://www.susangrant.blogspot.com/">Susan Grant</a><br /><br /><a href="http://romancereadersblog.com/category/pamelas-ponderings/">Pamela's Ponderings</a><br /><br /><a href="http://plotmonkeys.blogspot.com/">Julie Leto and friends</a><br /><a href="http://www.shapeshifterromance.wordpress.com/">Shapeshifter Romance</a><br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >Publishers' Group Blogs</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://enspirenpress.blogspot.com/">Enspiren Press</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://cerridwenpressauthors.blogspot.com/">Cerridwen Press</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Romance Review blogs</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288.html">Barbara Vey </a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/barbaravey">Barbara Vey on MySpace</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/">Sassy Brit, Alternative-Read</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Blogs of Blogs</span></span><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://thescribersmuse.blogspot.com/">The Scriber's Muse</a><br />Jill James<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br />Hope this is helpful!<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=rowena+cherry" alt=" " />Rowena Cherrry</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJkvJ6tgstWSRUFd_WDgzhLMXLBVvofLSf42naIFgZxO71IMTSWc0Xp51kVs-PN-S5bZ9uJ6Gz08NjeSytrXRdRnXSXRC2uLtCmFrZK3pmaGttqxAHDdcZpyE_S3WWPMd_GXcKzWgXO37/s1600-h/preditors.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJkvJ6tgstWSRUFd_WDgzhLMXLBVvofLSf42naIFgZxO71IMTSWc0Xp51kVs-PN-S5bZ9uJ6Gz08NjeSytrXRdRnXSXRC2uLtCmFrZK3pmaGttqxAHDdcZpyE_S3WWPMd_GXcKzWgXO37/s400/preditors.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182747873582520242" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-23277273141366133772007-12-03T02:57:00.000-08:002008-03-28T05:06:48.944-07:00This is what we do:<div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We give each other traffic.<br /><br />If you are reading this page, please click the links....<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Group Blogs:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Futuristic Fantasy Paranormal (and SFR) Group Blogs</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/">alien romances</a><br /><br />(rowena cherry, linnea sinclair, jacqueline lichtenberg, margaret l carter, susan kearney, colby hodge, susan sizemore)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://outdamnedstory.blogspot.com/">Out Damned Story,</a><br /><br />FFP Romance outtakes<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Cross-genre Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://males-and-other-animals.blogspot.com/">Males and Other Animals</a><br /></span><br />Deborah Macgillivray, Josh Artemeier, Jade Lee (author), Rowena Cherry,<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Historical Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://unusualhistoricals.blogspot.com/">Unusual Historicals</a><br />jacquie rogers, 25 authors<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adult Romance Group Blog</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://thehussiesblog.blogspot.com/">the hussies</a><br />sahara kelly and friends<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suspense Group Blog<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://killerfictionwriters.blogspot.com/">Killer Fiction Writers</a><br />Gemma Halliday, Cristie Craig ...<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Special Interest Group Blogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://survival-romance.blogspot.com/">Survival Romance</a><br />Rowena Cherry, Annalee Blysse, Janet Miller, Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">General Story telling</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a href="http://goddessesofstorytelling.blogspot.com/">Goddesses of Story-telling</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Cindy Spencer-Pape<br /><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:green;" ><span style=";font-size:12;color:green;" ><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Individual Romance Author Blogs</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://rowenacherry.blogspot.com/">Rowena Remarks</a><br /></span><br /></div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://jacquierogers.blogspot.com/">Jacquie Rogers</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.kathrynekennedy.com/blog.html">Kathryne Kennedy</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.jenniferonwriting.blospot.com/">Jennifer Ashley</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.boxingoctopus.blogspot.com/">Colleen Thompson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://eilisflynn.blogspot.com/">Eilis Flynn</a><br /><br /><a href="http://elainecorvidae.livejournal.com/">Elaine Corvidae</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dianagroe">Diana Groe</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/emilybryanromance">Emily Bryan</a><br /><a href="http://www.kathrynekennedy.com/blog.html"> </a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://wetnoodleposse.blogspot.com/">Norah Wilson</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://www.susangrant.blogspot.com/">Susan Grant</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pamswildroseblog.blogspot.com/">Pamela Thibodeaux</a><br /><br /><a href="http://romancereadersblog.com/category/pamelas-ponderings/">Pamela's Ponderings</a><br /><br /><a href="http://plotmonkeys.blogspot.com/">Julie Leto and friends</a><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >Publishers' Group Blogs</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://enspirenpress.blogspot.com/">Enspiren Press</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://cerridwenpressauthors.blogspot.com/">Cerridwen Press</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" >Romance Review blogs</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288.html">Barbara Vey </a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/barbaravey">Barbara Vey on MySpace</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/">Sassy Brit, Alternative-Read</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Blogs of Blogs</span></span><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><a href="http://thescribersmuse.blogspot.com/">The Scriber's Muse</a><br />Jill James<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br />Hope this is helpful!