From time to time, I get questions that I am sure a lot of other readers probably have. Here are three:
1) One question, I have gone back and not seen a full description of the little ninja (Cassidy). I love stories with great character development; you are one of my favorites. I have seen some authors who have, on a website, offered pictures of what they envisioned the character to look like.
I asked my editors if they had ideas on what she looked like. Here are a few of their responses... let me know what you think:
I wouldn’t do it. When characters are well written, as yours are, we all develop an image of them in our mind’s eye that is aligned with our preferences, and provided images tend to disappoint because of it. I was usually disappointed with images when he used to do it.
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aroslav/Wayzgoose/Devon Layne deliberately either doesn't describe his characters or gives a minimal description, unless of course the description is a key factor in the story. An example of the latter is his 'Team Manager' series. The MC's size, his 'coke-bottle' eyeglasses--those are very important to his situation when the first book begins, and some physical changes in him are also important in at least one later book. But that's pretty much an exception.
OTOH, charliefornow generally sends photos of girls/women representing his stories' characters. Looking at them and reading his descriptions clarifies what things about women attract him. (stockings, heels--way up there; I'm giving nothing away, as the stories make those things obvious)
I think either way works.
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I have an idea of what all my characters look like. I've found images of what I think they look like and try to use those for consistency's sake. But I've always believed that you must leave it to people's imagination because what I think is attractive might not be what someone else thinks.
Then I sometimes totally go against that... if you haven't noticed, writers are a little nuts.
2) Why do you have to pull down books from SOL when you put them on a pay site?
I've skirted the issue with Stupid Boy, but not willing to keep poking the bear, so to speak, that is(name deleted). If a book will be on their site, I'll pull it from SOL. It can remain on Bookapy and my site if it isn't free (or cheaper than on their site).
Note that several authors have had to do this.
3) Why is your site down in Canada?
This one had me scratching my head, so I contacted my webmaster. I found out that they are terrible at customer service. That's another story, and it has a lot to do with you getting what you pay for.
Greg -
I am doing an overhaul of our firewall this weekend. In order to prepare for that, I have everything but the US blocked until this weekend while I work on the firewall in the meantime. I have will have global functionality restored by Monday