How I lost my website and got it back

So you may have done a google search for "Elizabeth McQueen" recently. Or maybe you just typed in www.elizabethmcqueen.com into your browser. And you thought you might get my website, right?  But instead you got a strange site in Japanese.

Yeah, um, that's my bad.

You see back last year, when I was dealing with a newborn baby girl, I kind of forgot to pay my web hosting bill.  I'm a terrible bill payer. If not for the amazing bill paying powers of my husband I'd be sitting in the dark with no water or heat hiding out from my creditors.

And I'm especially bad at taking care of those things when I'm in a sleep deprived baby love haze.

I'm pretty sure my web hosting company sent me all kinds of notices. And I'm pretty sure I deleted them without ever reading them because I assumed they were just ads or information. I wasn't so into reading my emails back then.

So they never heard from me and figured I didn't need my site.

So they auctioned it off.

I realized my mistake about a week after the new company posted their new site.  I think it's a Japanese media company.  I translated the page and still couldn't figure it out.

At least it's not porn.

I contacted the new owners immediately and asked them if I could buy back my good name.

No response.

I contacted them again.

No response.

So I gave up and scored another domain name. http://www.elizabeth-mcqueen.com

My old  site was up there. The one from 5 years ago when I put out my last solo record (5 years! yow!) So I didn't make a big deal out of letting people know.

But the day before yesterday, my new site went up.  It's awesome!

I want to thank everyone who helped me get it together. Jeff Jones took the picture, Katy O'Connor performed her artistic fairy magic on it, and Matt Eskey took that image and built a site around it. How lucky am I to have such talented friends?

Very.

So go check it out.  We've got songs from the new record up for your listening enjoyment!

 It's still a work in progress, but I know you'll like what we've got.