The wait...

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It takes nine months for books and journal articles. The problem isn't as much with the waiting time (although there's some of that, certainly) as there is with the information available on what it will be. Laurel comes across here like the Web site has been forthcoming with reliable information. It hasn't been for years and years. That issue can't be shoved off on the regular forum users who have been carrying the information bucket. If they get it wrong, it's because the web site hasn't been providing timely, reliable information--and it has a whole bunch of functions listed that just haven't worked for years.

Sure. Submitting stories was a head scratcher back in the beginning. It took me like 3 rejections to get the idea.

 

[Bramblethorn]

So now I'm gonna start hitting the queue again. Sorry for the delay, guys (and girls)!

I don't know how much work it would be to implement, but: it might be helpful to have a "current approval time is around X-Y days" note, perhaps on the submissions form?

 

[lovecraft68]

The problem isn't as much with the waiting time (although there's some of that, certainly) as there is with the information available on what it will be. Laurel comes across here like the Web site has been forthcoming with reliable information. It hasn't been for years and years. That issue can't be shoved off on the regular forum users who have been carrying the information bucket. If they get it wrong, it's because the web site hasn't been providing timely, reliable information--and it has a whole bunch of functions listed that just haven't worked for years.

Showing up now and again in the last couple of months doesn't erase years of silence and leaving the forum users to carry the information bucket--not answering e-mails at all and often not answering PMs either.

And I'm not harping on this here. Laurel's the one who brought it up in terms of always being forthcoming. The truth is that she's been absent here for years.

Credit where it's due.

You took the hammer and put it to the nail here.

It is her site, her business etc...What she does she does, but its the excuses that I find annoying.

The stories make the money here. The paid advertising is on the top of the story pages, not the boards, but its obvious the boards are what matters to her more and the authors are clearly second fiddle.

I'm sorry, but I call B.S. that she had to be reminded to officially announce the Winter contest thread. Something like that is very telling

as for the HUh? On social media? Lit boards are social media nd there has been no shortage in her posting on the GB and all those stupid high school arguments go off and running on twitter, facebook and everywhere else.

 

[sr71plt]

Sorry, but this (and a few others recently) response from Laurel immediately cause Marie Antoinette to spring to mind. Not just the "let them eat cake" response to noting the fuzzy and nonfunctioning aspects of the Web site but also the complete lack of knowledge/understanding of the questions popping up on the same constantly here and who it is who has been left to try to explain it and handhold those needing help.

She can do whatever she wants with her life, as far as I'm concerned, but I can do without the Marie Antoinette insults on who it is who is helping people navigate this "a lot of fuzzy guidance and dead functions" Web site on the basis of what little information the Web site provides.

 

[Laurel]

Credit where it's due.

You took the hammer and put it to the nail here.

It is her site, her business etc...What she does she does, but its the excuses that I find annoying.

The stories make the money here. The paid advertising is on the top of the story pages, not the boards, but its obvious the boards are what matters to her more and the authors are clearly second fiddle.

I'm sorry, but I call B.S. that she had to be reminded to officially announce the Winter contest thread. Something like that is very telling

as for the HUh? On social media? Lit boards are social media nd there has been no shortage in her posting on the GB and all those stupid high school arguments go off and running on twitter, facebook and everywhere else.

My posting on the Lit boards and Twitter, the posts I make as a non-Laurel to hobby sites, the reading I do, the showers I take, the meals I eat, all the things I do because I am a human being and not a story-approving robot - these have zero, zilch, and nada to do with the stories being behind. I do those things when we aren't behind as well. I'm sorry you don't like that I do those things, but I will still continue to eat, sleep sometimes, manage the site's social media, and enjoy myself every once in a while.

Sorry, but this (and a few others recently) response from Laurel immediately cause Marie Antoinette to spring to mind. Not just the "let them eat cake" response to noting the fuzzy and nonfunctioning aspects of the Web site but also the complete lack of knowledge/understanding of the questions popping up on the same constantly here and who it is who has been left to try to explain it and handhold those needing help.

She can do whatever she wants with her life, as far as I'm concerned, but I can do without the Marie Antoinette insults on who it is who is helping people navigate this "a lot of fuzzy guidance and dead functions" Web site on the basis of what little information the Web site provides.

Generally I know what you're saying, but I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Marie Antoinette? Cake?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/091eba4682976b20cd0dd73509912c82/tumblr_mwm6dxvGlE1sgl0ajo1_250.gif

 

[StrangeLife]

I will still continue to eat, sleep sometimes...

Kinda takes me back to the time when my mom was reading comics with my son, who had just started kindergarten. I was sitting in the adjacent room working when I suddenly heard him ask:

"Grandma? How come Batman never takes a dump?"

Funny how it sometimes takes the mind of a child to remind us that everybody is human...

 

[sr71plt]

Generally I know what you're saying, but I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Marie Antoinette? Cake?

Yep, that was Marie Antoinette's response too.

Of course you don't know what I'm saying. You posted your insult without any idea what the hell's been going on in here for several years.

 

[Laurel]

Alrightythen.

I've been trying to have a presence in the AH, to answer questions and be available, and every time I pop in to do so I get trolled. It's not a productive use of my time, and it's not fun.

So, if anyone ever has any questions about anything author-related, please do contact me via PM.

 

[sr71plt]

That too is a Marie Antoinette response. (And yet another immature insult to claim you are being trolled).

I'll be sure to suggest that anyone coming here with a question about the fuzzy Web site guidance PM you directly. And I'll be sure to tell them not to e-mail because you apparently don't answer those even though the Web site notes here and there it's how you should be contacted--and you don't think that needs to be corrected.