After being away for a while, okay several years, some of the administrative details that I have been avoiding really needed to be taken care of. One of them is this website, another is moving my mailing list to a different system.
I started this website over on Blogspot back in 2007, two years before I was officially published. In 2010 when I moved to WordPress I transferred every single post over. And continued blogging. Now it’s become a bloated bundle of posts whose links lead to authors, publishers and book stores that no longer exist. So I’ve taken down all my posts and will be slowly going through ones that I feel might still be interesting, and deleting most others (like old sales notices.) In recreating the website, even though I imported the data, a lot of the links had to be remade by hand. I may have missed a few, so if you find any links that don’t lead anywhere, please don’t hesitate to let me know so I can fix it.
As for the newsletter, it doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve been gathering email addresses since 2008, since back in the heady “I have a new book published” days, so my newsletter list had become filled with email addresses that probably don’t exist anymore, or if they do, the people no longer wish to receive emails from me. Especially since I haven’t sent a newsletter out in years. So, I’ve stored the names and addresses from my old list, but I’ve not added them to the new newsletter company I’ve gone with (Mailerlite if anyone is interested). If I do come out with a new book, which I would still like to do, you’d have to sign up again. You can now if you want, nothing will happen with it unless I send out a newsletter. I still want to write, but … the publishing industry lately is not in good shape IMHO and it’s too difficult to get my books seen on Amazon these days that I’ve lost heart in the time involved.
But I’m still here, and the website will be here for three more years. And if you’re at all interested in the other going on in my life, check my crafting and life posts under my SinfullyKnotty identity on Instagram and on WordPress.