Who me?

[Geoff_N]

I have a simple website - no fancy graphics, the odd animated gif, blah blah.

But I have become fascinated by a utility my isp host has with allowing me to see my web stats. For instance I found that the other day the US Military had found me several times in various search engines. What! Don't say I'm going to be arrested again! But my web stats also tells me what the top 10 search phrases are being used to find me. In the case of the military, it was the words "balloon missiles chasing truck". Yep, I have a novel, Hot Air, and a sample is on my website.

More intriguing is the search phrase "stockinged legs in the air". No surprise there, I hear you snigger. Sure enough it is in one of my short stories.

Google either of those phrases and you hit my website on the first results page.

Admiring the more professional look of Johnny Nys's website, I decided to put a flash game up. One I have always admired for its simplicity, yet adherence to Newtonian physics, is Thrust. It is Sci Fi related therefore deserves a place on my site. I contacted the programmer. He looked over my website, liked my stories and asked if I would participate in an interactive story project he's working on. He's a clever Dutchman - brilliant at writing games - see the Thrust linked now to my website - but needed a writer for the story. I know there have been interactive Lucas-Arts style games for ages, but I wonder how many e-books could be livened up with a point-and-click interactive element?

So, I send out an e-mail and back comes an offer of work. Can't be bad.

Click on http://geoffnelder.com and find Thrust .

Geoff

[Digi]

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