What's Going On

Really enjoying hearing folk use the “Hear Me Read It” function on the blog. Listened to @MattScho read his new piece yesterday, thoroughly enjoyed it. Adds a special quality to hear the author read their own work, imho.

This may appear to be a rather “dull” few days with the Author Platform system… apparently no new features (altho I may trail one in today’s Huddle!). What’s happening is a ton of work behind the scenes, e.g. resolving conflicts, building code resilience and improving performance. Please continue to report any bugs you encounter.

A small (but important) service update. When we moved the Colony onto a new server ten days ago, I forgot to tell the new server that it would be sending emails.
Because of this, none have been sent for the last ten days
So if you were expecting email notifications about events in the Colony, e.g. a new post in a thread you were following, you wouldn't have received any.
This only applied to the Colony, not Litopia.com.
Sorry about that, it's now been corrected.

The Colony has just moved to a new server. Everything seems to have gone well, but if you notice any strangeness (apart from the normal strangeness, natch) please let me know p.

Just finished a pretty comprehensive Help Guide to the Author Platform – please take a look.

Last night...!

Apologies, the main litopia.com site is unexpectedly down due to, ahem, some code mismanagement. Working on it now.

My sister is trending on TikTok. She's a divorce mediator: LoveByLee. Nothing writing related, but still cool If anything, it shows how she found her voice and her target audience.

Godammit, Donut!

Princess Donut is hysterical!

I can tell you with great authority – norovirus is no fun

We’re playing Beat The Bot in today’s Huddle… Yes, it’s going to be a great game, but also… the future of writing itself may depend on… you…!

I had a subscription to Office 365, which I’ve just cancelled – thinking that although I wouldn’t receive updates, I’d still be able to use it. Turns out, you can’t. You don’t pay – Microsoft hobbles your software, i.e. makes it unusable. This is not going to drive me back into their arms! LibreOffice looks better every day.

Just saw "KPop Demon Hunters" - the singalong version. I will never be the same.

Reminding folks that LiNoWriMo starts soon! If you want to jump onboard let me know in this thread: LiMoWriMo - LiNoWriMo sign up

I am new to Litopia and am having problems using the site: I would like to find the 17 publishers accepting submissions for Children's books. Can you help? Where do I find how to use the site?
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Does anyone here remember me? I feel embarrassed to be posting after such a long silence. But I swear, I've been busy. I won a free place on an Urban Writers Retreat, and used it to finish my time slip novel and start an eco-thriller. In the meantime, I entered my screenplay of the Panopticon (adapted from my novel) into various competitions, where it did quite well. I then applied for a scholarship for the Rocaberti Writers Retreat. I was granted a 'partial scholarship'. Which, between you, me and the gate post, is unbearably cruel, as I now have to find the rest of the money. To that end, I've started a GoFundMe appeal: Donate to Pursuing my dream at a Rocaberti Writers Retreat, organized by Rachel Thornton
That's all for now. Please check it out. Thank you.

Robert Redford is dead. Didn’t really appreciate him enough at the time, yet in retrospect he seems like one of the giants of the screen. Feels like part of the best of America may have died, too… Or am I being too melancholic…?