Slight change of plans.

It's no big secret that since I switched over to blogger from myspace I lost pretty much my entire readership which was already a rather small number of readers. I put a lot of work into the Bitesize/Bitemarks projects and was a bit upset to have reached so few.
It made me think. Surely there is a better way to allow more people to see my work?
Well, recently I bought someone a Kindle from Amazon as a gift. It turns out that it's not so hard to get your stuff up in the Kindle shop. This, I thought, is good news. I can finally get round to finishing up the In the Blood series and shove those and the two poetry collections on Kindle, for free. Free is good, people are bound to at least consider a download.
Well bah, Amazon have foiled my plan. Turns out it's not actually possible for everyday Joes like me to offer their work completely free. Which means if I do stick my work on the Kindle, it would have to have a price. Ok, not a big price and it's not exactly gonna make me any money. But I'm left wondering whether people would part with say, 99 cents, for what is really just some drivel I cobbled together. Price is a barrier.
Sigh.
So I'm reading through the swathes of legalese that accompany the Kindle publishing guidelines to determine what's the lowest possible price I could charge and whether it's worth putting up both poetry volumes seperately or as one collection, same for the In the Bloods (which I now have to finish) and whether I can justify the time to gather up Bitesize and Bitemarks and offer those up too.

As for the In the Bloods, I have finally solved the problems I was having pulling the ending together. I now have the entire story etched into my mind with just one part missing. Ailiya's trial to enter the Labyrinth. This is the missing piece that has delayed the latest part for so long and once I figure out how exactly to represent it I can get to work and finish the tale.

So, sadly, I'm gonna cancel the Gloria project. I had wanted to use sound embedding as part of the project and pictures and other things that may or may not have worked but I really won't have the time for it now.

Instead I shall be cleaning up the the Charonic poetry collections and possibly combining them into one complete collection, perhaps including some of the newer stuff too. I have absolutely no idea how to go about organising it though so it's gonna take some time.

Anyone willing to help organise poetry or offer suggestions for Ailiya's labyrinth trial, get me on msn. :p Ditto if you already have anything published on kindle and want to give me pointers.

Dear 'The Media'

I'd just like to clarify a few points regarding the whole 'websites being hacked over Wikileaks' malarky that's going on.

1. Anonymous aren't pro-Assange. They're anti-censorship. There is no affiliation with Wikileaks.
2. They're not 'hacktivists'. That's a stupid word. They're not even hackers (well ok, some might be). But pretty much anyone with basic computer knowledge can participate in the DDOS attacks. It really stretches the definition of the word 'hacker'. The guy who managed to get 1.3 million Gawker passwords, yeah, possibly a hacker.
3. LOIC isn't new. It's been around for years.
4. By pointing out LOIC all you've done is increase the amount of people able to join in. :P It's almost like you're secretly encouraging this.

That is all. Keep up the oh so fascinating coverage. ¬¬

Lagging.

I realise I'm lagging behind. I'll try resume this tale soon. What with my boss getting repeatedly snowed in and my internet struggling to stay connected it's not been easy to work on this.

Also. Open comment to the dickhead who signed up for facebook using my email address...
Reported. Why would you even do that... Donald Rozay Myers. Not only did you piss me off, but you offered your personal details (and the names of all your friends) right into the hands of a stranger. How utterly foolish. I'm guessing Shanieka Myers is related to you? See what you've done? I'll spare the rest of your friends the embarrassment of your foolishness.
Retard.