Policy

[zotmeister]

It occurred to me that quite a few people out there are very defensive about giving out their email address. Although I have been perfectly strict with the few physical addresses I've received, and made that policy clear to all those who have sent me their own, I have said nothing about email addresses. In fact, I even stated that I could make the email address of my first contest entrants public after the contest ended! Well, that is not my intent, I have not done that, and I have even gone back and edited my contest entry rules to deny myself the right to do that - not that it's legally binding, since it isn't the rules entrants had when they entered, but I am promising now that I will not share those addresses in the future with anyone for any reason, barring a court order. The only third party to see any of the email addresses involved was PayPal, which of course would need to know the winner's email address to enact the transaction and probably knew it already.

I have added my official privacy policy to my bio page. I consider it retroactive to my very first puzzle. It has never been violated. The only person's rights restricted by the policy are my own, as it should be. If anyone feels my policy is insufficient for whatever reason, feel free to comment about it here - anonymously, if you wish, since I couldn't bring myself to disable that - or email me privately if that is your preference (although there is a certain irony to that).

I should have another puzzle here this week; as fourteen is my favorite number, I've been holding out to make my fourteenth puzzle an original design I'm still ironing out. Perhaps you've been anticipating it, perhaps you've been fearing it, perhaps you have no bloody clue what I'm talking about, but it was surely inevitable: Zotanna Terran is here. Surprise - she's not alone.... - ZM

Comments

[gilbertj.livejournal.com]

If your next puzzle has anything to do with Samurai Warriors or Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends I will send the Bouncer out to reel you in.

[zotmeister]

Cute, but no. - ZM

[jezendar.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering how long it would be before Zotanna made an appearance in one of your LJ posts. Will the puzzle have anything to do with Sanctum in general, or Dracha in particular? (You did mention that she's not alone.)

[zotmeister]

It has nothing to do with Sanctum at all; I'm too out of touch with the game at present to start that up again (although that may change). However, you may be interested to hear, if you haven't already found out, that I've published the "lost" Sanctum Puzzler story on the "Writers [sic] Guild" Sanctum Forum here; after four years, I still look at it and think of it as the greatest thing I've yet written. - ZM

[jezendar.livejournal.com]

I have found that out already, actually. I could remember Zotanna's connection to Dracha from your previous stories, but I couldn't remember his name at first. I came across the story while looking for said name, but have not yet had time to read the entire thing. That should change shortly.