What Julie Leto had to say on Friday, August 20th, 2010
Well, lookie there…it’s the third Friday of August! How did that happen? Clearly I wasn’t paying attention…sorry for the contest going up late.
So…$20 Amazon gift card to anyone who posts an answer to this question: Have you seen my new website? What do you think?
Winner announced Sunday, along with my winner from Wednesday! And don’t forget to stop by tomorrow for a chance to win a book from Larissa Ione!
By all reports, Julie Leto was a sweet child once, somewhat shy, preferring to play quietly in her room making up stories. However, being raised with three brothers in a loud, primarily Italian household did have its influences and Julie discovered her inner tough girl. That’s probably why most of her heroines kick serious butt. Writing sassy heroines has worked out, as she’s sold over forty books to four publishers featuring strong, confident women. Julie lives in Florida with her daughter, a spoiled dachshund, a haughty lynx-point Siamese and a wide range of relatives all within driving distance.
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That’s so funny. I was over there this week. Just looking around, for no good reason. I really loved it. Very nice and fairly easy to navigate.
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I love your website. I like the colors and the graphics. Have a great weekend.
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Very nice. Haven’t had a chance to play much but will when concert season is over and back from Dragon Con. On the ferry to Fishers Island for the weekend! Have a.great weekend everyone. No computer!! WOOT!!!
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Like it. Easy to find everything & enjoyed that article from the workshop on “Book of my Voice.”
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Hello,
Yes, I saw your new website. I like the background of blue & white, which makes it easy to read. I also think that the layout is well organized with clear labels for your books & blog. Have a great weekend.
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Great website! Looks good and easy to navigate. Your booklist was easy to find and that’s the main thing I look for on author sites.
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The week has gone by so quickly. I will check out your new website. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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Oooh! Love the new blue background and the way your “tag” line is ghosted across the headed.
Question…would you consider doing the Heart book vs. Voice book panel again at Nationals? I’d love to sit in on that one!!!
Happy Friday, jungle buddies!
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Looking good, Julie! Can’t wait to get to play more on it! Thanks a bunch!
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The new website is very pretty. Love all the cool blue tones–feels like a spa resort.
Happy weekend everyone!
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Julie, The new site looks great. Very clean and easy on the eyes.
Have a great weekend.
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Love the new site! Great color choices and the set up is crisp & clear and easy to move around in. Really looking forward to reading Hard to Hold. It sounds fabulous!
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Hi Julie, I think your website is very elegant and professional. Most important for me is a very accessible layout and the key links to your bookshelf, and bio are very clear. The bookshelf page is well laid out and I thought the image sizes were just right. Thanks for sharing, and happy weekend everyone.
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Love it. Hope everyone has a great weekend. This is the last week of camps and then it is just one more week of my Oldest’s summer school (and then a week off of everything).
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I really like it! I love the blue background – and blue is my least favorite color – it’s so cool and soothing, kind of like being at the beach.
Margay
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Nice website! I especially liked the bookshelf page. It was very informative and easy to navigate.
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Happy Friday!! I love the new website. Its very clean looking and I love the color choices.
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the better question is “who HASN’T been to your website”!!! those are the peeps to single out. hahaha. clearly I’m evil. Seriously, the website is WAY cool!!!!
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Love the website – cool colors and so easy to navigate!
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Congratulations on the upcoming release. Website looks great! Have a great weekend.
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Great website! Have a great weekend everyone!
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I like the new website–good information, invitingly displayed.
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Enjoyed the new look… love the lovely blue and the ease in browsing!
Have a wonderful weekend all!
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Yes, I’ve seen your new website, and it’s very nice. I like the colors and easy, breezy feeling.
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It’s very nice!
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Saw it, like it. Nice to the eyes. Easy to get around.
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Just hopped over there now, since I haven’t been there since the update — rather like it, front page is nice and clean and uncluttered. . . love blue. . . but the most important thing is, yes, on the book page, you have them divided up by series –I love that! :)
Lois, who has to know what books go with what series, because she’s anal that way.
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Great website! Quick and easy to navigate and very appealing to the eye. Congrats on your new beautiful website!
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The new website looks really good! Nice colors, easy to navigate and great info.
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Just checked out the site. It looks awesome!
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I love the new website, Jules. It is warmer and more relaxing; it’s much more inviting. Blue is my fave color, so I am drawn to the site. I love the way things are set up as well. Thank you so much for the booklist and the way you set things up. It is so much easier to see which books I need now. I hope everyone is having a great start to the weekend so far. Will check back later.
Peace and love,
Paula R.
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Congrats on the new site. It’s lovely and I also love the blue.
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I love the color theme and everything is laid out in an manner that is easy to follow and easy on the eyes! Great website and a great looking bookshelf page!
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I think you web site looks great!!
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I like the new site. It’s stream-lined and very easy to navigate. I especially like your photo, very modelesque.
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Hi Julie, Just checked out your new website and I loved it. Nice color, very organised. Definitely will come back to it some time later to read some more.
Happy friday everyone 
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Love the colors very “South Beachy”.
Tami B.
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I like it!
Great colors and graphics.
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Love the new look to your website, Julie. The blue looks great and it is so easy to navigate. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend.
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Looking good, Julie!
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Wow, love the blue – checked the whole thing, it surfs really well, no lags, super easy to use!
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I love the new website. Great shade of blue.
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Looks great! Love the blue tones.
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I hadn’t, but I just looked, and I really like the new look!
Happy Firday!
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Yes and I love it! It has the one thing I always look for and am sorely disappointed when I can’t find it and that is the “Coming Soon” and the author’s entire “backlist”. Nothing worse than not knowing when a favorite author has an upcoming book and even worse is to find a great “new author” and not be able to find out what their backlist is…
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I live the color, but the best part is you kept it simple!
