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Click on the little magnifying glass icon at the top of the screen (next to Post Your Writing button), type in the name to find an author, then click on that to see their books.

Dirk

Point of order - Janeway was never a captain of the Enterprise, although I thought she was awesome. She currently stars as Red on Orange is the New Black.

As for the away team, Kirk and Spock or Kirk and Bones would be on the away team. If Spock goes, Scotty is in charge ("I canna beam ya back, Captin."). If I remember correctly, Spock wasn't often in command. He usually went where the main story arc went, which means with Kirk. I could see Bones advising Scotty on the bridge, rather than keeping his ars in sickbay, where it belonged. No wonder so many of his patients died ("He's dead, Jim!"). Any old red shirts will do for the away team, since they're going to die anyway.

Ah, the memories.
Dirk

I spent some points testing out versioning. Although it's a good start, the number and order of my chapters changes between drafts. I don't want to take down my old v2 content since I still want feedback as I write v3 of my book. I'm actually writing act 3 of v2 and act 1 of v3 simultaneously. However, my old chapter 6 could be chapter 8 in the new draft, and so on. For this reason, one can't simply read chapters 1, 2, 3 in the new draft and then pick up the story on chapter 4 of the old one. Currently, the drop down list combines all versions of all chapters in one list.

On the nice-to-have list, versioning should have some way of filtering the list to only see one version at a time so as to avoid confusion between substantially different drafts. Also on the nice-to-have list would be the old reading list functionality (I know you're working on it), but with an automatic increment to the next chapter with the same version number. So, if someone is reading chapter 4, version 3, their reading list increments to chapter 5, version 3. Either that, or some easy way to see in the drop-down list which chapters someone has already read, so they know to pick the next one in sequence.

For now, I've got two books, labelled v2 and v3 in the book title, and am keeping the chapters completely separate. I don't plan to add much to v3 until next year, so I can always switch over to the new site's versioning once I'm comfortable with it.

*** Lastly, will I be able to change version numbers on all my existing chapters without incurring cost in points? My old v2 book has all of the chapters labelled v1, which is how they came across from the old site. I'd like to fix those to have the version numbers match the version number of the book.

Thanks
Dirk

I also have a related question about author replies to my reviews. I discovered accidentally that some authors reply line-by-line to my nits, but I can't really find those unless I click on each of nit to see if there was a specific response. Without seeing this indicated in some way onscreen, it's too tedious for anyone to look for these. Might as well stick to a simple reply like in the old system.

Thanks.
Dirk

I discovered that the logo is the home button by accident. It's a very useful button and should probably be made more obvious so that new users know it exists and will find the site easier to navigate. Perhaps an explicit home button to the right of the logo?

Thanks,
Dirk

Sol, this is another good example of why we need to be able to join more groups. My editor, Vern, and others used to post to the corresponding group in the old site, but since we need to be a member of the group and are allowed to join only five, some of the contributors are already maxed out, leaving a very useful group without experienced writers to answer questions. Would it be possible to have an upper limit of at least ten groups very soon? It would make it much easier for everyone to juggle the groups they belong to (drop some, join others). With five groups, we're too easily maxed out.

Thanks
Dirk

I've found a few ways to manage chapter-level reading lists. For material that was already up at the old site, the chapters transferred over. For these, I use the old site's reading list and keep it up to date with where I'm reading/reviewing using the new site.

If you use only inline reviews on the new site, those are displayed on the Inline Posted tab (click the drop-down menu, select Reviews, and then the tab), which are chronological in order, most recent reviews first. From these you can see where you left off.

If neither of these applies to you, then you probably need to keep a paper list or spreadsheet for now. I would think the spreadsheet is easier to maintain, and it works regardless of what you're reviewing and what types of reviews you do.

If Sol can get the sort order of posted regular reviews to be chronological soon, you can use the Regular Posted and Inline Posted tabs to view all of your recent reviews so you know where to pick up with all books you're reviewing. At that point the manual lists are probably unnecessary.

Hope this helps.
Dirk

Continental Navy of the United States[edit]
USS Enterprise (1775), a Sloop-of-war, burned to prevent capture in 1777
Enterprise (1776), a Schooner, returned to Maryland Council of Safety in 1777

United States Navy[edit]
USS Enterprise (1799), a sailing vessel that fired the first shots in the First Barbary War
USS Enterprise (1831), a sailing vessel
USS Enterprise (1874), a sailing vessel
Enterprise (SP-790), a motorboat (1917-1919)
USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier (1938-1947) that served in World War II
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (1961-2013)
USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), a commissioned building (2005–2011), the orientation "ship" for students at Great Lakes
USS Enterprise (CVN-80), third ship of the Ford class of aircraft carriers. Scheduled to be constructed and in operation by 2025.

Star Trek[edit]
Enterprise (NX-01), the central starship in Star Trek: Enterprise
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), the central starship in the original Star Trek television show
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A), a starship in the fourth, fifth, and sixth Star Trek films
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), a 24th-century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), a Sovereign-class starship in the Star Trek franchise
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-M), a starship in Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B, -C, -F, and -J), other ships known as Starship Enterprise

:-)

I recently created Writing Tips & Advice, which is the successor to the one on the old site. In the past, there have been some excellent posts to that group about writing best practices. It's also where you can ask writing-related questions for others to comment on. The old group was regularly viewed by other, more experienced writers who gave great advice.

Dirk