The official site of Kelly Sedinger: Reader, writer, photographer, and dreamer
I, and at least two readers, have noticed some weird things happening with the functionality of this site the last few days. I’m keeping an eye on things and may have to escalate to a service ticket with my web host if things don’t settle down. I have updated the site’s PHP version and have flushed the cache a few times, so hopefully that will bring peace and calm. If not, persons responsible may be sacked.
Carrying on!
So there’s been an intermittent problem with WordPress sites hosted by Ionos, of which this site is one. And the intermittent problem has, in fact, affected this site! Yay!
What happens is that only the front page loads, and nothing else. If you try to load a specific post or go back in the archives, you’ll get one of those “This Domain Is Owned By Someone” screens. So far I’ve had this happen twice and both times the tech whizzes at Ionos fixed it in minutes, but I’m told today that this is a larger issue that Ionos admins are working on solving, so I have to assume it might happen again until the full repair is made.
If you notice that you can’t load a specific post, or the archives go nowhere, please let me know and I will contact Ionos Support as soon as I can.
(Maybe this is my problem…I always skip the exploratory taps….)
By the fall of 2002 I leveled out and I felt more like myself. I sat with Allison in a speakeasy, I set a newspaper on fire, and I started a blog.
I miss those days, when starting up a blog just seemed like…something possibly cool to do for a bit, on a lark.
Here’s to twenty more!
New laptop, who dis?
Yes, I have a new computer. I’m still in the process of playing with it and getting it set up for my ongoing productivity (ahem). More to come. In the meantime, here’s ABBA, because…ABBA.
Regular posting to come, I swear!
(The Leonard Cohen thing will almost certainly be postponed again….)
Yes, that’s right! An ANNOUNCEMENT!
I’ve joined the ranks of people with newsletters.
Why?
Well, this is strictly a case of me being a follower: it seems like everybody is doing newsletters, so I needed to join the bandwagon.
You can find mine, Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, right here, and I hope you’ll subscribe!
What will I be writing there? Well, there are a few issues up already, so you can sample them. It won’t be too different than what appears here, really, although since each issue is a self-contained thing, it will read somewhat differently. I don’t plan to echo content from the newsletter on this site, nor do I have current plans to monetize the newsletter content, though I certainly won’t turn away shekels or quatloos that people want to throw my way.
I haven’t totally settled on a publishing schedule for it yet, since I’m still getting my feet wet, but I’m gravitating toward an issue twice monthly (with occasional extra issues as I see fit). The newsletter will be a marketing tool as I hopefully produce more books moving forward, but I also want to provide something that’s not a waste of time to read. I will probably diversify the newsletter’s content as I get more used to it–one idea I like a lot is serializing a story there–so I hope you’ll come aboard!
It’s been rather strange the last few years, as I’ve watched once-prolific bloggers mainly shift toward Twitter and let their blogs kind of wither on the vine…and then, finding they want to write long-form content again, instead of returning to the blogs they instead go to newsletter platforms like Substack and Medium. And that works out great for them, as those sites are monetized. (It also results in some of my favorite commentators producing more and more content that’s paywalled, which is a development I am not in love with–but I’m also not in love with the idea that talented folks not getting paid for their work, either, so obviously I’d rather err on the side of the former.) I’m kind of pigheaded in my refusal to abandon this blog (which is itself a successor to the eternally-appreciated Byzantium’s Shores), but a newsletter that can double as an email marketing list for my books sounds quite useful, potentially.
Anyway, please do check it out and subscribe!
