So I meant to do this yesterday since we were halfway through, but, with beautifully ironic timing the widget we use on our Wittegen Press blog to allow people to subscribe to our newsletter on MailChimp blew up on the very day we were actually talking about the mailing list on the blog. M is for Mailing List is over here at Wittegen Press, if you'd like to see it :) I therefore spent yesterday trying to figure out what had broken and then switching 26 posts, 1 page and the widgets on the site to a new plugin.
AtoZChallenge Sites I Am Visiting Every Day
I record all the sites I visit and who visits me in a spreadsheet so I can keep track. I'm actually visiting over 50 sites every day, but here are a few I've visited almost every day and think everyone should check out. That's not to say there aren't other wonderful ones as well, but I had to make some choices and here are my top 10 :)
- Zalka Csenge VirĂ¡g @ The Multicolored Diary (MY) - Epic stories is the theme and the posts are absolutely wonderful. and I'm cheating and counting this in the same entry because it's the same blogger :) MopDog - Hungarian weirdness - 26 ways to Die in Medieval Hungary - absolutely fascinating. The one about dying from ear ache is my fav so far.
- S. L. Hennessy @ Pensuasion - Daily movie smackdowns - pick your favourite :)
- Sara C. Snider - Great short fantasy stories with a theme of tree names - quick, enchanting, individual reads.
- Elle @ Erratic Project Junkie (CR) - great craft project with detailed instructions
- CollectInTexas Gal - great posts with lots of brilliant pictures about growing up in the 50s and 60s - very funny in places
- Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts - Disney, who doesn't love Disney?
- Patricia Lynne (WR) - flash fiction written every day against a chosen word.
- Alex Hurst | A Fantasy Author in Kyoto - absolutely beautiful photos and descriptions of living in Japan
- Chrys Fey - Write with Fey (WR) - Disasters - natural one, man made ones - everything about distasters
- Samantha Bryant-Balancing Act - Samantha is talking about her new book Going Through the Change: A Menopausal Superhero Novel and how she came to write it. It sounds like an awesome book.
So there you have it, some of the wonderful blogs I have been visiting this month in no particular order. I look forward to finding more as the challenge goes on as well as continuing to visit all of those I am enjoying.
Do you have any favourite blogs in the AtoZ you think I should visit? Please tell me about them in the comments.
I have two other blogs that I share with my twin Sophie in the AtoZ as well, so I'm going to plug them too :)
- Wittegen Press Blog - we are talking about the whys behind some of our books and on the day of the post giving the book in question away FREE
- Fantasy Boys XXX - daily drabbles (100 words) about fantasy boys inspired by colours. Some posts have adult content.
Hi Tasha - that's great that you're highlighting other bloggers - I need to get over to visit the ones I don't know .. cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy them as much as I am :)
DeleteAll great blogs!
ReplyDeleteYep, and there were so many more I had to choose from - this year is a blast.
DeleteThank you for including me! Yours is one of my favorite for this year's Challenge too. Actually, it was one of my favorites last year as well. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I've really been enjoying your disasters - always interesting to find out what could kill us next ;) I used to love the disaster movies of the 70s - they were classics.
DeleteThank you for including me! Yours is one of my favorite for this year's Challenge too. Actually, it was one of my favorites last year as well. :)
ReplyDeleteI am humbled, thank you... your place has become a favorite to stop over too. Looking for a long friendship after too. :)
ReplyDeleteYour posts always give me a big smile when I pop by in the mornings :)
DeleteI think I'm visiting you nearly every day. I am also visiting most of those you name along with dozens of others.
ReplyDeleteYup, you have thank you :) There are so many good sites aren't there. My list keeps getting longer and longer.
DeleteOOO! These are all good blogs!
ReplyDeleteBut I will admit I am really enjoying Jeremy's posts on Disney and Chrys Fey is always great to read.
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Tim Brannan, The Other Side Blog
2015 A to Z of Vampires
http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/
Disney and Disasters - we have some alliteration going on ;)
DeleteYou sound so organized! Congrats to you:) It's crazy hard to hit all the blogs I want to check in on everyday. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe first year I did the AtoZ I got so lost and couldn't remember where I had been, so last year I started a spreadsheet and it makes life sooooo much easier :) It's so hard isn't it - so many wonderful things to read.
DeleteThank you so much for the shout out! And visiting 50 blogs a day! Holy smokes, consider me wildly impressed. There's a couple sites not on your list that I've been visiting that you might like (though I wouldn't be surprised if you have, in fact, visited them).
ReplyDeleteOne is J.H Moncrieff with a "things that go bump in the night" theme http://www.jhmoncrieff.com/.
The other one is Storytelling Matters with daily posts about ghosts https://storytellingmatters.wordpress.com/.
