Hurrah *tired waving*

[erastes]

Transgressions Edit part two done!  Two more parts to do.  It's given me a headache, however, which is something I rarely get. In my eye. Would that be an eyeache and not a headache?  I have pink wine now so the pain is subsiding...

And just when I thought "Merlin" couldn't get any slashier - it DID! Now we have Lancelot - who is EXACTLY "my" Lancelot! 

*fans self*  What I like about this programme is that they are (for the moment, at least) keeping the women out of it and concentrating on the whole love and loyalty between Merlin-Arthur-Lancelot. *fans self again* which seems to manifest itself into lots of smouldering looks. Yes - it's silly but it's very watchable. *is ashamed*

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good yahoo chat group to promote on?  Me and the Macaronis have been promoting on various in the last few months and it's a complete waste of time. No-one comments, no-one talks, no-one asks any questions - the last one I did a giveaway competition and no-one even bothered to enter. I couldn't GIVE a book away.  Today we are on Coffee Time Romance and are having the same problems - just ... silence about from each other and the Moderator. 'tis depressing.

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[joyful-molly.livejournal.com]

Word, amen and seconded.
I'm on my third bottle of Woodpecker's. Just sayin'...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*toasts you*

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I admit it goes a lot better when you're on your second can of Boddingtons :) I save drinking for chat nights now, so I don't get the existential despair.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

That might be because Yahoo Groups makes it difficult to get into the chat.

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At this point it just seemed like too much of a pain in the ass to get into the chat, and I walked away. I have to join a new group that I've never heard of just to talk to people? Not exactly an open chatroom.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've never had that problem - never even heard of web access!

But the thing is, that group has 1148 members - we've promoted on groups with twice that number - so you'd think someone would be interested. Some days my inbox is flooded with 100s of emails from these silent groups.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Yes, I don't know what the trick is to get the lurkers to talk. I wonder if it's a m/m v m/f thing, or if those authors just bring a cheering section along with them?

[joyful-molly.livejournal.com]

That's true. I got some mails from friends who had the same problems. Plus you can't just join - you have to answer *questions* before you can even apply, and then you'll have to wait for approval.

I think the good old "I'm on YIM, folks, anybody who wants to talk to me next Friday can" thing is still the best thing.

[b-sheridan.livejournal.com]

The whole group chat thing is so discouraging and I doubt they do more than get your name out there. Which is a good thing but with writing time soon to hit the "hard to come by" category in the real life realm, I don't see any large benefits of the list chats.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think you are right, they take up more time than I can spare, really - perhaps I'll just make it a new year resolution to cut down on them - thanks!

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Oh that show is so slashy, it's great! I certainly hope it's not the last we've seen of Lancelot, he was brilliant with both Merlin and Arthur.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I don't think for one moment it can be an accident. I think it's good that he's gone off to prove himself. best case scenario, Gwen and Morgana get bopped off next week and the men have to console themselves.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

These larger groups do seem to have a lot of lurkers - but they're generally effective for promotion. The approval system is a pain... I haven't had any trouble after I signed on, though, and I'd rather have screening at the beginning because it keeps out a lot of truly gruesome porn spamming.

People do read the digests. Every time I do one of these chats, the sales figures on Amazon go up a day or two later. It's time-consuming but I think it's worth it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I suppose so, it's just a little disheartening.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I only had one entry for my prize, but she asked for Ransom, and that's got sequels. My best guess is that the chat loops are like a lot of fan fiction lists -- people who just aren't comfortable writing, or don't have any inclination to participate--they just want something good to read. And that's okay, actually--if someone likes my excerpts well enough to buy the book, so much the better!

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Way to go on the editing progress!

And yum, I'd like to take him home & eat him with a spoon :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes. oh yes. With ice-cream.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

I would have had coffee pRon but I was at work *sob*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No worries hun!

I wonder if it's worth doing a group chat on my website or something instead? Or would I sit there - as I often did in my teens - waiting for no-one to turn up!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

I must say the Yahoo Groups thing did put me off too. Like a person above says...it was a long way round to get in somewhere. I did think I was just being thick at the time. I did wonder if AOL was stopping me somehow as now since we've changed to O2 being our provider I've noticed certain website/funds/updates happening one hell of a lot faster.

I guess it would be all down to everyone being available at the same time. That can be poo to sort out :(

[aunty_marion]

I missed half of Merlin *sob* because the bloody Beeb keep changing the start time! But yes, Lancelot, yum. He looks almost like a dark-eyed younger version of Franco Nero, who was my Dream Male for many years. Anyway, I will forgo an hour of snooker this afternoon to catch the repeat at 3pm, because he was indeed yum and I want to know why he'd got himself locked up and why Uther doesn't like him. Also, Anthony Head looks positively yum himself in pseudo-mediaeval garb.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's all so testosteroney isn't it? I LOVE Hard-as-Nails Giles. Now that's how he should have been with Buffy.

*happy sigh as she imagines rough tough librarian smut*

[aunty_marion]

And I missed the first five or ten minutes *AGAIN* because the first frame of the snooker went on longer than I'd anticipated! So I had to resort to the BBC iPlayer instead.

I wanna see Uther's backstory with Nimueh.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm an iplayer addict, and surf the channel.com too!

*spends far too much time at her pc and has no life*

And me too - hope they show that at some point! I hate to say I'm enjoying it as much as I am - a definite improvement from robin hoodie.