Shark Bytes and Tales

I haven't done much posting of author events on this blog, which is where I really should be doing it instead of on My Quality Day . M...

So, yesterday I was in Pentwater, and some book friends reminded me that I haven't been in to check out Storybook Village , and as...

I recently read an interesting article in Galleycat that compared the levels of income made by various types of authors. Their information w...

Ludington Art Fair (photo by JHY) Have you ever heard of a broadside? Neither had I, except in the obsolete sense of a newspaper-like ...

  I've decided to post sales numbers for August, because if nothing else, I hope they will be a benchmark I can compare to later and...

  Such a guessing game! Should I post sales numbers so readers will know how few books I sell yet, or should I post them because they ar...

cover design by Farah Evers   Smashwords is running a Summer Sale for the entire month of July. I've enrolled Paddy Plays in Dead...

Amazon ordered two more copies of North Country Cache this week. I'm always happy to see orders come from people I (presumably) don...

I got an order for ten copies of Devotions for Hikers this week, to be delivered tomorrow. Horray! That means I need to print more. I...

Last night I gave my program "The North Country Trail and the Kitchen Sink" for our local chapter of the North Country Trail Assoc...

Last night I gave a brand new program, "The North Country Trail in Michigan" to the Sable Dunes Audubon. This program is the first...

Marquette is a beautiful city. And they have a lot of beautiful miles of North Country Trail. On Tuesday I hiked 8 miles with a trail grou...

The program went really well! Despite torrential rains and lots of lightning and thunder there were 50 people who showed up. The library tha...

I am giving one of my programs this evening, "The North Country Trail and the Kitchen Sink." It informs people about the trail thr...

The week just flew by! Last Saturday I was the primary speaker at the Finger Lakes Trail Conference Spring Weekend in Cazenovia, NY. They lo...

As you may have noticed in the sidebar, I have two ebooks listed at Smashwords. I'm happy with their percent paid to the author, and the...

This evening I gave my program, "The North Country Trail and the Kitchen Sink," at the Annual Fish and Game Dinner of the Dwight ...

Just sold the second e-copy of "Devotions for Hikers." This is a small booklet with ten Christian devotions based on hiking and tr...

I had planned to hike a short distance with two guys today who came up from Ohio and Indiana to do some hiking on the North Country Trail. W...

Wow- I got another Amazon order for North Country Cache before I had mailed the last one. This allows me to send 2 copies in one box, which...