Welcome to the Nexus Archive of Heinlein biography comments. The principal author site for the Heinlein biography, http://www.whpattersonjr.com, feeds into this subforum, and it is open for all Nexus participants, as well. Here, I'm "at home," and I go by "Bill."

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Cheers,
Bill Patterson

I think that might be a bit difficult, since there is no link to this forum on your home page there, at least. There is *text* that seems to pretend to linkhood, but no actual link.

The site seems to be a work in progress anyway, witness a doubled placeholder paragraph under the "Bill's Updates" heading (the paragraph includes the word "it's" where "its" was meant). Also, the blurb on Heinlein says he was a navy man instead of a Navy man. Perhaps he was dark blue and thus predicted Avatar decades before its release? <grin>

You might want to consider adding a Contact form, too. Just a thought.

My apologies for nitpicking. I'd just like to see your online persona match the prodigious skill and professional achievement of your work product.

Dan

Thanks for the feedback, Dan; all three are known issues (This sub-forum didn't exist before today to link to, for instance). Of course anyone going to whpjr.com from here (which is the only place it has been advertised as existing) isn't really the target audience for whpjr.com anyway. The text box had a double paste in it of generic sample text to give Bill a sense of how big the box is (it is for his own occassional current status updates, and he hasn't entered his first one yet). Until this morning we were still talking about email address stuff.

"navy" seems to have come directly from Amazon's blurb that way. Whether that means it came directly from Tor that way, I don't know.

But I'd expect those issues you identified to get cleaned up soonish.

Edit: Ahh, I just noticed a certain author has Facebooked as well. So, okay, a little construction debris still around for early visitors to get that thrill of being amongst the adventuresome first.

It's not constructive, but I do have a question....will there be any east coast opportunities to get my copy autographed? I guess I do have an advantage that I am near Annapolis, and if you come anywhere you'll come here.

The webmaster and the author both seemed pleased with the website now. Address nitpicks to the author, and if he feels them appropriate to address he can pass them on to the webgoddess.

like justin, i'm wondering if the possibility exists of getting a volume signed ?

and if he comes to visit georule he'll be close enough to sign mine !

Oh, he won't --Bill is a hot-house flower. Read his bio at his author site re the scarring incidents of his youth. . .

Oh, btw, having noted that at least one early review was lamenting the lack of photos in Vol 1, Madam Online Archivist went to the Trust and got permission to put some period-relevant photos at whpattersonjr.com where I would expect they'll show up sooner rather than later.

How did that happen, Bill? Tor being parsimonious, or what?

There are no photos in the bio? *extreme boggle*