Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "The Finding of the Feather."

Pimp my website, win an ARC!

So here's the deal. I have two websites, and I maintain them both myself, manually. That means nothing changes unless I go in and change it. The sites are here:

http://www.seananmcguire.com/
http://miragrant.com/

Parts of these sites are quite out of date, because I have been a busy little bee. We are thus going to play a little game.

Step 1: Go to my website. Either one.
Step 2: Poke around until you see something that could use improvement. A typo, a missing link, an unclear question on the FAQ, even a missing question on the FAQ. (Pages that aren't linked at all, like the Field Guide, or don't exist, don't count. Those are future improvements, not current issues.
Step 3: Post here, suggesting a correction/update.
Step 4: Step away from the website.

I will be making updates and corrections, partially based on this post, for the next week. On Friday, I will use our friend, random number generator, to choose a winner of an ARC of One Salt Sea (US-only, unless you can help with postage). No matter what, everybody benefits, since the end result should be an easier-to-use website.

Game on!
Tags: giving stuff away, one salt sea, requesting things, shameless plea, toby daye, website updates
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mneme

August 8 2011, 21:57:59 UTC 5 years ago

Got beaten to the stuff I saw in the FAQ, so I'm going to be less useful.

Velveteen vs. is happily out of date. This is probably something missing rather than something broken, though (though this means that the FAQ entry saying that the stories there are all there are is inaccurate).

Nitpick: In News 08/03: "Which brings me, tangentially, to my next point: I maintain both this site, and MiraGrant.com, myself." is ungrammatical. I think the simplest change would be "I maintain both my sites, this site and MiraGrant.com, myself."


seanan_mcguire

August 8 2011, 23:25:58 UTC 5 years ago

"Velveteen vs." will remain out-of-date, and for purposes of "is this revised to go on the website," the FAQ is correct.

I am not willing to edit news, which is intentionally tonal, to suit someone else's grammar.

mneme

August 8 2011, 23:29:16 UTC 5 years ago

Fair enough. (I tend to think of commas as grammatical rather than tonal; I'm aware that other conventions exist; I just don't use them intentionally).