I just wanted to drop a note to thank all those of you who were so kind as to send sympathy messages to me (and to Peter) about the loss of his Mum.
We are both coping as well as we can: it’s obviously harder on him than on me… yet I’m in the strange situation […]

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The transfer to The Big Meow’s new hosting provider at Lunarpages has gone smoothly, and the new installation of Drupal 5.0 is now up and running. Everything seems to be working OK, but if those of you who read this and venture over there should find anything strange going on, please register so that you can […]

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…to its new hosting servers at Lunarpages, starting today.
This means that the site will disappear for a while as the domain registrar passes the domain’s internal change-of-address information (DNS) into the Net. The site may take as long as seventy-two hours to reappear, so please don’t panic if the absence seems to be getting prolonged.
The […]

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Those of you who may have been watching the progressive site revamp at The-Big-Meow.com should be warned that, while I was attempting to add some features this morning, some stuff got screwed up. It’s not serious, but it affects the look-and-feel of the site, and may take a while to fix, as I’m still not […]

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Folks, I’m wrecked, so more about this tomorrow: but the new chapter’s up for the book’s subscribers. (It’s a fairly plump one, at 18,000 words.)
It’s in the same directory that Four, Five and Six were in for subscribers, and can be got at using the same username / password pair. The “mailing list” mails […]

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This is going to be fun!
The excellent Chris Meadows (aka Robotech Master) has written an article on serializing novels on the Internet for the weblog at his TeleRead site, which deals with various aspects of electronic reading (e-books, reading on PDAs, online reading,digital libraries, etc.).
Chris is also hosting an online roundtable discussion this weekend on […]

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(sigh) After dealing with an incredible amount of local crap (which I’m not going to bore you with at the moment, but will, a little later, on the weblog and elsewhere), this is just to let everyone know that Chapter 5 is now available for “The Big Meow”’s subscribers. And my apologies for the long […]

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Some of the people who’ve subscribed to The Big Meow (that’s the final book in the “Feline Wizardry” sequence, in case this is the first you’ve heard about the project) have been asking about the possibility of hardcover editions being made available when we go to press in early ‘07. I’ve done the costings, and […]

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For those of you who’re subscribers to The Big Meow: A conflicting work commitment has come up which is going to make it impossible to get the subscribers’ version of Chapter Four posted on its projected date of May 10th. I’m therefore rescheduling the posting date for May 12th. Apologies to everybody: but sometimes something […]

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After a whole lot of antibiotics, some blood tests, and various other craziness…it’s up at last. Thanks to everyone for being so patient.
The URL and access information are going out to subscribers right now. As usual (because believe it or not, the mailing list is STILL acting up…), if you haven’t seen access information by […]

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I spent the weekend dealing with not only the flared-up ear infection, but also an incipient eye infection. Fortunately the drugs are now taking hold, and I should be able to get the chapter up tomorrow. My apologies.

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Well, the local craziness continues (the most exciting part of it being that my ear problem is back — half back, anyway: I still have one working ear, and with any luck the other one will put itself right in a day or three). Meantime, I continuedoing the tidying-up work on chapter 3 of “Big […]

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The book’s second chapter is now available to non-subscribers. You’ll find it here:
http://www.the-big-meow.com/ch2/ChapterTwoGateway.php
The chapter is available in Web-friendly HTML, Adobe .PDF, and MobiMate/MobiPocket .PRC formats (for the Palm OS and other PDAs).
Chapter Three is scheduled to go online for subscribers on April 21.
Enjoy!
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Put Chapter Two up for the subscribers very, very early this morning, and then forgot to edit the gateway page so that other human beings could actually get at it.
Many apologies, everybody. It’s accessible now. (And I had a chance to get at it again this morning and remove some typos that squeaked through.)
If you’re […]

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Chapter access and location info for Chapter Two of The Big Meow are now starting to go out (as of around 10:00 GMT) via the subscriber/donor mailing list. The directory location and username/password info for the page are different from the old ones. If you’re a subscriber to the book (either whole-book or single […]

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For those who’re interested, another challenge grant has just gone up. A kindly donor has pledged $400 toward the completion of the Big Meow project…if subscribers / donors match it.
The last challenge was completed in something like three hours. Let’s see how long this one takes… (And to all of you who’ve already subscribed […]

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I ran across this reference to the Big Meow project in a nice weblog called Everyday Literacies:
Online narrative writing practices, especially those associated with fanfic writing have spawned a reading and peer editing process generally referred to as ‘beta reading’. Basically, the process involves the author posting a narrative, or a chapter from a more […]

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The subscribers saw it a week ago: now everybody else who’s interested can go take a look. Chapter One of “The Big Meow” is now online at:
http://www.the-big-meow.com/ch1/ChapterOneGateway.php
So far it’s only available in HTML and PDF formats. If anyone’s interested in seeing any other formats go up, let me know and I’ll see what we can […]

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Just so that everybody knows: access information for Chapter One has gone out to all TBM subscribers.
The mailing list software is still acting up, so I’ve had to gang-email everyone by hand this morning. If you’re a subscriber and you do not receive your access info today, please mail me and I’ll see what’s going […]

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I’m formatting it at the moment, and it’ll be going up shortly. There’ll be two versions to start with — a PDF version (printable) and an HTML (web-friendly) version.
After it goes up, I’ll start sending out passwords to the subscribers and donors so that they can read the chapter. Please be patient with me about […]

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