Almost broke this entire site AGAIN trying to make it more secure. Y’all, I miss hand-coding HTML and CSS. Circa 2003.
It seems to be working again, though. \o/
Back to editing. That timeline won’t outline itself. (should I have had a timeline before writing this thing? yes. did I? honestly I can’t remember, it was 2016, nine hundred thousand years ago. but we’re here now.)
Is it yet another procrastination tactic? Yes.
Is it something I’ve been meaning to get around to for ages? Also yes.
For now we’ve got places, groups, belief systems, and a summary of the magic in the series. Eventually, I’d like to add character profiles, especially since it’s been several lifetimes between the book releases, and I don’t expect anyone to remember who the hell any of these people are.
You’ll notice none of these statements say “maps”, and while maps are fun and a classic addition to any worldbuilding, I am not good at drawing them (or anything else, really). I’m also a bit wrapped around the axle over all the mistakes I’ve made in placing mountains, rivers, biomes, etc. etc. etc. even in the vague geography mentioned in the story so far.
But who knows what the future brings! Maybe I’ll finally learn to use one of those fine mapping softwares out there (some of which I’ve already bought). And figure out how to fix the rain shadows / tectonic plates / etc. It could happen. Anything could happen.
For now, we have lore. Goodnight.
So, uh… funny story. Not so much “funny ha-ha” as “funny I think I’m going to hurl.”
I had to update my payment info for website hosting because, as happens so often these days, my card was compromised in a data breach. So I updated that. So far, so good.
Bear in mind, my website hosting skills and understanding are still pretty much mired back in the late ’90s, when you could hand-code a site in basic HTML, FTP it up to your host, and that was that.
After updating the payment stuff, I thought, you know, I don’t use one of the domains I’m sitting on anymore — at all, ever — so why don’t I just let that expire? I’m paying for it for nothing.
What I meant to do was to stop using that URL.
What I actually did was to delete everything based on that domain, including the previous incarnation of this site.
Because, originally, this domain piggybacked on that one. It was just inkandscissors.com/serobertsonfiction instead of, genuinely, serobertsonfiction.com.
I’m, uh… rather upset with myself.
So here’s the deal. I’m going to try to rebuild all this jazz. Better? Smarter? Hopefully? And I will do the giveaway, but I will do it properly on Goodreads like I should have at the outset. Links soon.
Edit: Today I learned that it costs a hundred and nineteen dollars to do a print giveaway on Goodreads. Woooooooooow. I mean, I’m not begrudging them their business model, but I can’t afford that. So. Email it is. Details on the Books page.