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Michael lives in my neighborhood. I do not know him but I see him around all the time. This book (his first) was named one of the top 10 best books of 2007 by the NY Times Book Review. He also just won the Impac Dublin Literary Award.

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(I need to cry for 5 stars.)

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Jan 11, 2010

State of the Blog Address

I'm thinking about moving this blog. I have a karynbosnak.com website and I want to combine this with that.

I'm going to set it up using Squarespace. I've been playing with the platform and I really like it. It's a thousand times better than Blogger and, yet, still easy to use. Two cute examples of square space website/blogs:


I might even hire a real website designer to design it.

Here's my dilemma:

Do I move everything to karynbosnak.com? Or should I have prettyinthecity.com be my main website?

I can't decide so I thought I'd ask you.

The reason I started Pretty in the City was because I didn't want to always be known as the Save Karyn girl. I'm not and have never been embarrassed by what I did, but I wanted to position myself as a writer and not just the girl who begged her way out of debt. (Listen, all I'm saying is that I know what it's like to be a Brady.) Save Karyn is just one thing I did. 20 Times a Lady is another. And my next book will be something different, too.

So anyway, here are the choices:

karynbosnak.com

or

prettyinthecity.com, official website of author Karyn Bosnak

At the top of both there will be links to books, about, blog, press, tour information (for book #3, which is still being written), etc.

I'm adding a poll to the right so you can vote. I'm leaning toward karynbosnak.com but I really can't decide.

And PS - I will be blogging more this year!

Posted by Karyn at 7:23 PM

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