When someone leaves a comment I receive a “please moderate” email from WP. In the email it shows the person’s email, URL and “Whois”. What exactly is “whois”? And what’s the best way to tell if the comment is spam? It can be tricky when […]
Planning My Wedding Ceremony in Florence, Italy
Coding God and I had our legal wedding last month, but we still have our celebration in Italy coming up in July. I thought I’d share a few of our wedding plans and ideas with you guys. 🙂 The Venue I think finding the venue […]
Why Your WordPress Site Was Hacked
From October last year until about January I was experiencing a lot of downtime (at some point, 70% of the time) on my WordPress blog (hosted at my own domain). Despite keeping everything up to date and not having a lot of plugins installed, I […]
Giveaway & Interview With Jessica Verdi
I am absolutely THRILLED to invite Jessica Verdi on the blog today. I adore both of her books and fangirled like crazy when I met her at BookExpo America last year. Today she’s here to talk about her latest book, The Summer I Wasn’t Me. […]
The Snowden Files by Luke Harding
The Snowden Files is like something out of a fiction dystopian book. Obviously the events from this book are real, and I knew the overall story before going in. But The Snowden Files lays it out in a way that just feels so amazingly dystopian. […]
I Challenge You to Clean Up Your Tags/Labels!
I’ve moved a lot of people from Blogger to WordPress. When doing so, I usually go through and convert most of their old “labels” to tags, because by default they’re all set as categories, but really most of them should be tags. When doing so, […]
How to Create Dynamic Featured Images in WordPress
When most people want a featured image (say a regular graphic for a “Discussion” feature), they use the “Set featured image” option inside WordPress. However, if you’re like me, you create feature graphics to match your theme. But then what happens when you change your […]
Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins
Sweet Reckoning kind of ended how I feared it would: not that intense. From book one, I expected an epic WAR between heaven and hell. Imagine a war like the one in His Dark Materials. Huge, intense, all-encompassing. Sweet Reckoning didn’t have a war. If […]
The Treatment by Suzanne Young
I’m sad to say that I didn’t like The Treatment as much as The Program. I thought the first half was a bit slow, since it was mostly just running away and trying to stay under the radar. But mostly, I didn’t like how Sloane, […]
Should You Review Books from Different Age Groups on One Blog?
Hi Ashley! First of all… I LOVE your site. It’s awesome and very pretty and fresh. I came across it while searching for “etiquette” questions about book blogging. I’m having a hard time finding my answer. LOL My question is: Is it okay to have […]