"The Big Meow": Completion

[Newsbot]

<div style="background-color:efefef;"> From DD:

Friends,

This is to let the world in general know that the final chapters of The Big Meow,read more



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[tigger]

I am so glad that the book will be finished. I hope things get better for DD soon. Sounds like a rough few years. Hopefully things will start looking up for her.

[Tuttle]

This makes me really want to buy an ebook of it. At the time of it beginning there was no way I could spare the money, now I still can't but I don't have to ask my parents for permission, and I want to contribute (and get an ebook ).

Either way I want to get the book and pay for it if there was that much of an issue getting it written.

[Lazy Leopard]

Has anyone who subscribed to "The Big Meow" yet seen anything beyond chapter 7? The announcement Newsbot quoted said that the new chapters would go public on 12th February, so I'd have expected to see them released to subscribers in advance, but I've seen nothing, and time's running short...

[meteorite]

I had no idea DD was finished with The Big Meow until I stumbled across a thread about it by accident on BoingBoing. When it got stalled around chapter 5 or so, I used to look in frequently, then less and less often... It's been a while since I checked in on any of it; I got a new computer some time ago, and some of the bookmarks didn't transfer. Meanwhile, none of the notices that may have been generated ever ended up in my e-mail in box, or even in my junk mail.

[Lazy Leopard]

Meanwhile, none of the notices that may have been generated ever ended up in my e-mail in box, or even in my junk mail.

The last email about it to hit my mailbox was one with the date and time "Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:29:21" which announced that chapter 7 had gone "free range".

Until DD's blog post a couple of weeks ago I'd heard nothing else. It's that blog post that mentioned that the remaining chapters should be available soon, and that emails would be going out, but I've not seen any yet.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

All chapters have gone live now for subscribers -- Diane has posted the release schedule for everyone else here, along with various other details.

[Lazy Leopard]

Thanks. I put the contact form to good (?) use, and Lee got back to me with the latest access details (which did differ slightly but significantly from the ones I had) and I've now downloaded the six (six!) new chapters. I think I know what I'll be doing this evening.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

Gotta warn you, there will be a few places you don't want to have a mouthful of liquid. :-)

[Trialia]

Thanks. I put the contact form to good (?) use, and Lee got back to me with the latest access details (which did differ slightly but significantly from the ones I had) and I've now downloaded the six (six!) new chapters. I think I know what I'll be doing this evening.

I'm still waiting for new access details, though I did email Lee through the site. I always look forward to more on that one, though.

[Lazy Leopard]

I'm still waiting for new access details, though I did email Lee through the site. I always look forward to more on that one, though.

The contact form I used (which was, I think, linked from one or other of DD's posts) even had a specific option for TBM subscriber stuff. I guess Lee might be getting a fair few such requests at the moment though.

[Space Cadet]

Is anyone else still waiting for the subscriber access details for the new chapters? I sent a request through the contact form a while ago but haven't received them yet.

[Trialia]

Is anyone else still waiting for the subscriber access details for the new chapters? I sent a request through the contact form a while ago but haven't received them yet.

Sadly, yes.

[Kathy Li]

All the chapters are up and publicly available, now.

Chapters online | Feline Wizards 3: The Big Meow

I loved the part where Arhu said that Ith was "near the Chinese", simply because it made me instantly visualize the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum (link) on Hollywood Blvd., which is kitty-corner (ha!) from the Chinese, on the other side of Highland.

[Ardub]

And I appreciated when Urruah made the comment about "I'm excited about this plan" because I was thinking of the same thing, and was glad he was in on the joke :-) (Even more impressive since we got the setup 8 years ago, and now finally the punchline)

Of course, the story as always has much more going for it than the in-jokes, and I especially liked the telling of the legend mid-book, and also the way it was re-visited.

But can I poke fun at the creeping Britishisms like the spellings of "storeys"? :-)

And to respond to DD's apologies for the timing - Did you know that the statue in the Lincoln Memorial was completed long beyond its original schedule? Actually, neither do it, I'm just making it up as an example. Regardless, the Lincoln statue now exists, it's great, and no one looking at it today thinks, "Well it's nice, but I'd be able to appreciate it so much more now if only it were a little more... rushed!"