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February 26, 2011
Humph
Have spent the morning fighting the technology demons. Net result, Mel victorious by a narrow margin and only with a blow to the credit card in the form of a new modem.
Now I must tackle the evil paperwork demons. Where's a Slayer when you need one? Will have to settle for a good audiobook to listen to while I sort out tax stuff.
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February 24, 2011
Whose bright idea was that again?
Cleaning up 700 odd blog posts officially takes longer than one might think.
Still, it's done now and (fingers crossed many many times) I shouldn't ever have to do it again! Please let me know if you do come across any weird links or missing pics but hopefully I've fixed most of it and the feed should be safe to subscribe to and not coughing up random old posts!
All I can say is thank goodness I'm off to the chiro tomorrow. How I'm going to explain my neck and shoulder being fairly borked is another matter entirely!
February 22, 2011
February 21, 2011
The wrap up
Firstly, thoughts are with those in Christchurch or with loved ones there. Terrifying stuff. I've only ever been in very minor tremors and those are weird enough. Can't imagine actually have the world move under your feet, let alone have it come crashing down around you.
Secondly, seriously Mother Natures, I'm sure most people in the world would join me in saying "ENOUGH ALREADY". You've been throwing some serious tantrums lately and it's time to give us a break.
Thirdly, on a slightly happier subject (though in some ways still dealing with world changes), Stephanie Laurens has started a blog to discuss changes in the publishing world and get some discussion going about what it all means for traditional publishers and authors and the brave new world ahead.
Sometimes it's easy to see why "may you live in interesting times" is a curse in Chinese!
Fourthly, we are recommencing the program of writing every day in the vague hope that the backbrain has wrangled the next few bits of the book and is ready to cough up a bit more, so the reporting of metrics shall recommence later tonight.
February 20, 2011
Author shots
And hey, to celebrate my one year on…I picked up my author shots today (all done by the fabulous and talented Jo Edmonds and copyright to her!). Here are my fave four…I'm pretty sure I know which one I'll use in the book but still making my final decision. Luckily there'll be plenty of places to use them all regardless of my choice.
February 19, 2011
Happy anniversary to me
At about this time, one year ago today, I got the final "call" from Miriam to say I'd sold Shadow Kin after a whirlwind two weeks of sleepless nights and excitement. I can't believe a year has gone by so fast. And, yes, I still grin when I think about that day.
It's been a very busy and exciting year. I feel like I've learned a lot but that also that I've only just started to scratch the surface…after all, it's still 7 months until SK hits the shelves. In some ways it's a strange time after you've sold but before that book comes out. Like waiting to catch a plane…you've started the journey but you don't feel like you've made a lot of progress towards the actual destination. Though right now, with a cover about to be unleashed and final edits being done and all sorts of things to plan, I do feel like they're at least tapping the microphone, getting ready to announce the boarding call lol. And strange or not, I wouldn't swap it for the world!
February 16, 2011
Websites and promos and bears, oh my!
As the time for Shadow Kin's release creeps closer, I'm starting to think about promotion. There's a lot to think about. Some stuff I do already, some I need to learn about. I'm making lists and reading and generally making my head spin. So tonight instead, I shall write!
February 14, 2011
The one with the last post
So come on over to the new improved Crossed Wires.
I'll be leaving this blog up for awhile while to let everyone know what's happened but I won't be updating here anymore. All the archives are at the new blog, so I haven't lost anything (well apart from my list of aussie authors which is now on the website links page!).
If you were nice enough to link to me here (or subscribe to my feed) please update to the new blog for continued blogging insanity and occasional common sense from me!
The final destination
And here we are at the new blog. This one is sticking around until the new site is launched but that won't be for awhile.
I'll be leaving the old blogger blog up for awhile to point people here but if you were lovely enough to link to my blog, or subscribe, or otherwise follow me, please update to the new version.
The feed may still be a bit weird for a bit as I'm still cleaning up imported posts a few at a time, so apologies if old stuff gets coughed up in the feed. If you come across any broken links etc, please let me know! I'm cleaning up the titles and the odd weird > which seems to have been inserted as the first character of every post in the import process and re-aligning photos. Obviously links within posts to other posts will go back to the blogger blog, I'm cleaning up recent ones I can remember like my contest posts but am in no way guaranteeing any others! Other than that the new blogger export to WP import seems to work pretty well. For some reason, when I exported from WP.com and imported to WP.org I lost my comment counts on some posts (though the comments themselves are there), so I'd recommend maybe skipping that middle step if you can avoid it. The comment counts imported to WP.com okay. So if anyone's thinking of moving to Blogger to WP, my experience has been pretty good so far!
February 12, 2011
Moving on
It's temporarily relocating to a WordPress.com version which is here.
Please update any links.
I'll be posting new posts over there but will make one more post here as I'm going to be moving to WordPress.org once I change webhosts!
The temporary version is missing a few things at the moment like the blogrolls which will either reappear once I move again or will be transferred to my site!
