Josiah DeGraaf

@kate-flournoy If getting a good mentor is possible, I’d definitely seize on the opportunity. Like @his-instrument, I downplayed the importance for a while. Then I found one. And while I currently only have one on the publishing/marketing/business end of things, it’s insanely helpful and is going to help me avoid a lot of pitfalls. If I could find…[Read more]

@emily-d “The Emotion Thesaurus” by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi (sp?). Really excellent book that gives you all the shortcuts you need to portray emotions effectively through body language and dialogue.

Hey @eleganceismyarrow!

Just so you know, if you can tag me when posting (@aratrea), that will make sure I catch the post. 95% of the time I’ll get notifications w/o it in this forum, but that just makes sure I get the 5% as well. 🙂

Anyways, onto your homework: this is a pretty good starting point for your theme. The Focusing Question is a good…[Read more]

@daeus Yes–I forget if I’m using that plugin or a similar one, but I’ll be using something like that on Saturday while I’m working on the changes. 🙂

Update: Web changes have now been finalized for this Saturday, barring any unforeseen difficulties. We’ll be sending out an email later this week, but we’ll be taking the site down Saturday morning and hopefully have the site back up that evening with the new implemented web design.

@glitter-ocelot Heh; nice. I have trouble with serials on the internet due to my terrible memory of character names, but since I (should) already remember most of these characters, I may dig into it one of these days before the release; we’ll see!

Also just got to say I’m a huge Hamilton fan. And since musicals are going on in this thread, I…[Read more]

Welcome to the site @glitter-ocelot! Homeschooled nerrrrrrrrrrrrds are my favorite. 😉 Also totally with you on the Oathbreaker release train! So ready for that to come out in November. Are you going through the Tor previews for the book as well?

The first one grabs me the most, but the rhythm is a bit off to me; what about ‘Darkened Ages’?

@bethanysinkyroses Great question. >.> Short answer is no. Long answer is we hope to release it sometime in the next several months, but right now a lot of my time at least has been eaten up by rolling out this new web design. Once we have that done and rolled out, figuring out a release date for this is close to the top of my list of things to do…

@dragon-snapper @salome01w4g Yes, my hope is that once we update everything, this issue will be resolved. Please let me know, though, if this is still a problem after we roll-out our new web design, and I’ll look into the matter.

Hey @theacornman; welcome to the site! Glad you found us. 🙂 That’s great that you’re a fantasy/sci-fi writer. Who are your favorite authors in the genre?

Hey @theacornman–welcome to the site! Glad you found us. 🙂 That’s great that you’re a fantasy/sci-fi writer. Who are your favorite authors in the genre?

@shannon It is. 😀 I’m actual super-excited for the day when we get to show it off to all of you!

@lightningmouse Unfortunately that right there is “fake news.” 😛 We’re testing this out on a two-year old backup of the site, and we’d been running a contest at that time.

@jane-maree Good eye. It’s the “Extra” theme, which is also made by Elegant Themes and utilizes Divi heavily. So yes.

Oh; sweet. Tell you what. I’ll email you the access info for the dev site we’re testing things out on if she (or you) have time and interest in looking through it and giving us your feedback. None of the security stuff is set up…[Read more]

@Lady-PenDragon Sounds neat. Kudos to trying to tackle two at once. xD Best of luck with them!

Welcome to the site @Lady-PenDragon! Glad to hear you’ve been a regular stalker. 😉 What’s the premise of your current work-in-progress?

Started working on our planned forum re-design tonight. A bunch of small upgrades that we’re going to keep under wraps for now. But to continue to boost excitement, I thought I’d mention that we’ll be able to display usernames under the display name on the forum. So you won’t need to hunt down their profile to tag them once we do the relaunch.

Thanks so much for sharing, @jane-maree and @bethanysinkyroses! If we continue to investigate this route, we’ll probably create a survey about it for our subscribers, but that’s really helpful to get as a starting point.