She said she was gonna transfer some but I haven´t seen it..

You should have placed your faith in Kobby's butt instead of beauty! BWAAHAAA!!!!


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This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 22 2015, 04:24 PM

** In case anyone is trying to email me, my email server has been down for several hours - the error message says they are upgrading the server, really don't know how long that takes. Not sure if when it comes up I'll get any missed emails or not, if anyone knows how that works? In the case that emails need to be resent; I'll post when it comes back up.

You shouldn't lose anything.

The upstream server that's trying to pass the mail on will retry when it re-appears, I don't recall if the standard is for the Mail Transfer Agents (MTA's) to ask the neighbors if they have any mail, or just take it when it's offered. I think it may be the former, as your mail client then looks just like any other MTA in that respect.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 22 2015, 07:54 PM

Thanks Ghastley! I don't know if I got all my mail or not, but it is working again; and there was mail in the box when it started working.

When you send someone an email, here is what happens:

- your email program sends the message to your ISP's SMTP server
- Your ISP's SMTP server tries to open a connection to the target SMTP server that is responsible for delivering emails for the domain contained in the email address (It gets the network address of that server from a special request to the domain name service, type MX for Mail eXchange)
- If that server is available, it will deliver the email to the target user's inbox on the server, from whence it can be fetched via an IMAP or POP3 server
- If that server is NOT available, it depends: if it's simply not reachable, further attempts will be made after an amount of time has passed which depends on configuration. If the email server is there but indicates an error, it depends on the error code: if the code indicates a temporary error, further attempts will be made later on. If the error indicates a permanent condition (no such user, address is blacklisted etc) then the delivery will fail

Hope that sheds some light on the matter.

Thanks Starge! Truthfully, I can't tell if I lost any mail or not during the couple hours it was down, but no one has complained so far, lol. Thank you so much!

In about 12 hours, I will officially be a published author on Amazon, lol

WOO HOO !!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!!!!!! Congrats !!!!

Oh my gosh, that's great! Congratulations!!

Will you post a link to it for us here?

Cool, Liz!

What you write about?

Here's a link

Expect it to run like my fanfiction. Messy at first, but the details come out better the further I go along.

I tried to price it at 99 cents, but the lowest they would let me go was $2.99. I did enroll it for the promotional thing where they push the book and lower the price and offer it for free occasionally.

Looks great! Is it possible to put an excerpt on your Amazon page, sort of as a teaser, or show a page preview from the book so people get a taste of your writing style? I’ve never published anything, I’m just thinking of things that might draw a reader in.

Very exciting, Liz!

Congrats, Liz!

Grits's suggestions are good ones. With all the e-books on the Amazon marketplace, you need some way to make it stand out above the crowd. Of course you don't want to give away too much, but posting some scene on the book's page can lure buyers in.

It's a great way to get a feel for where you fit in the market, pricing the book as low as you can go and seeing how well it does.

I'm still trying to navigate the site. I literally wrote the book, edited it a bit, upped the word count, then published it.

Liz, your little write up sounds neat about the falcon girl. It says '20 pages' I think - to me that implies a word count of 8-10K?

Nope. Under 4,000 words.

I am a little late because I tend to ignore this topic. Congrats Liz!