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Ask Lorie
by Lorie-eHarlequin on January 8th, 2008, 7:35pm
Do you have a technical question regarding one of the digital formats: How do... I? What if I...? What's New, What's Coming? Is there something wrong with a thread or link? Is an Online Read NOT up, or NOT updated?
Ask Away. Or if it's a private issue, just contact me at loriehosty@gmail.com and I'll do my best to answer you.
Special Notices:
There is a ten o'clock EST rule in that the online reads aren't required to be posted until that time. If they come earlier, that's eHQ's gift to you, but if they aren't up before that time, don't panic--they're coming! If they STILL aren't up...buzz us, we're on your side! LOL!
- If you have an idea or you want to see something addressed in a Question and Answer session, this is the place to let us know.
- We're not an expert on all of the books. If you have a question about a particular series, book you read and can't find, the best place to ask is: Reading Experts: customer_ecare@harlequin.ca
- The Writing guidelines can be found here. All the correct word counts and specifics are there for each line.
Small caveat: We're not editors. We're just hosts and we work from home, most of the time in our jammies. So, that means we cannot go down any hall and check on the status of your submissions. We can't ask any editor the status of your submissions. That's a very private thing between the writer and the editor and is protected. Best of luck on all your submissions.
2007 Blogs
Hiya Lorie!
Lovin' the new site! Just one question - Are we able to access our old blogs from 2007? I wanted to double check a book on there.
Thanks!
NM.... I found my answer!
Thanks Lorie!!!!
Lorie, I clicked on Julz's link to "her" blog
and ended up at mine! So, how do we set up our links so that people can come to our "own" page?
Penn
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Another question
Lorie, I'm a bit confused. (No comments from the Pnut gallery). Every time I change pages, I get a different font/color in the side bar. Some times Fake Frenchie is in red, sometimes in dark blue, sometimes in light blue. Sometimes the list under Fake Frenchie is like typewriter fonts, sometimes it's small and compact. I haven't changed anything.
"Perhaps what the average member of a group is capable of doesn't limit what a given individual can accomplish." -- Boston Globe, letter to the editor
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technicallies
Instead of asking all the hosties in the boards, I guess I should come here. Y'know- one-stop shop and save. lol
So- what's going on, or not, is that whenever I try to use the font color palette in a comment the 'preview comment' button blinks, but nothing happens. No color palette opens. My emoticons work fine. Also- I noticed that some of the others' profiles show how many posts they've made. Mine still says '0'. I was curious if this feature just takes a day to update? or will it update after I close the site and show them when I return?
Thanks. Liking the new site so far.
~*~Lisa62~*~
My Blog ~ A Little Bit of Everything~
~Writing is dreaming on paper~
PINK!?!
Alright- I DID NOT pick a color. And if I had, green is my signature color, not hot pink. lol But, at least a color popped up. I tried to click on the color arrow and this is what happened, not that I ever saw a color palette to choose from still.
~*~Lisa62~*~
My Blog ~ A Little Bit of Everything~
~Writing is dreaming on paper~
Re: PINK!?!
ROFL, Lisa ......... I think the pink is coming from Julz' signature ..... I think there must be an error in the font codes she used because the colour pink isn't turning off like it should and all the posts that follow turn up pink
I posted about the signature glitch to Jayne over in the Community 2.0 discussion thread ..... I've sort of been going there for my over all board issues and then posting to the Hosties if there's an issue on one of their threads ..... but I'm sure that concerns can be posted on any of the Hosties threads
BTW, to open the font colour tablet, be sure you are clicking on the tiny down arrow beside the A
EDIT ----- I see the error is compounded in Lisa's signature as well ...... now all font colours want to be green ......... Lisa and Julz be sure you have the close tag on your signatures </font> ... this should tell the system to revert to the default font for anything typed after ....... this is a definite glitch
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whoa...easy on the eyes big fella!
In a sing song voice....Ok...someone's forgetting to close their font tags....
Someone, who shall remain nameless, LOL forgot to close their font tag in their seriously PINK signature, LOL, and it seems it made Lisa GREEN with jealously.
I'll go and fix em up!
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Not so green anymore...
Penni ~ I’m looking into it. There’s a way, I just need to double check it before I tell you how.
Hi Lisa. You may need to reset yourself by signing out, opening another browser, clearing your cookies and doing a hard refresh. Then sign back in. It’s what I had to do too.
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colors not sticking
My colors aren't showing up in my blogs, comments, posts. I go into the color palette and pick the color i want and it changes the color in the text box where I'm typiing. but when I post to the boards, it defaults to gray. For example, this whole paragraph is supposed to be a teal green color
and this paragraph is supposed to be purple.
And this one is supposed to be gray. I know we had problems with that in the beta testing but smehow i got it working. Though now I don't remember how. I'm currently typing this in rich-text. But when i disable rich-text, it strips the formatting and shows all the html codes that are built in to make the blog look like I want it to. When I post from that format, it still goes back to the default color.
