Action Adventure Fiction

OK, so my bungling web host is doing some major changes on Friday. I just know they’re going to mess something up horribly (They have already done so in so many ways…), so I’m preempting their incompetence and I’ll be starting the switch to another host tomorrow. Hopefully, all will be good by Friday. The next time you read a post from me, you’ll know it’s on the new server. Comments made between now and then may be lost (hopefully not many), so don’t say anything you need for posterity until you see Oasis Chapter 48.

Cheers.

-Bryce

All right, I’m back off vacation. Along the way we stayed at the best motel in all of Arizona, saw the Grand Canyon, the zoo, the Phoenix Mystery Castle and all sorts of stuff. I’ll post some pictures when I get them off my camera.

Alas, what with all the driving and sightseeing, I did not finish the next chapter of Oasis. I’ll be back on track this Friday, though.

I’ll be taking a much needed road trip with my family next week. I will be writing, but I don’t know what my internet access will be like, so there may not be another post until the following Monday.

There, now you’ve been warned.

OK, so those of you who tried to leave comments over the past week or so… the internet ate them.

I messed up when I added the newsletter signup box near the bottom, and that’s why you’ve been getting all these invitations to join the newsletter rather than having your comments posted.

I just tried to fix it, only to learn that something’s also amiss with my FTP access (I’m about fed up with my host…), so I had to get in and solve it the hard way.

Anyway, I’ve got it fixed now. Feel free to comment madly away without fear of another newsletter invitation.

Thanks to Bart and Darcknyt for pointing out the problem to me.

OK, so it’s not your fault, but I just discovered that my latest changes to the theme make my site look like a steaming pile of buffalo pucky in IE. *sigh* Wish me luck figuring it out…

*EDIT*

Well, At least I got the sidebar to go up in the right place…

Rather than continue using feedburner, I decided to finally set up a real newsletter. The signup is in the upper right, where the old signup for feedburner was. When you join the newsletter, you will still be notified when I’ve posted new fiction, or something equally exciting happens. I’ve just got a lot more control over what goes out with the new system.

Plus, I can send out super-secret-newsletter-subscribers-only messages.

Of course, if you don’t sign up, we can still be friends.

Something came up last night, namely my sewer lines backed up into my basement. Anyway, I didn’t get the oasis chapter done. I think I should be able to get it up sometime tomorrow.

On the plus side, water seems to be flowing all the way to the main line now.

So it’s been snowing pretty much every day or every other day in my neck of the woods. I’m a little tired of shoveling. Here’s what my place is looking like.

But my point here is not really to complain. I’m actually just excited to show that my image uploading is fixed. Also, if you haven’t noticed, I tweaked the theme here, hopefully making it better. A little more space for text, and hopefully more consistant fonts…
Cheers.

I know, I know. You’ve lying awake at night just wondering what else you can do to help spread the word about Oasis. Well, here’s one way.

I just set up a facebook page for Oasis. If you’ve got a facebook account, all you need to do is visit the page and click the little “Become a Fan” link.

- Oasis Facebook page -

Also, I am an X-treme facebook noob. What else should I do to the page?

OK, so I got up about 6:00 am this morning to finish up this week’s chapter of Oasis and my three year old immediately follows me downstairs and begins demanding to play.

Anyway, I’m close to having chapter 38 done, but it may be tomorrow morning before I get it up. Sorry. I occasionally do have to work. (With your help, though, someday writing new chapters could be my work… )

Also, someone asked in a comment where the rest of the story is. I don’t think I’ve ever made it official so here you go:

Every Friday there will be a new chapter of Oasis until I’m done. How much longer will that be? I’m not quite sure, still. Probably another couple of months. Corbin’s still got plenty of zombie-bashing to do, and trouble to get in. Just keep checking back every Friday. And of course, tell your friends.