It’s an awesome thing to realise that moving website is becoming a bit like moving house. I’m having to set up all the new URLs and think about designs again and all that stuff. The leaner, meaner leostableford.com will be a site with ads (until I don’t need ad income) and a donate button. It will still be free in theory but I’m no longer going to be shy about asking people to get their wallets out.

Not that I needed to be particularly forthcoming in this little corner of the web. My books all have a royalty attached and the link is there and obvious to see. I just checked it, it works. I should possibly re-classify my adult content books as non-adult content books. Sure they have swearies in them and some violence and discussions of an adult nature but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone else on the web.

I was listening to Kevin Smith’s Smodcast last night for the first time, it does not proclaim itself through tagging to have adult content but I can tell you the air in my kitchen was pretty blue by the time I’d finished listening. This is what you get for trying to think of the children when your product isn’t a video game or a social networking website, obviously.

Anyway. The point is that this site grows from a time when I wanted to prove I knew how web applications ran and that I could run one. This is so much old news at this stage. Also, as previously mentioned, I am no good at pitching a novel. I just can’t. I like reading, if I had more time I certainly would read novels more often, but I don’t. If I am reading then I am reading an RPG manual or other sourcebook for my games.

For anyone who cares round here I’m totally excited about my RPG product but that will be launched on the new journal. All the content on this journal is… well, I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I suppose I will try to archive what’s worth keeping but everything else is going to go. Sometime around mid-April wave bye bye to this monkey because he will be moving on.

If anyone has bookmarked this site your bookmark will continue to work (after a brief period of readustment) but it will now point to a blogspot redirect, not a dedicated piece of server space. I doubt I shall be here much more often except to tidy up so this is something of an au revoir to the old leostableford.com. Now it is going to sink slowly into decay and disuse until eventually it just dies.

Don’t be sad, the next gen leostableford.com is going to be a better place, I hope, if a little more commercialised. I’ll post up a direct link to the new journal as soon as it becomes a relevant thing.

Until that time… see you around everyone!

Well folks, the numbers are in the consideration has been given and the conclusion is inevitable.

The traffic leostableford.com gets does not justify paying for the hosting. Besides, I opened this site before it was wordpress some time in what, 2004? 2005? The web has moved on since then. I can host a free journal at blogger, I can link to my shopfront on lulu from there, nothing much changes. Managing functionality is easier. Also being on my own little island site is not a way to hook into the world wide community. So from this spring this place will cease to exist in its current form.

To be honest this is a good thing. Like I say I want my work to be more of a community effort. I am designing what may be the most social role playing game in the history of the world. I am a weird contradiction of a person, I hate crowds but I don’t mind people in small numbers. I need people for my work to be worth anything. Shutting myself away even online in a journal that’s so off the beaten track (electronically speaking) doesn’t help at all.

So I’m going to be working on that, and the role playing game and the novels over the next few months. Don’t expect many posts until then. But trust me, when the RPGs hit I expect I’ll be out pressing the virtual flesh, so to speak. I’m expecting a lot in 2009 time will tell how much a lot turns out to be.