The D2K Paranormal Junkies
colours
Hi Kelley
The personal formatting thing is one of the bugs that have been documented and is being worked on.
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Hi Lorie!!!I just wanted to
Hi Lorie!!!
I just wanted to stop by and add the room to my favorites list. (((hugs)) But then after reading the posts, I had to try a different color. Hope it works!
Edit: Nope, boring ole' gray. Oh well.
Kim Swiderski - Curator for Harlequin Historicals MySpace (coming soon)
http://swiderski.spaces.live.com/ Rob's artwork
"The past is written in stone, unchanging. It is the future that is yet to be." Michelle Styles
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Ran into a snafu
Hey Lorie, I ran into a issue while trying to change my picture. I wanted to switch out the picture of BP as Santa Claus that I used during the Tire Kicking and I picked one of Rob's Skipping Stones. Then I changed my mind of which stone but every time I try to change it, I get the first stone I picked. I click on the little box for deleting the picture then add the new picture and I get the old, deleted picture back. I'm confuzzled.
Kim Swiderski - Curator for Harlequin Historicals MySpace (coming soon)
http://swiderski.spaces.live.com/ Rob's artwork
"The past is written in stone, unchanging. It is the future that is yet to be." Michelle Styles
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How's this?
Ok Katherine- I got an email from Dee asking me to close my html (nice sing-song voice btw). I went in and somehow, I'm sure it wasn't like that when I went offline earlier today, but there was 3 </font>s after my sig line instead of one. I deleted 2 of them and I will log out of eharl and sign back in to see if that helps any.
And oddly, the color palette works on my home pc. Just not on my laptop? Weird.
~*~Lisa62~*~
My Blog ~ A Little Bit of Everything~
~Writing is dreaming on paper~
Kim after changing your
Kim after changing your picture did you refresh your page???? If not try it.
ELLEN TOO
A true teacher is a person who, at the end of the school day, still likes children!
TWIMC
Ok, since taking 2 of the tag closures off, logging out, opening a new browser, logging in fresh didn't fix it I went back in to my profile and took the green tag color off altogether. Now everything comes out in gray (even though I'm typing this in green right now) for me and everyone else I was changing. Hope this is fixed as time goes by.
~*~Lisa62~*~
My Blog ~ A Little Bit of Everything~
~Writing is dreaming on paper~
Lorie
Just thought I'd let you know my color palette has completely disappeared now. In its place is what looks like a piece of chalk for 'remove formatting'?
Just FYI
~*~Lisa62~*~
My Blog ~ A Little Bit of Everything~
~Writing is dreaming on paper~
colours and pics
Kim ~ Try signing out, clear your cookies and do a couple of hard refreshes, then sign back in, refresh again, and then try again.
Lisa ~ I think they may have disabled colours for now, while they fiddle with it. We'll know soon.
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January
Lorie ~ have you issed the discount code for January?
Kate
TBR--The Born Readers
code
Hi Kate.
I did send it to a few people to have them test it, but there are mixed reports that something is wrong so I need to test it myself and go from there.
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ok this is just too weird.
ok this is just too weird. love the site but having some problems making my way around the site
O K Lorie
I'll be patient....
Kate
TBR--The Born Readers
Spell Check
Please can you tell me if there is a spell check available for the new threads. As a Dyslexic I find the spell check really important as I don't want to post anything with Spelling mistakes.
Janet
Thanks Lorie and Ellen
Thanks Lorie and Ellen
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http://swiderski.spaces.live.com/ Rob's artwork
"The past is written in stone, unchanging. It is the future that is yet to be." Michelle Styles
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Code fixed (at least from my pov)
Thanks a million Lorie - I know you had a million other things to
take care of and this wasn't necessarily your #1 priority, but I do
appreciate your efforts
Hugs
Sadhbh
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Dream Team 2008 Challenge blogs
spell check.
Hi Jan.
I do know it's on the wishlist. I'm hoping we get it, because I'm somewhat infamous for my typos.
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code
Thanks for being a guinea pig Sadhbh...
No really, it's nice that you confirmed it for me. Unfortunately it's too late for most to avail themselves of the free book Friday with code perks, but I'll send the code out in the morning. I do have a fair bit of news to share with all the challengers.
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Any way to go to new messages?
Hi Lorie,
With 2 of my dgrd's staying with us for almost three weeks, I've been tearing my hair out trying to get here and find my way around. I didn't do nearly enough tire kicking, so I'm just as far behind as everyone else. . .
What I'd really like to know is: when I go to a site (I have 2 marked as favorites, so far) it always takes me right to the start, to message #1. Isn't there any way I can adjust things so it would take me to where I left off reading, like the old boards did?
I surely hope so, 'cause I just don't have time to search for the new messages every time I sign in.
Oh yes, and one more thing -- If I order one of the new LI Historicals, do I have to order the other one as my freebie, or can I order a book from any other line as my freebie? I'm not big into historicals, but I do want Jillian Hart's McKaslin clan books.
