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Subscribe by Email is Going Away. . . For Now

  When I first set up this site, FeedBurner had a nice subscribe by email option built into the site. I really appreciated it. FeedBurner was by no means perfect, but then again, nothing is. Google eventually shut down the subscribe by email part of FeedBurner. Like many other bloggers, I searched for a replacement. Like many others, I opted to go with follow.it for this service. Again, this was not a perfect option, but let’s go back to nothing is perfect. With follow.it, they placed ads in the emails, which were not too obtrusive. I figured I could live with this for now. If I gained more subscribers, I’d either go for a paid version of follow.it to remove the ads or something else. I always subscribe to my own blog so that way I can monitor things and make sure they work. I also subscribe to a few other bloggers who use the same service. A few months ago, I noticed that instead of putting my post content in the email, follow.it instead sent a link to click on to read the post. I...
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A Notebook of Productivity - An Attempt to Get It Together

  I’m always struggling to get my shit together and be more productive in life. Most especially my writing. If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, then you already know this. I’ve talked about this in several posts on this blog. Back in May , I wrote a post about all the things I was working on. As always, I got lazy and didn’t really work on any of it. It was also back in May when I came up with the idea for my latest story, The Worst Man. That story sort of took my attention over everything else I was planning on doing, like learning how to build eBooks without an online converter, and other things I talked about in that post. As a result, when it came time to publish that story, I yet again used the Reedsy editor to convert my story to ePub. Which is fine. I love the Reedsy converter, and I was even thinking that maybe I’d just stick with it. Except when I went to do the final conversion, there was a hiccup on Reedsy’s side of things, and I didn’t get my ePub to co...
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New Release - The Worst Man

 At long last another new release! I know, took me long enough. Hopefully it's not this long between releases for the next story. This is a stand alone story that is first in a series of wedding themed stories.  I hate being in weddings, but my best friend was in a pinch. What choice did I have? Only after I agree to be in it, do I find out who the best man is. . . and he is anything but the best man. Anna My best friend is getting married, and all of her other friends are jealous because she scored the man of the century. She knows how much I hate being in weddings, but she needs someone. I can’t leave my friend hanging. The only problem is the best man. He would be the man of the century too, except he doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t keep it a secret. What is worse is that he has me in his sights. I don’t want one night; I want forever. Is that really too much to ask? In my mind, Liam isn’t the best man. He’s the worst man. Liam I’ve had Anna in my sights since...
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Cover Reveal and Updates

  I know, I know. I said I'd have this story out last month and that didn't happen. Sadly life stuff has been getting in the way of my progress. I've gotten a handle on most of that this past week and I'm back to making progress. With that said I thought I'd do a cover reveal for my upcoming story The Worst Man , as well as a quick update. If you haven't been following along, this is going to be the first in a series of wedding themed stories. All the stories will be stand alone, but revolve around a wedding theme. This story is finished except for a final read through and a few other administrative things I need to do for it. With all of that said, this story should be out by next weekend. I will of course do a blog post when it goes live. I've already started on the next story in this series. Hopefully, I will have it out sometime in October. Only time will tell. I just need to make this a bigger priority. Why the heck can't life stuff get that memo? A...
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A Series of Wedding Troubles and Other Updates

  I have exciting news. Or at least I think it is. I finally have a series underway. So far, the first story is drafted, and I’m heading into the final round of edits. The second story is coming together. As of now, this will be a four-book series. I have tentatively titled this series: Wedding Troubles. These will be stand alone stories that revolve around a wedding theme. The title of the series is subject to change, but as of now it is the best I can come up with, and I feel it fits the stories I’m writing. The first story is titled, The Worst Man . You know, instead of the best man in the wedding, this guy, according to the heroine, is the worst man. Still keeping a play on words for weddings, the second story will be titled, The Maid of Dishonor . I don’t yet have definite titles for stories 3 and 4, but I’ve been noodling things for those stories as well.   I’ve been putting a lot of work into these stories, and that’s why there has been little activity on here as o...
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Steamy Summer Reads and Things I’m Working On

This past week has been too hot for words. No, wait, I’m a writer, I could give all kinds of words do describe it. But it’s really too hot and I'm too lazy to bother. I swear I’m turning into an old curmudgeon. This past winter I moaned and complained about the cold, but now I’m not happy with the heat. Next thing I know I’ll be yelling at kids to get off my lawn. Except, there are no kids where I live, so I shall stay young until then and put forth an effort to stop complaining about the weather. 😎 On that note, and despite the heat, I have been hard at work. I have finally gotten started on a few of the things I mentioned in my last post but haven’t implemented anything yet, but I’m getting there. The most important thing right now is I’m working on a story that is pretty far along. Even better, this story is going to be part of a themed series. The first story is shaping up great and I have notes for the second story and have an inkling of ideas for two more. They will all be ...
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Things I've Been Working On

  I have started to write a blog post several times over the past few weeks, or is it months now? Considering my last post was in February, I guess it has been months. It was past time to sit down and spew something out of my little grey matter and get it posted. Yes, yes, I know, at the start of the year I was going to do a weekly post. Declared it loud and proud on this little blog of mine. I even managed it for a short time. A very short time. Oh well. I’ll not talk about how life got in the way again and blah, blah, blah. Or how I got in my own way again and blah, blah, blah. Because if I don’t want to write about that boring drivel, I’m sure no one wants to read it either. So let’s just move on from all of that. While I haven’t been posting on here or gotten another story ready to publish, I have been busy with things related to all of this. In no particular order, here’s what I’ve been up to. Formatting Stories Back when I published my first story on Amazon, I formatted and u...
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