Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I now have three web presences: this blog, a website, and most recently a Facebook fan page. You can get to any of them from any of them, if that makes sense. Crosslinks, etc. And if you lose a link, just Google "An Ordinary Fairy" and I'm the top hit.
Technology has so changed the world of writing and publishing. I just finished the final, final, yes-I-mean-final pass through the manuscript, scrubbing and adjusting. At one point, I had five words hanging by themselves at the top of a nearly blank page which was the end of a chapter. Ugly. So I revised a sentence on the previous page, taking out one word, which took out one line and moved those five ugly words to the bottom of the previous page and eliminated a page in the book. Fortunately, Microsoft Word renumbered the pages, reset the headers and footers on each page (since the left header is different from the right header), and kept everything straight.
Almost. My chapter titles are justified left or right, depending on whether the chapter starts on a left-hand page or a right-hand page. Word does not keep track of that, so I had to change them all manually, for chapters six through twenty-seven. All because I took out one word. Not that I'm complaining - imagine if I was using a typewriter and paper to do all of this. My hat's off to pre-computer / word processor writers. Don't know how they did it.
So lot's of technology, but I draw the line at tweeting. Not gonna happen.
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