Books and Emails

Yes, as expected, Amiant Soul is out in the world, both in paperback and ebook forms. (If it’s not in stock where you like to buy your books, consider making puppy-dog eyes at them until they cave and order one in for you.)

A tan and white puppy making eyes at the camera, with a toy bone at their feet.

Less expected was the email plugin on my website deciding that messages for the announcements subscribers should be sent to blog post subscribers as well.

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…But You Didn’t Get It

A quote I have often found myself reaching for of late comes from Douglas Adams: “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

To give programmers their due, it’s a convoluted world to operate in. However, I have recently discovered that the plugin I depended on to send post notifications to those who signed up for them was no longer sending said emails. At least, not to those who had subscribed prior to the ‘upgrade’ at the beginning of this year. For some reason the upgrade set defaults to “do not perform core function unless explicitly re-instructed to do so.”

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