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Thanks for Tech Support

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I got numerous responses to my note about dousing my computer with coffee. Many, many suggestions, most of which could be categorized as

1. Protect your keyboard/computer from spills in the future, dummy.

2. Backup your files all the time, dummy.

3. You can do your own recovery, dummy.

Nearly all were clear evidence of why real tech support asks questions before offering solutions. I know these answers and I'm doing the best I can for a dummy.

As it happens, the Geek Squad has told me they can't get the disk to spin up to recover the files. Very bad news. After I dumped a full cup of coffee on my computer Christmas Eve, the Geek Squad in Oklahoma had the data recovered 24 hours after I brought it in. This one, not so much for what I considered a small spill.

At least I have replacement insurance on the computer, so I should have a new unit soon. I just have to figure out how to get it to happen. Where did I put those papers?

But the data.

Mostly, I'm okay. Everything more than a couple of weeks old I had backed up elsewhere. Email is a great thing when you're passing files back and forth to editors. But the past couple of weeks, I was putting in a flurry of work to get some revisions and ebooks (and print books) done. So, that work was for naught.

1. Re-proofread Not This Time and prepared html to release on my website and update on SOL. That also included designing a print book and cover that are on sale. All I have is the pdf of the interior and cover. Will have to re-do that work.

2. Re-proofread The Hero Lincoln Trilogy and prepared it for release on my website and an update on SOL. That also included designing a print book and cover for a single volume of the trilogy and individual stories. Had not yet converted it to eBook either. Will have to re-do that work.

3. Had been working through the edits and formatting them as I received them for the rewrite of American Royalty (retitled Rise and Awaken). I'll have to start over from the edited files I received in email from the two editors and re-read and correct the first sixteen of twenty-three chapters.

4. I won't need to re-do the rewrite of The Art and Science of Love because the most current version is still in the hands of Old Rotorhead and when it comes back, I'll be able to review the remaining edits and start prepping that for re-release. That will come after the first of the year and will be posted on SOL as a v-2 new story because it is extensively different than the original version posted here nine years ago.

5. I had all the semi-final version of Pussy Pirates backed up on my website, so I will be able to grab the final edits from Pixel the Cat and incorporate them to have that project still on schedule to begin posting here on 11/3 and hopefully be available in eBook and Paperback at the same time.

6. For Mayhem or Madness is complete and queued for posting both on SOL and on my website. It is also up and available as eBook and print. But I no longer have any of the production files and would have to do a new layout and eBook if I needed to correct them or expand distribution.

7. Three of my four works in progress I have complete backups of on my website and could recover. The fourth one, which I am spending more time on than any other, is a new Swarm story I've tentatively called The Assassin. I did a ton of work on it in the previous three days and that is gone. It included a Swarm Wiki entry I'd been asked to produce, a detailed outline of the whole book, and a set of notes of issues to deal with in the founding of a new township in my colony. Those three items need to be reproduced from pretty much memory. And I'd done an elaborate spreadsheet on the population growth for my planet and that is being rebuilt from the ground up. I'm getting different results than I did the first time.

So, I have my work cut out for me for the next few weeks, especially as I'm trying to get ready for NaNoWriMo in just 20 days.



In the meantime, I need to get my trailer deep cleaned in the next ten days so I can drop it off for a couple of repairs on the twenty-first, before I head across Puget Sound to Port Townsend for the winter. Guess how much of that project I've gotten done this week!

Carry on!

Well, I did it again.

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Yep. Fell asleep at the keyboard yesterday morning and knocked my coffee over. Got it mopped up and everything dried. Computer worked fine all afternoon. Even watched movies until almost midnight. Got up this morning and computer wouldn't start. Not even a power light when it was plugged in. Dead dead dead. I'm headed into Best Buy this afternoon to get a data recovery and then I'll take the computer over to Costco to get it repaired or replaced. This time, I bought a replacement contract when I bought the computer in January. Yeah. Right after I dumped coffee on my last keyboard. And this one was in a sippy cup so not much spilled. It wasn't like an entire cup of coffee like last time. Oh well. If I get the most recent data, which includes my newest development files for the four stories I'm working on, all will be well. Sheesh!

