Welcome!

I am an author - I have been writing short stories, a novel, quaker plays, haiku, and family-related non-fiction for several years. You can find my work advertised on various blogs, poorly organized, without much concern for commercial traffic.

With this blog, I'm hoping for that to change. I'm starting it to collect my thoughts about writing as an indie author (100% indie, in my case), but also as an attempt to collect my feeble attempts at marketing and link them all from a single place. I'm hoping that you'll come back here more, since this will be the place that has careful links to every place I want you to go.

Sure, I have a press website, which lists everything I've published, as I publish it. You can count back and see that I haven't published much in the last three or four months; I've been backed up on my elocutionist project. And I have a blatant self-promo site, which also makes a big deal out of anything I've published but also lets you know about any sales or giveaways. This place has been slow lately too, no sales, no promos, no publishing. It's a good site but it's not doing it all for me.

That's because sometimes I just want to talk about writing. I have a place where I do that, but it needs a little updating and it, by the way, has links to almost all of my blogs and lots of other stuff too. And finally there are two other sites. One is yeah write; it has lots of my old stories on it, is not connected to google, and still gets a lot of traffic because it's kind of a secret portal that I used to tell my esl students about, and they kind of spread the word. It's connected from my main personal blog, but I don't really believe that people go there and look down the template to find the stuff I write. But finally, there is a novel idea, which I started out using just to collect ideas and resources for things I was about to write, and then, started using just to write stuff. These days, when I'm a little bogged down with the elocutionist project, I want to put stories there, as I write easily on blogs, and truly don't mind sharing the rambling of my creative process. But I don't want to give absolutely everything away either. I will probably trim this blog a little and work on making all these blogs more interconnected and distinct in their purpose.

One thing I want to talk about is the various indie writers I've encountered. I really admire them and value their friendship. I'm hoping to put some promo on here about things I've found, and promote them, as well as myself. I think anyone who gets out there and puts out novels, and takes it upon themselves to boost their own work, deserves a hand. To them I dedicate this blog.