Blogging – SE White Author

The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2022

2022-12-14

Blogging, Holiday Wishes, Recommendations, Romance Tropes, Top 10 Lists

Lets get to some numbery-maths for the year. I’m still at the point where I genuinely have a lot of fun breaking my blogging year down in stats. If you’re interested the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 breakdowns are linked. Just as a note: I’ve spent zero pennies on marketing of any kind since I started this blog in November 2016. Instead, I’ve focused on blog-hops and building relationships. That means super slow growth and also super low stress levels. (If slow is…

Top Ten Awful Books I’m Glad I Read

2022-02-24

SE White

Blogging, Book Reviews, Top 10 Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

To preface this list: I try hard to stay away from bashing bad books. In the first place, I wouldn’t like it done to my books. That shit hurts. Second, I might meet the actual author some day, and that would be awkward AF. Can you picture it at a convention? Me: “Oh, hi, you’re [author]? You must be the one who wrote [this book, which I totally trashed in a review].” Poor Author: “Yep, that’s me. So you’ve read…

The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2021

2021-12-08

SE White

Blogging, Holiday Wishes, Recommendations, Romance Tropes, Top 10 Lists

Alright, friends. Let’s get to some numbery-maths for the year. I’m still at the point where I genuinely enjoy blogging (LET IT NEVER END) and I have a lot of fun breaking my year down in stats. If you’re interested the 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 breakdowns are linked. Just as a note: I’ve spent zero pennies on marketing of any kind since I started this blog in November 2016. Instead, I’ve focused on blog-hops and building relationships. That means super slow growth and…

Blog Problems: Oh Joy

2021-01-18

SE White

Blogging, Goals and Hopes

It took me a long time to figure it out, but it appears that comments have stopped working on the blog. If you’ve left a comment on the last three posts for me I apologize! It’s not that I’m ignoring you, it’s a technical problem. Of course I figured out what was happening on a holiday weekend, which means my support request to WordPress is going to take longer. And I’m definitely not smart enough to fix the issue myself.…

A Happy Holiday Post From Me to You

2020-12-23

SE White

Goals and Hopes, Holiday Wishes

No matter where you are or what you celebrate, if you’re reading this we’ve made it through 2020 and we collectively as human beings celebrate that. We’re still here, regardless of everything the last twelve months threw at us, and we will keep going. Whatever nasty things 2021 throws at us will at least be part of a new year and that’s (very slightly) comforting. Know that I genuinely wish you and your loved ones a happy, joyful, peace-filled winter…

The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2020

2020-12-16

SE White

Blogging, Goals and Hopes, Holiday Wishes, Top 10 Lists

Alright, friends. Let’s get to some numbery maths for the year. I’m still at the point where I genuinely enjoy blogging (LET IT NEVER END) and I have a lot of fun breaking my year down in stats. If you’re interested the 2019, 2018, and 2017 breakdowns are linked. Just as a note: I’ve spent zero pennies on marketing of any kind since I started this blog in November 2016. Instead, I’ve focused on blog-hops and building relationships. That means…

The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2019

2019-12-10

SE White

Blogging, Goals and Hopes, Romance Tropes, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

Alright, friends. Let’s get to some numbery maths for the year. I’m still at the point where I genuinely enjoy blogging (LET IT NEVER END) and I have a lot of fun breaking my year down in stats. Onward! Visitors in 2018: 2,320 Top 5 Posts from 2019: 15 Gorgeous Literary Tattoos (This is DIRECTLY caused by pinning this post to Pinterest. I stuck it up and then months later it just…took off? And was shared like crazy and ended…

Review Sites for Your Author Toolbox

2019-03-20

SE White

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Blogging

Getting reviews can be so difficult for small press/Indie authors. Believe me, I know the pain. As I’ve worked my way through the wild west Interweb I’ve been lucky enough to find & follow plenty of book bloggers, mostly for their fascinating reviews. A lot of these websites accept books for reviews, which makes them just about the most wonderful people on the web. The vast majority of bloggers do this completely unpaid. Just for the love of literature. Because this…

Friday Favorites Goes Old School

2019-01-18

SE White

Blogging, Book Reviews, Recommendations, Silliness

Friday Favorites is a prompt created by Kibby at Something of the Book and it’s a brand new blog hop. Come and join us! Today’s favorites: Old School YA books (YA release before 2000) *rubs hands together* Alright, bookworms. Let’s get this party started. Surprising absolutely no one, Tamora Pierce is about to feature heavily in my list. She may, in fact, be the entire thing. We’ll see. Since I turned 13 in 2000 and I was an actual young adult in…

Top Ten Tuesday, Villain Edition

2018-10-23

SE White

Blogging, Top 10 Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

Want to join in on the fun? Go sign up at That Artsy Reader Girl and come blog hop with all of us bookworms. I have to admit, I love a good villain. The action seems more exciting, the stakes are higher, the plot is richer and the snark factor (in the best books) goes up by a factor of fifteen. All good things. This week’s list asked us to come up with our top ten, so here you go. Best Creepy…