Madam Mayo's Blogroll Updated

A whole slew of new blogs on the 'roll, among them:

Artists Expound:
Apifera a Day
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Litblogs:
Laurie Pachter
Library Queue
Holt Uncensored
Ask Wendy the Query Queen
Mare Cromwell
The Wooden Spoon
fade theory
The Front Table
Narrative (Richard Gilbert)
Susan Higginbotham
Rosemary Salum (editor of Literal)
Ron Silliman
Readerville
Letras Latinas Blog (Latino Poetry Review)
Three Percent

Mexico:
Mexico Portal

Food and Travel:
I Heart Farms

Bee Blogs:
Global Swarming Honeybees
Linda's Bees, and more.

How do I follow so many blogs? Dear reader, if you haven't figured out how to use RSS feed, Lord help you because now we've got Twitter to contend with as well. (Yes, you can follow Madam Mayo at www.twitter.com/madammayo.) More anon.

Writers's Blogs: Best (& Worst) Practices-- The handout, now on-line and packed with links, from my workshop at the Maryland Writers Assoc. Conference

Now on-line: the handout from my workshop on writers's blogs at last Saturday's Maryland Writers Association Conference.

Writers's Blogs: 3 More Dos & 3 More Don'ts

This Sat May 3rd is my Writers's Blogs: Best & Worst Practices Workshop at the Maryland Writers Association Conference. On this subject, so far novelist and "Work in Progress" blogger Leslie Pietryzk has weighed in with 3 dos and 3 don'ts, as has writer, translator, and editor and "Right-reading" blogger Tom Christensen. And recently, on the occasion of Madam Mayo's second anniversary, I offered "5 Lessons Learned." Herewith 3 more dos and 3 more don'ts:

Do:
--->Mine your blog--- by which I mean, feature the better / most interesting / traffic-generating posts on your menu (see right-hand column of this page, scroll down, and you'll find, for example, Top 10 Books Read in 2007; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; and Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Writing Workshop);
--->Keep your text brief and link rich (surfers prefer to click rather than scroll);
--->Offer RSS feed.

Don't:
--->Use that generic "blogger" header (I must admit, it took me over a year to put in something original--- it's designed by Kathleen Fetner);
--->Get into endless rounds with anonymous and crank commenters (surely there are better things to do, for example, write?) I don't even allow comments--- though, certainly, I am happy to hear from readers (note link to "send e-mail" on right hand side of the page);
--->Forget to include the link to your blog on your e-mail signature.

---> For the archive on "Gone to the Litblogs" click here.