meta stuff

More semi-boring-but-possibly-useful stuff regarding Art and Words, the website:

1. You can now sign up to have my blog entries e-mailed to you. Check out the Feedblitz link in the right sidebar. It’s free and easy and works perfectly — I checked it out for myself.

2. I’ve migrated the mailing list for Art and Words Extra, my informal bimonthly newsletter, onto Art and Words’ internet service provider. So no more Yahoo group stuff to deal with. This way I can ensure that your privacy is completely respected as well as better control the content of my newsletters. For example, I can now send out beautiful html newsletters, instead of the usual plain text e-mail. The link to subscribe to Art and Words Extra is also located in the right sidebar, just above the Feedblitz form.

3. If you subscribe now for Art and Words Extra, you’ll receive a special thank you gift—a 36 page excerpt from my upcoming Goddess Inspiration Oracle. The 600k pdf download includes 12 goddess oracle cards and meanings, which can be printed out for advance use.

4. I’ve added a new blog category, Retail Therapy. Within it, I plan to feature other women artists, authors and entrepeneurs whose work I like. While I will mainly feature friends and colleagues at first, I’d love to eventually showcase new-to-me art, books and more. If you’d like your work to be considered for inclusion in Retail Therapy, I invite you to send an e-mail with your particulars to e-comment [at] artandwords dot com.

5. I’ve added a new page for time-sensitive events and exhibitions. It makes more sense to have them displayed in a separate area than to mix them within regular blog postings.

6. Promises, promises I know, but I am going to try to post more regularly here. I tend to blow hot and cold with this blog — posting everyday for a week, then not touching it for a month. Much depends on what’s going on in my world; work deadlines and family stuff are especially distracting. But I think that blogging helps me to be more in touch with what I’m doing with my work. It also forces me to be less precious with my writing, to simply get down to it without the usual procrastinating preamble.

Toward that end, I’m considering setting up a schedule: publishing-oriented posts on Mondays, goddess painting of the day on Fridays, that sort of thing. We’ll see how it goes!

And that’s the latest for now.

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