Friday 14 September 2012

Moving again!

I'm moving! And I hope you'll come with me. No, not move in with me - I couldn't take all the extra washing - I mean come to my new blog home. Soon. (The decorators are in at the moment.)

I know, I know, I've been messing you around horribly with all this constant flux. But we will soon settle down together into a comfortable co-existence and, if I explain, all will become clear.

As you know, I started Crabbit At Home as a place to kick off my shoes and talk about more varied and more personal things than my Help! I Need a Publisher! blog allowed.

Then, as you also know, I very recently stopped blogging there, after tidying everything up so that all the lovely free info remains for anyone who wants it, along with links to the pretty books which convey that info so much more organisedly.

But when I did that, I said I had a plan. Because, as you also also know, I'm redirecting my career back towards being a children's writer. But I still want to carry on blogging. Just try to stop me!

And Crabbit At Home just doesn't have the right ring for my life as a children's and YA writer. Since there is to be no more crabbit, Crabbit At Home becomes redundant.

So, my wonderful tech expert / new website manager / cover designer / personage extraordinaire, Andrew Brown of Brown Media and Design4Writers, is working to integrate a NEW blog into my main website. (Blog coming soon!) Andrew didn't design that website and there are some complications caused by how it was built, so it's not a simple matter. I'm going to be asking Andrew to do a major redesign, probably next year, but meanwhile the blog will be there and I'll be able to do everything I want with it.

I can also run screaming to him at any opportunity. I have built that into our agreement. (Andrew, did you not read the small print? Silly man. *capers*)

At my new blog - which has a special name, a name which you will not know until you arrive there because it's currently a secret - you will find all the same sorts of things I have been blogging about here, same voice, same person. One blog, one place, one life. Tbh, I can't guarantee that there won't be a residual crabbit flavour occasionally.

How will you know when this house-move is taking place? Because I will tell you and because we will have a PARTY. Of course! Some things do not change.

Wonder if anyone can guess the name of my new blog? It's a single word. A word that's very important to me.

28 comments:

  1. Yay! a party - I'll be there!

    I'm really looking forward to your new blog - I've found your other blog an invaluable resource over the years but as I write for chilren too your new blog sounds like the perfect place for me to hang out!

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    1. It was the word "party", wasn't it?! I look forward to seeing you there soon - not quite sure when, as I'm away for a few days at just the wrong time, but should be this month.

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  2. Mmm...Spike says it should be named after him. I think not.

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  3. Obviously, the word is 'Rebecca'. Yes? :D


    Also, you've scared Andrew into hiding in the garden shed. Now I need to find something with which to coax him out. Tsk.

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    1. No, it is *even* more important than "Rebecca". Also, please tell Andrew to hurry up and get out of the shed. Tell him that if he doesn't, I'll insist on a blogger blog after all. And that I will want spinning sparkly pink whirligigs all over it and lots of different fonts and that it will prominently display the words "design of this fabby blog is by Andrew Brown and all the ideas were his."

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    2. You mean you WEREN'T having spinning sparkly pink whirligigs? I'm disappointed!

      And there is NO word more important than Rebecca. Hmph.

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  4. Will your new blog be called 'Wasted'? Might give out the wrong impression...

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  5. Can't wait! I trust you'll be tweeting the link?

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  6. One word - I'm wavering between brainfood and cake, though maybe they are the same thing ...

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    1. They may be the same thing but neither is the correct answer!

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  7. OK, it's RED. Or perhaps READ. Or perhaps something else. Which is two words and therefore not right.

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  8. Party? Did someone say party? With expensive chocolates and even more expensive champagne?

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  9. HAPPINESS

    Now I've got Ken Dodd on the brain...

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  10. Or HELP

    Which is better, as now I've got the Beatles on the brain.

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  11. So Rumplestiltskin, is it Hasselhoff? Is it Halloween? you could keep the bat avatar. OR is it Heartsong?
    Looking forward to the new blog, whatever it's called.

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  12. Ah ha! Does Pernille get sent extra chocolate?

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