BREAK OUT THE CHAMPAGNE!

Closed Circle Lives! After vowing never to darken the door of one of our software security providers again, and reinstalling every single product code 62 times—we have a counter—we are live! If you meet the “Come Back Again” sign, hit the...

Drumroll…has started…

We are not going to make it by any decent hour tonight, and we don’t want to open Closed Circle for the west coast, Hawaii and Australia while the east coast and Europe is asleep. Tomorrow at 12 noon Sunday in Spokane will be 3pm in New York, 8pm in London, and...

Lynn Abbey’s in: she’s gotten the splint off…

…her hand, and is starting to work, having put together her new computer today (try screwing in tiny computer screws with a hand in rehab). Knowing we are so close to launch, she has edited and put three short stories into the pot. So all 3 of the Three...

Lynn Abbey's in: she's gotten the splint off…

…her hand, and is starting to work, having put together her new computer today (try screwing in tiny computer screws with a hand in rehab). Knowing we are so close to launch, she has edited and put three short stories into the pot. So all 3 of the Three...

An eerie electronic silence

…from about 8am until about 3pm, local. Not one e-mail, Comment, tweet, or other contact from the outside.  I began figuring maybe I had screwed my incoming mail. But spam was arriving, though less than the usual 20 an hour. Paranoia set in. I began to think...

A day with the US Copyright office. Gasp.

I started before 11 am; it is now 3:01 pm local, and I just now got through registering the copyright on 4 books. I have to give the .gov site kudos for unflappability: it didn’t lose info if you had to backtrack in the maze, and it developed an autofill button...