General Support Log: Week 5

General Support Log
v. 1, week 5

Mid-century Torchwood anti-Doctor propaganda was not subtle.

Monitoring:
Captain Jack Harkness (ask_captainjack)
Senior Agent PC Gwen Cooper and Executive Husband Rhys Williams (gwen_e_cooper, therant_willask)
Junior Senior Agent Ianto Jones (ask_aboutcoffee)
Senior Junior Agent Doctor Martha Jones (ask_arealdoctor)
Senior Temporary Agent Captain John Hart (oh_doask)
Time Agency liaison "T" (timeagency)
Space Adventurer Andy Davidson (dontask_pcandy)
Torchwood Former Tennant Tenant The Doctor (askfor_bananas)
Torchwood's Guest Jenny (askmydad) (don't ask her dad)
HRH Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (inquireof_liz)
Pet Myfanwy (ask_myfanwy)

( The Week, In Review )

I rickrolled Jack about a million times. It's some kind of condition. But the real question remains: Is Rick Astley an alien? 

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Well, this is all very exciting :D

Nameless is starting to arrive on peoples' doorsteps and I'm starting to get comments from folks who are reading the PDF. Apparently I am a bigger self-critic than I thought, because nobody has complained about my shoddy cover yet. :D

I've downloaded Dreamweaver and am going to be installing it this weekend, which will speed up the ebook production. Signed copies are in the process of being packed for shipping, but due to a slight malfunction of MY BRAIN the majority of them will go out next Wednesday. Paypal's mass label-printer is going to make this easier, so it's likely I will be able to fill the majority if not all of the signed-copy requests. If you're on the waitlist, I'll be contacting you about this as I go. (Er, and just for my own sanity, the waitlist is now closed. It may open again at some point.)

My signature does not look very convincingly like a real signature. *tilts head at it*

( Sales Stats, One Week )

Also this is a reminder: the price for Nameless will rise from $10.50 to $12 this Sunday, May 10th. The PDF will remain free until June 1, when the PDF will go to $3 and the book will go to $14. Prices for OPCSY will remain constant with the PDF for free and the Dead Tree version for $6.10.

Finally: POST YOUR BOOK! If you've received your book, feel free to post a photo or link to a photo in comments. I'd love to see where some of them have ended up, as all Lulu tells me is how many have been bought, not where they've gone.

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I meant to add this morning and forgot -- if you have waited until you had the final hardcopy/pdf to read Nameless and would like to give feedback, I'm still open to commentary and concrit. There may be limited opportunity to change the text of the book, but it's educational for me regardless and cathartic for you. :D

Talking of changing the text, I feel I should mention (as Nina did to me) that there is a typo at the bottom of page 168. THE SHAME. It will be fixed on Wednesday but due to platform incompatibilities if you buy between now and then you will have...LE TYPO (that's funnier if you know the typo reads "le pool").

Maybe you prefer that! I'm going to pretend I put it there on purpose because only the gods make perfect things, or something.

Ironic use of Master Of Arts icon is ironic.


AND, because I FAIL AT REMEMBERING THINGS.

debitha is willing to act as a hub for UK people who are finding Nameless shipping expensive; more info here.

And if there is any kind northernly-located US person who would like to act as a hub for Canadians, please raise your hand in comments -- $19 shipping for a $10 book to Canada is RIDICULOUS.

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I am leaving on a jet plane at around 7am tomorrow for Texas. I used to make a big deal out of this, but given that I now have the closest thing possible to the-internet-being-beamed-into-my-brain (an iPhone), it's not the "absent from online for twelve hours" production number it used to be.

Also, dear everyone who works with me:

1. Just because the conference room is empty does not mean you can use it for the next three hours without asking. Especially when it will only be empty for the next half hour. As you can see. FROM THE CALENDAR HANGING IN IT.
2. No, actually, it's not part of my job to help you decorate or to move the decorations to another room when I kick you out. Especially when I don't get a cupcake.
3. Do not leave the building when you are expecting caterers to arrive within half an hour. Likewise, when you return, do not call me on the conference phone in the conference room located twenty feet from my desk.
3a. If you are a caterer, do not show up half an hour before the scheduled delivery time. It was scheduled for a reason.

3b. WHY IS EVERYONE IN THIS BUILDING PREGNANT. Jesus, at any given time in the year I've worked here there have always been at least three pregnant women. I like sex as much as the next person and I'm also very fond of babies, but could you guys stagger it out a little? Are we trying to outbreed the competition here or what?

THIS IS THE FRIDAY THAT WILL NEVER END. I swear I'm going to superglue them all to their chairs.

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POSTING FOOL!

First: a Canada hub has been acquired for Nameless purchases -- anyone who wants to go in on bookses being shipped to Canada can find more information here.

Also: I found an article about Networking Tips For The Shy Or Introverted. HEY GUESS WHO THAT IS. You may not realise it, but in "meatspace" I am these things: An enormous doofus, easily tongue-tied, shy to the point of social disorder, nervous in one-on-one or small group situations, and socially incapable. Seriously, I've been told there are people who are scared to talk to me. If you are them, and you met me in real life, you would probably get bored with me. Don't be scared of me, I'm a dork.

So I thought, sure, I could use tips on networking for the shy! I mistakenly entered a profession filled with egotistical extroverts where networking is everything. I need this.

Here they are:

1. Use a social networking website.
Ahahahaha.

2. Write.
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.

3. Practice starting conversations.
Okay actually I need practice continuing conversations, but I would like to list for you the things I have done to "overcome my shyness": 2 years in an improvisational acting troupe as a teen, three years in high school debate (expos and spar), one year in "Oral English" (debate tips and techniques for high school credit), one mandated acting course in undergrad, three years in Public Relations for my undergrad theatre.

None of it helped. And you know what? I'm okay with that. Aside from putting a terminal cramp in my career, my inability to network has not harmed me. I don't want to network in meatspace. I don't like it. I don't want to feel like I'm using people or being used.

I LIKE NETWORKING HERE. You are my network! My social network. Let's network. We can write a mission statement about paradigm shifts and think outside the box! Let's brainstorm about workplace outreach.

The best thing about the internet is that there are no trust falls.

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Last post before radio silence (and by "radio silence" I mean "short posts from the iPhone"):

myfsckingkeys is getting LJ SPOTLIGHTED.

maeritrae is magic.

*dead of awesome*