Opt-In Skin – A Review

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I purchased the Opt-In Skin Wordpress plugin about three months ago ($47) and have been playing with it on one of my blogs. You can watch the video on the site, but in brief, here’s what it does:

Once installed, you can create a variety of opt-in forms, including code from most of the major mailing list providers (i.e. Aweber, MailChimp, etc), as well as code to sign-up for your RSS feed.  Creating the skin is straightforward. Just pick a look and then tweak to suit your taste. Changeable elements include colors, placement, words on submit button, and number of pixels for name and e-mail blank box.

You don’t have to know the hex codes for colors, either – just click the color box and a color picker box will pop up – just click on the color you want. You can even click around on a sample at the Opt-In Skin website just to see how easy it is to make changes. Click for the full scoop

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Morphing Into a Mystery Writer?

I recently completed a 10-week course at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, under instructor Carole Bugge.  Carol is the author of the novels The Star of India,  The Haunting of Torre Abbey and several “Who Killed” novels. I learned so much about character, plotting and setting that I feel far more confident about tackling a mystery novel than I did before.

If you ever get a chance to take one of the Gotham courses I recommend them; I was in a class with incredibly talented writers so getting critiques from them really meant something.  I learned more about pacing and why it’s not always a good idea to kill someone off in the first line of the book.

Right now I’m working on a first draft of a cozy, hoping to have it done before fall and/or winter roll around. Click for the full scoop

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Today’s Resource: Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel

Although I primarily write non-fiction, like most people I have a yen to write a novel.And for me, that translates into writing a mystery. Click for the full scoop

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