Earlier this year, in August, I published an apology to those of my friends and readers who had taken the trouble to comment on my blog and who had not found those comments published — I was too technically incompetent to realize that comments had been waiting to be published and had to manage hundreds of them in a single go.
For those of you who were snickering at my incompetence, I might as well get this on the table … it’s taken me months to figure out how to add new titles to my list of interesting blogs. I nearly got there a couple of times but was defeated by clicking in the wrong place, or adding things to the wrong place, or being just too dumb to grasp what it was I was doing.
Today, as I’ve been promising myself for quite some time, I sat down and figured it out. I have therefore added many blogs by people whose opinions I have enjoyed and respected and even commented on myself — let alone those of my friends who have done me the honour of recommending people to MY blog and must have been wondering why the hell I haven’t returned the favour. Mea culpa maxima and it was merely incompetence, honest. In a couple of cases it’s been embarrassing to consider how long I’ve gone without returning the favour — my apologies to a number of people will be provided directly, I think.
I’m posting this as a kind of mass apology but also to add that if I have missed anyone’s blog with whom I’ve interacted in the last while, please, PLEASE let me know. I might as well get my full incompetence out there and say that somewhere I have a list of blogs to be added, and I can’t find it. If you think your blog should be here, well, it probably should, so just tell me before I forget how to add things again 😉
Now that 2018 is nearly upon us, my new year’s resolution is to publish more and take care of the backlog of half-written posts languishing in the “Drafts” section. But first I wanted to make it right with my friends and readers. So thank you, everyone, for your kindness in providing me with your opinions and your attention; I hope to return the favour by guiding people to your excellent blogs!!
Hope you are having a great holiday and a have a great 2018 😀
Thanks, and Happy New Year to you too!
We still have some massive group thing to do in the New Year! Try to figure how to make that work, for I can’t make heads or tails of anything these days! Happy New Year, Noah!
Thanks Brad — Happy New Year!
You’re far from being the only one to share these (or similar) problems, Noah. Wishing you a happy and healthy new year!
Thanks Les, and my best wishes for 2018!
I’m honoured to have been included, Noah. Wishing you the best in the New Year. May your resolution be kept. More Archives, I say!
Thanks Brian — and my best wishes for more Dusty Bookcases in 2018!
Hello Noah, if you’d like to add Unlawful Acts to your blog list that would be wonderful. If not, no problem. -David
Done, and welcome. I hope it drives some traffic your way for people interested in small press crime fiction!
Thanks for adding my site to your list! Best wishes for 2018.
It shouldn’t be so difficult!
Granted. But I should also have taken better care to make a note of how I did it when I did it the first time!