A day of work on the web, and work editing.

Now that I've moved web servers, I can do a lot more with the behind-the-scenes stuff on my site. I'm already loving checking out the stats each day, to see how many people are hitting my site. (I'll include a bit about that in the next issue of the Shanville Monthly.) I've also set up a new mailing list, which people can automatically subscribe for. Previously, when fans registered with my web site, their e-mail address came to me personally; I held it in a folder in my Outlook Express; then, each month, I had to save all the e-mail addresses to a folder on my PC (by manually clicking on each e-mail and saving the sender's details!!); then I had to convert them into a database form which I could upload to my mailing list!!!! Now, all you have to do is click on a subscribe button -- my mailing list will automatically send you an e-mail, and once you reply to it, you'll be subcsribed!! That's going to make my life a LOT simpler in future!!!!

Also returned to editing work on Book 2, "Demon Thief". I'm making only minimal changes at this stage, altering the occasional word here or there, or fixing some small error or other. But because this is the last chance I have to make any changes, it's slow work -- I have to take my time, to make sure I don't overlook anything that I'm going to regret later!!! Although, as I've said before, I never read any of my books once they're published, so the minor changes I'm making now are purely for the benefit of the perfectionist within me -- it's not like I'm going to read through the book in a few years and go, "Ah hah! That's a great word! I'm glad I decided to stick that in at the last moment!!" So why go to all this time and effort, huffing away over minor stuff that most readers won't notice and that I'm not going to ever spot once the book comes out?!? Well, that's just the way I am!!!!