Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED! Showing 601-650 of 1,656

[Tim]

In which case, you're just not showing in the list of likers - just double checked. Patti is there now, but no you :-/

How useless is that? Here's a list of people that like your page except some we missed out, just so you can look like an idiot!

[Patti (baconater)]

Janet is showing as one of the nine of my friends who like your page Tim. :)

[Katie]

I don't see everyone who has liked my page on my list either. It's annoying. I'd love to know how they decide who will show on the list (it seems to change every time I look at it).

[Tim]

I'm just reading through a long list of complaints about this on the FB support forum. It seems that how you have your privacy settings affects whether I can see that you've liked my page.

So if Janet's privacy is set to 'only friends', Patti can see that she's liked my page because she's a friend, but I can't because I'm not. So Facebook is basically saying "someone likes you but we're not going to tell you who"

As far as I can tell.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've got mine set to only friends too.

Yet you can see me?

[Tim]

Yes, cos you're a friend on my private Facebook, so I can see you've liked the page. But Janet would need to set her privacy to at least 'Friends of Friends' for me to see it. And even then changing it now might not work for things she's already liked - it doesn't for posts, so might need to unlike and relike.

It seems this privacy setting on FB is a bit of a minefield - it's certainly a PITA!!

Janet, if you want to check, on your wall under your cover pic, there's a list - Timeline, About, Photos, Friends and More. Put your mouse on More, and you should see a drop down. Click on Likes. You'll see a grid of the pages you've liked. At the top right is a little pencil button. This lets you see and edit the privacy settings.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh right. That makes sense.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Tim wrote: "Yes, cos you're a friend on my private Facebook, so I can see you've liked the page. But Janet would need to set her privacy to at least 'Friends of Friends' for me to see it. And even then changin..."

Or I could just sulk.

[David]

This face book business sounds very complex :~/

[Tim]

Aww now I wouldn't do that. You've uncovered a whole realm of Facebook suckiness. I'd say that was something to be proud of :)

[Tim]

David wrote: "This face book business sounds very complex :~/"

Only if you try and figure out why it's not showing stuff you think it should...

[Kath]

Makes me proud I'm not on Facebook!

[Andrew]

It's very complicated. And it's why I don't do anything other than post stuff on there. I mean I don't button-push, it's confusing.

I have 40 Likes on my page, but it only shows 31 of them.

[Tim]

Anyone who finds a typo in my book and emails me the details of it will get a special mention in the next revised edition! (as well as seeing the typo fixed) How awesome is that!!! :-D

And it just gets awesomer!
As a special bonus prize, whoever reports the most typos will appear as a character in book 2 (although I can't guarantee you'll survive...)

[Tim]

The Shelfari experiment progresses...

WANTED now has BOOK EXTRAS. Yay!

You can select Book Extras and get background info on Characters & People, Organizations, Settings & Places, Notes for Parents.

Still no X-Ray though.

[Andrew]

Oooh that sounds good, Tim.

I've been a member of Shelfari for years, but I never really progressed with it, always wondered what the point of it was.

If I ever get any spare time...

[Tim]

Yeah, and now Anazon has gone and taken Extras out of half its kindles... :-/

[Tim]

Still, if I bung all the minor and popup characters in (like Chant, Wailing, Middleton etc) maybe it'll still get X-Ray.

Unless you need to hit a sales threshold or sommat to trigger it. In which case, BUY MY BOOK!!!!!

[Kath]

Middleton wasn't in it.
She got edited out between Version 5 and Version 9!

[Andrew]

I'm keeping out of this one.

[Tim]

Oops. :-/

[David]

Ignite wrote: "Middleton wasn't in it.
She got edited out between Version 5 and Version 9!"

Got to hand it to Ignite, she's good!

[Tim]

David wrote: "Ignite wrote: "Middleton wasn't in it.
She got edited out between Version 5 and Version 9!"

Got to hand it to Ignite, she's good!"

Holding out for something bigger in book 2, you reckon? Could be... ;)

[Sammi]

Hi Tim, just wanted to let you know i will be reading your novel *fingers crossed* this month. & thanks again :)

http://lilythenovelnerd.wordpress.com...

