some early resolve on the new year

Okay, time to start revealing the changes coming up.

1) A major reduction in public appearance. I'm too much the control freak to cede control for my appearance schedule to anyone, too busy to maintain a writing, editing, recording and publicity machine all at the same time. And this is just not the market, where I am located right now...so, until I get out of Dodge, I'm cutting back on my public reading schedule.

2) I've said I was going to do it before, but this time it is for real, no getting talked out of it. LOVE GODS OF A FORGOTTEN RELIGION and FROM AND UNEXPECTED QUARTER are being taken out of print. There's too many little things about the both of them that bug me and I don't want either book being an introduction to my catalog. The best works in them will perhaps be recycled into later volumes, but for now, effective January 1, 2007, I am asking iUniverse to cease production and distribution on these two lovely volumes.

3) I am re-evaluating next year's publication schedule...I have a lot on it and I want to make sure it is not only a busy year, but a quality year. I am considering a couple of poetry books, including one in devotional form, a textbook on poetry and, last but not least, a novel I have previously written and am now rewriting as I no longer wish it to be farmed out under another author's name. That's right kids, I am not ghosting anymore. Those of you close to me know I have done this a few times in the past, to help others out, to write material that might confuse people when coming from my pen, even to serve as a parting gift to an ex-lover. No more. It is intellectually dishonest and just plain wrong. People should not take credit for the work of others.

So, there's the start. A few new leaves, a few windblown pinecones and life goes on. See you in Texas in June, California...well, that's later...or sooner. Secrets aren't lies.