Where’ve we been?

When a family member started nursing school earlier this year, he was told of the nursing school curse. His instructor stood before the class, day one, and announced, “If anything is ever going to go wrong in your life, this is the year it will happen.”

Apparently, that goes for starting a litmag, too.

Aside from deaths (yes, plural) in our family, car difficulties (two permanently-defunct vehicles in one week, no kidding), and day job fluctuations galore, the main thing hampering our progress through the month of August has been a massive computer malfunction.

Not long after our last blog post, the computer from which we run Smash Cake went bonkers. Thanks, rootkits, corrupted recovery data, and goofy, conflicting Windows updates. Much appreciated.

We do keep backups, though, and had everything saved down externally. Thank God.

Nothing has been lost.

We’ve been on hold while the computer was physically away at the repair shop, and now for the last week as we’ve gone in and one-by-one repopulated it with the programs by which we organize our data, emails, and layout.

The good news is that our little electronic baby has now been resuscitated back from the dead. I’ve been able to keep up with some of the social sites through the use of someone else’s computer, but the one containing all of the SCM emails and submissions so far has been non-functioning until this Monday.

As in yesterday.

We’ve JUST gotten it all fixed, and I’m working hours into the night to play catch-up and answer all of you fine folks to whom I need to reply.

Thanks for your patience, your support, and your messages—you’ll get responses very soon! Please give us a week or two to trudge through the status queries and purchase orders. There are many, and we are few.

We’ll issue an announcement through the blog when we hit Inbox Zero so that you’ll know for sure that we’ve answered everything that came through correctly on our end. That’ll be the time to worry about missing emails and/or resend, if necessary.

We have some exciting things coming up, including early contributor announcements, special offers, a Kickstarter campaign, and more.

Stay tuned—we love you guys!