Birthday greetings, thoughts on Awards, and a moan.

[speaker_to_customers]

Happy Birthday to psubrat

I'm up for two "Best of the Best" awards at Vampire Kisses. I haven't voted yet; I don't even know if I will. Is it ethical to vote for myself? Even if it is, is it honest? There are too many hard choices. I'm just not up to making hard choices at the moment. Maybe I'll just hide my head in the sand and wait until it goes away.

I put "The Cloak of Mist" up on my site a week or so back, as the watchersdiaries had had it exclusively for long enough.

Only ONE person has read it there, and I'm fairly sure that the reader would have been a moderator from the Shadows and Dust Awards (for which I self-nominated it, not only legitimate but actually required for the nomination to be accepted) checking that it was a valid submission.

I can't believe it. I'm getting 70 visitors to the site a day, most of them are probably old readers checking to see if I've put up anything new, and I've got a new story there and they're not reading it! It's the best thing I've ever done - not only do I think that myself, but the comments I got at watchersdiaries indicate that a lot of people agree with me - and my own fans aren't reading it. Presumably because it doesn't contain Spike?

And the suckers don't seem to be biting at the "Savage Beauty" project on ff.net. Wonder how that would go down on my website?

Comments

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion! I haven't done it quite like that, but I've now got an Updates page with huge links to it from the main homepage and each of the two fiction index pages, and I've cleaned those index pages up a bit.

Savage Beauty is in Memories, actually. I will put it on the website as well, probably tonight as I doubt if I'll get much writing done now.

[nandibble.livejournal.com]

Then it seems I don't know how to reach/access your Memories. Maybe a link like "Previous parts here when you update would let the reader find the foregoing story more easily.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I didn't bother at first because I was updating so fast and there weren't any other posts between Savage Beauty updates, but I'll be doing it in future now that there have been the drabbles and birthday greetings breaking up the sequence. It is up on the website now, anyway, and the revised site layout should mean that it's pretty unmissable.