New book alert!
Finally! Ring of Lightning is up. I’m going to get right to work on Intrigue and Destiny. Most formats, including pdf, have clickable Table of Contents. I’ll be anxious to hear how they all work. As always, if you have problems on some reader, I’d like to hear about it sooner rather than later. Weird formatting, weird characters…I can’t check any of these except in the reader that comes with Calibre, so I really count on you all.
We went skating today, but the rink had been invaded and was wall to wall speed bumps (small people) so we round-abouted and came home. With an unexpected hour, I decided to tackle Wesley’s (my car’s) non-working door locks. The actuator was trying to lock and unlock, but nothing was moving. His doctor needed like $60 a door to take them apart and spray liberally with WD40. Well, I can spray with the best of them, so I pulled every bolt and screw I could find, popped the “lining” off and sprayed everything until it was dripping, working the mechanism in between sprays. I didn’t see any “gunk” built up, but the locks are working fine now.
Really fine. So fine, I locked my keys in the car! Fortunately, Carolyn had an unidentified key on her ring which turned out to be his door key. I got into the car and immediately headed for Ace hardware to make a spare set of keys. (I’ve got one somewhere, but it wasn’t where I thought it would be.) Well, I hit Wellesley (road) before Ace and Wesley turned (it wasn’t me, I assure you) down to Walmart instead. He’d decided he wanted new “hubcaps.” A nasty prankster at our old apartment had swiped one, and the others were badly scuffed…so while the keys were being made, I found him some pretty dusty-black “hubcaps.” They’re cheap plastic things, but he looks very handsome now, except he needs a bath. I’ll get him clean and take of pick of him with his new “shoes.” I also got him some classy covers for his license plates (which I finally got mounted in the front) so he’s very happy.
Now, it’s back to work!
Yay, books!!! [
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Your car is so spoiled! Next he’ll want spiffy seatcovers…
PS…I noticed the new links…you guys are so fast it’s scary!
I don’t know how many times I’ve looked at seat covers. There are so many cute ones available. But his upholstery is amazingly comfortable, so I’ve never been able to talk myself into it! This is an 87 Oldsmobile Firenza. As far as I know, it’s the original upholstery, and still looks and feels like new!
As for the links…If I don’t respond immediately, I’m likely to forget it! I’m lousy at taking notes. Or rather, I can take all the notes I want. The likelihood of remembering they exist and utilizing them is very slim.
But once the pattern of making links is set by doing, I should remember for future posts.
And I’m getting my individual pages up. It’s a bit hard to figure how to access them, since the thumbnails used in the catalog are hard-wired to go to the full-sized image, but I can link the book title to its page throughout. Guess that’ll be good enough.
I bought the book. It looks good. I did buy the paperback of it a long time ago, and I have read it (loved it!), but I support your endeavor so I’ll buy your books in these new formats. A pity DAW couldn’t see past their eye lashes and decided not to publish more of your Ring novels (nor the ‘NetWalkers books).
Anyway, I’m getting a BeBook One (called Letto for some reason when sold by Adlibris.se in Sweden). I’ll let you know if there are any problems with displaying the book.
Thank you for writing.
ericf