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great clean-up job

I just joined a website called Gravator which gives you an avator for posting on blogs, etc.

totally not an answer to your question but...

Be careful with those kinds of programs/websites. 9 times out of 10 they embed spybots and adware in their sites and the stuff you pull from the sites. that stuff can seriously slow down your computer if too much gets on your computer and it can open back doors for viruses and such. Do you have some software on your computer for identifying malicious software and removing it? Antivirus software doesn't necessarily catch that kind of stuff.

Sorry to butt in, but I wanted to caution if you weren't aware of that since when I first tried one of those kinds of websites, I found out the hard way what the can do to the compuer. I couldn't figure out what was wrong and a computer whiz friend is the one who told me about it and got rid of it for me.

I used a picture from my recent trip in Oregon to create my avatar.  I am usually leary of these kind of sites but I did it through the Plotmonkeys blog and I was trusting that they wouldn't use it for their fans if it was going to cause problems.  If I start having trouble I'll get rid of it.  Luckily one of my friends is a computer tech at the nearby junior college and he takes good care of me with any computer problems. 

If I was better with technology I could use one of my pictures to put on my profile page.  I just thought since I did that I might be able to use it here.  It might be kind of fun to have a graphic design like you have only tailored to me, of course!!

 By the way I just posted two more books on the Challenge so I am all up to date for now!  That said I will soon be finished with another book.  I don't seem to be accomplishing much else. 

Thanks for checking out Gravatar.  Let me know what you find out from the techies.  eHarlequin gives us such good service with our hosts & the techs.  I appreciate all of you.  It is such a pleasure to be involved with this community. 

If I were going to have a graphic design, it should reflect my love of reading or the outdoors.  The ocean is one favorite places, I never get tired of going to the coast.

Thanks for all your help.  Now, I need to go post another book to the Challenge!

Hi Katherine

I am wondering... am I signed up for the book challenge 2009? I was checking the masterlist and I am not there, but I still get the monthly newsletter... just wondering.

http://community.eharlequin.com/forums/book-challenge/how-add-book-covers-your-book-review

Hi Katherine.  I am new to eHarlequin and saw the 2009 Challenge. I would like to know if there is a certain year that the books have to be published or if any year will qualify. I recently had several books given to me that are older books and I was wondering if they would qualify for the challenge or if it had to be books recently released?  I loave to read and am excited about posting reviews. Thanks Sherri

A quick question -- or maybe two. . . 

I went looking for a book that is supposed to be out in October.  Usually by now they would be available, but for some reason this month they aren't.  Will they be out soon?

Also, I wanted to put in an order last night -- 11:30 my time, so it would have been 1:30 a.m. Ontario time -- I typed in what I thought the new code might be, but obviously I guessed wrong, so I tried the Aug code.  Neither worked.  When will the new code be out? 

Your help is always appreciated!

Editing this in:  Actually I just got back from checking out some of the other lines, and where I looked, the Oct. books are already there.  But in the Harlequin Medical line they're not.  Don't they come out a month ahead in ALL the lines? 

Baffled. . .

Christa got it in one. Not all the lines come out a month early, just most. Because of where the MedRoms are edited and printed, they simply can't be available a month early. Sorry about that (I really am, as it's one of my fav lines).

Penn

want to hear) is "I haven't the foggiest!"

I'm currently running two months behind on blogging, this time last month I was three months behind, which meant I got two months blogs done this month and now have two to do, and at this rate if life lets me, I should be back on track by Hallowe'en

Hugs

Sadhbh

What!?  I thought you weren't joining the challenge this year.  Where can I find your stuff?  Never mind, I'll go hunting -- it has to be somewhere.  I'm about a quarter of a year behind, I'd say.  I don't even think about it any more, I just do what I can. 

Marialina, hi and welcome.  I think you can find the directions to the picture problem, um. . .somewhere.  I have no idea how to do it, either.  I got someone else to re-size my picture.    Good luck!

but under offline challengers or some such name (Katherine should be able to say exactly what it is!)

Hugs

Sadhbh

Hi Katherine,

If you sent the September newsletter,I didn't receive it for some reason.  Thanks!!

I love reading harlequins and the HEA  (trying to find the non explicit books these days).

I love the coupon for the 10% discount we receive on our book orders.

I love the fact that Harlequin is donating books to help those who can't afford them in order to help literacy but I am wondering about the moral question of content.

Many lines are sexually explicit, and  focus on the lives of the rich powerful and ruthless.  In some lines lust is highlighted and often manipulation.  

So are the vulnerable members of society being given these books or the more balanced lines re home and family, tender romance etc.  Is there a mix?  

I've been contributing feeling my numbers could contribute to the more wholesome book numbers  (well that's what I tell myself)  but I have no idea whether any of those are being sent.

So I guess I am asking about what lines of books are being sent out?

me - it's my most recent post

Hugs

Sadhbh

LOL I'm sure you are right or at least a whole lot closer than I am.