New Direction for This Blog + Starting an "Official" Author Website

I'm blogging from Long Beach at the Washington Coast this week, a destination that probably sounds more exciting than it is. Our beaches out here are great if you like remote, cloudy, and windy, but don't expect to work on your tan or have anyone bring you a tropical beverage with a pineapple wedge perched on the rim. The wifi at the coffee shop here is going in and out (mostly out), so I'll keep this post short.

If you've been following this blog for a while, you know I've been writing about my adventures in e-publishing and book promotion with rare entries to let folks know about my new releases. Now that I'm getting more and more people visiting the site because they're interested in my books (as opposed to self-publishing and marketing), I've decided to shift the focus and make this more of a personal/author blog. I'm not quite sure what that'll cover yet (aside from the obvious book stuff), but I'll try to keep it interesting (no discussions of the funny things the dogs, cats, or relatives have done).

I'll still be chatting about my "ebook endeavors," because I enjoy sharing what I've learned, but I'll be doing it over at Savvy Self-Publishing. I just got that site up and running this weekend, and there's not much there yet, but you can check out the first two articles over there:

How to Set up an Official Author Website and Blog (and why you should)
How to Get Book Reviews

If you're interested in self-publishing, I hope you'll follow me over there and subscribe via email or news reader. In the meantime, I've got another guest post and an interview coming up here this week (if I can find some decent wifi while I'm out here, which has been a questionable proposition so far!), so it'll be a gradual transition.

Thanks for reading!

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