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The Sea We Know: New Links
Friday April 16, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
Sunday 9:52 PM PST More trouble, or at least sometimes. If you have trouble with the regular link to buy a copy of The Sea We Know, try from my Lulu storefront.
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Saturday 10:02 AM PST The new link to order a paperback copy of The Sea We Know seems to work now. The old link redirects to the new one, but it is safer to use the newer one. Lulu said it was in site maintenance mode, but obviously some of its inner workings have been changed.
I could never get the eBook first-90-page-only preview to work correctly again: It appeared that some of the settings had been corrupted and any attempts to repair would either get “Unrecoverable Errors” or it would seem to be fixed, but still not work. So it’s gone and the free preview is now only available from my site. Go to downloads where I have also added the errata sheet for those with older paperback copies.
I have updated the links around this site to the new place for the 90-page preview and the errata. When possible, please update yours if you have posted them anywhere. Again, sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Below lies only updates from this misadventure.
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Friday 8:06 PM PST Now Lulu is saying the book in any format doesn’t exist anymore when I click on the link from this site or search for it on Lulu. The 90-page Preview from this site does work. Sorry for any inconvenience. Will try again tomorrow, as sometimes time takes care of these things.
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Friday 1:15 PM PST You can now download a free 90-page Preview directly from this site. This is the first 90 pages only of a 300 page book. Please let me know if there are any problems. Will still have to fix a few things on Lulu’s pages, but maybe having the download from here is for the best in the long run.
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Friday 12:46 PM PST The old link to the paperback copy works again. The link to the eBook 90-page preview still does not, and when I try to recreate the book on Lulu, I keep getting an “unrecoverable error.” It may be a while before I get this fix as I have to go out now.
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Lulu apparently is working on its site and there now seems to be a new link to order a copy of The Sea We Know. Also, the link to download a free 90-page preview has been having some problems: the old one stopped working and, as of this moment, I am not able to recreate a new one on Lulu. Will see if I can find out more later and get this functioning again.
The Sea We Know: Free Shipping
Friday April 16, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
Free Shipping from Lulu.com until May 1st with coupon code FREEMAIL305. Good for a copy or The Sea We Know or any other book that Lulu prints.
From Lulu’s email: "Use coupon code FREEMAIL305 at checkout and receive $3.99 towards your final shipping cost. This amount is the US mail cost for a single book order. Please note: there will be a shipping total listed on your order receipt. This coupon code will reduce your final order total by $3.99, which is the US mail cost for a single book."
Also, note that Lulu has changed the link to the book on their site. The old one seems to redirect okay, but it’s safer to use the new one. Other changes on Lulu have led me to move the free first-90-page-only preview of The Sea We Know to downloads. I have also added the latest errata sheet for those with older paperback copies to this new page. A more detailed, but boring, account of why all these changes can be found on the previous blog post.
Blog to Facebook
Tuesday January 05, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
Not completely happy with the automatic feed of this blog to my Facebook account, so I am discontinuing it for now. Among other reasons:
For now, I will go back to adding links on Facebook posts manually, although maybe not for all posts. Not this one, for instance.
- A link I added in a blog post that worked fine on the blog, did not work on the version automatically created for Facebook. It seemed to add a folder in the path that should not have been there. Not sure whether that was RapidWeaver’s fault or Facebook’s but, again, the link was okay on the blog itself. RapidWeaver, by the way, is what I use to build and maintain my site, and it’s a great solution if you are Mac-based.
- Once Facebook’s version of the blog entry posts, it is not possible to edit. As I am maintaining the blog internally, I can easily do that on the blog itself, but it doesn’t update on the Facebook version. I finally ended up making a redirect page in a folder with the same name as the bad link to get the Facebook version’s of the link to work, but that is not a very satisfying solution.
- The blog itself was showing up as a Note on Facebook without any of the sidebar links people would see if they went to the blog. I don’t fault Facebook on this, and although having it this way might make it easier for someone on Facebook to find the entries, I’m not sure yet if this is for the best overall.
- The Facebook’s version of blog entries are not displaying well on Facebook’s iPhone app! One of their toolbars hovers on top of the content, which would seem to be an issue with Facebook, not RapidWeaver. Also, an image was half-hanging outside the frame of the app with no way to resize it down to see the whole image. As more and more people are now accessing content through so-called smart phones, this is the final deal killer.
For now, I will go back to adding links on Facebook posts manually, although maybe not for all posts. Not this one, for instance.
Brunching In
Friday January 01, 2010 • Filed in: Personal
Brunching in today, scrambled eggs and smoked salmon thanks to my shopping and Ingrid’s cooking. Tweaked the new site a bit more. Katie also helping me a bit with this. Perhaps after brunch, a walk, some Wii Fit Plus, followed by a DVD later on. We’ve been watching old 60’s episodes of The Prisoner now and then, which still hold up well in a retro sort of way.
An End and a Beginning
Thursday December 31, 2009 • Filed in: Personal
Last day of the year. First post on the new blog.
The site is bare bone right now, but I will be adding more as time goes on.
Made this photo with the iPhone a few days ago. That little white speck in the lower middle is the moon reflected in this barely frozen pond. Life is still beautiful and precious, and perhaps it’s enough this time to only say, “Let Us All Have a New Year!”
frozen pond. iphone photo: frank m sheldon
The site is bare bone right now, but I will be adding more as time goes on.
Made this photo with the iPhone a few days ago. That little white speck in the lower middle is the moon reflected in this barely frozen pond. Life is still beautiful and precious, and perhaps it’s enough this time to only say, “Let Us All Have a New Year!”
frozen pond. iphone photo: frank m sheldon