The Turning of a Page

 Well hello there, reader. Or more like, absent reader.

I bailed on this blog one year ago, when I promised I wouldn't. The reason I promised was that this blog is meant to invite people into getting to know me as an author, to hopefully build rapport (and yes, an audience) for my upcoming novel, the third in a series, which is not yet published. The GOOD (read: GREAT) new is that I have literally spent the entirety of 2021 editing, rewriting, editing, rewriting, beta reading, beta reading, and beta reading my first book. I am quite sure it's time to start pitching to agents and publishers. (Though, I admit; finding male fantasy beta readers is impossible. Goodness. I know the genre is full of readers, so where ARE you guys? Literally?)

Firstly, for those very few who have been following this blog before I went AWOL, I apologize for my absence and will be doing better. Furthermore, I will not bore you with my methods. I am an AVID reader, and haven't read about one of my favorite author's methods ... barely ever, except to help me hash through my own writing issue. I doubt you'd be interested in mine.

"They" say this needs to be an interesting blog about me, who I am, what I am an expert in, or what I'm trying to learn. 

What I can say is that I'll try. I do not wish to make this all about my writing, but I'm not sure what else I'm doing up here. I despise wasting my life away in front of a screen -- and the fact that I prefer to type vs write my books makes it that much more ironic. Furthermore, I despise how people's lives are being sucked away by social media and into the media streams overall due to dopamine-inducing algorithms. Again, this is ironic, because this is one of the best ways to market a book and build an audience for someone like me, who the world does not have one iota of who I am, and nor do they care to.

So. Who knows what this blog will be about. What I can promise is that I will try to make it interesting, will try to stick with what I know, and be honest about what I don't, AND that I'll be writing in it more often.

Who knows; maybe after a bit, people will actually start reading this thing and giving a lick about who I am, what I have to say, and more importantly, what I have to write.

Til next time.

Jess

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