Searchin' the Search Phrases: 2010

End-of-the-year tradition time! One of mine is to go through the search phrases that resulted in a hit on my site over the past year. The most common phrase was "Rowan McBride," although this time around there were a slew of creative misspellings of my name, which has me siked because it means that people who aren't all that familiar with me are looking for me, and in theory that's a good thing career-wise. XD

Also, "Author Rowan" will get you to my site without any trouble. Who knew?

There were phrase and story title combinations that help me from a stats and marketing point of view, but as always my favorites are the ones that make me laugh or tilt my head in confusion. Listing them in no particular order below in the hopes that they'll make you do the same.

• dalek haiku
  Yeah baby!
  



• watching him orgasm
  Who? Was he hot? Did he know??



• rat pack cardboard cutouts
  I want an invite to that party.



• bhargava s 33 theorem asserts
  You know what google says the rest of that sentence is?
  

  ...that an integral quadratic form represents all odd numbers if it represents 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15 and 33. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Mar 30 2006

  
  Know what it means? Me either, but since Seth and Nick are the math geeks on my site, I'm choosing to blame them even though neither of them use this particular theorem in their stories.
  
  Look at that. I actually searched a search phrase this year. Title of blog segment validated.



• he rubbed his hand up my thigh
  Hey, hey now. Maybe you should slow down there...



• he slipped his hand into my pants and stroked my stiffening cock
  I didn't. I swear.



• pushed myself forward as if i felt a slow big fingers caressing my hairy crack
  O.O



• what s wrong? isn t that what you wanted
  About here is when I began to wonder if I was being *deliberately* molested via search engine.



• how to play three blind mice
  I can actually help you with this if you're looking to play it on piano, guitar, recorder, or xylophone. Weirdly enough I don't know all the words, so I can't sing it. Not that you'd want me to.



• his ass cock whimpered or load or deep or again or another or cum his pucker -she -her
  This searcher either doesn't know what the hell they want or knows EXACTLY what they want and is a Boolean genius.



• i got skin grown over my shoulder
  I'm no expert, but I think that's supposed to be there.



• site http //www.rowanmcbride.com/superhero
  This page doesn't exist, but it totally should.



• you and the little mermaid can go
  That sounds like the beginning of the best cursing out ever.



• plunder rowan mcbride
  Pass. That's pirate pillow talk, and I'm all about the ninjas.



• i buried my head in his chest and he wrapped his arms around me he laughed into my hair and i felt his warm breath on my face
  I don't have a smartass comment for this one. I'm just feeling sentimental at the end of the year and liked the imagery.

And my favorite search phrase of 2010 is:

• jascia sex tube
  I don't know what the hell it is, but I feel like the story needs one. Bad.
  

That's it. For me 2010 was about finding my muse again. It took a while, but I feel like there'll be some good stuff in 2011.

I hope there's good stuff in 2011 for you too. ;)

Happy New Year!

-- Rowan

Check out what happens...

... when you Google muscle theft:




Yeah, baby! This blog takes the top two spots in the results. How cool is that?

No idea how long it'll last. I only found out because a friend happened to be searching for muscle theft stories, but I'm glad he dropped me a line to let me know in time to screencap it. :D

Incidentally, the fifth result on that list is a portal to the O'Zone, and O's site is a good one for growth, theft, and a long list of other interesting genres. It's also how I ended up on The Evolution Forum, which is the first place I ever read muscle theft fiction I liked. So without O, I probably wouldn't have any theft stories.

Life's quite the tapestry sometimes.

Or maybe my brain's short circuiting because I've been up for two days.

Closing out this rambling now.

:)

Jascian's Toy on my website

I've finally uploaded the existing chapters of The Jascian's Toy to my site. It took a while because I couldn't resist re-reading them, and whenever I re-read something I wrote I can't resist tweaking it. Plus the coding. There was a bit of coding involved.

But it's up now, looking quite at home in the serials section: www.RowanMcBride.com/stories/serials. Although I made a lot of little edits, it was mostly streamlining stuff. I believe changing the name of the Earther Care Kit to Toy Care Kit (TCK) is the only major tweak I made that affects future installments, which I can work on now because I have a place to put them as well as easily edit them. :-D

I've also added a comments section, so you can go there to comment on individual installments or the story as a whole.

