My gosh, has this whole business been getting a lot of attention. Well, I should be grateful.
First of all, a heads-up for those of you who’ve been following the Big Meow saga so far: Now that I’ve decided to go ahead, a weblog isn’t going to be an appropriate home for the project, as there are a lot of other things that need to be attached to the endeavor. So the-big-meow.com is now online — in a very bare form, at the moment, since almost nothing has as yet been added: not even the 404 page is working correctly right now, so be warned. When the website is properly established, in a week or so, the Big Meow weblog at felinewizards3.blogspot.com will revert to its proper use — talking about how the project’s going.
The website will house the chapters themselves as they go up. It’ll also be the center for subscriptions and donations (which are already considerable: we have another challenge grant to roll out this week) and the ground rules for how the project will work, including the projected schedule. I expect to take a week-to-ten days or so to get this basic framework in place: then once it’s done, I can heave a sigh of relief, leave the technogeekery behind, and get on with the auctogeekery, which is much my favorite kind.
Meanwhile, let me thank everybody again for the incredible response and support I’ve been getting. This is going to be a very interesting experiment, and at the end of it I hope to leave behind, not just a book, but a continuation or expansion of Lawrence Watt-Evans’s do-it-yourself publishing paradigm, with a few useful bells and whistles hung on it, and some more of the bugs worked out — something other writers can adopt and use in their turn, making changes and additions to suit what they’re doing.
Onward.
(wanders off, muttering: now where the heck did I leave that banner with the strange device: Excelsior?)
