Lauren's Tales

What with the migraines, I often go through days when I get nothing written.  This is depressing.  I’ve adopted a new way of coping, such that if I get one useful thing done in the writing department, I am entitled to squee!

Last year I ran a series of author chats on Circlet Press’s LiveJournal. For the most part they went off well. Authors got to chat, readers got prizes, and Circlet got to look good. I got to be annoyed, but that happens anyway. In this case, though, the annoyance was caused by a few authors whose inability to screw up directions was truely breathtaking. I wish I could share some anecdotes, but I think it might be too likely that the authors responsible will notice and hold it against me.

Today I re-wrote the how to do a chat document with an eye to making the instructures clearer and address the more common confusions. I put much more responsiblity on the author to get me the information, i.e. don’t tell me you already gave me your LJ account name when it was on a piece of paper you gave me at a con. Everything I need goes in one email message so that if it gets screwed up from there, it’s my fault. I also reminded people that they can’t post to the Circlet Community if they haven’t signed up as a member, and I included links explaining lj-cuts. I then talked to Cecilia about improving integration of Circlet’s blog with other social networking sites (messy, but possible if your expectations are low).

Then I mailed a pointer to the new googledoc to the editors group and reminded them that they must send me author names for there to be chats.

I had a squee!

Now I can go lie down.