The switch to WordPress in late May has really seen the blog grow. We have had 13205 hits since then (as of 11 pm 12/30/11 that is) and average over 2000 a month, or 70 hits a day. Thanks for that support and interest. I wanted to take a look back at the highlights of the blog this past six months since the move. Several posts have gonna pretty viral by my standards so perhaps people would like to visit them who haven’t or even revisit them again. Here’s the top 20 posts. Please feel free to revisit this stories but also please consider leaving comments about what you like about this website and suggestions for how we can improve. We’re doing our best to serve you well and anything you can offer us as feedback just helps us do it better.
Thanks again for your support of me and this site!
Bryan
10 Mistakes SFF Writers Make With Research – 670
12 Essentials For A Successful Author Website – 557
9 Tools For Character Development – 470
18 Holiday Themed Science Fiction And Fantasy Stories – 454
To The Woman I Fell In Love With – 341
The Worker Prince – 341
Top 10 Reasons You Should Go To SFF Conventions – 296
Why I’m Not A Fan of FanFic – 291
70 Most Memorable Science Fiction & Fantasy Books I’ve Read (to date) – 275
7 Tips For Being A Good Beta Reader – 264
10 Tips For Writing Good Action Scenes – 258
Guest Post: Space Opera The Junction Between Worlds by John H. Stevens – 192
Guest Post: Can You Really Tell Within A Few Paragraphs If Something Is Good? by Patty Jansen – 191
Guest Post: Defining Sword & Sorcery by Howard Andrew Jones – 190
10 Tips For Doing A Good Interview–As Both Interviewer and Subject – 190
10 Tips For Planning A Blog Tour – 183
Write Tip: Get In Late, Get Out Early – 182
A Letter To Bipolar Disorder – 181
How To Get Your Book Noticed By Librarians Or Not by John Klima – 178
Write Tip: Making Perfect Bound ARCS With Create Space – 167
Sadly but unsurprisingly, the least popular were some passion posts about things I really care about but not really writing focused, and the Links of the Week posts, generally, just didn’t excite anyone, so I stopped bothering to compile the links I tweeted each week but if anyone’s curious, you can click the links below.
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the author of the space opera novel The Worker Prince, a Barnes & Noble Best SF Releases of 2011 Honorable Mention, the collection The North Star Serial, Part 1, and has several short stories forthcoming in anthologies and magazines. His second novel, The Returning, is forthcoming from Diminished Media Group in 2012. He’s also the host of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chatevery Wednesday at 9 pm EST on Twitter, where he interviews people like Mike Resnick, AC Crispin, Kevin J. Anderson and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He can be found online as @BryanThomasS on Twitter or via his website. Excerpts from The Worker Prince can be found on his blog.
4 5-star & 11 4-star reviews THE WORKER PRINCE $3.99 Kindlehttp://amzn.to/pnxaNm or Nook http://bit.ly/ni9OFh $14.99 tpb http://bit.ly/qIJCkS.