As I write this, I am dressed in a thick jumper, with a dressing gown, thick socks and slippers, and considering putting gloves on.  My boiler has died.  The gas man came to fix it, only to tell me that it needs a part.  Best case scenario – I will be warm tomorrow afternoon.  More likely – it will be at least 2 weeks before we have heating or hot water.  Yay!  That’s if the new part works.  Of course we could be looking at buying a new boiler completely.  Deep-bleeding-joy.

Oh but it gets better!  I opened my pendrive this morning, thought I’d get a few more words written and what does my PC do?  Delete the open word document and lose 21,000 words.  And no, it’s not in the recycling bin.  I have been through every troubleshooting option and nothing.  Zip.  Nada!  Thankfully at 19,000 words, I’d backed…

As I promised yesterday, today I bring you the latest silliness from iUniverse. You’re actually very lucky, because I have not one, but two bits of silliness to share with you today. Ready?

Silliness #1: Incorrect Genre Classification

This one is probably a clerical error, but it’s a very silly, uniquely iUniverse error. Imminent Danger is a YA sci-fi book. That’s not a particularly difficult genre to remember, right? And yet, the vast majority of online retailers do not have it listed as YA sci-fi. It’s either children’s lit, or fantasy, or … God, I don’t even know.

This is a direct result of iUniverse mis-reporting the genre when they initially sent out my book back in January. As I find these incorrect genres, I send iUniverse a note asking them to fix it. And they’re happy to do it … with a 6-8 week processing time for the changes…