Reader Feedback Day
Today is Reader Feedback Day on Pens With Cojones.
This blog exists to serve you, dear reader and I intend to get better at it. You deserve better and ever improving content, you deserve easier navigation and better recognition, and I intend to give them to you. To do that, I need to know how Pens With Cojones is doing right now.
How has your Pens With Cojones experience been?
Perhaps you’ve noticed how I get stuck on certain facets of the writing or literary topics and spend several consecutive posts hashing them out. Recently, it’s been all about editors and the editing process, before that it was all things literary. Maybe you weren’t as interested in one of those topics and were bummed by the unrelenting focus of the posts.
Here’s how you can help. Tell me what writing and literary topics interest you. Writing craft issues like description, characterization or writing opposite sex protagonists? Do you want to learn more about the publishing industry? Ebooks, advances, time to market, time to payment? More book reviews? More personal stuff? More posts about literary culture in general?
Maybe you’re having a hard time finding the posts you want. Tell me if you’d like a search box? Better sidebar navigation? Top commenters instead of recent commenters? More RSS options? More sharing options?
Too many grammar and spelling errors in the posts? Too few reputable links to back up my (frequently wild) opinions? Not enough images? Too many images? Fonts hard to read?
Today is your day, folks. Tell me what you like, tell me what you don’t like, give me suggestions, rant, say hello, confess your undying love, call me a moron, tell me a secret, get something off your chest; it’s all welcome.
Use the form below (straight to my inbox,), or write your feedback in the comments. There’s even a full blown contact page up yonder if you want me to reply with an email.
I’m here. I’m listening. Don’t be shy.
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“Don’t go changing, to try and please me,You never let me down before, I love you just the way you are.” A little Billy Joel for you….yes, I am that old and that geeky. ;)
Seriously – I love your stuff, I love the variety of topics, and you never have typos and grammars mistakes – like someone I know – not mentioning any names. LOL! You rock dude.
Lol, Billy Joel rocks and we’ll just have to wrestle anyone who says otherwise (you first though, I’m a lover not a fighter hehe).
Thank you for your kind words, T. Seriously!
I am going to be myself (no helping that lol). Just don’t want to get too comfortable and I am a firm believer to the “it can always be better” rule.
LOL….I’ll wrestle anyone for you. And..I agree – it is good to stay current and in touch with readers.
HA! Is that so? Next time some burly dude wants to fight me because I made his woman laugh, I’m going to shoot you a quick SOS :)
Thanks for the tweet!
I love your site and the way your page is set up but I want to offer some feedback so here are my thoughts (and obviously feel free to totally ignore them!)
Personally I love the recent topics regarding the edit process as well as your posts about, as you say, writing craft issues. I tend to enjoy those posts more than the ones about the general publishing industry or book reviews.
As to the layout and everything, I think it’s great! It’s easy to navigate around (though I usually catch you through my GoogleReader).
Alley,
Thank you for your kind words and feedback, it’s great to know what you enjoy reading.
I post about quite a variety of topics but i do it in these phases where I focus on one topic for several posts. I’m going to work on spreading things around more so that readers get to read different topics within the same week.
Thanks again.
Hi, found you on the blog hop and just wanted to say your blog really rocks. You write about stuff I wish I could write about. I also like the scrolly-thing at the top of the page. I think you’re alright in terms of layout, but I’ll need some time to explore it all.
Zee,
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by and for saying such nice things about the blog. Feel free to poke around, make yourself a sandwich, get comfortable :)
I like the name of your blog, off to check it out now.
Hi Mayowa,
Thanks for coming by my blog on the Hop. I really am enjoying reading your blog, and will be following you. If you have an suggestions on ebooks 0r publishing in the new world, let me know! I would love for you to do a guest post on my blog, if you would prefer that.
Keep up the fantastic posts.
http://readseverything.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your kind words Deepali. I sent you an email.
I don’t have any suggestions on changes. I think it’s great the way it is. I like that you take so much time and that your posts are often more like mini-articles (or in fact, full-on articles) than the average entry in the blogosphere. It’s great that you’re so committed to making this a good experience for your readers. Love reading your posts; just keep ‘em coming, please!
Samuel,
Thanks a ton for your kind words and for stopping by.
I’m a rambler so I never seem to be able to write short posts lol. I’m really glad you’re back in the blogosphere, was rather excited when the ol feed reader lit up on your feed. Welcome back.