It’s about Goodreads and Titles. Once bitten by the bug that makes things disappear into the ether, I’ve become a bit paranoid — and no, it’s not about a mosquito or other bitey. Slightly different, but still makes me feel sick.
It’s a regular habit — I go looking for my books, and the books I want to read. When I look for my books and can’t find them [Aaaaaaah! Panic, run around like a blue-arsed fly!], I wonder what I’ve done to deserve it.
Keep searching, I tell myself, it’s only a little glitch, a bug in the code … and I find it eventually, but not easily found, and not where it should be.
Which one [this time]?
This one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49492199-diaballein
It doesn’t show up in the normal search, but it’s there. What happened?
No answer forthcoming, ‘cos I don’t understand. And I’ve been in trouble in Goodreads before, so I’m a bit cautious … I’ll wait a little while, but for this week, the week where the title is going to be out and about in town, I need it visible.
So, if you’re looking, it’s there, and if you want to read it, it’s here:
on Amazon (for your local eStore)
And I’ll keep chasing my tail to try to find out what I did this time …
You make me laugh. Always witty.
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Maybe next week I’ll think of it as funny … if it doesn’t slip deeper into the pit of the unseen
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Sounds like a nightmare, Cage. Good luck.
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and this is the week of a campaign … of course
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😦
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That’s weird! I did a search for it too, with both a single ‘l’ and a double ‘l’. Zip. Nada. Searched under author name too. 2 pages of books – I had no idea you were so prolific! Still nothing. That is so weird. 😦
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It is weird — or I annoyed someone!
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Ouch, that’s not a pleasant thought. Can’t imagine why anyone would pull it deliberately. There must be some kind of software glitch. Damn annoying though.
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I’ll keep thinking it’s a sw glitch … I will, I will – but I have an ad running for that book this week!
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OMG…that’ awful. I was so fixated on the problem I didn’t register that part. I’m so sorry, Cage. Can you postpone the ad. at all?
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Nope. But I’ve directed the ad toward other locations. I’m sure the problem will be fixed soon *grimace*
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Commiserations. Advertising is so expensive. To have even a part of it fail is wrong, wrong, wrong. 😦
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It’s come good today *crosses fingers, toes, legs, torso* … ad comes out 15 Jan (pls don’t ask if that’s my timeline; it’s this week and that’s all I know)
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Oh!?! Eureka! Boy, that was cutting it fine though. Okay, I’m not going to jinx you. So glad the gods of luck are smiling on you again. 🙂
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Ya goof. You got me with this one. 😀
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Did you find it in a search? I’ve just discovered a message that says ‘search is not available, use this time to read a book’ – so maybe it’s not something I’ve done …
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The devil in the coding 🙂 hope that resolves.
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It seems to have come good *fingers crossed*
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Not enough twelve year old at Amazon to fix it 🙂
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I found it with “Diaballein” but i used the direct link from the post first and then did a successful search so don’t know if that made a difference that I went to the page first.
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I think it ended up being a tech glitch, but it was bad timing when I was doing my first test of advertising.
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That can be very frustrating.
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