Thank you, stumblers
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Earlier today I was checking Google Analytics, and I noticed a precipitous increase in Shred traffic. The waves of visitors were due to StumbleUpon—specifically, someone stumbled upon A.C. Ellis’s “Worth the Chance.” (It was actually the old page—this is one reason I’ve left the static HTML in place. On the web, it pays to be a pack rat. You can’t make the embarrassing stuff disappear, anyway.) It brightened my afternoon. Hopefully some of those visitors will become regular readers.
Resolved
Filed Under Life, Shred of Evidence, Writing, New Year's Resolutions
A few of the things I want to do in 2008:
1. Lose weight. (10 lbs. = required, 20 lbs. = strongly desired, 30 lbs. = very nice, 30+ lbs. = unlikely without use of a tapeworm.)
2. Explore tapeworm options.
3. Continue going to the gym regularly when it’s open. (Alum pricing is very nice; academic schedule, not so much.)
4. The Samhain writing goals I didn’t meet.
5. Quicker turn-around for Shred submissions. (I should be aiming for one month and not beating myself up over three, rather than aiming for three and congratulating myself for anything faster.)
There are a bunch of others, but if I talk about them prematurely something’s liable to go wrong.
I’m off to Hogmanay tonight. See you in 2008.
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Short list
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The Spinetingler Award Short List includes Gerri Leen’s “Shared Losses.” I’m (obviously) pleased whenever a Shred story garners attention. Voting is open until December 30.
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Shred update
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In a couple days I’ll have a more complete update posted on the Shred website, but in the meantime:
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More fun with Google Analytics
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No, I don’t have another exhaustive post about this site’s traffic. Instead, I am amused that Pregnancy.org was one of Shred of Evidence’s big referrers during the past week. All those visitors went to the main page or “White Crosses.” Given Christa Miller’s writing resume, traffic to a crime fiction site from a pregnancy site is less surprising than might normally be the case. Way to cross-promote, Christa. Thanks!
Shred subs
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A note to crime/mystery writers: Shred of Evidence is open to all fiction submissions. A note to writers of different genres: I’m always open to cross-genre fiction and certainly wouldn’t mind seeing more of it in my inbox.
Shred of Evidence
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I’ve talked about resurrecting Shred, and the new version is now live. Like this site, it’s using WordPress for content management. I’ll doubtless tinker a bit more before I get bored with it, but overall I’m pretty satisfied with the way it looks and functions. The site redesign was long overdue. (Frankly, it was overdue from the minute Shred went live in 2003, since I did a slapdash, include-happy job that might’ve rated as okay in, say, 1998.)
And, of course, new stories were long overdue. On Monday, Shred will kick off with “Births, Marriages and Deaths” by Aliya Whiteley. Shred readers will remember her as the author of “Geoffrey Says,” the finest penguin-centric story ever published in the webzine. (If you haven’t had the pleasure, I encourage you to read the story; for further amusement, imagine it being narrated by Morgan Freeman.)