For further news and announcements, please now refer to this new BLOG site.
Although not fully populated, I have registered a new trblasingame.com domain where the new website is located. Until such time as when it's completed, you will still need to come here to my Weebly site for my story library archive. When the new site is finished, I will post a redirect message here to folks will know where to find me. Well, I’ve been working on it this weekend, but I’m not sure I’m pleased with the results. The design of the new site is similar to what I had when I still had my Dennier.Com domain, mixed with the new material added to the Weebly site. I freely admit that I’m not a very good website designer and it shows. Unfortunately, a lot of the tools used for creating dynamic sites are not in my possession (or experience using). For the moment, I'm working with simple HTML with tables to put things together, but I'm afraid there's not a separate version specifically for mobile devices.
The result so far can be found at http://trblasingame.atwebpages.com/, but I may well scrap the whole thing and try a different design before I create too many pages. If you check the link from time to time, you may see different designs or configurations. I won't delve deep into creating a bunch of pages until I come up with a look that I like. Up until recently, this free Weebly website has fulfilled the need for a place to archive my stories. Unfortunately, recent changes to the user interface has played havoc with formatting on newly created or updated story pages. Whereas in the past I could simply copy the text of a chapter from my original Word document and then paste it to a page on this site with minimal format changes from one to another. With the recent changes, if I do that now, the pasted text is all there, but the paragraph format disappears and all the text runs together. There are no alternative tools without a way to correct this using the Weebly interface.
I tried a Live Chat with a Weebly representative and he was thorough trying to help me resolve this issue, but neither of us were successful fixing this dilemma. So... I am going to have to start looking for a new site for my story archives. This site is free without interfering advertisement banners or pop-ups and I will need to find another that allows the same, but which also gives me the ability to either reformat or maintain original formatting of the text. I had my own webhosting site at one time that gave me total control over everything I did, but I no longer have the funds to pay for such a site, so I need to rely on another freebie. I have made some typos and error corrections recently to some of my story chapters, but there are too many to reformat by hand here on this restrictive site. For the time being, the errors will continue to reside here until I can find a new home for my library. Stay tuned, folks. The first Blue Horizon story was written in early 1996 ... approximately twenty years ago!
— Now available in the Furmankind audio library:
SUNSET OF FURMANKIND Chapter 7 - Institutionalized Narrated by Fmily I love it when real science catches up to science fiction. “Glassteel” has been a science fiction staple for years – I’ve used it myself in some of my stories – but it looks like science may now be zeroing in on something like it for real after reading an article I found on the Popular Science site.
— Now available in the Furmankind audio library:
SUNSET OF FURMANKIND Chapter 6 - Flight of the Osprey Narrated by Fmily Probably the biggest complaint I've received about Sunset of Furmankind has been its overall length. A "typical" novel is around 120,000-160,000 words, but this one tops out at over 330,000 words! So ... I am now in the process of splitting this story into two books. Nothing in the story will be altered and the break will be transparent where the online and ebook versions are concerned. It's only the books in print that will change with the story split up between separate books.
I have already commissioned Liz Jackson for a new cover to go with the second printed volume and once that has been completed, I will make new editions of the printed books available. Also, the subtitle of "Furmankind II" on the cover of Second Chance will change as well, since that will then become the third book in the series. This trilogy will become known as "The Chronicles of Furmankind" with Book 1, 2 or 3 on the cover over the actual book titles. For those of you have already purchased print books of Sunset of Furmankind and Second Chance, there's no need to buy the new set (unless you just happen to want them). There will be no changes to the story itself on any of the volumes. — Now available in the Furmankind audio library:
SUNSET OF FURMANKIND Chapter 5 - Execution Narrated by Fmily — Now available in the Furmankind audio library:
SUNSET OF FURMANKIND Chapter 4 - All God's Creatures Narrated by Fmily |
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