Last night wasn’t fun. We had a little bit of a widget malfunction, so a lot of
people had problems signing up for the contest. We’re so, so sorry about what
happened. A lot of people still managed to make it in, but because we feel bad
that the widget didn’t work like we said it would, we’re opening up one last
submission window today at 12:00 noon EDT (or 9:00 a.m. PDT).
The widget will accept 25 more entries (for a total of 200
entries), and these will be the last entries, I promise. If the Internet
implodes a minute before noon and only Molly the Mole Person makes it into the
contest, well, we’re just going to have to live with it and go with what we’ve
got. Of course, I hope the Internet doesn’t implode and 24 more people--in addition
to Molly the Mole Person--make it in, but I’m just saying that however things
turn out at noon today is how they’ll be.
Here’s the thing, though: THE SUBMISSION WINDOW WILL GO UP
AN HOUR EARLY to eliminate the problem* we had last night. You’ll see the
widget with the 175 existing entrants at 11:00 a.m. EDT, but you won’t be able
to add your name to it until noon. That means that, AT NOON, YOU'LL HAVE TO
REFRESH THE PAGE TO BE ABLE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WIDGET. But the widget will
be good to go right at noon this time (we hope).
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below.
(I’m starting to sound like a broken record, aren’t I?) Or if you're already
sick of us, just take this pretend cookie and our apologies. We feel terrible.
Moral of the story: If at first you don’t succeed, refresh,
refresh, refresh!
*The problem we had last night was that, while we were resetting
the widget to accept additional entries (you have to activate the widget to reset it, apparently), a few people jumped the gun and
started signing up on the first window’s post several minutes before the second
window officially opened. So then we had to delete those early entries and
reset it again, and by then, it was 9:01 p.m. So you would have had to refresh the page
at least once AFTER 9:01 p.m., and not everyone did that, and everyone was
confused, and the four of us coaches ran away screaming, waving our arms over our heads.
Thanks for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteI kept switching windows until I came up with a working widget. Lots of refreshing. :)
You four are so classy.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to everyone! Flex your clicky fingers! :D
Aww, you ladies are so awesome for opening another submission window! 200 entries is a lot to sift through. Thanks again for this awesome contest and I'm sorry not everything worked out the way you planned.
ReplyDeleteTo everyone who is planning on entering today, keep refreshing until the widget opens, paste your already copied blog address in the box and then type your name really fast! Good luck!
First, thanks again for reading all these entries.
ReplyDeleteSecond, thanks for being kind and opening it to the people who couldn't get in last night.
I refreshed and refreshed, my hands shaking harder and harder, saying, "Please work, please work..." because I hadn't been fast enough yesterday morning and I had actually been PRACTICING copy and pasting the blog name and typing name. And I still messed it up--but I did make it in at #147.
Thanks again!
Yours,
http//Kristen Wixted ;)
Wow, yall are AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I did: refresh refresh refresh until the widget finally appeared.
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope that everyone knows what you all are doing is out of the kindness of your hearts, because you care about good writing and great books. Having been a co-host of the A to Z blogfest (a linky list with 2000 entrants, before we removed spam) I know how difficult this can be. So I just wanted to say: THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are awesome. I can't imagine setting up a contest like this- I know it's a lot of work- thanks for all you give to the writing community!
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