This is just to let you know that I have a new domain name — http://readreactreview.com — and a new host. In the next couple of days, everything should be moved over.
Please bear with me as I make this change.
I’m working on a tagline. It will probably have the word “romance” in it. I don’t plan to make a big shift in content, so if you enjoy reading Racy Romance Reviews, you’ll probably enjoy reading ReadReactReview.com. But as I mentioned in Monday’s post, I am now blogging under my real life identity, so there may be less erotic romance reviewing and fewer references to weeping cocks.
Or maybe not.
Thank you!
How exciting! I didn’t comment on your last post seeking views on this because I was in two minds and it seemed you were coming to this point anyway.
I like the new RRR words better than the old ones – seem more in keeping with what you actually do.
I think you’ll find a lot of us knew your real name and didn’t care. But we promise to be nice to the newbies who know your real name but did not know your real uh, “passion.” We’ll just stand over here in our black leather jackets, smoking insolently, and stare at them. (They’ll be the clean cut kids in white bobby sox and sneakers, right?)
I really like the new name!
So, we have to behave now? *blinks innocently*
@Tumperkin: Thank you!
@Magdalen: Oh, I know. If you google “Jessica” and “philosophy” I am on the second page — after all the famouser ones. If you add “Maine:”, I am the first 8 hits, LOL. But this feels better to me.
Getting away from you bad girls, I mean.
@Victoria Janssen: No, but I have to.
Oh, no! I liked the original name. Will Mr. Racy become Mr. RRR, or Mr. React? Not Mr. Romance, surely.
*sad face*
Congrats on “coming out”! I write under my real name (it’s also my maiden name, woot!), and it feels empowering. A small thrill, maybe, but it’s mine…
I’ll look forward to the new domain propagation to follow you there!
I had googled “Jessica” “professor” “Maine” and you were right up at top. Love the new blog name.
Reacting to what Magdalen is saying, in your shoes, I wouldn’t care whether blog readers could trace to my professional life but whether students could trace me to a ghettoized hobby. I remember reading somewhere students snarking on their prof Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) after she came out.
I like the new title SO MUCH BETTER because yours was one of the blogs I always wanted to show off to people in RL and I got so tired of saying but Racy is just insouciant, a play on words … she’s a philosophy professor … really, same state as my dd all slurred fast together but it was tough getting past the title. It’s funny (or not), I’m over at AAR bellyaching about titles again.
Can’t wait for some of those new topics too!
@Jill Sorenson: That is a tough one. I rather liked Mr. Racy. “Mr. React” doesn’t have the same ring … or any ring. Yeah, Mr. TripleR may be it.
@Preeti: This is one area where I have grown so much since I started blogging. I used to be SO SECRETIVE about reading romance. I mean … putting all my books away before anybody came to the house. I even hid my romance novels from the housekeeper!
I went from that to putting a romance novel on my syllabus and discussing that with colleagues. I refer colleagues and students here anyway, so it was just getting ridiculous.
And now I can do fun pedagogical things, like ask my students to blog with me when they read a romance novel. Or ask colleagues to talk about literature.
And .. students will criticize no matter what you do. They do it in front of my face on rare occasions, and they certainly do it on Facebook and on websites that encourage it, like Rate My Professors. Not to mention semester end evaluations. I have always felt that this is one thing professoring and writing have in common: frequent public evaluation, not all of it fair!
@Janet W: Thanks Janet. The name didn’t used to matter because no one read this blog. That has changed, thankfully, and now I want the title to reflect the content.
Love the new blog name. Best of luck! I’m awaiting my blog switch over presently. When the time comes it’ll be kind of like when the pirates square off in their ships in the first Pirates of the Caribbean I suspect. Or I hope. Utensils ejecting from cannons, much swinging from ropes, some plank action. That’d be fun! Arrrrr!
I congratulate you on your confidence! Some day you may be marked as one of the pioneers in making romance novels respectable.
I too love the new blog name! Can’t wait to see the new casa!
I like the new domain name, too! Bummer about having less erotic stuff, but people have to work within their own comfort levels.