Hi All,

I am re-instituting my mid-monthly blog post. This is different from my end-of-the-month post on fairy tales.

A little history. My original concept of the fairy tale blog was to post three times a month, parts one, two, and three. If you know anything about fairy tales, the number three is rather sacred. From the very first month back in December 2010, I procrastinated until the last day of the month, putting out all three parts at once and have done so ever since. (sigh)

Now I have decided to challenge myself and put out a mid-monthly blog. I did this before when I was part of StoryOrigin, a site for authors to promote each other. I do not feel it worked out for me, but I will say nothing against the concept. The failing may have been mine.

What I now want to do is document my writer’s journey, in hopes I have something to say that will benefit others.

However, before I go on about my writer’s journey, we are in the month of October. October means Halloween. During the pandemic, I produced a video to sell to libraries for Halloween programing. Now I have put it up on Youtube for free. Happy Halloween. Please enjoy. If you want a higher quality version than Youtube offers, send me fifteen bucks and the MP4 yours.

On to the writer’s journey.

My latest endeavor is with Reedsy’s Discovery. They are “Launching” my book A Vacant Throne on October 21^st. Actually, it has been out for some time. If you can get to Reedsy Discovery on or after October 21^st and “upvote” my title, I will appreciate it. I am struggling with how all this works, but Reedsy is a wonderful source for writers and readers. I use it all the time as a source of information for the newsletter I produce for the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group. I will have more to say about GLVWG in following posts.

Thanks so much for reading my ramblings.

Charles K.