Of course, the update wiped all the data completely. Good thing I did not trust the promises of the tech support and backed up the website and the database before upgrading the server software.
Pretty excited to see the things modern tech stack and browsers can do for the UI.
I'm working on updating the backend for this website, so expect some weird behavior next week. It should not affect anyone before the marketing push for my next book, but I wanted to post here just in case.
My new book will come out in the first half of 2026, so this is a good point to start writing here again.
The past couple years overflowed both with positive change and with stress. We needed to set up a new life in Germany, and relocation is not a thing. There is only emigration and immigration, which was akin to learning to breathe new air when you are thirty.
I'll start by posting my thoughts here as I did in olden times, before all our time and creativity got gobbled up by social media and their algorithms. Mailing list will also come alive. I'll be sending excerpts from my new book and the supplementary materials I'm writing for it.
I was a wee little programmer back when I built my first website more than a decade ago. I modernized that outdated design a bit when building this author's page but didn't have the time and skills to port everything to something more modern that wouldn't annoy me to no end.
As I can code much better now, there is no excuse to have a design from the 2000s. I have moved everything to W3.CSS, which made the website look much better without introducing unnecessary framework madness behind the scenes.
Now that I'm writing again, I hope that the readers who come here will appreciate the new look.
Turns out, subscriptions, book giveaways, and the Facebook page plugin all broke while I wasn't looking. This naturally led to me having a bunch of fun repairing things, and now everything works again.
So now, if you want to recommend my books to someone, they (and you) can get Shards of Earth for free by subscribing.
