Dodo Au Go-Go

Drawing by my LittleOne Not that long ago, I posted a very long explanation of why and why I was finally updating the look of the Dodo Au Go-Go blog. And now, I've up and changed it again.  What was the main reason this time? Well, to be honest, last time, even though I spent a lot of time and energy trying to find the best colour and font combinations, plus moving all the gadgets (widgets) to how I wanted them, and generally wrestling with blogger's clunky behind-the-stuff, there was one thing I couldn't change about my previous template.  And that was: the way it used an extract of the post's first pic in giant, poster-size to loom over my title and my opening words in the featured post on the home page. In subsequent posts, the pics dropped to a normal size, thank goodness. But the featured post really 'headlined' the image in an excruciatingly unsubtle way.  I guess that was the nature of the template. I didn't realise it when I chose it, and I couldn...

Dodo Au Go-Go is suddenly looking a bit different. After many years of plain white, adorned only with a couple of quirky fonts, a bit of a sea breeze has just come through. The reason for this breeze at this particular time is a bit convoluted but amusing to me, so I'm jotting it down here. In the spirit of doing everything backwards (what the Aussies would call "arts-end up" - except they wouldn't say 'arts', but you get my drift), now that the Falling into the Five Senses anthology is out, I've been trying to wrap my head about marketing for indie (independent/self-published/self-pubbed) writers. Helpful advice on Twitter from the forever-wonderful Sarah Brentyn pointed me towards the idea that a cohesive identity/brand across platforms is one of the helpful things you can do to make yourself more recognisable.  This was a kind of first-step marketing task I could cope with. And so I started thinking about making the look of this Dodo blog more connec...

When autumn rolls out shorter days and cooling weather, the little Leaf Spirits of the Liquid Amber tree in the backyard awaken.