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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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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 […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 3 months ago
Unless you grew up near the sea this particular reference to a mermaid’s purse might leave you scratching your head. Malial was certainly confused.
In reality, a mermaid’s purse does not really come from a […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post, Fictional Dictionary of Bad Language, on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 3 months ago
I am pleased I was able to amuse you. I had a ball writing it. (I’ll check the subscribe thingy and make sure it is working, thanks for the heads up).
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
What exactly is an urisk? in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 8 years, 3 months agoWhile collecting mushrooms Malial encounters an urisk. What is an urisk and where are they found?
The urisk is a mythical household spirit from English and Scottish folklore. You may be more familiar with an […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 3 months ago
In a fit of productivity, I have published not one but two new entries for the story “Legend”.
These two sections deal with what went wrong while Malial was searching for pearls and what he did about it. We […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new item, on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 3 months ago
“Am I doomed to live in the sea forever?” Malial asked.
“If the answer exists,” said the old man, “it exists under the ocean where your mistake was made.”
“Wait for me?” asked Malial.
“I will wait until d […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new item, on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years, 3 months ago
Malial did not drown if that is what you are thinking. He encountered some of the pitfalls that come with following plans of some old man that you met in the middle of a haunted woods two days ago.
With a tiny […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Fictional Dictionary of Bad Language in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 8 years, 3 months agoSometimes, when you are writing, you want an oath or swear but without any actual swearing. In preparation for the time when I would need such a fictional word, I created a fictional dictionary with these words […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 8 years, 3 months ago
One of the challenges for Author Buzz was that we need a lot of different functions and features without polluting the plugin list with a large collection of things that blog users cannot directly access.
Our […]
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Matthew Brown started the topic Reminder: Beta Testers in the forum General Chat 8 years, 3 months ago
Just a reminder that we are still in need of further beta testers.
So far beta testers have identified and enabled us to fix the following issues
* Signup emails – I am pretty confident they are now working
* Front page banner links – we added a CTA to make them more obvious
* Directory – addedI am also working on a complex plugin to bridge a…Read more
