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I’ve become aware that the plugin I’m using to power that subscription service is quite bloated and using too much of my resources on the server. I’m looking into upgrading, but I have to bring down my memory usage. If I only have to bump up my hosting plan from $10 a month to $15, I’m not too worried, but if I have to go higher than that, it’ll be out of my budget.

So, if I’m moving away from the Jetpack plugin, and trying to replace the functions I received from that plugin in other ways. The most important thing was the subscriptions.

So! If you’re a registered member of this blog already (you’ve registered and you log in to comment), then you’re covered by my new service. In fact, you can log in and look at some amazing new options for receiving updates. How often (you can even ask for them once every few hours if you’re insane, haha). You can subscribe to a category (like Site News, which is where I summarize all major updates). It’s kind of nifty and I think, works a bit better than the old one.

I thought about adding everyone who’d subscribed to the site, but it looks like some of you signed up twice (through registering and then signing up separately), and I don’t want to accidentally sign you up again for possibly a third email.

I receive a ton of spam users every day, and I’m never sure if I’m deleting real people. So, I’m going to set up a page for registering, so I can make it easier on myself to make sure actual readers get through.  I also want to go through and figure out if I have any spam users registered, so anyone who hasn’t activated their accounts will be deleted. It’s the best way to do it.

Registering At This Site

There is a new widget to the right that replaces the old one. If you are already logged in, you’ll see that it gives you the option to manage your subscriptions from your profile. If you don’t see it, you can subscribe below without registering, but being registered makes it easier to adjust your preferences, I think. We’ll see how this works out.

This post is the first in a series of changes I’ll be making to this site to make it better for you guys in the long run. Most of it you won’t even notice, except things may move around and links may occasionally get broken. Please bear with me 🙂 I always planned to get back to site functionality once I had finished writing for a while.

 

I will be disabling Jetpack tomorrow. Until that point, you may receive extra emails. I want to make sure everyone sees this message. 

 

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So I know that the majority of my audience are Jason/Elizabeth fans, so you guys would prefer to have a handy list of the stories have them together as a pairing. On this site, I’ve written stories for more then fifteen other couples and usually include anywhere from three to twelve extra characters in the story.

So I’ve been trying to find a way to sort my stories so you guys can view them based on the couple or character, and also the year it was written to avoid ending up with the not so good story. I’m not hapy with my first pass at it — I want to work it out a bit more, but here is my first effort: Tag Archive: Stories Sorted by Couple, Character & Year.

There’s also some reorganization I want to do on the site — adjust how some of the stories are posted (some are in two-four parts and could honestly be just one. I’m going to go through and adjust them, just to make browsing the site more user friendly. It’s my aim to include extra material wherever possible, and I want to make sure it’s actually listed in a way you guys can find it.

If there’s anything exta on this site that you guys might be interested in, please let me know.

So I said I’d probably come back tonight with the last chapter of FWTM: Chapter 24. It’s tonight for me 😛 And it’s exclusive to CG until I have time to post tomorrow night at RTN, Fanfiction.Net and Archive of Our Own. Please enjoy the end of the story, and let me know what you think.  Thanks so much to Cora for proofing the last four chapters 😛

I also decided to post the two plot sketches of this story so if you’re interested in how I intended to write the story (most of the good stuff made it into the finished version) but some things are really different — check out the original plans for the ending! But make sure you read the chapter first.

The first plot sketch — the original one in February.

The second plot sketch — after I finished the first nine or ten chapters and had to really think about the rest of the story.

I also took the password off the ebooks, so please go ahead and download. If you find any typos, please let me know immediately. I can edit them at any time!

So we’re edging closer to the end, my friends.  I may post a second chapter tonight (which I wouldn’t post at RTN until later tomorrow because they tend to conslidate my stuff without warning when I post too close together, because..whatevs) because of the Tube strike in London. Normally, these things don’t affect me because the area will I live is super convenient — my grocery store, my favorite places to go are all really close. But a friend is arriving from the airport tomorrow, and we’re going to go get her. I have to get up early, take a bus to meet my friends to take one line to another stop, where we’ll get the train to Heathrow. So…I’d have to get up before 6 to post this.

I’m not doing that. I love you guys, but not nearly that much.

