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Post by Wes on Aug 19, 2017 15:11:34 GMT -5
I just posted the first chapter of Best Served Cold. I'm posting it early as I will be gone Sunday afternoon and Monday (EDT). There are 26 chapters.
RTF files, mobis, epubs, and PDFs are available from the Spearfish Lake Tales Store Hearts of Gold page. Sales on Lulu for hardcopies, epubs and PDFs have also been enabled.
Preorders have been shipped. If anyone preordered a book and didn't get it, please e-mail, although it may take me a while to get back to you since this is a very busy weekend for me.
Very often when I put up a new story there are html bugs that don't show up when I tested it locally. I usually stay around until around midnight EDT to deal with any of those issues that you bring to my attention, or to ship out orders that have come in. I will check e-mail Sunday morning (EDT) but after that it will probably be Tuesday evening before I can check it again.
Have fun reading Best Served Cold!
-- Wes
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Post by Boyd Percy on Aug 19, 2017 22:28:01 GMT -5
Great beginning!
Everyone traveling to see the eclipse have a safe trip.
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Post by Reinhard on Aug 20, 2017 13:29:00 GMT -5
With that wet hen of a daughter, why does Royce bother? I should have been warned by the blurb or ar least have read the first chapter before paying for this waste...
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Post by Mallory on Aug 20, 2017 20:26:28 GMT -5
With that wet hen of a daughter, why does Royce bother? I should have been warned by the blurb or ar least have read the first chapter before paying for this waste... Disagree. Having read the whole thing I really liked it. While I accept we are all different and everyone is entitled to their opinions I thought this was a well written story that could easily have gone very very wrong given the fundamentally disagreeable nature of some of the characters. Admittedly the daughter could be a stronger character (refuses to say more so as not to spoil things) but what I like is that Wes writes about all sorts of people, those likeable and those not. He also manages to humanize them. Without that it could have been a really bleak tale. It isn't (in my opinion). Therefore I am perfectly happy with what I payed for. Is it perfect? No. But I liked it. Others may decide differently.
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Post by Boyd Percy on Aug 22, 2017 20:14:44 GMT -5
I agree with Mallory.
Characters are always important to me and these were interesting to me. The things I liked the most were some of the "stunts" the characters pulled.
LMAO.
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Post by Bonno Bloksma on Aug 30, 2017 5:04:55 GMT -5
Hi Wes,
Either you did not post or something else is wrong as I still do not see chapter 4 online. The time is now 12 CEST, 10 UTC so you are probably sleeping but I guess you will read this when you are awake on Thursday morning your time. ;-)
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Post by Wes on Aug 30, 2017 10:21:30 GMT -5
Remember, we're on Sunday-Wednesday posting now, so Chapter 4 won't go up for another 8 hours or so my time.
-- Wes
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Post by ians on Sept 1, 2017 16:53:29 GMT -5
I use firefox as a web browser. If I refresh a page the page goes back to the opening screen for best served cold. As Dawnwalker refreshes on the displayed page I wonder if you have changed how you assemble the HTML. It is easy to pick the correct page from the chapter list on ther left so this is a very minor problem. Thanks
Ian
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Post by Wes on Sept 1, 2017 18:20:24 GMT -5
Very few changes in ten years. If it ain't broke don't fix it!
-- Wes
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Post by John Mead on Sept 4, 2017 18:05:28 GMT -5
Didn't get an email about the new book, suspect I haven't gotten the new email address to you. Just finished Chapter Three; my gut feeling earlier on, from what the daughter was musing about what her and her fiance's relationship was like, and the way he perked up at mention of the possibility of getting future funding from her dad, was spot on; he's scum. Here's hoping Royce put's the ever loving fear of God into him with his vengeance upon his ex and her husband. If the daughter is lucky, he'll turn tail and run once it becomes clear what Royce is doing to the ex; all he'll need to do is think about what Royce would do to _him_ if he hurt the daughter the way he's already planning on.
While I admit I'm one of those who prefer the Spearfish Lake/Dawnwalker/Bradford Exiles expanded universe, your other novels are pretty good. This one looks to be particularly choice. I hope Reinhard, the poster who wasn't happy after the first chapter, keeps going; since it sounds like he purchased it, I _really_ hope he keeps reading, I think he'd change his mind; I admit, I wasn't all that impressed with the daughter at the end of Chapter One, although I had the impression that part of it was that it had been so long since she had meaningful interaction with her father that she didn't really know where to start, and it looks like that impression was spot on, she would like to be on better terms with her father, but so long as she lives with her mother it can't happen; too bad her chosen escape route, Barry, is such a turd; hopefully she will wise up before things go too much further.
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Post by John Mead on Sept 4, 2017 21:37:53 GMT -5
OK, finished chapter Five. I'm really enjoying this one. While I'm not a big one on revenge fiction, it always bothers me a bit when someone gets the short end of the stick in a divorce, when he/she was the one wronged, and _then_ gets screwed over on visitation beyond what had been agreed upon, so this hits the sweet spot just from the initial premise. And I kinda like the idea of the good guy being the one working the system, for a change.
Glad to see Royce is having scum puppy investigated, that will clean up that.
Sandy's Super Subs, eh? Not a bad name, kinda catchy. Get a good logo, a good front woman, put out a good product at well kept locations in an area ready for them, yeah, this could just make things a bit stickier for Milt, and thus Maxine. Part of me thinks I should feel sorry for Milt, but, well, if he'd been able to keep it in his pants, wouldn't be happening to him. Milt feels kinda sorry for Royce, in how he got screwed over on actual visitation, but he didn't _do_ anything about what Maxine was doing, so he's just as guilty as she is; he recognized the injustice, and didn't act. I'm a big fan of Barry Longyear's _Infinity Hold_, which has as an underlying premise that to stand idly by while injustice is done makes you as guilty as the perp, and liable for the same consequences in a court of law. No such thing as an innocent bystander, choosing _not_ to act _is_ a decision. Lazlo Zelezac has some thoughts on that subject, too, most outspokenly in his _Jade Force of Misera_ stories (found at Stories Online).
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Post by Boyd Percy on Oct 6, 2017 23:13:57 GMT -5
In chapter 6, we learn that Barry Keller's father is a manure salesman for a big dairy operation. Though Best Served Cold doesn't specifically mention what state it is located in, except that Barry and his roommate Mike talk about watching the Ohio State-Michigan football game during the holiday break, so it is likely set in the Upper Midwest and the conditions are probably similar to Wisconsin. www.yahoo.com/news/undocumented-workers-backbone-dairies-trump-142457355.html
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Post by Wes on Oct 7, 2017 6:24:26 GMT -5
Good article. All of it is true -- and I've seen most of it. But the undocumented laborers I've seen don't always stay in the menial positions. The managers of the largest CAFO locally has Hispanics who started out doing the dirty work, and they do a great job! Even a "family" dairy operation locally can have 200-400 cows. Old McDonald is dead and he has been dead a long time. Dairy farming has become an industry; the only mixed farms like Old McDonald's left around here are hobby farms. -- Wes
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Post by Boyd Percy on Oct 11, 2017 19:08:25 GMT -5
Chapter 16 in one word: Hilarious!!!
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Post by Big Al on Oct 11, 2017 19:36:42 GMT -5
Chapter 16 in one word: Hilarious!!! Agreed. I was just going to post the same thing. Loved it.
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