Still Buzzing

The week has flown by as usual and no progress on my planned novel for this year, but only because of the project I have been working on lately. I thought I might launch a new website to coincide with this and was intrigued by the Wix.com adverts on national TV. I shouldn’t have bothered because it never works out the way you think. The website domain name would have included my user name which Wix decided would be mpmick0, goodness knows why. This preceded Wix.com, and my name was attached at the rear. When it came to uploading an image file, it couldn’t handle the small size. Enlarging the image was a waste of time too because it lost focus. I tried addressing the problem using Paint, but that didn’t work either. There were other, niggling issues which are largely down to the fact that when someone designs something, it becomes difficult to interpret by the unenlightened: me in particular. After a fruitless waste of time in front of my laptop, I decided to give up and ask my son to revamp my main website (www.michaeljparker.com)

Another technical hitch occurred but not with Wix. I uploaded an html file after using Amazon’s ‘Build Your Kindle Book’ for my first, self-published book (not a novel). There was a problem with the font size in one chapter, which I decided was down to me. I went back to the html file but could not see why the error had occurred, even when using the ‘show/hide’ paragraph code. I uploaded the file again but with the same result: a font change in part of chapter 3. Back to the html file and I thought I could see a problem: the codes were shown in a large font size in the same places where the errors occurred. I addressed that problem and uploaded again. No change. Back to the html file and I reloaded the entire chapter from my original word doc, making sure that the font sizes were correct. Still no change. But here’s the rub: the errors don’t show on my Kindle Fire tablet; only on the ‘Look Inside’ facility on Amazon’s book page and also on my Windows 8 laptop. I’ve sent a message to Amazon support and hope they can explain why this is happening and how it can be resolved. Anyone taking a look inside will see the sudden change in font and assume I haven’t prepared the file correctly. It’s a rum one.

On the health front my Cat scan revealed that the tumours are shrinking (two have disappeared), so progress is being made. I’m back on chemo tomorrow and expect the same progress to be made. Wish me luck!