The web site fairy has been at it again. I’ve recently discovered this nifty little installation that has apparently always been an available service on my site, which provides integration with WordPress.
Let’s see how I get on with this design for a while. Hopefully, with more frequent updates, the site might get a bit more…(well, I don’t want to say exciting, because that’s implying that the blog is exciting, which it rarely is)…let’s say interesting.
So I’m removing any connection to the newsletter on this site. Why?
Laziness.
Well, a few reasons. Laziness, funnily enough, isn’t one of them.
Mostly, it’s because I’ve realised I don’t like it. I’ve never been a good salesperson, especially when it comes to something I actually have a personal stake in (teehee, stake). Some people can do that, bang on and on about their products, but people are smart. Soon enough they’ll either buy whatever Joe Bloggs is selling because he keeps hammering on about it (and I expect they’ll be in the minority there), or alternatively they’ll mark Joe Blogg’s e-mails as spam, and hey ho, they’ll never hear from him again.
I have other avenues to update people on the work I’m doing. Or lack thereof. I shouldn’t be shoving it down their throats. And I know I talk about buying this and that on here, too, but that’s different.
A blog is like a virtual “drop by”, whereby you sit down and catch up with me before shooting off again. The emphasis being on you there.
You’re coming to me, I’m not coming to you.
You’re thinking “I wonder what Kat’s been up to since I last looked”. I’m not banging down your door shouting “remember me, huh, huh?!”.
I’m also taking off the newsletter because I’m sick of the random signup spam (I get about 10 a day signing up with jibberish names).
Another very valid reason is that it’s been a good 12 – 18 months since I actually sent out a newsletter, and there hasn’t really been that much more to talk about since.
So that’s it. If you’ve found yourself on this page after trying to signup to the newsletter, I’d recommend if you’re interested in keeping tabs (stalker!) on what I’m up to, to either check out this very blog, or else my Twitter page.
And yes, I am doing this because I’m trying to avoid NaNo. But hey, at least I’m avoiding writing by doing some more writing!
I’ve put up a lovely little trip down memory lane on the site, showcasing all the monstrosities and beauties that this site has been in all its forms since its inception back in 2004.
I’d like to think my abilities in HTML and design have improved at least somewhat since then.
Check them out here: Site Archive.
Yes, another new design! What’re you going to do about it?
Hmm?
Exactly.
Blogger seems to be playing hide & seek with the images at the mo, so if they’re not working…it’s not my fault!
The food standards agency ruined the poignancy of this song for me, when they released that advert last year about undercooked food and how, basically, it’ll make you puke, hence ‘see you again’. But, that aside, I still think it makes the point I was trying to.
You may have noticed that the web site has been changing to and fro a little recently. I get bored very easily; and I find redesigning gives me a sense of something new. But, after just over two weeks of the neon coloured monstrosity that was the web site, I have decided to go back to something more conservative. Why, you may ask. Well, because I pretty much thought it gave the wrong impression to would-be readers. I don’t want anybody thinking they’d be reading about some neo-gothic cyber punk vampires.
Didn’t see what the web site looked like? Here’s a picture:
Not that there’s anything wrong with neo-gothic cyber punks, or their fiction. It’s just not Vampyr Snyper.
So I have reverted back to the design. A look back through the ages of the VS web site is going to be available shortly through the ‘Misc‘ section, where this and many, MANY others will be displayed.
Okay, so I made a slight mistake a few weekends ago which…well, it basically resulted in losing all access to my Blogger account that is used for the Vampyr Snyper updates. Oops.
I’m not going to be able to get that access back; so all I have is the archives it created at the point of publishing. Not to worry, though, they’re still there, just at the bottom of this new design is Pre November 2007, where everything older than, well, than November, now sits: Old News
I wish I had some new news for you, something exciting about writing and books 2 and 3, but unfortunately I’ve been a lazy sod for the last few months and haven’t done diddly squat.
BUT I have made a virtual shop on the grid known as Second Life, where users can read the WHOLE first book for FREE! No, it’s not an excuse not to do work and I resent that thought! So anyway, if you’re a Second Lifer, you can check out the store here: CLICK ME!
What do you mean you’re not a user yet!?!?!?! Get signed up, that’s FREE too (^^) : CLICK ME!