“Wasting the Dawn” Released

Wasting the Dawn is officially out from Forbidden Publications.

Also, I’ve gotten 99% of the stuff from the old emdrake.com moved over to the new site. I’ve got two articles to put up, then I’m done. (The only reason they haven’t been put up yet is because they have connected/sub articles, and I’m not sure how I want to handle that in Wordpress.) Which means I then get to figure out what I want to put up for new content.

On the off-chance that someone might actually have an opinion on this *grins*, is there anything you’d like to see on the site?

A Few Changes

I’ve been meaning to set up a “real” website for several months now. I kept saying that I’d get around to learning CSS and building something pretty, but… as much as I’d love to be able to design my own site, it’s not feasible. I don’t have the CSS knowledge, but moreover, I don’t have the graphics knowledge to make it “pretty.” Sure, I could learn, but I don’t have that much effective time, and it seems pointless to waste weeks on a website.

Eventually, I intend to get something custom commissioned, but we don’t have the money for that right now. So I found this theme for Wordpress and asked Morgan to make a few modifications. Namely, the drop-down bars. He worked at it all last night to get it set up for me. Much love for my male.

Yup, that means my blog and my website are now–well, not quite one, but take a look at http://www.emdrake.com and you’ll see what I mean. (If you’ve visited recently, you may need to clear your cache.) I’m still working on converting a lot of stuff over from the static HTML pages to Wordpress pages… so please excuse the dust while I get everything sorted out.

This also means that my blog URL has changed. Right now, the male has it set up to forward, so if you’re visiting http://nonny.windsofstorm.net/wordpress or getting a feed from there, it should work for awhile longer. That’s not going to be permanent, though, so please: UPDATE YOUR LINKS TO http://www.emdrake.com/blog.

So much for compulsively Googling myself…

Yeah, I know everyone says you shouldn’t Google yourself for book reviews. (Though I have to wonder how many of those people actually follow their own advice. ^_^) I don’t do it that often, myself. Maybe once every couple of weeks or so. But there seems to be a rule that if a new review is available, the website must be down as soon as I find it.

Seriously. This is, like, the third time it’s happened. I’m beginning to think this might be the Powers That Be giving me a hint whapping me upside the head with a clue-x-4.

It’s my day…

… over at Shadows of Passion. I have a post about writing realisations and goals for the future. Check it out.

Oh well…

Didn’t make it onto the crapometer. Not surprising, since I believe she got over 600 entries in the 12hr open period. Oh well. It’s rather comforting, though, to see the quality — or the lack thereof — of submissions for this. The queries themselves would be one thing, as it’s not easy to condense a novel into a page and a half, but the vast majority of first pages … are in need of serious work.

(Then again, it’s not like I wasn’t submitting crap that was worse back when I was a teen, either, so….)