DonnaH
new posts
DonnaH
The new posts problem is a bug. The techies are working on it. I too hope they will squash this bug dead, as it's VERY annoying.
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bugs...
DonnaH and FF ~ Trust me, with as many posts as we hosts have to read all day, that'll get fixed.
Lady Diva ~ I'm sorry, I missed your post earlier. Have you been having better luck finding your way around?
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That's good to know,
That's good to know, Lorie. Have you slept recently? :wink:
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Sleeping
FF ~ I have sleep issues at the best of times, but yes, I am about on par, thanks for asking.
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Hey there, Lorie ......
How's your wrist?
Just wondering if Isabel is going to have a blog on the new site .... I really enjoyed her posts
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Sleep? I'm not sure what
Sleep? I'm not sure what that is any more.
Kim Swiderski - Curator for Harlequin Historicals MySpace (coming soon)
http://swiderski.spaces.live.com/ Rob's artwork
"The past is written in stone, unchanging. It is the future that is yet to be." Michelle Styles
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Hey Katherine
My wrist is showing some improvement, thanks for asking.
I'm not sure what Isabel's plans are for this year, as she hasn't signed in yet. I do know she's joining us in the challenge again, so she most likely will continue to blog. Make sure to mark her among your favorites, and comment on her news now and then. I know she'd appreaciate it.
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Hi Lorie, or anyone who has
Hi Lorie, or anyone who has and can paste me the link here.
I'm interested in going thru the 2007 challenge blogs again, and have nooo idea where to find the link to "transport" me there.
If anyone can help, i'd really appreciate it. Thanx
I'm also curious where i could find the html codes guide here? yep, i'm kinda lost.
Kathy D
Hi Kathleen
I’m not sure you can access the blogs anymore, is there something specific you’re after? Perhaps I can scare it up for you.As for the html codes, we don’t have an html how to on these boards. We’ve had to disable most of the text functions until we can figure out some of the bugs.
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Format for manuscript
Sorry if this has been asked before...
What is the layout for a manuscript for Harlequin/Mills and Boon? I have the guidelines for the series I want to write for, but I am unsure how wide the margins should be at the sides and top and bottom etc. Thanks!
John
manuscript formatting
Hi Botfield.
You'll find the info you need here. Good luck.
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Lorie, I ordered without the coupon code
Lorie, I was sleeping last night when I put my order in, and ordered my books without the challenge bonus code. As the order was printing off, I realized what I had done, but by then it was too late. I emailed customer service already, to ask if they can add it, but is there anything else I need to do to ensure that I get the discount?
DonnaH
Hi Donna
Offhand I don't think so, emailing customer service was the right choice.
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Thanks Lorie,
BTW, when will we be getting the Feb code?
DonnaH
New Code
I'd wanted to have it out on Friday, but had to delay it's release. Hopefully it will go out this afternoon.
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Did It Go Out?
Hi Lorie,
Don't mean to keep bugging you, but we don't seem to have gotten the code yet. I hope you're not sick again!
Or are we just reading too much and you can't keep up?
DonnaH
Coupon code
You're not bugging me Donna. Thanks for the concern, but I am fine.
The code went out a few minutes ago, if it's not in your inbox check your junk mail or spam filter. If you still don't have it email me and let me know.
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code & minichallenge
I got the code and ordered books. This is probably a really dumb question.
I understand the mini challenge but what do we do with the list of books??? 
ELLEN TOO
A true teacher is a person who, at the end of the school day, still likes children!
Wow!!!!
What a mini challenge this one will be. I bet lots of us have to head into our tbr piles and plan this month's reading. I often ignore the challenges - too much work to write about the heroes or heroines and if I would date someone or my date would let me date someone etc. (oops long run on sentence there).
BUT this month, I figure the hallenge will be a great way to get me going into some of the older stuff in my boxes. Great idea and thanks for the code too! Hope yo are feeling lots better now, Lorie.
Bonsal
I am fine ladies, thanks
I am fine ladies, thanks for asking. I normally don’t mention the migraines, I am well used to them. I only wanted y’all to understand I wasn’t deliberately ignoring you.
Ellen, You can add the list in a blog entry. You can also put the previous book title and author at the bottom of your reviews, so that we can follow along.
Bonsal, thanks for sharing that you appreciated the challenge. I’m glad to hear it. I wanted something that anyone/everyone could do to start off.
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Ready for the Challenge
Alright everyone. I am now ready for this challenge. Since I was already reading a new book, I have taken from the book and moved forward. I have developed my strategy and thank heavens for my tbr list as I now know what I am reading next and next and next etc....
Bonsal
I've linked up my first four books of the month......
(I'm reading book four now) .. so will have to figure out my next "moves" ...... I love this challenge as it's gets me reading! ... takes away the pressure of what to chose next LOL ...
you're right Lorie .. this is a great choice to get us started ... and maybe the reading numbers will go up up up!
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog