Whats New for August

I want to thank the people who have been patient with me as I try to reconstruct the . . . With Intent to Commit Horror website. I think I finally found a stable platform on which to rebuild. For the moment I'm concentrating on bring all the booklists up to speed. The graphics and other eye candy will have to wait for a while.

Here is what is new for the month of August:

I have started rebuilding the author and series lists first. I wanted to keep the information from the theme-based book lists available. Click here to see the old booklists in the old format.

In addition these book lists have been added:

Authors:
Kelley Armstrong
Gary A. Braunbeck
Kealan Patrick Burke
Karen Chance
Cameron Dean
B. H. Fingerman
Daniel Hecht
Teri A. Jacobs
Brian Keene
Deborah LeBlanc
Richard Montanari
Scott Nicholson
Kim Paffenroth
Evie Rhodes
Kat Richardson
Lucy A. Snyder
Carrie Vaughn
Rachel Vincent
Phaedra Weldon
David Wellington

Series:
The Best of Hail Saten
Candace Steele Vampire Killer
Cassandra Palmer Series
The Cedar Hill Story Cycle
Cree Black Thriller
Detective John Salvatore Paris Thriller
Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano Thriller
The Faythe Sanders Series
The Greywalker Series
Kitty Norville Series
Monster Island Trilogy
The Rising Series
Timmy Quinn Series
The Women of the Otherworld
Zoe Martinique Investigations

Already I have more lists being prepared for your horrific pleasure.

Interim Thematic Book Lists are Here

One of the most powerful tools I had on the older versions of . . . With Intent to Commit Horror was the thematic booklists. Now they’re back.

The books no longer link up to the Barnes and Noble website but the information is still good and the book cover images still show. I plan to overhaul these lists and update them soon but in the meantime feel free to check them out. Maybe you’ll come away with a list of new (to you) horror books to read.

And so the Madness Begins . . .

I ported the new look of . . . With Intent to Commit Horror from a testing subdirectory to the front lines. Next up is transferring all the old pages into the new look. That's hundreds of pages -- a lot of work for one person -- but the end product will be so worth it. In the meantime, I'll do the best I can to keep the booklists that haven't been transferred available to you. It means a lot of the website will retain its old black and red look and the links to Barnes and Noble will be broken. The information, however, will still be good.

Besides changing the look of the website, I'll also be pulling out the material on graphic novels and Ohio authors. Horror graphic novels and Ohio authors who write horror will remain. The rest of the material will hopefully find a new website after . . . With Intent to Commit Horror is finished.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

I Missed the Memo

Four years ago when I began building my website . . . With Intent to Commit Horror, I knew I wanted to have book covers to display when I put the book in a list. Allowing my visitors to purchase the book if they were interested was a bonus. For those reasons, I joined an affiliate program. I did my research and picked Barnes and Noble's program because I found their website easier to use.

Cut to four days ago. I had just updated the front page of my website, adding Richard Montanari as my featured author and Understanding Comics as the featured book. I checked my book links and instead of getting the page at Barnes and Noble, I got the message: The merchant is no longer participating in the affiliate program.

I panicked. At first I thought they meant me. Maybe I'd been expelled from the program for bad behavior or something. Maybe somebody swiped my identity and cancelled my account for fun.

Turns out I'd merely missed the memo. Barnes and Noble left their old affiliate provider and adopted another. Apparently other participants in the affiliate program have been converting their websites so their visitors could continue visiting links and buying books without interruption. Not so me. I'm still getting the book cover images but all my Barnes and Noble links are dead.

I've applied for acceptance into the new affiliate program and am awaiting acceptance. If they take me, I'll still have nearly 300 pages, most with 5-30 links that will need to be converted. This will take some time. And some patience.