Well, it’s been a long time in coming, but it had to be done. I’ve finally put this blog front and center on my site and released it to the search engines. For a long time--actually from this blog’s inception--I blocked it from Google and the other search engines because this was a place just for me. This whole website has been a place where I’ve been figuring myself out. I began it a little after I closed my bookstore. It was around that time that I noticed that the store had absorbed my entire personality. I’m not sure how that happened, it just did. Every reference to me was through the store. I even began a blog “A Bookseller’s Tale” in an attempt to distinguish myself from the store and even that began to merge with my business. That was not what I wanted.
I had somehow disappeared and when the store went away there seemed to be nothing left of me in the world. I needed to fix that. I wanted to find me again. So I began this blog and this site. Lo and behold, there I was! I had forgotten how much of a serious artist I had been. I had forgotten about the places I had traveled to, the things I had accomplished ... In any case, I think I may have found me again.
This year has been a good one for me. A bit tough, but good. I finished my MFA in Creative Writing this year. More important than that, I finished my very first novel and it’s not bad if I say so myself. As of now, I’m about 20,000 words into my second book. I even got a literary agent to represent me. This has indeed been a big year for me. No wonder I’m exhausted.
So I guess I’m an author now. The road to get here has been long and strange. If you had told me that this was where I was going to end up when I was in my twenties, I’m sure I would have laughed. I still have a hard time believing that it’s happening. But here I am.
And this is now my official author site.
Enjoy! 