Computer woes and ARC giveaway!

[stephanieburgis]

Alas, there was no Christmas miracle at the Apple store on Saturday afternoon. Kind of the opposite, actually

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[the_story_siren]

i can totally relate to the computer woes.

but what a fantastic contest! sign me up please! i've retweeted about it on my twitter account @thestorysiren!

thanks!

[stephanieburgis]

Thanks so much for the computer sympathy, Kristi!

And yay! You're entered in the giveaway. :)

[stephanieburgis]

Ohhh, thank you. Sadly, it looks like that data is just lost for good...but if I can just have a working computer again, at this point that'll count as a near-win!

[jennreese]

Oh, man, they can't save any data? That's horrible!!! I am oozing sympathy and cursing the gods for you. Gah!

[hooton]

Entered. My post is here for verification:

http://hooton.livejournal.com/5126.html

[stephanieburgis]

Awesome! :)

[hooton]

No problem. I hope the brief description was tantalising enough to get people to go and check out your site.

[stephanieburgis]

Well, needless to say, I loved it... ;)

[anonymous]

I've tweeted the contest up, too: http://twitter.com/Lavender_Lines/status/6659865316

Would love the chance to read and review your ARC. Thanks for the contest!

Colleen
celtic_aura (at) hotmail(dot)com

[stephanieburgis]

Thanks Colleen! That's great - and you are entered in the drawing! :)

[ravenedgewalker]

post made...

http://ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com/863662.html

I cannot wait to read it by the way. and I have a couple of friends who are going to be gifted with it just as soon as I can lay my sticky hands on copies since I know they will love it and it will be a wonderful gift for them.

Also - you can probably arrange to have apple pick the computor up by courier, take it to their workshops to be fixed - when I needed my ipod done they managed a 4 day turn around - you could possibly book it via the apple support website.

good luck - I know the hideousness all too well, since the same thing happened to me and I lost a chunk of the final draft of my PhD thesis.

[stephanieburgis]

Yay! You're entered in the drawing.

And that is REALLY good to hear about apple - what with the cost of fuel, repeating a 3-hour drive over and over again REALLY starts to add up financially....but OUCH! I can't imagine how frustrating it must have been to lose that chunk of your thesis!

[ravenedgewalker]

it was a nightmare - and thankfully most of it was backed up - but I lost a lot of formatting and the really annoying and time consuming bit of pasting figures into the text.

3 hours is a long drive indeed.

I was pretty impressed with the courier pick-up - and if you can't get back for a week, it might be a good option - I believe it's where the repairs go anyway if they can't do the fix in the shop.

and thank you for offering this draw. very exciting.