Germ Line: Revolution - Stephen A. Carter

I wonder if you might want to reconsider posting your chapters in pieces. By the time you have an entire book published on site, you're going to be stuck with a pile of pieces and an enormous number of reviews to sift through if you want to make changes, go back to your original, or just re-read to make sure you've got what you want!

You may be doing this in sections to make it easy on reviewers, to offer us the benefit of extra points, or maybe you have so much to say you just want to post it right away, but think about making things easy on yourself in the long run. You've still got a long way to go.

I am enjoying your story--keep up the good work.  JP

Chapter 1 is now divided into three chapters. Chapter 4 (what would have been the start of chapter 2) is now posted. And because I couldn't figure out the chapter system until Chapter 3, chapters 1 & 2 are separate books. Chapter 3 on will be a single book. Unless I break the book into parts. Any thoughts on that?

I can't figure out how to combine books already published, Vern, but I'm digging into it. I may try to see if admin can help if I can't figure it out.

You can't. You will have to start again, marking them as a book and then adding in the chapters. I too discovered this the hard way when I arrived. Waste of points but better now than later and it makes it much easier as you go along.

of course, Vern, you're right. For some reason, I was thinking the chapters had been posted as stories, not books. My bad. Yes, take Chap one and build the other chapters into that, then make the other inactive so people don't get too confused.
I think it was because I had a story I wanted to turn into a book, with additional chapters, and was unable to do so. I had to start from scratch again.

Ok, I bit the bullet and combined the chapters into one book. Thank you all for the input and advice. Much appreciated!

By "listings", do you mean on the home page? If you publish multiple chapters in rapid succession, the home page only shows one of the chapters (either the earliest posted or the latest posted, not sure which). This is intentional functionality, otherwise everyone's home page would be filled with nothing but chapters from one person who happens to post a lot in rapid succession. When someone clicks on the one chapter listed on their home page, it takes them to the site's chapter view, where there is a pick list at the top of all active chapters that shows which chapters the reviewer has already read and which is one is next. If you published the chapters with points, then your reviewer will get points for reviewing those chapters, even though they don't all show on the home page.

I reviewed your original Chapter 1, but you apparently deleted it, along with the reviews it garnered. I never received a response from you regarding my review, even though you used some of my suggestions in the rewrite. If you want to attract and keep readers for your story, this is not the way to do it.

Apologies, Jack, I thought I responded. I try to respond with thanks to all the reviews, because I truly appreciate each one. I don't mark them applied until I've responded and implemented the changes,  so I'm not quite sure how I missed responding to you  but I do apologize. The reason yours got deleted is, I needed to combine all my chapters into one book. I deleted chapters one and two after they were combined with the other chapters because I didn't want it to be confusing to readers. Consequently all the reviews done on those first two chapters were deleted. So again, I apologize that this is delayed, but I do thank you, and I do appreciate you taking the time to not only read, but lend your thoughts as well. As you mentioned, I did use some of them and they are much appreciated. Let me know if there's anything I can do for you.

You may be talking about the 'featured' postings. There is room for you to 'feature' only two at a time (another reason to consider consolidation).  All other postings are still active, and reviewers can access them by going to your public portfolio. You can change any two you want to feature, at any time. Go to your portfolio, and 'drag' the ones you want to feature to the top two slots. This will render them visible (featured) on your home page.

Nothing ever goes away, in my experience, unless you choose to delete it. I have deleted stuff, in times past, to my chagrin. If, later on, you want to hide something, you can do that by switching it to 'inactive.' That's what I do when something is published, out of consideration for the publisher. (More about that when you're ready.)

It does take some getting used to, and some practice. Anytime you need help, just ask. We're all ready and willing--that's how we all started. JP