Thought I’d take a little different tack this morning to see if I can get back in a productive mode. I’ve been slacking for a while on uploading ebooks, so I jumped back in to add four more.
My only cheating story, “It Cuts Both Ways” and all three stories in the “Lynn and Lee” series are now available for download in RTF and Kindle .prc format.
You can grab them on my Downloads Page.
I can’t kick this damn cold…
So, while I can’t visualize due to nodding off, I updated a bunch more covers. Since the last blog post, I’ve updated the Lynn and Lee series, the VR: DQ series, both versions of Home by the Sea, Harvest of Blood, Last Chance, Ghost of a Chance, and What Friends Are For.
There aren’t that many of the old ones left, and not many of them are ones I’m absolutely sure I’ll update. Only two ( which look horrible right now ) are absolutes. Everything else is a maybe.
You can check them out via “My Work” or the cover browser on “My Work Extras”, or you can check out the side-by-side comparisons with the old covers on the forum ( images not filtered by your settings on the forum! ) in the “Updating Ancient Covers” thread.
Time for another dose of cold meds and praying I don’t sleep through the alarm as long again tomorrow morning. I slept through two alarms going off for 30 minutes and the third for an hour.
Fortunately, I’d anticipated how out of it I would be, so still got the boy on the bus and off to work. Plus, all three alarms are set an hour fast, so when I do wake up enough to see them, I go into instant panic mode and it wakes me up 😛
Chugging along on Sanctuary of the Wood when I can. Had some longer hours at work and a lot of other stuff on my plate, but it’s coming along.
I’m concentrating on it for the time being because of the contest deadline ( which while still quite a ways in the future, can be a problem if I encounter muse issues ) and the tradition I have of posting one every year. I don’t want to break that.
I’m enjoying the change-up from the last few. I mentioned it a few blog posts ago, but this one is a different type of story, though it will still be easily recognizable as part of the series. I’m just blending the more recent stories with the first in the series.
Thought I’d drop a line. I also make posts on the forum and sing out on the shoutbox there, so there may be stuff there even when I don’t update this blog. If it looks silent for a day or two, check those other places and see if there’s something going on 🙂
The new direction of Sanctuary is one I’m much happier with. It doesn’t have that draggy feeling the original was giving me.
I went through the blog subscribers and eliminated around 70 that either showed up in the spam database, had names that looked plain spammy, or came from the .ru/.pl domains. Hope I didn’t get any legitimate subscribers, but I’m trying to clean up things now that the new anti-spam plugin is catching the spam subscribers before they can clutter my database 😀
I am so loving this spam database. It’s like the Roach Motel for spammers. They check in, but they don’t check out.
Not that I’m complaining about the standard plug-in that catches spam comments. It does a wonderful job as well, and hasn’t let a single spam comment come through. It just wasn’t stopping spam registrations, and this one is 🙂 It’s the double-whammy.
When you combine that with the same spam protection on the forum, my website is now wonderfully free of spammers. I smile every morning when I get up and evening when I get home from work as I review the error log of banned spammers desperately trying to log in or post spam.
I’m going to try to remember to start adding tags to my blog posts, in order to better index in search engines. That’s good for everybody, because it can lead to more feedback, which helps my motivation, which gets more stories out.
