The Chronicles of Crosarth – A Steampunk Adventure

This book is a little different than the previous three because rather than focusing on Mia, we’re following Sarah instead. Here’s the basic rundown from the back of the book:

Sarah Masters is having a bad time.

After completing her first job as a courier of occult and magical objects, her car breaks down outside of the small mountain town of Halcyon, CO. What at first appears to be just another fading community turns out to be so much more sinister. Between Mysterious sigils, people disappearing without a trace, and dreams that seem to taunt her with memories from her past, Sarah wouldn’t even be able to escape even if the roads weren’t closed.

With nowhere to run, she has no choice but to confront the danger around her.

Besides Kindle, the eBook will be available on Kobo and through my Patreon store come December. I’m really excited for you guys to read this one, and I’ll think you’ll enjoy it. And, of course, remember that you can catch up on the rest of the books in the meanwhile if you want to get started on the series.

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But Crysta did give me a couple of gifts this morning, including the stuffed raven pictured above, so I’m already pretty happy about it. I don’t know, I’m feeling good.

Anywho, just as a reminder I’ll be at Eau Claire Comic Con on Saturday — so if you’re in town, you should stop by. I had a really good time there last year, so I’ve been looking forward to it. I need to do some updates to my con calendar this week, because I have shows booked that aren’t on it right now.

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So my personal site, which has been around in one form or another since 1996, has been running on Perl since 2001. Especially this blog.

And lately my webhost has been shitting the bed with Perl scripts. Like random 500 errors will just kick up on scripts that otherwise work. The problem is not my code (which I maintain and normally runs fine), but something that’s intermittently happening on my webhost’s end.

And support is just awful.

I’ve cycled through half a dozen support techs. Initially it took me forever to find one who would believe me when I said I was talking about Perl and not PHP. Then I found someone who saw the problem, and asked me to document instances of it happening, and acknowledged my code was not at fault — but then I got cycled to ANOTHER tech, and this one thinks it’s my code not serving headers.

Which it is.

And this guy just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s not as easy as just finding a new webhost either — a lot of hosts don’t support Perl anymore. So now I think my only solution is to recode my whole site to run in PHP — either to stay with my current webhost or to move to a new one.

Which sucks, because I don’t know PHP anywhere near as well as I know Perl.

So now I’m stuck googling functions, figuring out shit in a language I only kinda know. I’ve gotten one script done, and I’m just going to have to build a whole parallel version of my site in PHP and launch it when I’m done. But if you get random 500 errors on my site, that’s what’s happening.

Just hit reload in a few minutes I guess, and it’ll come back.

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