Things look a little different around here? Well, I’m glad you noticed. I spent some of my time off from work this week giving the website a new look. This was probably long overdue to give it an updated feel, though my husband Genaro is not convinced. He liked seeing my books on a static front page. I take a lot of advice from him, especially when it comes to graphic design, though in this case I went with my gut to feature recent posts on the home page.

I’m self-taught in WordPress so there are kinks to work out. In fact, if anyone can tell me why sharing the home page url on Facebook brings up a summary of an archived post, I’m all ears. I can’t figure out how to get rid of that, or why the site icon doesn’t come up when I share the page.

The header image is artwork from Dreamstime simply titled: “Poetic, fantasy background.” Searching through a zillion images, I fell in love with this one, which I think gives a good suggestion of the themes of my work while not being overly specific.

I also searched through dozens of WordPress themes and went with Ribosome. I still have a few qualms with it (e.g. would be nice to have more color and font options), but it suits me well in a lot of ways. Clean and pretty simple. I like the thumbnail images next to each post on the home page. There are a lot of themes to choose from, so who knows, maybe in six months, I’ll try out another one.

Let me know what you think, good or bad.