This isn’t about romance or the reading community, but this here is still a blog, and it wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t read Dooce, the blog written by Heather Armstrong, back in the early days of the internet. I spend a fair amount of time looking back on the site and its history, and how romance readership and its communities have changed, and Dooce is tangled up in so much of that history for … Continue reading Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, has Died
Welcome to the Smart Bitches Business Update, our monthly feature wherein I talk about the site, the community within it, and what’s going on in the business side of things. This is the time of year I finalize the advertising packages here at the site, since I know many folks in publishing are looking ahead to plans for 2017. Over the past month I’ve been looking at statistics and projections, and examining how the way readers … Continue reading Smart Bitches Business Update: September 2016
Welcome to the Smart Bitches Business Update, a new monthly feature wherein I talk about the site, the community within it, and what’s going on in the business side of things. Yes, yes, cue up your Conchords. It’s Business Time. Sort of. I had a number of questions after The Toast (RIP) announced they were closing in July 2016, including some about how the site functions as a business, and how readers who love it can … Continue reading Smart Bitches Business Update: August 2016
