Summary: ¡Hola a todos! After a longer than expected hiatus, Cody's Cuentos is finally back online. Thanks to everyone for your patience to to those of you who have emailed asking where we were and when we would return. Also, "muchas gracias" to those of you who left those wonderful reviews for Cody's Cuentos on iTunes. Those reviews help tremendously to build word-of-mouth and awareness for this podcast. If you haven't left a review on iTunes and would like to do so, please click here and scroll down the page to where it says "Customer Reviews." If you are a regular visitor of this blog, you've probably already noticed some big changes to the site. The blog has a new design with a totally new transcript store. There were a lot of technical problems with the previous store setup and I'm confident that this redesign of the site will dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, the problems many of you were having in terms of purchasing and downloading transcripts. Toca madera. :) Many of you emailed saying that you'd like to purchase multiple transcripts for one price, so I'm going to start bundling transcripts in packs. There will still be individual transcripts for sale but only for select stories. As the story inventory grows (we're currently at 43 audio cuentos and counting), it will be easier to navigate the online store if transcripts are sold in packs instead of individual titles. In terms of the current state of the store, as of May 2, 2009, the Beginner section is fully operational and the Intermediate section has a bundled pack of transcripts with some individual transcripts for sale. The Advanced section of the transcript store is incomplete but I plan to have it restocked and operational over the next week. Will update this post when that is completed. In the meantime, the podcast is back with fresh new episodes. Also, at least two, possibly three, Cody's Cuentos listeners will be doing story readings for us in the coming weeks! ¡Qué emoción! The first reading will be "Before You Were Here, Mi Amor," an original story written by Samantha Vamos. The story reader will be Cuban-American businesswoman and blogger extraordinaire, Carrie Ferguson Weir of Bilingual In The Boonies and Los Pollitos Dicen. Stay tuned for this special audio treat which will be hitting your inbox (if you subscribe, haha) later next week. Still not a Cody's Cuentos subscriber? Signing up is free and is the best way to receive updates and new podcast episodes as soon as they are published online. There are multiple ways to stay connected, so you can choose whichever avenue is most convenient to you. Subscribe to Cody's Cuentos via RSS, email, iTunes or join Cody's fan club on Facebook. You can also subscribe by clicking on one of the cute colored icons you see representing those services when you enter the blog at the bottom of the blog post excerpt. Well, I think that's all the noticias for now. Also, if you notice any glitches or bugs in the blog, please contact me. We did a lot of testing and triple checking stuff running behind the scenes of this blog but sometimes issues arise that we're not aware of unless someone tells us. So, please contact us here if you experience any problems using the site. You can also drop us a line if you just want to say "hola" or give suggestions. ¡Gracias de nuevo y os mandamos un abrazo muy fuerte desde Madrid! Eleena y Cody :)
