Hey, folks! I had some (blessed, much needed) time alone today, while hubby took the baby to the park, and I got to thinking…

There is much that I’m less than 100% satisfied with in Bibliophile. What I’ve decided I’m going to do is go on a personal hiatus. Bibliophile will not be on hiatus - you can still play games, submit forms, all that jazz… Just I, myself, will not be around for you for a week. I’m going to spend that time hunched over in front of my monitor, picking and tweaking and redoing everything that irritates me about the site. My tweaks and picks and redo’s will include, but are not limited to the following:

Level/Master Badges - I’m going to cull. I’m sorry. I hate that I have to do this, but since I was very non-specific in my requirements for badge donations of any kind, its a problem I have to deal with. If your donations get culled, please know that it isn’t because they weren’t appreciated - they are, very much. I respect the hard work that goes into the creation process, and would never just toss things away unthinkingly.

Some Card Sets - Ech, what a pain, huh? But a few of the card sets irk me. Off the top of my head, the Signatures decks, the Rowling decks, the Cummings deck… The Occasion & Layout decks… Some or all of these will be redone. If you’ve mastered these sets, this doesn’t really affect you. If not, and you have these cards on your trading posts, you will need to resave the new ones. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Members - I’m going through the list (as previously mentioned) and I am going to remove inactive members. I recently visited a members’ site and her Bibliophile link was under a “Hiatus/Leaving” heading. She never notified me of a hiatus, or sent a quit form. So I don’t know which she’s on, and it really doesn’t matter… I’m going to just crack down and get rid of the people who signed up and have since lost interest. In the end, this benefits you, since you won’t spend your time trying to contact these members for trades and waiting for a response you’ll never recieve.

Organization - Just general stuff here; I plan on rewriting most of the information/rules sections, and splitting up the games from the store and such like that. Nothing major; just aesthetics.

So, heads up! Change is afoot!

(I realize that some of you may think its a huge pain in the butt, and I hope that I won’t lose any of you over this reconstruction. I can assure you that its all to the betterment of the TCG!)

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New Member: Janakie - welcome!

Level Ups: Manda, Shawnna, Shenny, Wyvern

Affiliate: Stakes & Crosses - A Buffy the Vampire TCG; link on Site, Etc page - prejoining now!

Masters: Andrea - challenged & rowling II; Jewelie - fauthors; Lissi - rossetti; Madeleine - mauthors; Maidel - austen & dickens; Manda - dahl & lewis; Shenny - seuss. Way to go, everyone!

Write A Novel: Carole, Jewelie, Madeleine, Manda & Shawnna have all completed steps towards writing their novels - well done!

Contests: Two new contests have begun; another edition of Illustrate It and Picky, Picky. Stop by the contests page to get more details and to see who won this month’s round of Illustrate It! (Prizes were increased a bit this round.)

Referral: I just joined Chocolat - a TCG about… You guessed it: chocolate! Take a peak, and if it looks interesting, and you want to join - be sure and tell them Keskat sent you!

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The weekend is over! Oh well. I had a lovely time; hubby’s parents live in the mountains, and can you believe - it snowed on Easter? Whee! Anyway, on to the important stuff:

New Members: Ifiriel, Taneko - welcome!

Lost Member: Kachii - so long! Boy is the next round of rubbish bin going to be HUGE!

Affiliates: Oathkeeper & Reverie - links on the Site, Etc page. Reverie is in prejoin!

Level Ups: Andrea, Carole, eL, Ilmariel, Kim, Maidel, Saitaina, Valorie - way to go!

Masters: Haven’t done these yet, I’ll do them tomorrow, along with Write A Novel forms and the contest judging/new contest postings. I’ve been going on TCG stuff all day and my wrist is killing me.

Donations: I need to rethink the donations a bit. Right now, we’re getting donations of every possible size configuration - which is great, I love the participation… But its hard to lay them all out on a page and make them neat-looking. I may be culling donations, much as I’d hate to do it.

Card Set Reservations: Now. I love that you all want to reserve authors and donate images. Its fantastic. But once you reserve them, you have to send in the images. I have several (lots) of sets that were reserved ages ago that I’ve not received images for yet. I’m giving everyone another week to either get their images in, or I’m going to take the sets off reserve. Some of the more popular authors have had a lot of people asking to donate images. Its not fair for them to be on reserve for a member who isn’t going to submit images. Yanno?

And another note, just to remind - if you do reserve a set, please try to gather at least 25 high-quality images for your set. If I have to hunt down the images, the card set takes ages to make, and I can’t really justify giving you a full reward. Can’t reward you for work that I did, right? I know some authors are very hard to find images for - if you absolutely cannot find 25 images, let me know. If I know you’ve tried, I don’t mind doing the rest of the legwork.

Inactivity: I hate to be a stickler. No, really, its more work for me to be a stickler. But I’m going through the member list… And if your trade log hasn’t been updated in over a month, and you’ve not submitted a hiatus form or anything else - I’m moving you to troubled. I went through the first half of the list today, and put several members in the troubled section… And a couple that are apparently on hiatus but never told me about it. So. Check it out. And hey - if you’re on the troubled list, you may not take update freebies until I remove you from the list. That means you gotta get in touch with me and let me know what’s going on, eh?

Birthdays: Only one this month. Happy birthday, Saori, please take the card below!

Occasion: Happy Easter - here’s the card I meant to hand out on Friday!

Authors Among Us: I only have one entry for this round. If we don’t get some more participants, I can’t keep it going. Take a peek at it, and see if you can come up with anything. Its only 50 words!

New Card Sets:
Ten new sets this week. See below for freebie information.

• Bombeck, Erma - regular, images donated by Saitaina
• Cornwell, Bernard - regular, images donated by Dragonpoet
• Gabaldon, Diana - regular, images donated by Dragonpoet
• Keene, Carolyn - regular, images donated by Saitaina
• Maguire, Gregory - regular, images donated by Jewelie
• McCaffrey, Anne - regular, images donated by Carole
• Norton, Andre - regular, images donated by Dragonpoet
• Rennison, Louise - regular, images donated by Carole
• Snicket, Lemony - regular, images donated by Shenny
• Wodehouse, P. G. - regular, images donated by Corli

You may take 6 cards, total. No more than 2 can be from the same set. You must comment with what you’ve taken.

I’ve made sets out of all the images that I’ve received except for 3 - those sets will be made and released in the next update, so those of you waiting for rewards (Jesheckah, Madeleine, Wyvern), you’ll only need to wait a bit longer!

I think that’s it. I’ll edit the post tomorrow after I’ve done the Masters, Write A Novels, April coloring contest judging. Oh, one more thing, just to see who’s still reading all this: if you’re here, you can take a rare (that’s right, I said rare) card of choice. Have a great one!

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