The red banner at the top of the page

by Lorraine Swoboda
16th September 2015

Not a question, just a piece of info. At the top of the page, there are various tabs which, if clicked on, reveal a lot more than you may think. Worth a look.

Also, there's an icon for the Bloomsbury Group on your screen, bottom right. Click on that and it takes you to their web page, which has details of who they are and where they are worldwide, as well as ads for their books.

There's more to this site than just the Community, but as is so often the case, most of us will never look beyond the forum. Look up!

Lorraine

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If other members wish to be an active part of this website via the forums, they should be able to do so without fear of being belittled. The community part of this website was once a very warm and welcoming place, of late it's become a touch nasty.

I suspect, if another member posted a "piece of information" within the Q&A section, they would receive scathing responses informing them this is a Q&A section only.

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17/09/2015

Explanation: "Yes it is." should have had a comma and - to be unambiguous - should have continued. "Yes, it is a shame."

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Jimmy Hollis i Dickson
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@ Adrian ("It's a pity that the Blog section is not more active.") Yes it is. I offered to write a piece on the trials, tribulations, and joys of starting a small publishing concern. Admin replied that ordinary users weren't allowed to start blogs. And yet I'd seen one blog by a "user" whose profile revealed that she was on "level 0", her "status" was "novice" (or similar).

Perhaps she was a published writer who hadn't bothered to update her profile, but the "level 0" indicates that she wasn't very active on W&A.

Another example of my complaint about the system in general: unless you've ALREADY got "your foot in the door", nobody's going to open the door when you knock at it.

[Sour grapes, really...]

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