Thanks. It can't hurt.

Yes, Amazon changed their protocol. For now, you may want to link to any books you have published via your profile. It's unclear if Amazon is going to allow us to show the bookshelf anymore. We're looking into some alternatives.

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Can you let me know where you have experienced this problem? Thanks.

That'snot the only problem--we're having trouble with font size.  See Vern's post.  JP

That's strange. We didn't change anything with font size. Can someone send me a screenshot. I'm not able to recreate the problem. Thanks!

We are having a problem with Amazon. We are looking into other solutions. More to come.

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Congratulations!

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HI Amitav,

Welcome to the site! You've posted your content so that only people connected to you can read it. To get feedback you might want to open it up by allowing anyone in TheNextBigWriter Premium group to also access it. You can change it by going to the Publish tab when you access your content from your portfolio.

Best,
Sol

Hi all,

We are ready to announce the winners of the 2018 Strongest Start Competition. As always, the judging was very difficult. The winners are:

Grand prize:

Maiden SS2018 by Seabrass

Runner-ups:

Swan for Contest by Ann Everett
Death Rights (Contest Edition) by Don Chambers

Congratulations! I'll be in touch with each of the winners to discuss the receipt of your awards.

Sol

I downloaded it. I'll give it a read and a review.

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Yes, thanks for bringing it up. We'll fix these problems. They are annoying.

After much deliberation, we're pleased to announce the finalists in the 2018 Strongest Start Competition. They are, in no particular order:

For the Love of Mellie by Marilyn Johnson

Half by Deckland Oz

Death Rights (Contest Edition) by Don Chambers

Maiden SS2018 by Seabrass

Swan for Contest by Ann Everett

The Family Secrets by Suin

Congratulations to all of the finalists! And, as we say every year, congratulations to everyone who entered. Hopefully, whether you made the finals or not, the process has helped you create a better start to your book.

We'll be announcing the winners next week, Saturday, December 15.

Update. We need one more day. Finalists announced tomorrow, Sunday, December 9.

Sorry, December 8!

Hi, this should be fixed now.

Hi all,

We haven't forgotten about the contest. We'll be posting the finalists next Saturday, December 3 and the winners one week after that. Thanks for your patience.

Sol

Yes, that page is loading slowly. We'll take a look. We made some changes to the site to increase security and it might have caused a loading issue. Thanks for letting me know.

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This should be fixed now.

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It's definitely a glitch. We removed features stories for now until we have the problem straightened out.

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The problem is not from hackers but from a bug. We made some updates and it seems to have caused a few problems. We're working through them and should have them resolves shortly.

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I don't think this is a hack. It's probably a technical glitch. We're looking into it.

Hi Seabrass,

The judges are a bit behind but are working through the entries. We hope to have the finalists announced after Thanksgiving.

Sol

This article provides a bit more info about Groups. The moderator can update the group's visibility any time. If you are in a public group, anyone can join and the forum threads are visible. The opposite is true of private groups.

https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/postin … nual-20504

Hi Dirk,

The forum you are posting in has to be set to private. Private forums aren't indexed by Google.

Sol

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I'm not sure if this is due to the hacker or not. I've gone through a major revamp of my latest novel and deactivated it while making changes. I've made the changes, and published four chapters, but the chapters do not show up- the points were taken, the button says the are active, but the novel itself is inactive. And on the Publish Page, there is no "groups" to publish to. I've never encountered this before. Am I missing something?

Try connecting the novel to the groups it previously belonged  to, including Premium. This could be a relic of the hacker. Not sure.

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Yes, the hacker got back in. I think we resolved the problem. It had to do with groups which is why the hacker was able to mess with the groups. Groups have a lot of control and power so this allowed them to really mess things up, especially with Premium.