{"id":46,"date":"2006-05-27T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2006-05-27T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T21:31:56","slug":"semi-extreme-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Extreme Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the new look!  The colors of the site have changed from blue\/salmon to green\/rust, to match the cover color of the new book, <em>Hornswoggled<\/em>.  The &#8220;Books&#8221; link has been removed from the navigation bar.  Instead, the web master has created a window for both books, just to the right, here, each with a  page for its  synopsis, a page for its reviews, and a link  to the Poisoned Pen Press site for ordering.  As time permits, I&#8217;ll be adding book excerpts, and updating the &#8220;Press Kit&#8221; and the&#8221; Truth or Fiction page&#8221;.  If there is something else any of you Dear Readers would like to see, let me know by clicking &#8220;Comments&#8221; below, or e-mailing me on the &#8220;Contact&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>I came close to entitling this entry &#8220;Death to Technology, 2006 Edition&#8221;.  It seems that my home computers have cached the web addresses I use most often, and when I call up my own website, I&#8217;m taken to a strange hybrid clone of the site as it was and as it is now.  Web master Chris told me that I need to &#8220;clean out my cache&#8221;, but thus far, I&#8217;m not having any luck doing that.  The only way I&#8217;ve been able to see the changes myself has been to use the library computers.  Have faith, though, Dear Reader, and hold your breath, because I haven&#8217;t given up hope that, with the skillful use of the &#8220;HELP&#8221; button, I&#8217;ll be able to figure this out.  <\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, <em>Buzzard<\/em>  didn&#8217;t win the Benjamin Franklin Award.  My shoulders droop in woe.  Of course, as a friend of mine pointed out,  <em>Buzzard<\/em> got quite a bit of notice for a first book by an unknown.  So I shall go weep into my  pile of runner-up certificates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m presently trying to set up an Oklahoma tour in early October for <em>Hornswoggled<\/em> , as well as to promote the &#8220;Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma&#8221; program and try to get people to vote for <em>The Old Buzzard Had It Coming<\/em>.  My dance card is not yet filled, so if any group is interested in setting something up, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact me and we will see what can be arranged.  Thus far, I have a private event in Tulsa on Oct. 1, an event at the Boynton Historical Society shortly thereafter (date not finalized), and a talk\/signing at Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City on October 7.  I&#8217;ll post the schedule as soon as it is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the spiffy redecorating job.<\/p>\n<p>(Addendum : I finally got my computer to pull up the new and improved site.  And here is how Idid it &#8212; I hit &#8220;Refresh this page&#8221;, which on my server, is a curvy yellow arrow at the top.  It sounds so simple, doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the new look! The colors of the site have changed from blue\/salmon to green\/rust, to match the cover color of the new book, Hornswoggled. The &#8220;Books&#8221; link has been removed from the navigation bar. 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