I’m working on it right now and hope to have it up at the weekend. Apologies for the delay: there have been some home / family issues this last month which have disrupted work. (Nothing serious, just disruptive.)
Thanks, all!

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Folks, work on the present project has run a a couple of days further into this week than planned, so it’s going to be Thursday or Friday before I can get that next chapter posted. Please bear with me, as things are a bit frantic at the moment.
Thanks!
 
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Folks, just a quick word: this week has become unusually disrupted due to other work that’s going on in-house, so I’m going to have to postpone the chapter posting until just after the 27th. Unfortunately the chapter’s just not ready to go up yet, the in-house crisis won’t allow any work on any other projects until […]

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For those of you who’re not subscribers: the latest chapter has just gone online for the general readership over at the TBM site. Here’s the URL —

http://www.the-big-meow.com/Chapter-Seven-Gateway

All the chapters presently online are linked to from this page.
We also have new versions of the Mobipocket-format files available. The marvelous Linnette Stoney (who’s been converting the […]

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Friends,
It’s up at last.
There are a lot of places where this notification needs to be posted, and a lot of explanations and profound apologies to be made… but for the moment it just seems best to get the news out.
Chapter Seven is now available online for subscribers: it’s linked to from the normal TBM subscriber […]

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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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