I got the short story The Trouble with Orthography put on the Short Story page.  It is a short humorous blurb that was a hoot to write.  I will occasionally put bits up for folks to read. Hope you enjoy.

Today has been a day of figuring out the way to have the blog and Facebook work together.  I was just going to do a couple of things and then get to writin'.  So much for that - but I did get a feeling for how to do this blog and start to do some promotional stuff.  

With the blossoming of independent authors and publishing, the author must spend time hawking his or her wares.  In reading about the process, many of the authors have said that they spend several hours a week on promotion.  There is a inherent struggle with wanting to sit and write and the need to make sure people know that you have tales to tell, and convincing them that they can not make it through a day without gathering your golden prose about them.  So each day becomes a balancing act.

Along with that is the necessity to get out and do some blacksmithing and iron work to make some here-and-now money.  Sleep may become an optional activity (except, of course for the 3PM nap).