So you may get the end of this story a little earlier than everyone else. Because I love you guys too much to make you wait more than twenty-four hours for the ending 😛

I’m still not sure which story is going to come next. I finished my term work, but like I said, our friend is coming in from New Jersey for a bit. She’s here until May 11, then another friend is here. And I just found out last night that my birthday present from my best friends is a trip to Ireland next month. It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks.  I’m still holding out hope that I’ll have some breakthroughs on Hours and Tangle, but The Best Thing might come first. I had a major breakthrough on that, and rewrote my plot sketch, and I’m excited about it. I’ll keep you guys posted.

A Few Words Too Many: Chapter 23

I updated A Few Words Too Many with Chapter 22. RTN stopped being cranky, so here’s the link to Turning Points I promised yesterday. It’ll be on this site in a better way sometime tomorrow. I’ve got a long day ahead of me, complete with actually delivering this German presentation. So…light a candle for me, I’m gonna need it.

I had a minor breakthrough on The Best Thing yesterday, which isn’t helpful since I need a breakthrough on Tangle, but, eh, life. What’re you going to do? Hopefully I’ll have something for you guys to read once May hits.

You know, I so often get reminded why I didn’t post at Fanfiction.net in the old days. Oy.

Not much to say today — I updated A Few Words with Chapter 21. Oh…I’m also doing a Choose Your Ending type thing at RTN, where I write something, and you guys help write the next part. I’ll be posting it here eventually, but it’s just easy to keep the responses in the same place, so the link at RTN for Turning Points. I think most of you guys have a Yuku account, so hopefully you’ll check it out and respond there. I’ll be back with a link to it, Yuku is being a bitch this morning.

I’m working on Tangle and These Small Hours, but it’s taking some time to really dig into these stories. They may not be ready when I said they would be. I don’t want to force it, honestly. I may play around with the sequel to Words, Burn in Heaven, at least sketch out a more detailed plot. Play around with some other stories, to see which one feels like it’ll happen. I’ve been thinking about The Best Thing and Mad World, so maybe those will move up sooner. We’ll see.

Oh, and I updated the layout last night, so if you’re still seeing the old Elizabeth one, refresh. It should be a loverly old-school Liason. I miss these bastards. I miss this Jason. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU MAN?

So even though I had intended to only give away one copy, I’m a sucker, and decided to increase it to three. So many people commented, I just felt awful about only three people winning. You guys almost ALL won, haha. But thanks to the plugin, I randomly selected three winners: Aradia, Nicole and Kristina. I’ve emailed you guys with information on downloading the ebooks.

Thanks again to everyone that entered. The ebook will be made generally available on April 30 when I post the last chapter.

 

 

Sorry for the quick post earlier. I had to leave to have lunch at 1, it was already 12:3o, and it’s a twenty minute bus ride and ten minute walk to The Diner 😛  I finished this morning, and also updated the cast page. So head over to Damaged to read more.

 

The next time I post, it’ll be to announce the winners 😛 7 PM EST PEOPLE!

I’ve already designed the ebooks page for easier downloading, and on 30 April 2014, I’ll remove the password protecting the files.

Thanks for the comments on the covers — I completely agree about The Witness, but I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working for me. This is why I post things 😛

A Few Words Too Many: Chapter 20

Also: I’m working on the plot sketch for The Best Thing, and I’m still settling on the name Jason gives to the baby after Sam dies. I’m tossing around Evangeline Grace (Evie) because naturally, Emily helps him with it. Thoughts? I hate choosing names. I liked Cady from another story I did, but I can’t keep using my nieces names (Olivia and Isla)

*sigh* I need help. Honestly.

I finished my evil paper around 5, and decided take the rest of the day off 😛 I worked on Damaged, played around with These Small Hours, but then…I got bored. And when I get bored, I think of things I could do that aren’t useful.

So I made covers for the next two ebooks I’ll be compiling. And then I didn’t want to wait for you guys to see them, because hey, what if they suck? And I’ll have you know…that since my computer crash,  I lost all of my Alicia Leigh Willis material, so now when I go looking for Courtney screencaps, I am ASSAULTED by Jason/Courtney pictures.

Is there no decency in this world?

Anyway. I’m halfway done Episode 003 of Damaged, it’ll probably be ready this weekend or Monday. I’ll post the next chapter of Few Words tomorrow morning, and then announce the contest winners a little after 7 PM EST on Saturday. I’m going to try to do two winners, if the plugin will let me.

Here are your advance covers. Click on them to see them full size. (Also, let’s be distubed that I can find blood spatter texture for graphics. This world…worries me.)