{"id":18596,"date":"2014-08-15T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2014-08-15T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:23:55","slug":"cozy-mystery-sites-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/cozy-mystery-sites-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Mystery Site’s Questions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"question1\"I thought that I would answer some questions that several of you have sent to me AND I also have a question for you ALL.<\/p>\n

Why do you capitalize the words C<\/strong>ozy and M<\/strong>ystery?<\/h4>\n

I know it seems strange to some of you but since my website is called Cozy Mystery, I just do. I started the website in 2006, and am not sure when I started capitalizing the words, but it has become a habit now.<\/p>\n

Why don’t you accept ARCs (Advance Reading Copies)?<\/h4>\n

I have talked about this before, so some of you already know, but I don’t accept ARCs because if I did, I would feel like I had to say something nice about the book, even if I couldn’t find something nicer to say than “It has a lovely cover.” I have a terrible guilt complex. Also, I have to admit that when I read a glowing review of a Cozy Mystery and then find out the reviewer received an ARC, the review doesn’t mean that much to me. (I figure there’s a chance the reviewer felt like he\/she HAD to write a really positive review, since he\/she could have my guilt complex.) It’s almost as if the reviewer was paid for the terrific review. (I know, this probably sounds pretty silly to a lot of you!)<\/p>\n

When you do the FREE and Cheap Kindle\/Nook lists, why don’t you add all of the authors you know have free or cheap e-books?<\/h4>\n

When I get those FREE and Cheap lists together, I compare my list of authors to the last five of my Free and Cheap posts to make sure I’m not repeating any of those authors. (On a few occasions, I have heard from authors who ask me to include their books again, which I have done.) I have been adding “Also, if you take a look at some of the older Free and Cheap Kindle\/Nook mysteries, you may find some that are still under $5.00.<\/em>” >>> that way I don’t post the same identical authors over and over.<\/span><\/p>\n

So now for my question to you ALL:<\/p>\n

When we do the monthly Cozy Mystery recommendations lists, would you prefer if I ask you to put your top five recommendations at the top of your lists, so that I only add those top five recommended authors\/books to the list?<\/h4>\n

(Here’s is an example of the monthly recommendation lists<\/a> as I have been doing them.)<\/p>\n

You would still recommend as many books as you think are really, really good, but your top five would be the ones I add. Someone (only one person) wrote to me telling me she thought the length of our lists had gotten out of hand. I replied that I still enjoy reading all of your reasons why you post the books and that I have found several new-to-me authors who I now consider favorite authors.<\/p>\n

So, would you prefer I keep the recommendations list as is, or should I ask you to tell me the top five books you recommend (and I put those on the list) although you could still list as many other books as you wish in your comment (but I wouldn’t put the others on the list)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hope this makes sense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought that I would answer some questions that several of you have sent to me AND I also have a question for you ALL. Why do you capitalize the words Cozy and Mystery? I know it seems strange to some of you but since my website is called Cozy Mystery, I just do. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-musings","7":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-4PW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18613,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions\/18613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}