The first link…
The Chain Story
A few days ago, the web-presence for The Chain Story went live, heralding the beginning of something wonderful!
Several dozen writers have combined their talents to bring their readers into the 21st Century by delving into the speculative world, via the internet.
These aren’t just any writers, either. They include names such as Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Nathan Long, Michael A. Stackpole, and Robert E. Vardeman. More names will be made public in the future, but they have all earned their place in their reader’s hearts.
The concept is this: Free, high-quality short fiction, posted to the internet by the authors themselves for their readers’ enjoyment. Each story will link to the other stories via a common fictional location, known as The Wanderers’ Club.
The Wanderers’ Club is set outside of space and time, or rather, it exists in any space and time, allowing its members to share wild and wonderful stories as diverse as any imagined.
Follow the continuing adventures as each link adds to the chain…
Reconstruction underway
My site was recently attacked by a virus of some type and was flagged and locked out by Google. It took some doing, on both my own part, and on the part of my wonderful host, KatAlley (who worked their butts off to help fix the problem), but I think we knocked it out for good. Unfortunately, I also lost some of my posts in the process (mainly YouTube links, I think)…
The virus apparently took hold because I wasn’t up-to-date on my Wordpress install, so that was the first thing updated. Of course, once I did that, I found that my theme no longer worked…so that’s gone too.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I hope to reconstruct much of what is missing (unless it’s just a meaningless link to YouTube) and choose a new theme to replace this ugly white default that Wordpress insist on pushing on us.
The virus is gone…no worries there…but I’m not. I’ll return stronger and better than ever, promise!