Both are super creepy and very interesting. Thanks for all the great posts so far, and happy continued A to Z! :)
You're welcome, I'm really enjoying your fics :) Thank you so much for the recs - I will check them out.
DeleteI'm enjoying a lot of those too! Lisa, co-host AtoZ 2015, @ http://www.lisabuiecollard.com
ReplyDeleteIt was so hard to choose just 10 ... I could have listed another 30 at least! :)
DeleteThank so you much for the shout out! I look forward to your blog every day too!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the A to Z Challenge!
A to Z Co-Host S. L. Hennessy
http://pensuasion.blogspot.com/
You're welcome :) I do enjoy trying to pick movies.
DeleteThis is so cool of you! I have enjoyed visiting you and getting to know you better as well. Thank you for your visits, in kind. Now to visit these peeps. :)
ReplyDeleteI think I shall have to do at least one more of these at some point - so many fab blog to visit, including yours :)
DeleteI agree. There are so many to visit and so many you wish you could visit. It's all about time.
ReplyDeleteYep :) We all need time turners for April! :)
DeleteThank you for sharing. I'm going to have to check some of these out (those that I'm not already visiting). We're buying a house and they're KILLING us with paperwork, so I don't have time to visit all the blogs I want. As I try to read blogs every day, I'm skipping all the ones that don't grab me within the first paragraph or so and moving onto the next.
ReplyDeleteI sympathise - paperwork is never fun, especially when you want to be doing something else. Good luck with the house buying, hope it is all going smoothly even with all the bureaucracy.
DeleteThank you for the double shout out! :) I am glad you are enjoying my blogs :) Great list!
ReplyDelete@TarkabarkaHolgy from
Multicolored Diary - Epics from A to Z
MopDog - 26 Ways to Die in Medieval Hungary
I'm loving both of them - always so entertaining :)
DeleteWhat a lovely idea! I may have to steal this and write about what I've been reading, too! And thanks so much for the shoutout!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome :) Feel free to steal away :D
DeleteDue to some "oversight" we (my "Crypt") not listed in the "A to Z'...
ReplyDeleteWe are still doing these posts.... (see if we join in on their little "Blogger games" again...they wish to leave me off their "precious list" We have No use for folks like that......
... we had trouble locating a proper "Villain" for the letter "N"..
Its weird because you were definitely on the Theme Reveal list - maybe technology bungled as it is want to do. I see you managed to find an N in the end :)
DeleteI'm following a few of those and loving them too! There really is a great variety of posts this year.
ReplyDeleteSo many, I think I'm enjoying this year the most of all three I've taken part in so far :)
DeleteTasha, thanks so much for including CollectInTexas Gal in your list. I look forward every morning to your visit and comment. You are amazing to visit 50 + blogs a day. As a commenter you are tops with a positive sentence or two about the post and then on to sharing your own personal experiences relating to the post.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, since reading your posts this challenge, I am getting more and more interested in your Science Fiction genre. It's fascinating how mythology based the characters are. I'm very impressed with the research and knowledge it takes to write on this level. Thank-you for an April of learning and appreciation of authors, characters, books and movies I would not otherwise have known.
Sue at CollectInTexas Gal
AtoZ 2015 Challenge
Minion for AJ's wHooligans
You're welcome, I've really enjoyed reading all your posts so far and look forward to reading the rest too :) Ooh, a possible convert ;) come into my parlour said the spider to the fly ;) Thank you so much for visiting, I always enjoy your comments too.
DeleteI'm glad you're enjoying my posts. I've been reading yours and Sophie's posts too.
ReplyDeleteI love your little fics - they come alive and your imagination is sometimes so beautifully twisted ;)
DeleteI'm already visiting a couple of them, but you got me curious about some other ;-)
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy them - I'm having a blast visiting them all. :)
DeleteAwww... thank you so much for the shout-out, Natasha. I'm so sorry I fell behind on your posts! All caught up tonight, I think... I am following a few of the ones that you mentioned (Multi-Colored Diary and Mop Dog are both amazing this year!) but there are a few new ones for me, too. I'll check them out! :)
ReplyDeleteNo problems :) - I fell behind yesterday thanks to a headache - these things happen - we are but human.
DeleteI'm finally getting caught up on my reading after this crazy pants week! Thank you so much for including me!! Funny enough, you and I are regularly reading a lot of the same blogs. I'm keeping track of mine by having a separate shelf for A to Z blogs in my Feedly. It's crazy how quickly it fills up! There are a LOT of good blogs and themes out there this year. I'm really having a great time catching up on them today. Elle @ Erratic Project Junkie
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, I am loving your posts.
DeleteI found quite a few blogs through the theme reveal, but I seem to just keep adding to the list :). So many interesting people in the blogsphere!