Anthology Markets

[angelabenedetti]

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Comments

[aishabintjamil]

I'll miss seeing your posts here. I have your blog bookmarked, but there are so many blogs, and once they stop being packaged in a nice, neat newsfeed, they tend to fall off my radar. I miss Google reader, and have yet to find a replacement I really like. (And it doesn't look like you have an RSS feed option, anyway? Unless I missed something?)

As a side note, since I usually read via my reading page, and didn't feel compelled to comment on the anthology list, I rarely actually opened a post like this. Any idea if that type of reader shows in the analytics you looked at?

[angelabenedetti]

Aisha -- I just used the LJ stats pages. I don't know whether it shows when a post has been read from someone's flist, although so many people read that way, I would think it'd have to? And I use the LJ-CUT to put the meat of these posts under the cut, so anyone actually using the anthology listing would have to click through. I think? I haven't read on LJ in so long, I suppose they might've made a change there. But looking at the numbers available, it seemed hardly anyone would miss me. [wry smile]

I miss the Google reader too, but I've been using Feedly. It works a lot like the Google reader -- some differences, but I got used to it pretty quickly. If you want to follow a blog (or a web comic or whatever) you copy the URL, paste it into the Add Stuff form on Feedly (click on the + sign in the rectangle in the left-hand sidebar) and it'll go looking for a feed for you. My other blogs definitely have feeds.

Angie

[marasmine]

I keep saying I'm going to walk away from LJ before I'm the last one left and I have to turn the lights off when I leave - but saying and doing are two different things.

I'm still trying to decide if I'm sad that TQ are shutting shop - I wasn't going to submit anything else to them (if I ever get anything else finished) but TQ Inc did give me my first break. TQ LLC is/was a different beast though.

I might have to give Feedly a try and see if I'll read blogs if they are spoon fed to me. I've tried Facebook but it is just so random and eats time even worse than LJ did in the day.

[angelabenedetti]

Mara -- Feedly works really well for me; definitely give it a shot.

I loved LJ when I first started out on it, which was several years before I created this journal. I haven't paid much attention to it in a while, though, and it seems time is better spent elsewhere these days.

It definitely sucks about Torquere, but IMO you're exactly right about this iteration being very different from the company you and I published with. I too am grateful to Torquere for publishing my first however many commercial books/stories, but that was Shawn and Lorna. Frankly, I don't owe Kristi and Joanna squat. [shrug]

Angie

[foxrafer]

I think I used to have a feed of Angie's Desk here but when I stopped having a paid account I think that must have discontinued. If feedly stays free I'll try and follow your blogs there.

[angelabenedetti]

I haven't heard anything about Feedly going paid. [crossed fingers]

At least I'm hearing from folks I haven't talked to in a while. [grin/wave]

Angie