I've been published twice on O&C and I have to say I love this site. It was always well designed, had great content and there was no catch - they both paid their authors and offered the content for free (not to mention the great communication with Jordan and Samantha is always stellar.) I always got the impression that on pay sites it's usually other authors who are buying the memberships, which bothers me as a dabbler. I'd rather suffer through a little advertising if it means people can read my stuff for free.

So after a glitch that I expect knocked ten years off the lives of the aforementioned editors the new site is up. It abandoned the monthly digest format and is now ongoing with new stuff. Not only that, but you now have the option to comment on the content, rate it, and bookmark on del.icio.us & reddit. You can also see how many views an article, etc, has, which as an author I think is fabulous.

But to be honest, I find myself wanting to click away from the site as fast as possible. Why? Because it's just too damned yummy. The colour scheme reminds me of chocolate-covered strawberries. It's the same scheme as before, but for some reason it just looks more delicious than before. That background is like the really good chocolate that comes in the gold wrapper and just melts on your tongue.

*drools*

I'm going to go make a cup of coffee and stir some dark chocolate ice-cream topping in it.

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