update

Well as you all saw the great news is that the beta for Seventh Sanctum is up and ready.  So far most feedback has been light, though I do know that there’s still some layout questions.  Right now though I think I’ve found a pretty good design balance from all the different needs for devices, usability, and access.  Frankly it’s a bit harder than I expected because there’s not a lot of similar sites/services that do this – and I want it to work cleanly on all devices.

The launch for that?  Not sure yet as I’m a bit busy.

I’ve got a rough draft for the cover of my next book in the works – and the artist is brilliant so I’m expecting it to rock.

I’m also waiting for more feedback from readers, so as noted, this is probably more coming out in February.

There’s also going to be some changes to the Focused Fandom site.  So stay tuned 😉

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Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Hey gang, here’s what’s up!

As you saw, Seventh Sanctum is now migrated over.  Well, it’s on a local server I can test.  I’m going to hammer on it a bit and then consider posting it to a beta domain.

The big issue is, as noted, making sure it looks OK on mobile, which is a bit of a pain.  It scales OK to a phone, but not in a way that I’m completely happy with.  I may have to just lump it and accept it won’t be perfect but good enough if you need to generate random stuff on your phone.  I’ve considered making an app, but won’t revisit that until 2014.

The new book’s first editorial comments are back and that’s going to help.  However there’s some questions on the best formatting so I’m definitely looking at a later January/early February launch unless there’s little content editing.  I’m still waiting to hear from other editors on the content – if the content is pretty solid it may not be as much work.

I just finished Kraken Con, which was universally awesome – and I’ll be posting about it at Muse Hack.  It’s a small, focused, friendly one-day con that packs a lot into that day but doesn’t overdo it.  I’m wondering if these more focused, smaller, more-than-once-a-year cons are a potential future path.

Otherwise, doing some side projects as well.  You may see more in time, depending.  I’m also taking a class so I need to make time for that – it is very cool however.

Sorry I fell off of some of my postings, this week got busy.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.