I found a place for the winter

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With travel somewhat restricted by quarantines and isolation, I've been at a bit of a loss regarding where to spend the winter this year. Last year I spent six months in Texas in April. The year before I was at Quartzsite in Arizona. I spent the two previous winters at Glen Eden Nudist Resort in Corona, CA. You get the idea. I'm a snowbird and go where it's warm in the winter. Usually.

This winter will be different. Thanks to author GMbusman, I took a tour of the Olympic Peninsula this week and found a Marina/RV Park in Port Townsend, WA. The RV slot I reserved is about fifty or seventy-five feet from the gently lapping waves of Admiralty Inlet or Port Townsend Bay in Puget Sound. I can look across the Sound at Whidbey Island. I'll be moving my trailer there the first of November for six months.

In the meantime, I'll be headed back to Idaho to get my trailer winterized and ready to roll. It's been nice to be with family the past two weeks, but it's time to be back home. (On wheels.)

This morning, I began posting the pre-release version of Pussy Pirates, a story in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle universe, for my patrons. I'm holding the grand release here on SOL on election day so we all have something to look forward to that day. It's going to be fun. Said Thinker: "I loved it!"

So, I'm still trying to decide among four projects for my NaNoWriMo WIP this year. Lots of possibilities and last night another wormed its way into my subconscious and I'm trying to decide if it is time to add a fourth volume to the Hero Lincoln Trilogy. One of the things I've been doing is re-editing all my earlier works and getting them posted on my own website as well as here. I'm happy to say most don't need much work or any work. My first story here, The Art and Science of Love, is fully re-edited and expanded so much that I'll be posting it separately from the original as V2. That's coming up near the end of the year.

It's a constant rush to write, edit, design, and release. I'm still trying to get my fingers to catch up with my head!

Enjoy!

For Mayhem or Madness

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The next Dag Hamar cyber mystery begins today. Wayzgoose has posted the first two chapters of For Mayhem or Madness. This is a shorter mystery and will post two chapters every three days until October 18. Enjoy my alter ego's newest!

Getting the hang of Bookapy, I think

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I really didn't need one more publishing account to keep track of but rule changes this year say that all sale of eBooks advertised on SOL have to be made through Bookapy, so I'll no longer be advertising them for sale through my own website. I get it. If we're advertising on SOL, SOL should get some benefit from it. And who knows? Maybe Bookapy will become so wildly successful that we can all give a well-deserved finger to Amazon.

I have some 50-plus novel-length stories on SOL under the author names of aroslav, Wayzgoose, and J-Hop. It's going to take a while to get all of them up on Bookapy. But I'm approaching it in a sort of logical way. I think. For the past two years, I've been releasing my stories on my own website for my Patreon patrons and for people who simply wouldn't come to a 'sex story' site to read my books. I'm still committed to having all my stories-erotica and mainstream-available here on SOL. I recently discovered I had a dozen books on SOL that I hadn't yet converted for my own site and half of those have never been released as eBooks. So, that's how I'm approaching it.

This week, in honor of starting the serialization of The Props Master 2: A Touch of Magic, I'm releasing all three of the Props Master series on Bookapy. Behind the Ivory Veil, Ritual Reality, and A Touch of Magic. So, download a complete library today! https://bookapy.com/s/198/the-props-master-2-a-touch-of-magic

These join my earlier release of Adams' Apples which was well-received. Next week, I hope to release the Erotic Paranormal Romance Western Adventure series-Redtail, Blackfeather, and Yelloweye. In the future, my intent is to release eBooks at or near the time I begin serialization on SOL.

And yes, there are books coming in the future. I currently have three books in various stages of editing that I hope to have available in the near future. I have one book nearing completion to be sent to editors, and I have two more books that I'm developing the concepts and outlines for. At least one of them will be my November project for NaNoWriMo. Lots more in store.

Enjoy!

 

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