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Danica 07 Live

Part Seven is live at Lit, and doing well.  Part Six has picked up its H, but I still need to pimp out Four and Prelude to get them there.  It appears Arts Ardane will go live tonight as well, with a date now next to the “pending”.  I’m really curious about how it will do.

All my other submissions already sent to Lit have been viewed, including Part Eight, but I do not anticipate them going live for a while yet.  It is probably just an effort on the part of the editors to catch up after a slow down due to the year end contest.

I am in the process of editing Part Nine now, and I have been writing on Sixteen, as well as chapter three of Blackhawk Hall.

Don’t forget to go vote on anything you haven’t voted on, and thanks again for all the support my readers have given me.

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Danica, Blackhawk, and Ardane

Chapters one and two of Blackhawk Hall just went live here, and were also submitted to Lit.  I decided to break this up into smaller chapters, seeing how that would go over on Lit.  Still waiting for Arts Ardane and Part 07 to go live at Lit, contests slowing things down all over.

Hop on over to the short stories page to check out Blackhawk Hall, and remember to go vote on it at Lit when it goes live there if you read it here.

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Danica Update

Updated the map of Agreseus and added a map of the Protectorates of Armand, which is the region in which Danica grew up ( featured in “Prelude” and “The Arts Ardane” )

Contests are slowing down approval and readership of non-contest stories, but Part seven should still go live before too long.  Eight is edited and ready to roll.

I just wrote a couple more scenes of Blackhawk Hall, and it will go live here as soon as it is finished.

Shunted the previous news off into an archaive.  The link to the archaives can be found at the top of this page, and offers up a couple of new pictures of my Baileykins in both the background and off to the side.  Can’t beat that, can ya?

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Danica Prelude Live

Danica Prelude just went live.  Go vote!  Public comments would be nice too.

“The Arts Ardane” just went live here, and has been submitted to Lit at the same time.  You can read it here first, but go vote on it there once it’s accepted.

Part 2 just got it’s red H, but I’ve obviously got to work hard on pimping out Part 4 to get it there, it came out on a bad day, and so is only up to seven votes thusfar.  Going to have to work hard for my H there.  Prelude already has one vote after only an hour or so of being up, and part 6 is up to five.

I’ll probably be updating the most recently posted map again tonight, as well as adding a map for the region where Danica and Devan grew up, to give an idea of where things are there for Ardane and Prelude.

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Danica 06 Live

Part six just went live, and part seven is submitted.  Danica Prelude should go live within a day or so, it has already been viewed once by the editors.  Go vote!  A public comment would be nice too 😉

Twice now, trolls have one bombed Sci-Fi/Fantasy.  The first time, it was every story in the catagory until nothing had a score above 4.93.  The troll sweep eliminated that bombing run, but a couple of days later, the trolls returned.  This time, they only attacked the stories with low vote totals (mine included) and killed them off the list.  It’s obvious somebody writing in some other catagory is upset that Sci-Fi/Fantasy has a readership that rarely low votes, and thus the stories in that catagory tend to rise on the overall rankings.  I think I’m either going to “4” vote all my stories shortly after they are submitted or persuade one of my regular readers to do it for me.  This will keep the story from artificially sitting on the top of the catagory with a 5 when it hits ten votes, thus exposing it overmuch to the trolls and supplanting stories with more votes that really belong there.

I’m about halfway through “Arts Ardane”, and it should go live here soon.  I’d say Tuesday at the latest.  I’ll submit it to Lit as soon as it is complete as well, so don’t forget to go there and vote on it if you decide to read it here.

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