Recent content by AgentPete

Software updates have now finished.

OK, Let's talk about it in the Huddle...

There are some constants in the self-pub area (see below) but also much that is fluid, i.e. what’s working today may not be so effective in six month’s time. Hence the need to have an active community of writers who are willing to share experiences / what tactics are currently working and what’s...

Re @Sarit's and @Sedayne's points... It’s a continual balancing act! I never want Basic Membership to become a broken version of Full Membership, which is what most websites seem to do. Litopia has always been ethical / on the writer’s side of things. If we lose that, we become the same as all...

Litopia needs to grow. We were the world’s first online community for writers, and for over two decades we’ve served our members pretty well. Innovation has always been in our DNA. We were the first to experiment with podcasting: you can chuckle to a selection of our early shows here...

Yeah, the Mail also did further much-racking and name-calling the other day, too. At this point, I don’t know that it’s going to sway her readers, tho…? She may get the sympathy vote, find she’s pretty much unpublishable by trad pubs, and go on to sell gazillions self-pub! :) p.

Thx… that looks OK to me, you’ve got quite a wide laptop screen. I wanted to make sure we weren’t squeezing 4 boxes into a narrow width, which would have elongated them excessively. :) p.

Could you give m a screenshot of laptop, pls? Just need to see how squished 4 cards look, I may need to change the specs a bit...

Which is better, yes? Probably cos you have a wide-ish screen? Yes, we can easily truncate to any length, but… I don’t like it! Cutting an author’s sentence off mid-flow is just wrong. It doesn’t invite click-thrus (imho). It’s just a butchered, sometimes meaningless, sentence. I don’t know...

Yeah, I realize I needed to do this. The real estate was indeed being a hog on mobile display. What we’ve got now (I think, subject to testing) is: Large screen: shows 4 most recent articles, 1 rowx4 columns Tablets/laptops/smaller screens(*) shows 3 most recent articles, 1 rowx3 columns...

I suspect we haven’t head the last from this pair, and kudos to them for winding down in an orderly way. They’ll be back, in one form or another… the publishing bug is incurable once contracted :)

Agents rarely carry the can for this sort of thing. Unless they actively participated in / knowingly connived with / the deception in question, they usually aren’t involved. However… I can’t imagine it will do their reputation with the publisher much good!

So I haven’t read a single word written by Ms. Winn / Walker, but… here are some conjectures... * I assume she’s got some real, natural writing talent. What a shame, then, that things have gone off the rails like this. As Matt says above, they really didn’t have to. * Bev said, early on, that...

Well worth doing and extremely easy! We've chucked a few of these around and they're fabulous! https://www.wildflower.co.uk/products/wildflower-seed-mixtures/butterfly-and-bee/

Yup. Honestly, there's something about her style that feels a bit bogus. It's "hand wavy", if you know what I mean...