To Patreon or Not to Patreon

A good friend recently recommended I think about a Patreon page. I’ve been looking into it and am almost ready to take the plunge. For the less web savvy here, Patreon is a web site/service where creators allow fans to make contributions and in return get unique access to the creators’ work. It became more……

Up In a Puff of Smoke

So, here is my first post of 2018 and it’s a cliche. A funny thing happened this past weekend. My website was ready for it’s annual renewal of the hosting, domains and. email. My wallet was not ready. I still had this older site, which you may or may not remember, and decided not to……

Got Writer’s Block? Let Your Readers Help

I have already written a post about author Silvia Hartmann and the Naked Writer Project. Holly McDowell has taken her writing process for King Solomon’s Wives to the web in a different way. As reported by the Huffington Post Ms. McDowell has engaged her readers before the book ever hits the shelf. The concept here is to have readers……

Stop SOPA

I figured that rather than making my blog go dark in support of the SOPA protests, I would chime in with my feelings. As a writer and musician I understand the threat that online piracy represents and that people need to pay for the media that they consume. That being said I do think the……