Tags

I guess if it's a paranormal, I'd like to know.

You know what? I'd like to know which genre a book is or maybe a series? If I were to pay attention to the tags? Or if I searched the tags (can you do that -- search JUST the tags)?

So if someone's read a mystery or fantasy or sci-fi or paranormal, then you could say, "Hey! I'm in the mood for that, who blogged it? What was it called and who was it by again? I wish I had paid attention!" and then I could search for say, "sci-fi" and up all the sci-fis would pop.

Similar thought process for a series -- "Weather Warden" or whatever. 

When you're at Trybble's (sp?) "own" blog at his own review site, his tags do help you find what you want quickly. Maybe it will be that way here.

Who knows?

Penn, who said 15-20 minutes ago that she should GET OFF THE COMPUTER!

tags are like bread crumbs .... they help "you" find your content and others to find content similar to their likes

if the book had a main character that suffered from amnesia ....... I would tag - amnesia

if the book had violence, ie war, killing, knife fight, explosions ...... I would tag - violence     -- Vikki's Her Perfect Life would have this tag, though she wrote her scenes very well

if the book had a lot of laugh out loud moments and was on a lighter side ..... I would tag - laughter

I recently read a series by Raye Morgan about a royal family ..... each book was about one of the royal siblings .... so I tagged - royalty, prince (princess depending on the main character)

I'm also tagging books as sweet, yummy, heat wave, very good, great, excellent  depending on where they fit .... and I would use the word erotic or paranormal too if that applied

I plan on reading a few Intrigues that will have some paranormal themes, one that comes to mind the heroine has intuitive powers, so I'll probably use the tag - ESP

I don't know if its proper or not, but I'm also tagging the author's name, as the author's name is not a field of its own  (should be in my opinion)

I intend on reading more Medicals, so I instead of mentioning the type of medical content in my review (I couldn't figure out how to do that without giving the story away) I may use tags  ... ie epilepsy, graphic surgery, amputation, search and rescue, family doctor,  --- you get the idea

Also, I'd put the title of a mini-series in the Tag line ... the Raye Morgan series I just read was Catching the Crown, so I tagged that

tags can be limitless and wonderous things .... I just wish we could have "personal" tags and "public" tags ... that would really make it easy for us to find content within our own blogs that need not be shared ... like I might want to use the tag - Top 10 - to indicate this is worthy and for me to consider it at the end of the year for my Top 10 list

the "search" function of this new site is far superior to the old one ..... so think of all the possible tags you can use to help your own future searches

hope this helps and gives you some ideas!

I include author name, our team name, series or miniseries(if in one), time era(western, medievel...)Usually the line will show up with what is selected from the drop down menu but if there isn't I will include. Format(audio, ebook, print) will also say in tag when selected in drop down. eg.. My tags for Caine's Reckoning look like this: erotic western, Sarah McCarty, Quiet Canadians, The Hell's Eight, print, Spice books.

when I get to the Tag area.  I usually put in our team name (Novel Obsession), the authors name and then I try to think of other things like content etc but I just can't think of anything significant.  I guess it will come with practice!  KatherineT - I must try your method, you've got some good tags going on there.

Lorie said the team name will show up on the Tag area once I use it, but I've used it 3 or 4 times now and it's not showing up.  Maybe it needs more than one person to use it so once KathyD uses it in her book reviews it will work.