BVS Reader's Blog

Welcome to Black Velvet Seductions’ reader’s blog, or if you are a loyal friend from our previous reader’s blog welcome back!

Fool Me Once -- Romantic Suspense -- by Jessica Joy

Though it is obvious from the change in interface that I’ve been busy, some of the changes have been behind the scenes and might not be quite as visible. As some of you may already know, I am working hard on a total rebuild of the entire Black Velvet Seductions website. I originally built the site back in 2004  prior to the release of our first romance novel, Fool Me Once in December of 2005. At that time I didn’t really know what I was doing and I made a lot of mistakes some of which I have corrected over the years with various udates to the website. However, I have not done a complete rebuild of the site since the original site was built in 2005. It’s now time to do so, and I am working on it.

The plan was to rebuild the site and both the reader’s blog and the writer’s blog and move the entire site and both blogs to a new web host. Hhowever that plan was short-circuited because the company that has hosted our site since its inception was purchased by another web-hosting company. The takeover by the new company was not handled as smoothly as one could have hoped, and things seemed to change daily depending upon which tech support person I spoke to. After some consideration and gnashing of teeth I decided to move the old site to the new hosting company. That was done over Thursday and Friday. In fact, I was patting myself on the back, congratulating myself on how smoothly the move had gone, until I went to log onto the blog this morning.

When I logged onto the blog nothing worked!

Some time with tech support later it was discovered that the old naming structure for the blog did not work with the set-up on their server, and so the blog would need to be renamed. I heaved a huge groan at this because I knew that it would essentially be like starting the blog over. While I could import old files into the structure, the old links to the blog still would not work. So…I decided that since I am rebuilding the site I would rebuild the blog and integrate the new blog into the old website until such time as the new site is ready to launch, at which time the new site will launch with links to the new blog.

What it means for you as a reader of the blog is that you will need to subscribe to the new blog as the old blog is gone forever. It has been replaced by the new Black Velvet Seductions’ Reader’s Blog. It means that if you were a subscriber to the old blog your old password won’t work with this new blog. You will have to re-subscribe and get a new password. I know this is frustrating. It was more than a little frustrating to me this morning when I couldn’t sign into my own blog.

I do hope you like the new blog interface. I thought it was pretty for fall.

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