As you’ll have noticed, I haven’t updated in quite a while – two months. I’ve been applying for jobs, getting interviews, not getting the jobs, and doing a lot of soul searching.
I’ll be blunt – according to the numbers, somewhere between five and a dozen people will read this. That’s about how many pings I get in a day, usually for Melissa’s review of the Barbie movie or, for some reason, the Doc Savage Method of Personal Development. And those pings never result in clickthroughs to Amazon, much less sales.
And, in addition to many other things, this blog is a business proposition, a marketing method. It’s supposed to funnel folks toward buying and reading my stories, and after fifteen years, it doesn’t do that.
It’s bigger than that, though. I’m tired of independent publishing, all the marketing, the covers, the formatting, the reports, the trends, all of it. And I’m increasingly tired of science fiction and fantasy, which frightens the hell out of me because without SF/F, who am I? So there’s increasingly little reason for me to try to keep this blog updated.
So, this is, in Nickel Creek’s words, “goodbye for now.” The blog will still be here (I don’t begrudge $100/year). But there won’t be any updates any time soon. Same story with Solidarity Forever: The History of American Labor. The audience interest just isn’t there, and I’m tired.
I’m not blaming any of you. If you’re reading this, you’re part of the stalwart few. And I just want to say …thank you. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Goodbye. For now.
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