JUMPING ON BANDWAGONS.

Yesterday at No rules. Just write., author Brenda Coulter blogged about Those Boring Book Trailers.

Now, I know book trailers appear to be one of the latest fads. But for the moment, I've decided I'm not going to jump on this particular bandwagon. Over the passing months, I've had a look at several book trailers, and there are a number of reasons why they don't work for me.

But the main one is this: After watching a few of them a couple of times, then showing them to my husband, John, to get his thoughts on them (and to find out whether he --- being the techno-wiz --- could make one), I realized one very important thing: I couldn't remember the title of a single book for which I'd seen a trailer, even if I'd seen the trailer repeatedly.

Naturally, this was not a point in their favor.

So, in the end, I opted not to go this route during the annual overhaul of my website, which I'm in the midst of right now and hope to have completed within the next few weeks or so.

This year, I've finally made a stab at learning CSS, and while I can already see some benefits to it, I can also see a lot of problems with it. One of these is that although HTML was easy for me to learn, I'm finding CSS much more of a challenge, and I've got too much else on my plate right now to devote the time necessary to it. So I'm not implementing it across the board.

Among other things, I need to finish proofing my galleys for my forthcoming novel, The Crystal Rose, and to complete the proposal for my next book, too.

So, that's it for today.