The Good, the not so good, and the downright irritating

Jan 25, 2008 | Business, Contests, Writing | 8 comments

Not, however, in that order. 🙂 Where would the drama be in that?

The not so good: got contest scores back this week that were polar opposites to say the least. One judge hated me, one loved me, and if I'd only had 5 more points difference, my entry would have went for a rejudge. Ah well.

The downright irritating: I redesigned my website. It's lovely, I think. But you're going to have to trust me on that because my webhost is arguing with my OS. The files are there, I can see them, but they are in a subdirectory instead of a main directory and I therefore have NO index file. No index file means no webpage, basically. I don't want to move my webhosting. It's a pain. And I don't want to reload the old pages (they still exist on my Windows notebook, so all is not lost). I want my new pages to work! Waaaahhh!

The good: I got a call last night that my entry won the 2007 Gotcha Contest in the Single Title Romantic Suspense category! Yay!!! News like that makes the pain of struggling through revisions disappear for a while. It's validation, for now. Tomorrow, the same book could get shot down again. But I'm going to enjoy this little high while it lasts. 🙂

Update: The new website is up here. There are a couple of issues I haven't fixed yet, but I'm working on it. Finally, however, it can be viewed. No idea what it looks like in Internet Explorer, so if it looks funny, let me know. 🙂

8 Comments

  1. Kathy
    Kathy on January 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    “I got a call last night that my entry won the 2007 Gotcha Contest in the Single Title Romantic Suspense category! Yay!!!”

    Wow!! Congratulations, Lynn!! That fabo! I call that downright Bea-utiful!

  2. Shesawriter
    Shesawriter on January 25, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    Congrats, Lynn!!!! Wonderful news. 🙂

  3. Lynn Raye Harris
    Lynn Raye Harris on January 26, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Thank you both! I am excited. 🙂 It’s nice to win once in a while. 🙂

  4. Cynthia E. Bagley
    Cynthia E. Bagley on January 26, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Congrats! Also, I like your new website.. KEWL

    Cyn

  5. Terry
    Terry on January 27, 2008 at 3:59 am

    Congats, Lynn! That’s wonderful news!

  6. Problem Child
    Problem Child on January 28, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    I don’t like contests with only two judges. Too much of the love/hate going on.

    Big congrats on the win! That’s always a big ego boost.

  7. Carol B.
    Carol B. on January 28, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Yay, Lynn! Congrats on the contest win. 🙂

  8. Lynn Raye Harris
    Lynn Raye Harris on January 29, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    I agree, PC. I can’t remember why I didn’t pay more attention to how many judges there were in this contest. But two definitely challenges fate. 🙂

    Hey, Carol! Thanks for the congrats. 🙂