[Twilight Time] Brief Burning Void Announcement

[Heather Grove]

Hi! I just wanted to let people know that we finally implemented the 
oft-requested article announcement list:

http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/burningvoid-announce

It's strictly for semi-regular announcements of new reviews and 
articles, as well as other major site changes. That way I can reserve 
Twilight Time just for the zine articles, and anyone who wants to know 
what's going on with the site can sign up for the other list. It'll 
probably be used roughly once every one to three weeks depending on how 
much stuff is going up on the site, but I'd say a minimum of once a 
month and a maximum of twice a week.

Why did we do this? Because there are some changes going on at the 
Burning Void site:

http://www.burningvoid.com/

You may have noticed the advent of some Google adwords ads. Hopefully 
they're fairly unobtrusive and relevant to the content. You may have 
also noticed that I'm finally getting around to updating all the old 
stuff into the new site format. I'm even putting all of my Epinions 
reviews up on the site, and integrating the old Twilight Time articles 
(all the way back to the beginning!) into the main site design and 
navigation.

This is because I'm working on turning the site into something of a 
part-time job for myself. This helps both me and you. How does it help 
you? Because it lets me spend more time on the site, including more 
helpful content, while still keeping that content free.

A couple of the more notable changes are:

We've revived the old cooking resources, to a certain extent. They may 
not see a lot of updating, but since it seems people have still found 
the old resources useful despite that, we figured we might as well 
update them finally.

We're taking review copies of things again, primarily of writers' 
books, cookbooks, and cooking-related things, although we may 
occasionally be willing to take a few other things as well; details can 
be found on the main reviews page if there's something you want us to 
review. Brief plug: the Amazon links in the reviews definitely help to 
support the site if you're interested in buying something we've 
reviewed! You may not realize it, but we've reviewed all sorts of 
things besides RPGs: cookware, fiction, gardening books, psychology 
books, writers' books, and a whole lot more.

I apologize that the promised article on one-on-one gaming hasn't gone 
up, nor have I sent out a recent Twilight Time article. Converting the 
site kind of got in the way, and I want to finish that up first. I 
still have to port over a good handful of reviews and the Zine articles 
since about early '01; hopefully that won't take too much longer and 
then I can get to putting up new site content.

Thank you for your time, I hope you like the new changes, and if you're 
interested in hearing about new articles and site changes as they 
happen--please sign up for the new list! You can also sign up by 
sending an email with a subject of "subscribe" (without the quotes) to 
burningvoid-announce-request at seven.pairlist.net --you'll be required 
to confirm your subscription within three days' time; this is to 
prevent anyone from signing you up without your permission.

Thank you, and I hope you're having a  great new year!

Heather


Heather Grove
heather at burningvoid.com
http://www.burningvoid.com/