Back to Square One

Oh my gosh! It's been an entire month since I last posted and honestly, it's a real shame. But, I do have a few good excuses for my absence.

• I have been tying up loose ends with three professional blogging gigs I have with huge sites.
• I've been working on a book proposal that has absolutely nothing to do with blogging.
• I've been revamping and relaunching another niche site I own for moms.
• I finally got syndicated on Reuters.com! It took forever, but oh was it rewarding!
• I've been writing a chapter to an anology that's due sooner than I'd like.
• ...and I've been simply being a mom.

One of these days I am going to get myself together and write a book about mom blogging because I know so much and such great opportunities seemingly fall in my lap just because I jot words down on a daily basis and post them online for the whole world to see.

If there is any advice I could offer to a mom blogger it's this: diversify! If you have a lot of different interests I recommend devoting a single blog to one topic because that way if you like boating, for example, and an editor for a boating magazine is looking for a great blogger then she will find you a lot easier than if you have one mom blog with a whole lot of your interests all jumbled together. It's worked for me thus far and it will work for you.

I won't be blogging so irregularly any more because I think I have all of my web projects squared away. In the meantime if you would like to start your very own mom blog, I suggest Mommy Diaries. Mommy Diaries uses a Wordpress platform and is so, so easy to set up and use.