I can climb the highest mountain; I can cross the wildest sea

[rolanni]

Called CIGNA this afternoon, explained the problem and got it taken care of in less time than it had taken to navigate the phone tree and actually reach a live human. Thank you, Brittany; it is rare and bright and very welcome, to find something that was easier to do than I had feared.

Moving on with the evening’s work, I compiled and uploaded Duty Bound: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Three (copyright date: December 3, 1999. Um, eek.), and Shadows and Shades: AitLU Number Eight.

The electrifying project has really brought home how long we’ve been doing this writing thing — and I’m only dealing with work from the First Rebirth — and how much we’ve written. Yeah, it’s taken us dern near 30 years (with, yanno, a ten-year gap in the middle), but still — that’s an impressive little mountain of words we’ve got here.

Probably no echapbooks uploaded tomorrow — we have class — but my intent is to see this thing done. We’ve uploaded fourteen; only — what? — eleven? twelve? more to go? Piece o’cake.

After we get the existing paper chapbooks in the Kindle and Nook stores, then we’ll start expanding our distribution base. It remains Highly Improbable that these books will be offered at Webscriptions. This is why. Remember that Nook = epub and Kindle = mobi, and that we are making the electronic chapbooks available DRM-free.

And now, it’s time for lunch.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

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Insurance surprises

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

Had similar experiences this week - was prepared to do battle and not only didn't have to argue but the agent found and fixed something I thought couldn't be fixed.

Then I had a fender-bender on Friday which was my fault for letting my foot off the brake while I looked to see if traffic was coming (don't do that, bad idea) and the other party filed it on my insurance (really? For two black streaks on your bumper?) so my agent explained all the things I've been paying insurance for all this time, that were covered. And, that since I've had more than 10 years with no at-fault accidents, this would not cause any rate changes for me...wow! So, I guess I WILL get my car fixed (which apparently WILL cost considerably more than my $500 deductible, alas!).

Go figure - sometimes the insurance people ARE the good guys!