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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years, 2 months ago
When we started Author Buzz UK one of the topics that we knew we would have to address eventually was that of self-publishing. After trawling through hundreds of articles and adverts aimed at the would-be […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
We can finally announce some forward progress in the area of modifying member profiles to do what we need them to do. This is almost entirely down to one man who I have never met.
The improvements currently on […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Directory outage in the forum Help and Support 8 years, 2 months agoUPDATE: The next day an update fixed this. We are pretty certain that the problem is totally fixed.
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Bob Bobson posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Hello.
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Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 8 years, 2 months agoMarian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multi-million copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved genre-defying novels of the past thirty […]
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Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 8 years, 2 months agoApproximately 28.1 Marian books are sold across the UK every hour. In the last 15 years, Marian has spent an astonishing 153 weeks in the Sunday Times top 10, with […]
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Matthew Brown started the topic
Directory outage in the forum Help and Support 8 years, 2 months agoAt 4 am an update broken the directory. I’m working as hard as I can to fix it but at some point, I will have to go to bed and try again tomorrow
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Thinking of making a community/dev maintained profile for Sir Terry Pratchett in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
Update: I have only gone and written a site-wide blog post about this idea. I am really keen that we make a great Sir Terry Pratchett profile as a community.
I can’t do this by myself.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years, 2 months ago
Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels and is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
Terry Pratchett, with more than 85 m […]
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Matthew Brown started the topic Thinking of making a community/dev maintained profile for Sir Terry Pratchett in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
Thinking of making a community/dev maintained profile for Sir Terry Pratchett. Quite aside from how long it will take to add all his books once that feature is ready, I am wondering what images we can legally use and, more importantly, what his profile bio should say.
I could just copy and paste from Wikipedia but I feel like that is just not…Read more
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
With a little luck, the site(s) should now be a little bit faster. For those of you who are interested let’s look at how we made Author Buzz a bit faster.
Pretty much most of the speed improvements have come […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 2 months ago
I’ve been musing a lot lately about non-linear storytelling. Particularly the different forms of non-linear story.
As anyone who reads the Author Buzz Dev Blog knows, I am a huge geek. I grew up reading Choose […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Reminder: Beta Testers in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
That’s what I like to see. Enthusiasm. I love your can-do attitude, my friend.
You’ve already signed up. So now just use stuff on the site and let us know if there are any areas we can make better.
Make a new post for each thing.
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic The Grand Guide to Author Buzz in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
Looks good so far. How can I help?
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic Reminder: Beta Testers in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
Me, me – pick me.
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Jason Latnar posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Read all the books!!!!!
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Matthew Brown started the topic Suggestions for dev made profiles in the forum General Chat 8 years, 2 months ago
We’ve been looking at creating profiles for some example UK based authors as a way of showing off the Author Buzz system.
I’ve compiled a short list of authors who I think might make for interesting profiles.
Kate Atkinson
Lewis Carroll
Jane Carruth
Joy Davidman
C.S. Lewis
J.K. Rowling
Neil Gaiman
Roald Dahl
Anthony Burgess
Oscar WildeFeel…Read more
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years, 2 months ago
Only 11.5% of Authors earn their income through writing alone. It is not easy to be a professional writer. With the pay gap in author earnings growing between the best sellers and the rest of us, being a […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
It seems to me that everything about WordPress, BuddyPress and the like are written in such a way as to be so mind numbingly hard it might honestly be easier to get a vogon to write good poetry.
Last time, in […]
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Matthew Brown posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
I am feeling positive about Author Buzz today. We can do this.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years, 2 months ago
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, what is Author Buzz? When people ask me that what they are really asking is why should I use Author Buzz?
Today I want to talk about two parts of Author Buzz that I feel […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
Grumpy Dev Syndrome is the term I came up with a while back to describe that funk that devs (developers) can get into when everything just seems to suck and the only answer is to unload your irritation on someone […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
As both a dev and a storyteller, I know that games can make an excellent platform for telling stories and it is something I dream about quite frequently. This dreaming leads to an unhealthy dose of Grumpy Dev […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 2 months ago
There are days when despite my best efforts I sort of just feel all Marvin the android with a side order of Eeyore. Today is one of those days. I am a grumpy dev and you should probably just stop […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 2 months ago
Thanet Creative Writers suggested we writers blog about favourite lines cut from our work. Of the list of enough platform building suggestions to last a year, that was one that I contributed so I had better write […]
