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Tuesday 7 December 2010

My email is broken! It seems it has been for some time and emails from some people haven't been reaching me. Currently, nothing at all is getting through as I'm moving my hosting to someone more reliable. The horror, the horror! I'll spare you the technical details, but for the record email hosting on the internet is seriously broken ...

Just in case anyone reading this has tried to email me recently, there's a good chance it didn't reach me. Sorry. Of course, it would be just my luck that an email from my dream agent/publisher didn't get through and now they think I'm ignoring them and my writing career has been ruined as a result ...

Normal service will be resumed soon. I hope.

UPDATE : seems to be fixed now. My original email address is now working and the rejections have started rolling in again!

Posted by Simon Kewin at 15:59

24 comments:

  1. The Words Crafter7 December 2010 at 16:10

    (I'm sitting here playing with the snow!)

    Sorry about the email. I haven't had problems with mine but blogger is trying to drive me insane....

    I hope nothing important was lost or waylaid and that it all gets resolved quickly :(

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  2. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 16:29

    Words Crafter,

    I hope! Glad you're enjoying the snow ...

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  3. fairyhedgehog7 December 2010 at 16:38

    I hope you get it sorted soon. What a pain!

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  4. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 17:16

    fairyhedgehog,

    Hope so. Things like this make you realise how much we depend on this stuff ...

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  5. Golden Eagle7 December 2010 at 17:40

    I hope your email starts cooperating again!

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  6. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 17:57

    Golden,

    Thanks! I really, really hope so too ...

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  7. Anne R. Allen7 December 2010 at 18:21

    Stuff like this can make us feel so vulnerable. It's scary--one of the real weaknesses of the electronic age. So many things to go wrong. It's why I will always keep my house crammed full of paper books. Even if all the electronics in the world go down, I'll have a connection to other minds.

    I hope it's cleared up soon.

    Like the hat.

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  8. Dominic de Mattos7 December 2010 at 18:50

    Ah - I did send you an e-mail, copied it to Sue, but haven't had any replies! Perhaps that is why then! Do you have an alternative yet? Presumably you haven't heard anything from Sue? (for the same reason!)

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  9. Anonymous7 December 2010 at 19:09

    What a nightmare, (but I do love the new profile image, Simon. Very festive!)

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  10. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 21:10

    Anne,

    Thanks. Glad you like the hat. I think it rather suits me!

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  11. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 21:12

    Dominic,

    No, that's my bad : I got your email and I'm formulating a reply but the email problems have been exercising me rather. I'll get back to you ASAP. Hopefully my normal email address will be working sweetly very soon ...

    I haven't heard from Sue either. I'll drop her a line.

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  12. Simon Kewin7 December 2010 at 21:13

    Donna,

    Thanks! Glad you like the decorations!

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  13. Dominic de Mattos7 December 2010 at 21:19

    Hey Simon I just noticed that Pill Hill Press describe themselves as "an independent publisher specialising in horror, suspense and dark fantasy". I guess we should bear that in mind?

    No problems on the e-mail. There is no sign of a deadline on Pill Hill Press website

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  14. Old Kitty7 December 2010 at 21:58

    Good luck sorting your email problems out!! Email is just so essential you must get that up and running asap! Take care
    x

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  15. Karen Jones Gowen7 December 2010 at 22:28

    I had no idea that email could break, service be interrupted, and I can't imagine how stressful that is, esp to a writer waiting for that one very happy email. :( Hope it gets taken care of very soon.

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  16. Anonymous8 December 2010 at 02:20

    Me thinketh this stinketh. Hope you get everything sorted out AFAP -- and if you end up with a new email address, keep me apprised, Amigo!

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  17. Simon Kewin8 December 2010 at 07:11

    Domin,

    Yes, we should - although I suppose any apocalypse is going to be pretty dark. I'll be in touch with you today.

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  18. Simon Kewin8 December 2010 at 07:12

    Old Kitty,

    I know. Nightmare!

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  19. Simon Kewin8 December 2010 at 07:13

    Karen,

    Various things can go wrong. My old host was blocking perfectly good emails as it thought they were spam, which is a result of over-aggressive blacklisting. Moving to a new host means you can be invisble for a few days. Hopefully all sorted now!

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  20. Simon Kewin8 December 2010 at 07:13

    Milo,

    Sorted now - and my original email address remains the one to use ...

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  21. Kittie Howard10 December 2010 at 00:14

    Hope your e-mail gets thru soon. Your server is probably down.

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  22. Simon Kewin10 December 2010 at 07:25

    Kittie,

    Thanks. I think it's all working again now.

    For the record, the problems stemmed from the useless way some hosts (such as my old one) filter out spam : they block entire IP addresses. So if one user on a particular service is a spammer, email from all users on that service get blocked. Madness.

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  23. Jayne10 December 2010 at 12:19

    Just like your comment to me, I feel your pain on this! I am so glad your email is now working (although not so glad about the rejections of course!)

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  24. Simon Kewin10 December 2010 at 15:21

    Jayne,

    Thanks. At least today's was a nice, positive rejection!

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