Milestone: 250 Posts Reached—& Now Passed!
I don’t remember to check my post statistics very often, but I have just realized that yesterday’s post Black Magic, was my 250th post since beginning ” … Anything, Really” on 31 May. So by posting this now I have just surpassed the 250 milestone—so closing on 500 and well on my way to 1000! 😉 (I think reaching that might have to be another party!)
Highlights for me, during those 250 posts have been:
- Starting! (Go figure.)
- Keeping it going. (For sure …)
- The blog parties for the USA/Canada and Australia/New Zealand launches of The Heir of Night
- The Fantasy SciFi Guest Author Series to celebrate the Australia/New Zealand launch of Heir. You can check out the full series by clicking on F-SF Guest Author Series in the sidebar.
- Joining the Tuesday Poem Blog.
- Interviewing Cheryl Morgan, long time fan, F-SF non fiction writer and Hugo Award winner, ahead of Worldcon in Australia.
- Being able to link through to my Big Idea guest post on John Scalzi’s Whatever
And I’m sure there’s more, but those are the ones that immediately spring to mind …
Another very big part of the fun for me though has been seeing my visitor numbers increase and reading and responding to your comments. So thank you for being part of the blog journey! And I would love to hear what have been highlights for you as blog readers! Have there been any aspects of the blog that you have particularly enjoyed? Topics you would like to see more of? Topics that you haven’t seen yet that you would like to see? Let me know and I’ll see what can be done.
Just to stay with that mood of celebration, anyone who comments on this post before my next post goes up tomorrow will go in the draw to win a gift set of:
- a signed Heir of Night chapter sampler from Worldcon, together with
- a signed ‘blue’ USA cover flat,
- a signed book plate, and
- a “Helen Lowe” book covers postcard, and (last but not least)
- a signed Thornspell cap
And there ‘may be’ a random giveaway as well … 😉
250 already? Crikey. That has gone quick! Congratulations, Helen, on 250 awesome posts!
It feels pretty quick to me as well–and thanks for being a regular!
Yay congrats. As a recent follower I cant wait to see what the next 250 bring.
Good to have you here, Donna!
250 – Wow!
Not even earthquakes can beat you!
Looking forward to the next 250.
Quite right, Jan–bah, we say to earthquakes, bah! Although I do feel for those people who are not so fortunate in terms of having a fundamentally sound house, or whose businesses have not been able to continue. But quaky shaky earth or not, I too am looking forward to “keeping going.” 🙂
When you wrote “since May” I thought surely you meant May 2009. Or 2008. I’m amazed that you’ve managed so many posts since May 2010, but also that your blog has only been around for eight months, because it seems like such a part of the scene.
When I started I decided to take the advice of blog-maestros such as Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi to heart, ie if you’re going to blog you have to do it every day, or at the very least, with reliable consistency. So my goal has been to go with ‘every day’.
And tomorrow is the last day of 2010—how crazy is that?!
Congratulations on making the 250 mark.
For me personally, the highlight was the blog parties along with the guest posts for the launch of The Heir of Night.
Thanks June—those were certainly big moments for me as well!