Well, the site is finally back in good shape.  Thank God.  I will never again be caught that unprepared for a site outage.

The only thing still missing is links to other authors’ sites.  Don’t worry — if you’re one of the folks I’ve normally linked too, I will have you set back up soon.  Please also note the presence of the “Plugs” page.  If you have a banner you’d like there, and I’m familiar with you or your material, just send me some mail and I’ll be happy to slap it in my list.

Writing Update:

“Eee” is getting extremely positive feedback over on critters.  The majority of the readers have actually come back with things like “I had to really dig to find something wrong with this”, or “Good God, send this off to Analog, Asimov’s, somebody.”

It’s just the ego-boost I’ve needed after the spate of rejections lately.  Here’s the kicker: I’d actually edited that draft further and sent off the final draft to the wild, so these people are commenting to such a positive degree on my second-draft, and not my final draft.

The challenge here is still going over the story objectively, and not letting my own head get swollen over the matter.  Arrogance will kill an author’s career surer than anything else in this business; it is egotistical sepuku, sans the honorable slant.

This is the last tale I’ll probably send through critters.  I’ve enjoyed my time there, but I’m ready to move up a level in intensity.  I need even tougher critics.  Critters has helped me out to a huge degree, and if you’re a new writer, I highly recommend it to you:

http://critters.org

Stay tuned.