At three covers a day, I’ve got scheduled posts lined up clear until July 16th. Should I move to FOUR covers a day? Or would that overload your crap reservoirs?

What happens when you mix the First Amendment and Jesus?  This:

So, you have freedom of speech and damn any author who gains to protect their work from your disgraceful site. You, who feel you are bound by copyright law to violate book jackets and work (work I quote) from published authors. You boast also that you can bring any author down who dares to oppose you … but you have made one fundimental error in your arrogant and appauling ‘Copyright Statement’; a flaw that may cost you dearly. You are completely disgraceful in what you do and though you may feel you have the support of those who follow you – God help you in how you treat others. This post will not be responded to becasue I (you may well ironically know) have freedom of speech – and it’s as legal as yours. Make of it what you will .. but your site is utterly detrimental to those who have dreams. You are DISGRACEFUL.

What Robert, Oracle of the Most High, fails to realize is that HIS freedom of speech means absolutely bupkis on MY website, just like I can make snarky comments in the comfort of my own living room but I’m under no obligation to let him in my front door to call me to repentance.

Of course, by both approving his comment and then reposting it in a post of its own, I’m showing that I’m at least a little confident that YHWH will not strike me down in His wrath over this — or at the very least, He has several billion people who’ve violated the bigger sins (you know, lying, adultering, murdering, engraving images) that it’ll be a while until He gets to me.

And by the way, Robert ol’ chap, I got the message the first time. You didn’t have to repost the same come-to-Jesus comment another ELEVEN TIMES. Welcome through the pearly gates of Ban-Land!

(Note: You may think, from the above, that I’m not a Christian. Actually, I’m a very committed believer. However, I have very little patience for people who call me to repentance out of the blue as if they were close enough to Jesus his get me His autograph.)

I’ve been asked by a couple of people who want to design their own covers (sob!) what pitfalls they should avoid.  I’ve condensed my advice into a single page, If You Want to Design Your Own Cover….  May it enlighten you and yours.

I’d like to tell you all that my host has recovered from the server crash, and everything will be hunky-dory. Instead, I have to tell you that the server crash ate all of my sites whole, and I have to start over with a blank slate.  At another host. Because Hostivia.com is never ever getting another dollar from me.

Lousy Book Covers is easier to restore than most of my other online ventures, because all of the content was mirrored at the tumblog. (Funny how it was just a few weeks ago that I was persuaded to move the main site from tumblr to private hosting because of greater control over the fate of the content. Irony! Irony is kicking me in the nards!)

Anyway.  What I have lost is the 200+ covers scheduled to be posted in the future, but I still have a goodly assortment, so posting will recommence today.  Meanwhile, I’ll be re-customizing the theme, re-adding links to the book’s descriptions, re-creating tags… Glorious fun, eh, what?

Here’s hoping your Friday is significantly superior to mine.

The webhost for lousybookcovers.com (to which this tumblr is a mirror), along with every other website I own, screwed the pooch yesterday morning and isn’t even responding to support requests. I have signed up for another, more established host, and the websites are being transferred as we speak. Your patience is appreciated.