It has been a different kind of week for my blog. Plum Bean got a lot plum beanier last Friday when I found some extraordinary blogs written by extraordinary readers and writers and they found me right back. And yet I still do not know how to link. I cannot seem to make those little buttons turn blue.
I found great blogs written by prolific readers, reviewers, writers, editors, teachers--it was fantastic! The seeds of community took happy root. It has been a chat, a discussion, not in the Googly-chat way but in a sitting barefoot on a picnic blanket with friends, sunshine, a stack of books and ripe watermelon way. It has been lovely. Here are some of the blogs I found when I hopped down the rabbit hole:
Michelle: http://redheadedbookchild.blogspot.com/
Missy B: http://missysbooknook.blogspot.com/
Whitney: http://she-is-too-fond-of-books.blogspot.com/
Jeannie: jeannie@pinecottagebooks.com
MarthaE: http://marthasbookshelf.blogspot.com/
Carin: http://carolinebookbinder.blogspot.com/
LindyLouMac:http://lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.com/
Stella: http://exlibris-stella.blogspot.com/
http://bookquotes-bookquotes.blogspot.com/
http://muse-in-the-fog.blogspot.com/
And of course the blog hop at the wonderful Crazy for Books!: www.crazy-for-books.com
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thanks for finding me via the Hop! I'm a new follower and look forward to discussing great books!!
ReplyDeleteHave a super weekend!
Here's how I do links. While composing a post, you highlight the url you want to link to, and you cut it. Next, you highlight the words you want to appear as the link (turn blue), usually the name of the site. Then you click on the fifth button (in the Compose layout). It has what looks like a single link in a chain over a green dot (next to the font color button, before the left justify button). You will then get a pop-up that says "hyperlink". In the "URL" field, you then paste the url that you cut in step 1. Click okay. Let me know if it works! I still can't figure out how to leave hyperlinks in comments, myself.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog and following me. I'm new to book blogging and look forward to having some great conversations with you.
ReplyDeleteI see that you are from Hawaii. I loved my trip there and can't wait to go back. My husband keeps talking about moving there when he retires. :)
I look forward to reading your book.
Have a great day!
thank you carin! that is the second time you have come to my rescue! you are brilliant!
ReplyDeletemelissa, thank you for stopping by! i would definitely recommend moving to hawaii!
ReplyDeleteIf you could figure out how to do a hyperlink in a post, we'll be even! :)
ReplyDeletehmmm... working on it!
ReplyDeleteHello! I found you through Whitney's blog and I'm glad I did :)
ReplyDeleteAs for doing a hyperlink in a post, I think this will help :) http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-blogger-to-add-a-link-to-your-blog.html
thank you kals! look carin! i am going to try it!
ReplyDeleteHi Priya,
ReplyDeleteStopping by to visit your lovely site. Have a good weekend. Oh, by the way, have you figured out how to do the linkages yet? Thanks for all your help in giving me info for my trip. It's incredibly sweet of you :-)
hi priya, it's ok, my friend still doesn't know what a "blog" is... so do not fear! i will try to explain linking. as you are writing a post for your blog and you want to link to someone's blog, pretend you are writing "blah blah blah, hey readers you should check out Mary's Blog..." what you want to do is highlight "mary's blog" in that instance and then just above where you are typing the post for your blog you should see a little greenish circle (it's supposed to be the earth, as in world wide web) with a bit of a chain on the top (as in a chain link). if you hover your mouse over it, the word "link" should pop up. click on it, with your word highlighted and it should ask you to type in the actual web address. that should be it! you should see "mary's blog" turn blue. hope that helps you! the icon for linking is really bad, in my opinion, as if anyone can tell what that means!!
ReplyDeleteHi Priya. Thanks to your site, I learned from Ariel here how 'to link'. You and me will learn all these one day too!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ariel. That worked.
ReplyDeleteHi Priya. Thanks for visiting my blog. I am now a follower of yours. I enjoyed reading your posts, especially the one about The Sound of Music. I will have to watch the movie again to catch the quote you mentioned and see anything else new I might notice.
ReplyDeletechristina t, definitely watch it again. there is so much more there than i remembered. it is quite somber, lyric and underplayed in places--i love that!
ReplyDeletebook quoter, ariel and carin combined are helping me get this!
ariel, you are a sweety. thank you.
june, no problem! you are staying in a great part of london. my book takes place all around that area!
Hey! new follower from the Blog hop ;)
ReplyDeleteI love your title, "Plum Bean Project", it's so unique and catchy, and your story behind it is really awesome
Visiting via the hop - really good work happening here. Now a follower!
ReplyDeleteVisting via the blog hop and I already feel addicted. Congratulations on getting your book published, I am still writing my first draft but hope to get there one day. It must be lovely to live in Hawaii too.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for listing my blog Priya, I am delighted to have met you on the Blogsphere.
ReplyDeletethank you audrey, hopechaser, vivienne and lindyloumac for stopping by! i am delighted to have met you too!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and am glad I found on the hop!
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Thanks for stopping by. I am now following you through blogger hop. I hope you have a great weekend.
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priya, i had a moment today when my electric hedge trimmers pooped out on me and i had to resort to the old, rusty hand hedge trimmers... i was inspired by ruminations here on plum bean... i thought of back in the 17th, 18th centuries in england: so many hedges and no black and decker, no makita, no convenient electric trimmers!! i thought of gardening and plant maintenance back in the "olden days" and how different things must have been, how unruly, how wild looking. except of course the palaces and wealthy who could afford many many skilled gardeners. gardeners were actually skilled back then, not just some guy you call from a big company who's doing this as his summer job... i had a lot of thoughts and thought how interesting it would be to look back at documentation of all of that!
ReplyDeleteairel that is a great idea! it was a super exciting period for landscaping. louis xiv stole andre le notre from his friend nicholas foquet, threw his friend in jail and then built versailles with gardens designed by le notre. thewhole history--or setting a story in the whole history would be genius! do it!
ReplyDeleteHello from another blog hopper!!! :D
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