Rain and cool and gray.  If I had to choose this or 90 degree weather, the cool weather always wins.  Between squalls, I got out and bought groceries.  Didn't accomplish much else.  Finished the last twenty pages of a Spenser mystery I'd been reading.  Hm.  Yes, that's about it.

I tried to upload my newest cover art here, but without success.  So, for today, I'll give up.  I may try to post it on the Livejournal for Robin-hobb.  Sometimes I have better luck uploading photos there. Or I may post them on the photo bucket.

Of late, I've considered all the various places I post things online.  Here's my list:

Robinhobb.com    Badly out of date and awkward. Time to tear it down and build anew.

Here, on Myspace.  It works well for some things, but feels awkward when I'm trying to respond directly to readers.  And often I can't get things to work the way I want them to work.  Not the site's fault, it just doesn't feel organic to me personally.

The Robin Hobb newsgroup at sff.net   Probably my favorite.  I check it several times a day, there are a great bunch of people there, you don't have to register or pay anything to post there, and I find it a very easy way to carry on a conversation with several readers at once.

The Robin-Hobb Livejournal.  It's okay.  It does let me put up photos. Adding 'friends' seems to be awkward in how many clicks it takes me, but perhaps I'm doing it wrong. 

The Photobucket.  Great place for putting up lots of photos after a convention or tour. Not a place to blog or interact with people. 

The Robin Hobb area on Yuku.   Great bunch of people there, and I've enjoyed meeting a lot of them. Sometimes I feel a bit like an intruder, because the discussions there can be very frank and if someone is criticizing an element of the story and then I respond, I think the poster might feel awkward. So I drop in and read but don't post much.

There are several other Livejournals that I peek in on, but seldom post on for the same reason.  When a site is run by the readers and the readers are having frank and open discussions, having the author suddenly pop in can be awkward. 

But as you can see, those are a LOT of sites to keep up with.  And I tend to look after them in a very hit-or-miss fashion.  So, I think I need to abandon some of them, and choose one or two to develop very well.  I love my newsgroup on SFF.net.  So I don't think I'll leave that one.  I'm considering doing a lot more with my website to make it easier to update.  I think if I had just one place to tend, I could do a much better job of it.

Thoughts, anyone?

Robin