Saturday, September 3, 2011

What the …Malware?

I have suspected for some time a problem with blogger in publishing posts on all my blogs. After publishing my first book I have been taking more and more time on my blog posts, striving for a higher standard of finish on all my writing; spending more time editing. Yet, I noticed changes I had made to the posts were not saved when I finally published to the web.
But I do not believe it is blogger that is the problem. I have come to notice this on all my writing, namely my latest book. And it has not been just on our desktop which has the most exposure to the Internet. And it is not just on the computers using Windows 7 or Office 2010. I have an old computer free from the Internet still using Windows 2000 and word 98 which I did much of my work on before I got myself a new (not the latest and greatest) laptop with Office 2010. On all these computers I have a significant number of changes that were not saved as I saved the work carefully along the way.
All this suggests a serious threat to my computer security. What is more disturbing is that it is on all my computers. It must be some kind of malware tied to the Word file of my books, which I started on a very old laptop, also using Windows 2000 and Word 98. the only other option would be I have a serious stalker problem.
So my latest Kindle publication is far less refined than I had previously thought and I need to review it and may take it down. I have since received a bit of editing help and made some small revisions on the first in the Fortunes of Chuck Hammer Series. I hope to get a second edition out for Kindle by the end of the month. An edition I may print out and send to publishers along with the opening to the next book in the series and a copy of my first book.
In fact I may upload “A Vendetta’s Wage” to Create Space, not buying any of their assistive services, and purchase finished paperback copies as it will be cheaper than printing them off from my printer and binding them in cheap paper, clear faced binders; over $5 each.
This first in the Fortunes of Chuck Hammer Series can be considered an introduction. It will be followed by three trilogies and a finale; ten more books.
I have switched my font for my blogs, now published with Windows Live Writer, to Georgia. The favorite of the author of this new book I heard about on public radio; “Just My Type: A Book About Fonts.” I always liked Georgia myself though I preferred Arial, but I will defer to the professional. For my books? It has to be Bookman Old Style.

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