<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=rowena+cherry" alt=" " />Rowena Cherrry</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJkvJ6tgstWSRUFd_WDgzhLMXLBVvofLSf42naIFgZxO71IMTSWc0Xp51kVs-PN-S5bZ9uJ6Gz08NjeSytrXRdRnXSXRC2uLtCmFrZK3pmaGttqxAHDdcZpyE_S3WWPMd_GXcKzWgXO37/s1600-h/preditors.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJkvJ6tgstWSRUFd_WDgzhLMXLBVvofLSf42naIFgZxO71IMTSWc0Xp51kVs-PN-S5bZ9uJ6Gz08NjeSytrXRdRnXSXRC2uLtCmFrZK3pmaGttqxAHDdcZpyE_S3WWPMd_GXcKzWgXO37/s400/preditors.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182747873582520242" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-24589882416476719372007-12-02T11:12:00.000-08:002007-12-02T11:26:57.834-08:00A Web PresenceFolks:<br /><br />Today a web presence means more than static html pages, board discussions, Lists or interactive games participation.<br /><br />Today there are blogs instead of boards. But there are now social networking sites that are proving more than useful to some people.<br /><br />I'm currently trying to become findable on linkedin.com as well as facebook.com -- I don't think I've signed onto myspace.com yet but I suppose I will eventually.<br /><br />The essence of these developments is the way that large groups of people can talk to each other, like a big party room where everyone sits quietly and listens as one person says something relevant to what someone else just said.<br /><br />Many of us read a lot of Regency Romances where authors try so very hard to convey the essence of what "making conversation" is all about. A good conversationalist was valued at these upper crust parties, and conversation was considered an artform.<br /><br />That became entirely lost in our society starting perhaps as early as the 1950's when television invaded living rooms. Or maybe the 1920's when radio became the common household evening activity.<br /><br />Somehow, today, while people are flowing away from reading novels, magazines and newspapers, the fine art of conversation may be in revival online in blogs and social networking.<br /><br />True, when these facilities started out, the artform was so lost that general anonymous interaction gave rise to the phenomenon of the Flame War -- an emotional exchange characterized by hurling foul language mostly fraught with semantic loading and devoid of meaning.<br /><br />However, today there are those who make money blogging because they have found the knack of expressing public opinion in a quotable way. These are the new journalists. They make news rather than reporting it.<br /><br />I suspect the fine art of polite conversation won't be far behind this development, and it may be a blog just like this one that throws the spark onto the dry tinder of the internet.<br /><br />Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br /><a href="http://www.simegen.com/jl/">http://www.simegen.com/jl/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/">http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/</a> -- where I am currently posting chapters in a book on Tarot that does not yet have a publisher. Check Tuesdays.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>Jacqueline Lichtenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613040740264804278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-58772975457872554212007-12-01T05:55:00.001-08:002007-12-03T09:59:55.858-08:00What do bloglinkhoppers do?<div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We give each other traffic.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Romance Review blogs</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288.html">Barbara Vey </a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/barbaravey">Barbara Vey on MySpace</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Group Blogs:</span><br /><br />FFP<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/">alien romances</a><br /><br />(rowena cherry, linnea sinclair, jacqueline lichtenberg, margaret l carter, susan kearney, colby hodge, susan sizemore)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://outdamnedstory.blogspot.com/">Out Damned Story,</a><br /><br />FFP Romance outtakes<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Cross-genre Blogs<br /><br /><a href="http://males-and-other-animals.blogspot.com/">Males and Other Animals</a><br /></span><br />Deborah Macgillivray, Josh Artemeier, Jade Lee (author), Rowena Cherry,<br /><br /><br />Special Interest Blogs<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://survival-romances.blogspot.com/">Survival Romances</a></span><br /><br />Rowena Cherry, Annalee Blysse, Janet Miller<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Individual Romance Author Blogs</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://rowenacherry.blogspot.com/">Rowena Remarks</a><br /></span><br /></div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://jacquierogers.blogspot.com/">Jacquie Rogers</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kathrynekennedy.com/blog.html">Kathryne Kennedy </a><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116762825767785810.post-41092380088715842912007-12-01T05:55:00.000-08:002007-12-04T18:20:29.209-08:00What do bloglinkhoppers do?<div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We give each other traffic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com="" target="_blank">http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com</a>">alien romances group blog<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com="" target="_blank">http://outdamnedstory.blogspot.com</a>">Out Damned Story<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com="" target="_blank">http://rowenacherry.blogspot.com</a>">Rowena Remarks<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com="" target="_blank">http://survival-romance.blogspot.com</a>">Survival Romances<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com="" target="_blank">http://males-and-other-animals.blogspot.com</a>">Males and Other Animals<br /></span><br /><br /><br /></div> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/rowena+cherry" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for rowena cherry">rowena cherry</a></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com2