Thanks for the feedback, JSWolf. It's not Earthlink's fault -- my site experienced an amazing (for me) 1,179 hits on July 9 alone. That ripped right through my bandwidth. I'm back to my fallback position mentioned in post #38:
http://deviationstrilogy.blogspot.co...g-traffic.html
I keep a basic Earthlink account, which gives me 8 websites to fill (the good news) but with various storage and bandwidth restrictions (the bad news). Individual formats of most of the books should be available directly by going to the blog entry referenced above. All but
Covenant and several
Appetite formats are stored outside the main Deviations site and were still accessible, last I checked. The blog entry also provides links to other free download sites for the series, such as Manybooks (I'm still waiting for
Second Covenant to go up there) and Smashwords (where all six books are available).
This problem didn't arise until after I'd uploaded the
Second Covenant files. Earthlink uses a formula that combines file size on and traffic through the site.
In somewhat related news, I've been offering the Deviations Omnibus CD to various special collections. USF, U Sydney, and Eaton already have copies of the paperback of
Covenant (originally published in 2007 by the now-defunct Aisling Press). For the other collections, this marks my first donation (of both the paperback and the CD). Special collections agreeing to receive the entire series now include:
The Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside. From the website: "The Eaton Collection is the largest publicly-accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian fiction in the world. ... It is visited by scholars from around the world both for its American and international holdings."
University of South Florida Library's Special Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection: Includes the SF collection of John Clute, believed to be one of the largest privately held collections in the world.
University of Sydney Science Fiction and Fantasy Collections: The library's Ron Graham Science Fiction Collection and Colin Steele Collection together form one of the largest institutional collections of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the world.
Temple University's Paskow Science Fiction Collection: This collection contains more than 30,000 volumes, magazines (pulps, fanzines, and academic journals), over 100 cubic feet of manuscripts, and selected posters, paintings, drawings, and related materials.
University of Liverpool's Sydney Jones Library, Special Collections & Archives: Europe's largest catalogued collection of SF material, including the Science Fiction Foundation Collection and a wealth of literary archives.
I'm waiting to hear back from several more collections. If your public library (or any that you know of) would be interested in receiving the series, please let me know! I'll be happy to send a CD.
Thanks again -- Elissa