Please let me know how you like the new layout. I finished editing/coding at 4:30am this morning, so there are most likely bugs. Drop me a line if you find any.

The Jascian's Toy - Comments Section

Story Blurb:

Blake is kidnapped to another world to be an alien's toy.
www.RowanMcBride.com/stories/serials

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If you'd like to make a comment about any of the Jascian installments, or the story as a whole, you can do it here.

Thanksgiving M/M Chat

Literary Nymphs is giving one of its mega M/M themed chats Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve been both participant and lurker in these events and either way they’re hella fun. This time around I’ll be participating, meaning that if you didn’t get to play “Where’s Rowan” in San Francisco over Halloween weekend, this’ll be a chance to win some prizes.

Remember, it's a high traffic group, so it's probably best to click the "web only" option when signing up. I'm posting the official promo for the chat below, which will include all the details. If you do drop by and happen to see me, give me a wave, yeah?

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Well, it's that time of year again and Literary Nymphs is hosting their HUGE
Thanksgiving Day weekend M/M only chat and this year, we have a list of
attendees that will knock your socks off (be sure to put them back on cuz
it's cold outside!!!)!! So far, we have the following authors either
attending or tentatively scheduled to attend: Jessica Freely, Jaye
Valentine, Lynn Lorenz, Kimberly Gardner, Syd McGinley, Amanda Young, K.Z.
Snow, Jessica Freely, Josh Lanyon, Sloan Parker, Rowan McBride, KC
Kendricks, Lee Rowan, Stephanie Vaughan, Ally Blue (tentative), Kate Steele,
Jet Mykles, Lee Benoit, KC Burn, Michael Barnette, Shayla Kersten, EM
Lynley, Jenny Urban, Elizabeth Silver, Missy Welsh, Angel Martinez,
Christiane France, Ariel Tachna, Rowena Sudbury, Tinnean, Tedy Ward and
Margaret Mills, Andrew Gray, Clare London, Jan Irving, Chrissy Munder, Lori
Toland, Sarah Black, Amy Lane, Blak Rayne, Carolina Valdez, Berengaria
Brown, Marilu Mann, Alan Chin, VJ Summers, Pat Brown, Alix Bekins, Z.A.
Maxfield, Andrea Speed, Amber Green, John Simpson, Lex Valentine, Andi
Anderson, Amber Kell, Charlie Cochrane, J. Hali Steele, Brenna Lyons, Jenna
Hilary Sinclair, Marianne Guenon, Christie Gordon and the responses keep
rolling in so don't miss it!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LiteraryNymphsChat/

When? November 26, 27, 28 (Friday 9:00 am Eastern Time Saturday, and Sunday)

Where? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LiteraryNymphsChat/

Why? This just might be our biggest chat ever so it should be very much fun!

Reviews!

Still settling in from Yaoi-Con. Somewhere in between me realizing I don't have enough shelf space for my new manga and me realizing I don't have enough wall space for my new art, I got a couple of sweet reviews:

Boylove Addict wrote that "This book is literally going right into my keeper shelf." They said some other great stuff, too, and you can read the full review at:

http://boylove-addict.livejournal.com/58769.html

You can also learn more about Lone (as well as read an excerpt) on my site.

Paul's Dream left Serena Yates at Queer Magazine Online "totally breathless," and I'm stoked over that. She also used words like "amazing," "engaging," and "evil." I probably shouldn't be *as* stoked over that last one, but hell, drawing up a no-holds barred villain was surprisingly difficult.

To read all of this review, go to http://www.queermagazineonline.com

And of course you can check out more Paul's Dream stuff on my site.

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I think jetting off to San Francisco did me good. Wrote 2700 words yesterday and plan to write tonight. Hoping this means I'm slipping back into a good groove.

Home from Yaoi-Con

And still recovering, so a longer recap (with pics, hopefully) will be coming later. For now, though, I wanted to list the highlights:

• Met a bunch of friends, old and new.


• Gave away all my Where's Rowan prizes.


• Got Yamane Ayano's autograph.


• Won Best Action at the AMV contest.


• Won a bishie at an auction.


• Went to Alcatraz.


• Bought a busload of stuff.


• Watched "Ghost Adventures" for the first time. lol.

There was a lot more, I know, but I need a little time to organize my thoughts and sift through the stuff that cannot be told. ;)