Monday, August 1, 2011

The BryonySeries Blog Is One Year Old Today!

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln


When I first began the blog, I committed to daily postings, but worried about running out of material. How wrong I was! The more blogs I write and the more auxiliary material I find and post, the more the ideas flow.

In the last year, the BryonySeries blog has covered:

• the author’s various writing projects

• the inspirations behind the story

• the editing experience

• the marketing behind the novel

• updates on the auxiliary projects, such as the book trailer, music video, cookbook, and fundraisers for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties

• interviews and glimpses into other members of the Bryony team

• blog postings composed by one of Bryony’s characters, Ed Calkins, the Steward of Tara

• the author’s fictional, Irish genealogy

• informational postings, interviews, and/or video clips on topics related to Bryony: Arabian horses, bats, bryony (the weed), croquet, dandyism and foppery, dreams, fishing, food (Victorian and ‘70’s-style), all things Irish, the language of fans, leeches, leprechauns, limericks, memories, piano music, roses and the meaning of their colors, rowboats, vampires, and Victorian clothing.

We’ve also had a fair amount of guest posters (message us at bryonyseries@gmail.com if you’d like to guest post) and a contest to name the Bryony cookbook.

If you’re new to the BryonySeries blog, check out the tags for topics on past posts or simply select a month and start reading. For additional fun, “like” the Bryony Facebook page (www.facebook.com/BryonySeries). Each day, that page offers additional fun posts, up-to-date information, book quotes and book-related quotes, photos and more.

For those that have followed us the entire year (We’ve passed 11,000 page views), thank you! To the new fans: the fun is just beginning. Stay posted!

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