[Tim]

Thanks Lily :)

[Tim]

Woo Hoo! Amazon has emailed me to say they now have my W8-BEN on file! Woo Hoo!

Now for iBooks... Despite all the nice things I've said about them, they are still denying that I exist and have a valid EIN tax code...

Sassen Frassen Rassen....

[David]

Tim, out of interest, how long from postage to email from Amazon did it take?

Also, I used D2D and emailed the form. Do you need to send additional paperwork to Apple?

[Tim]

Let's see... I sent it off on the 20th (Monday), and the email arrived late last night (technically monday... somewhere). So, two weeks.

D2D: I had some printer problems and only managed to get the form scanned yesterday. So I've only just emailed it off.

iTunes just requires you to enter your legal entity name and EIN on their signup page. They then go and "validate" it, which in my case means 3 days later I get an email saying "record not found". I keep retrying, since my guess is that Apple is querying the IRS server at the far end of the universe, and even that must surely get updated someday...

In theory, Apple's is the best, most up to date way of doing it. But in practice it's by far the worst, since they don't give you any account access while validation is pending.

[Tim]

And the written confirmation of the EIN from the IRS arrived in today's post too.

[David]

Thanks, Tim. I'm guessing you didn't use D2D for Apple then and went direct?

[Tim]

Yeah, cos I have lots of experience with the app store (which was a damn sight easier to get into!). But I still have to option to use D2D if the EIN hurdle proves insurmountable.

[David]

I see. Thanks for the info. My letter went to Amazon last week after procrastinating for the last 6months so it shouldn't be too long.

[Tim]

Here's a poser:

I just looked on Kobo's site, and WANTED is currently ranked #86 out of 186 in Fiction -> Young Adult -> Dystopia. Which puts it in the top half, and on page 9 of 19 in their list. Fine. But the thing is, I haven't sold a single book on Kobo, and the list is sorted by "Bestsellers". So how did it get ranked so high?

[Tim]

Got the paperback proof in the post today :D Something else to read... lol

[Andrew]

Wonderful feeling aint it!

[Tim]

Now it's uploaded to the iBooks store too. Let's see how long it takes them to make it available...

[Tim]

I'm now halfway through reading Wanted.

What's this? You say, but haven't you already read it like, fifty times? Well yes that's true (although I think it's only forty-seven times), but this time I'm reading it out loud. Into a microphone. With a recording device on the other end.

That's right, Wanted is coming to audio!

More details when I get my voice back. ;)

[Kath]

Whahey! I can read it while I sew!

[Sammi]

oh sweet! Audio is an amazing idea :)

[Tim]

Well I've finished reading out umpty tump hours of book, all 41 chapters now stored as mp3 files or aifs or something on the computer. Reckon the whole thing will edit out at somewhere around 12 hours. Eventually.

But I'm going to retitle the book "Bugger. I'll read that bit again!"

Although I have to warn you: I might have a face for radio, but I've got a voice for silent movies!

[Kath]

Will we be able to buy it on CDs? I don't have one of those mp3 thingies.

[Tim]

No, it's only really viable as MP3. Anyhow my plan is probably to release it in instalments.

[Kath]

Going to have to drag myself into the 21st century then, aren't I? Better find out what they do and how they work. I think me sister's got one.

[Tim]

I've got an old iPod Touch in my "To get rid of" pile (I've got a lot of things in my "to get rid of" pile - including that dratted KK that I can't even give away! I should rename it my "can't get rid of" pile...) http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1353#iP...

[Kath]

Can I get mp3 files on my Nexus? See, I really do know nowt.

[Tim]

Ignite wrote: "Can I get mp3 files on my Nexus? See, I really do know nowt."

Yup.

[Kath]

* Must read instructions *

[Tim]

"Poke it till it does something."

[Patti (baconater)]

Tim wrote: ""Poke it till it does something.""

I'm gonna get that printed on a tshirt.

[Tim]

Been tweaking the back cover for the paperback edition. What do you think?