{"id":1428,"date":"2016-07-05T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theheavenlybride.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:37:39","slug":"website-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Website Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably going to do another semi-overhaul of the website soon. I want some fresh artwork up, I need a new look. It&#8217;s been a long time since I worked things around. I&#8217;ve already got an image in mind. It would be one that I could also make into a poster and replace another poster image I&#8217;m retiring out. Decisions decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been thinking for a long time now of just shutting Bride down entirely. It&#8217;s not my three or five supporters that have me feeling this way. It&#8217;s how disheartened I have been ever since I discovered that there was a certain set of pups who were coming here, ripping the pups only artwork off the website, and posting that artwork in other places. As I&#8217;d said back when I&#8217;d discovered the situation, it really sucks that I wasn&#8217;t even getting a one word comment on occasion from these guys. I&#8217;ve been very discouraged ever since, and this has affected my personal drive to finish the story a lot. After all, if I were making the story for just me I wouldn&#8217;t put it out for free here on the web for everyone to read like I do. I do it with one of my goals being the same goal many other authors and artists have: to be seen. And if I&#8217;m not seen with my efforts truly appreciated, I begin to wonder why I&#8217;m even bothering&#8230; as I did with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akashikonline.com\">Akashik <\/a>until I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I may also just end the membership program and make everything public. I do appreciate the fiscal support, and if folks want to continue supporting me I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/spearcarrier\">patreon account <\/a>that could probably use some activity. But to be honest I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do. I can only say I&#8217;m leaning more and more to quitting the website itself.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t quit making Bride if I did that. Bride has a tiny readership over at Amazon. I&#8217;m not sure where else. It seems to always have done better in the commercial base of the publishing world than it has done via website. Maybe that&#8217;s just the direction it needs to go. Who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably going to do another semi-overhaul of the website soon. I want some fresh artwork up, I need a new look. It&#8217;s been a long time since I worked things around. I&#8217;ve already got an image in mind. It would be one that I could also make into a poster and replace another poster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[175],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DNh7-n2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theheavenlybride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}