Thursday 25 October 2012

Road Kill is Published Online!

I've got my cozy mystery novel, Road Kill, published on Smash Words, which distributes it to other e-book retailers, and Amazon.  Now I've got to work on the marketing so that it doesn't disappear.

Thursday 11 October 2012

My Husband's Birthday Today, My Daughter's Tomorrow

Just thinking of my husband on his birthday and of my eldest daughter on her birthday tomorrow. I went into labour on the afternoon of Reid's birthday.  I was able to bake him a birthday cake, but was too far gone to make the icing.  Reid put the cake into the freezer, bought a can of icing, and we had the cake when I got back from the hospital a few days later.  Happy birthday, Reid and Kate!

Diaries Versus Blogging

It's not my intention to sound like an old fogie, sitting on the porch in my rocking chair and waving my cane around ("things were certainly different in my day"), but an expanse of years gives one the opportunity to sit back and observe the changes in a lifetime.

I'm sure people still keep diaries. They're still selling the fat little books with cheap side locks that young girls covet, although I wonder how many people get into the habit of writing regularly? But with Facebook, blogging, twittering, and other social medias that I don't even want to keep up with but no doubt are out there, diary-writing is right out in our collective faces.

Where does one draw the line? Stuff that might have made grandma blush just to write in her diary seems pretty tame compared to the soul-baring (or is that "soul-blaring?) that people are willing to do in public these days. I'm writing this blog to entertain my readers, but it's a tightrope walk deciding what to share. Let's all agree to embellish a little, shall we? Then we can always say, "You don't really believe that happened, do you?"

Cheers,
CM Spencer