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I loved it. It seemed to be very easy to navigate.
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Love the new website. Blue is my favorite color. Love the picture you picked to post for yourself. You look very pretty in that photo. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Hi Julie the new site looks so fresh.
I really like it.
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Oooh, lovin’ the colors of the new site! Very relaxing, as wierd as that
TGIF!
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I love the format of your website, very easy to find everything! Happy Friday!
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It’s clean, easy to navigate. just love it
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Couldn’t get it to open on my iPhone. Will have to try my iMac.
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like the site…love the cover on the home page….the picture of you??? Umm…LMAO…Julie I didn’t recognize you…neither did the girls…I took out the pics of all of us in NYC and compared them to the site picture….where did the straight hair come from??? and it’s lighter than it was when I saw you… lmao…anyway…like it but i’m laughing that I didn’t recognize you…
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I’m definitely a red-head with amber highlights now and STRAIGHT hair. In fact, my hair is much shorter now than it was for that picture!
Here’s a very recent pic:
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It looks very nice. I like the soft blue colours. I found it easy to get around.
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Wow, great job with the colors. I need more time to see how it all works though
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It looks awesome! Love the cool blue tones!
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Yes, I saw your new website. It looks great. I also signed up for your
newsletter. Have a great weekend.
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the new website looks wonderful. I love that color of blue and it is really nice and well organized
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Sorry, can’t say I have. But I promise to check it out soon.
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I am heading over to the site as soon as I leave here. Promise!
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Ooooo … verrah purdy!!
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I like it. Not too pastel-y, and not too cluttered. Easy to navigate. Really nice.
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I love your site! I love the faded tagline up top, the blue color, and the clean feel to it! Congrats on snagging a great design.
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I have not seen it yet but I am going to head on over. Have a great weekend.
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OMG!I love it!!!!The blue is cool and easy on the eyes then you through in some hot eye candy
with the pic of your new book.Absolutely a way to hook people into looking at it further!Love how easy it is to navigate.No guessing on how to get to the page you want.Love the excerpt option with the book. 
Soo planning on buying it even if I have to pay full price!It sounds super amazing! 
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It looks great Julie! I didn’t spend much time there as it has been a long day for me, but fun! I subscribed to your newsletter. Tomorrow I will look at it more. When I checked in this morning (early for me) the Plotmonkey’s didn’t have Friday’s post! That was a surprise! Life just catches up with us sometimes.
Tomorrow—it is still Friday in my part of the USA!
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I’ve seen your new blog and I love the look of it, particularly the typefaces!
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Very nice reminds me of a nice cool swim
wich is nice I live in hot Ca.
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Great Website, Julie. Cool Blue Background! Fabulous Cover for Hard To Hold.
Congrads Julie. 
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I just popped over to check out your website, since I haven’t checked it out for a while.
I like the new look – definitely easy on the eyes.
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Ooo always fun when a website gets a “makeover”/updated look :)
I hadn’t seen it yet, so thanks for pointing it out.
And have a great weekend, all!
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What a wonderful make over! Love the new site!
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very nice! i like the clean & modern feel of it
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I enjoyed the new web site. It ahs lovely colours and is easy to navigate and interesting to boot
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Blue is my favorite color. I like the links, easy to navigate , informative NICE!!
Have a fabulous weekend!
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yes……looked for upcoming releases.
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Hadn’t been to your site in a while so I hopped on over.
I like the colors and the layout very nice easy to navigate.
Hope everyone has a great weekend
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I think the website looks great, Julie. It’s uncrowded, easy to navigate and the shades of blue look lovely – the colour reminds me of a cool drink of water which is just what I need after reading your books!
Have a good weekend, everybody!
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I tried to take a look at your wesite twice and it didn’t open the page. Had a diagnosis problem. I even searched for it and tried it that way too. So sorry I haven’t seen it. But I’d like too.
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I was impressed with the clean look of it. Very easy to navigate, very easy to read, overall.
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Hi Julie! I tried to view you website just now to tell ya what I thought of it but It wouldn’t load, says it has a DNS error. Sorry I couldn’t exactly tell ya what I though. From what I remember I liked it and thought it was great! :)
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Yes, I like your website layout and design. Love the blue and it’s very user friendly.
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Enjoy the web site, have a good weekend everyone…
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Your website is clean, easy to manage, and tells a great story.
Hope everyone is enjoying a great day!
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Julie, I have just one thing to say about your new website… WOW! Love it!
OK so I have two things… I love the cover of HARD TO HOLD coming soon!
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Hi Julie,
Your new website looks great!
Have a good weekend everyone.
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Love the new website!! :)
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I like the soft blue and that is an EXCELLENT picture of you! I am in internet hell right now..staying where there is satellite internet..very slow. So I can’t judge how fast anything downloads.
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The new website looks wonderful .
Have a great weekend
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I love it! Blue is my favorite color and that is a beautiful blue.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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I like the new look of your website, Janelle!
Have been on anywhere for awhile! My computer has been down!
I wish everyone a great weekend!
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I like that the background is not black so that the words cannot be read. This happens in so many of today’s websites, which completely dilutes any info you might have wanted to read.
Most importantly to me in a website is that the upcoming books list is kept up-to-date. In spite of time-consuming for the author, I think it’s most important to the readers, at least the ones I know.
Patricia
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Hi Julie,
I love your new site with the colors and graphics. It’s much easier to navigate through. Love the new pic too!
Good luck everyone and thanks for another great giveaway!
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hav a great weekend all
great giveaway as always ladies