Lividian Publications

[dannyboy121070]

It does feel like the Sword of Damocles has been hanging over all our heads for some time, and it would be a shame if it finally fell. It's a small but dedicated membership we have here, and if CD would promote / mention it from time to time in their many emails, perhaps the membership would grow to be much larger than it currently is and it'd become the marketing / social-marketing tool that they probably originally intentioned it to be, though I get Facebook changed the equation. But to just ignore it so no one is aware it exists and then shut it down because activity is low would be ironically disappointing.

I agree. I read the endless Chizmar spam, and think "If they promoted the board, and their website, amidst all this garbage, they'd pick up new members." Discussion here prompts book sales, so...why not drum up new members? I feel like CD itself is a dead issue, since it seems to be all Chizmar, all the time now.

[RonClinton]

That's too bad, because if the forum goes, that'll also take away my last shred of goodwill towards CD, which has become, frankly, a VERY annoying system for bombarding me with Richard Chizmar e-mails every day, to say nothing of the fact that they owe me a shitload of books, some decades (!!!) overdue. I'd cancel all of my ancient orders, for sure.

It does feel like the Sword of Damocles has been hanging over all our heads for some time, and it would be a shame if it finally fell. It's a small but dedicated membership we have here, and if CD would promote / mention it from time to time in their many emails, perhaps the membership would grow to be much larger than it currently is and it'd become the marketing / social-marketing tool that they probably originally intentioned it to be, though I get Facebook changed the equation. But to just ignore it so no one is aware it exists and then shut it down because activity is low would be ironically disappointing.

[dannyboy121070]

There's a good chance this forum is going away because it's become a security headache for the freelancer who fixes website problems for CD, that's all. It gets very little traffic, so the easiest answer is saying goodbye. Just a gut feeling from talking to Dan Franklin last week.

That's too bad, because if the forum goes, that'll also take away my last shred of goodwill towards CD, which has become, frankly, a VERY annoying system for bombarding me with Richard Chizmar e-mails every day, to say nothing of the fact that they owe me a shitload of books, some decades (!!!) overdue. I'd cancel all of my ancient orders, for sure.

[Brian James Freeman]

I don't want to say that's ominous. But my life seems to be packed full of times I'm saying the things I don't want to say.

There's a good chance this forum is going away because it's become a security headache for the freelancer who fixes website problems for CD, that's all. It gets very little traffic, so the easiest answer is saying goodbye. Just a gut feeling from talking to Dan Franklin last week. But of course I wasn't told this officially and in hindsight shouldn't have posted anything. Oops...

[jeffingoff]

For those still on Facebook, I just want to make sure you all know about the Lividian Facebook group in case anything ever happens to this discussion thread here. I don't run the Facebook group but I do try to answer questions when I can:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3923809884301489

Hope to see you over there!

I don't want to say that's ominous. But my life seems to be packed full of times I'm saying the things I don't want to say.

[Brian James Freeman]

For those still on Facebook, I just want to make sure you all know about the Lividian Facebook group in case anything ever happens to this discussion thread here. I don't run the Facebook group but I do try to answer questions when I can:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3923809884301489

Hope to see you over there!

[Brian James Freeman]

No worries, Brian, it's all on my end. And, yes, we did, and I do vaguely remember you tried some solutions that seemed to work, so that was probably me. It seems to go in ebbs and flows, no idea why. I'm about ready to ditch my long-term email, anyhow, and move to a Gmail account...Gmail addresses, I hear, tend to play well with others, unlike my current ISP.

Technology is great when it works! I don't know enough to be useful but sometimes I think I know enough to be dangerous to myself and my site, etc. I just spent an hour trying to fix a CSS problem... at least I think that's what it was!

[RonClinton]

Oh weird! Sorry! Did we have this problem before? There was someone who just had so much trouble and I remember working through a bunch of solutions but cannot remember who or how it turned out...

Brian

No worries, Brian, it's all on my end. And, yes, we did, and I do vaguely remember you tried some solutions that seemed to work, so that was probably me. It seems to go in ebbs and flows, no idea why. I'm about ready to ditch my long-term email, anyhow, and move to a Gmail account...Gmail addresses, I hear, tend to play well with others, unlike my current ISP.

[Brian James Freeman]

Lividian Publications is thrilled to be publishing a newly revised and expanded trade paperback of Carrie Revisited: The Legacy of Stephen King’s Girl with a Frightening Power, a very special book previously only available as a SOLD OUT Limited Edition --> https://lividian.com/carrie-revisite...htening-power/

[Brian James Freeman]

No idea why I didn't receive it, and, no, it's not in my Spam/Junk folder. I saw the CD email and Hunter's email about it, but no official Lividian. I do get Lividian's emails, though, so maybe this was the Book Gods trying to tell me something...

Oh weird! Sorry! Did we have this problem before? There was someone who just had so much trouble and I remember working through a bunch of solutions but cannot remember who or how it turned out...

Brian

[mhatchett]

I jumped on this one!

[RonClinton]

Huh. I wonder why you never received an email. My arrived around 7am. Maybe it went to spam?

No idea why I didn't receive it, and, no, it's not in my Spam/Junk folder. I saw the CD email and Hunter's email about it, but no official Lividian. I do get Lividian's emails, though, so maybe this was the Book Gods trying to tell me something...

[Sock Monkey]

Same. I never even saw an email from Lividian this morning (and still haven't), but the one from CD led me to the sell-out order page at around 9am.

Huh. I wonder why you never received an email. My arrived around 7am. Maybe it went to spam?

[RonClinton]

The Preorder Gods were kind to me and had Speaks the Nightbird sell out super fast, sparing me any further deliberation. I was so very tempted, but since I didn't have any of the other titles--and really don't feel like paying the aftermarket prices some of them fetch--I just couldn't get down from that fence. Congratulations to Brian and all those who did get a copy. This edition looks beautiful.

Same. I never even saw an email from Lividian this morning (and still haven't), but the one from CD led me to the sell-out order page at around 9am.

[Sock Monkey]

The Preorder Gods were kind to me and had Speaks the Nightbird sell out super fast, sparing me any further deliberation. I was so very tempted, but since I didn't have any of the other titles--and really don't feel like paying the aftermarket prices some of them fetch--I just couldn't get down from that fence. Congratulations to Brian and all those who did get a copy. This edition looks beautiful.