Blogs have become many things for many people. Some people want to share a message while some want to help and inform others. Still others just write to “see” themselves chatter—to be published! And there is one guy who was evidently devising a plan, through his blog, to murder people.
Wasn’t anyone reading this blog? If they were, why didn’t they speak up? Or did they think that his postings were all fiction?
Maybe there aren’t enough readers for every blog. Perhaps many of us are producing and sharing through our blogs for absolutely no reason—no one is paying attention. This is certainly the case with books today. There are more books than there are interested readers.
I sure know some voracious readers, though. Most of the retired people in my close and extended family can’t seem to get enough good fiction to read. The books they read get well-used because they are passed around to each other, to neighbors and beyond. It’s nice that these books are recycled, but disposable books would be a good bet for publishers and authors. Yes, that’s a solution—books that, as soon as you read a page, the ink disappears. Good for fiction authors and publishers—maybe not a nonfiction book that you want to use as a reference.
I apologize for being quiet these past few days. I’m enmeshed in the work involved with the new SPAWN—getting the domain transferred and other business details that always become more time-consuming than you think they will, moving files from the old site to the new, revamping the member list (a grueling 2-day experience), getting accustomed to working with the board, trying to set up a conference call that everyone can participate in and so forth. Boy is it a ton of work. But we’re all excited about the changes—we’re especially looking forward to launching the brand new site—hopefully, September 1, 2009.
In the meantime, I hope that your writing and publishing projects are going well this summer. If you are working on a manuscript, you need help doing the preliminary editing, you’re confused about finding and landing a publisher, you are stuck on your book proposal, you have a book to promote or you are new to publishing and would like to have a better understanding of the whole process, order my book NOW. The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book is the help you need in order to succeed in this industry. Order yours here:
http://www.matilijapress.com/rightway.html
Read it while the kids are taking swimming lessons, on the beach while relaxing in the sun, while traveling to your vacation destination or stay up an hour later each night to read and learn.
And thanks for following my blog. I hope that if I start writing about doing my publisher in, you will alert the authorities and save someone’s life. Remember, it takes a community to raise a child, to care for the elderly and to keep our citizens safe and productive.