Malware – Are You Protected?
Yesterday sucked. I lost six hours of prime editing time due to an infected computer. Somehow, I found myself with spyware, adware and something called a TROJAN on my damn machine.
WTF?
Do I have an up-to-date anti-virus system? YES. I pay $90/year. Do I visit porn sites? NO. (Don’t need to, thank you very much.) Do I go on online gaming sites? NO. Do I click on anything and everything that pops up on my screen? No, no, no!
As I learned the hard way, anyone – and I mean anyone – is at risk if you do any kind of internet browsing. And you know what else? Anti-virus is NOT the same thing as malware protection.
Bloody hell.
Selling Out? A Case to Ponder
Most genre readers have certain expectations, even if they aren’t aware of them. But say those expectations don’t work based on who and what a writer’s WIP characters are all about. So what happens when that writer—even a multi-pubbed author steeped in a particular genre—doesn’t meet those expectations? What if the publisher won’t support (read: publish) the book without those genre expectations being met?
What would you do? If you make changes that don’t feel quite right—or actually change the heart of your story—in order to appease your editor, is that selling out?
