It’s become commonplace these days for folks to deactivate their Facebook accounts—they’re tired of the rampant political divisiveness, the self-serving actions of the company’s owner, the randomness of how it treats its account subscribers. I’ve seen publishers and authors (including our own Richard C. White) leave it behind, usually with a pinned note to visitors explaining that if they want to keep up-to-date with that person’s or that company’s activities, they should bookmark the blogs run by those individuals. I’d toyed with the idea myself but never acted on it.
And then last week, for some inexplicable reason, the decision was taken out of my hands when I found myself blocked from accessing the Facebook pages for both StarWarp Concepts and Pandora Zwieback.
I can login to Facebook, but then I’m immediately redirected to the “Your Pages” page—and that’s as far as I can go. Clicking on either link just brings me back to that page.
It doesn’t appear that my account was hacked—thankfully, there haven’t been any posts to the pages since the last ones I put up, and I can still sign in—but since this is Facebook we’re talking about, there’s no way to really find out because they make it impossible to contact anyone to resolve the problem. And, for some other inexplicable reason, clicking on the Support email icon at the Help Center just…brings me back to “Your Pages.”
I tried asking the question to the Help Community, where answers are provided by other subscribers, not anyone from Facebook itself (why be helpful to their customers, right?), but was blocked from posting it because doing so requires having a personal account; business pages are “gray accounts” that can’t access even the Help Community.
So unless this problem somehow resolves itself, I guess we’ve given up on Facebook—or rather Facebook has given up on us. Should access suddenly be restored one day, I’ll login long enough to pin a note directing readers to the SWC and Pan websites.
Bottom line, if you want to keep up-to-date with StarWarp Concepts’ or Pandora Zwieback’s activities, you should bookmark our blogs to follow along. I mean, 99% of my Facebook posts just point you to these blogs anyway. This way, it cuts out the middle man. 🙂
Thanks, as always, for your continued support.
Hmmm…maybe I should look into this Twitter thing all the kids talk about. How bad could that be…?
Are you a fan of Vampirella, the outer-space huntress who traveled from a planet of vampires to Earth in 1969 and has been fighting monsters and cultists for the past 50-plus years? Have you read and enjoyed our nonfiction comic history tome From the Stars…a Vampiress: An Unauthorized Guide to Vampirella’s Classic Horror Adventures?
Welcome back to StarWarp Spotlight, a series of posts that runs each Monday to shine a spotlight on one of our titles, as a reminder of the awesome books and comics we publish and to introduce new SWC fans to our backlist.
Welcome back to StarWarp Spotlight, a series of posts that runs each Monday to shine a spotlight on one of our titles, as a reminder of the awesome books and comics we publish and to introduce new SWC fans to our backlist.
Vampi Goes to Hollywood: In 1975, Hammer Films announced the development of a Vampirella movie starring model/actress Barbara Leigh and the legendary Peter Cushing (later known the world over as Grand Moff Tarkin of Star Wars). The project crashed in spectacular fashion, but the details have always been murky. I try to clear up the confusion surrounding it, detailing the production from its launch to its unfortunate ending. And then I take a critical look at the awful Vampirella movie that was made in 1996, starring Talisa Soto and rock god Roger Daltrey of the Who—and probably shouldn’t have been!
Well, here’s a bit of a down note on which to end the week. With the coronavirus outbreak wreaking havoc in the convention industry, and given how impossible it is to enforce social distancing guidelines in a gathering place often packed to capacity, it’s disappointing but no surprise that the Connecticut-based CT Horrorfest, which was scheduled for this September, has announced its cancellation, with a replacement date of September 18, 2021. A wise decision, from our perspective.
Welcome back to StarWarp Spotlight, a series of posts that runs each week to shine a spotlight on one of our titles, as a reminder of the awesome books and comics we publish and to introduce new SWC fans to our backlist.
Not familiar with the beauty-and-the-beast story of Kong and his “love interest,” Ann Darrow (who was played in the 1933 original by the queen of the scream queens, Fay Wray)? Well, here’s our edition’s back-cover copy to bring you up-to-date:
Yes, horror fans, it was on this day in 1913 that Peter Cushing was born, which means this would have been his 107th birthday.
Beyond Hammer, Cushing became a science fiction icon with his appearances as the eccentric time traveler Dr. Who in the 1960s films Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.—loose adaptations of serialized stories that first appeared as episodes of the long-running British TV series Doctor Who—and as the villainous Grand Moff Tarkin, commander of the Death Star and Darth Vader’s boss, in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (a role he later “returned to” through the magic of CGI in 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
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