Honesty Makes My Head Hurt

Wow. I am not a newbie, but this article kind of makes my head hurt. JA, its author, is not wrong. There are series I have stuck with because they started well or I was told just get through the first one or two and then it picks up. Of course, I pick up so many books secondhand because I contribute to the creation of so many books - my own and my authors'.

The thing is, a person still has to be discovered, talked about, and passed around the first time. The first book in the series. The first series in the repertoire. If you don't support your local author, they'll think they need to try something else to get your support, and won't write the next book in the series (they always have a sequel in their heads. They know what their characters are doing after THE END. Trust me.) because they think you're not interested. They want to please you. But when you give your support to authors who literally admit that they could turn out shit and outsell the great American novel these days, you're not helping. When you support your friend because they're your friend but you don't read what they write and you have NO IDEA how bad it is, you aren't helping. If you want better, then you need to help be part of that. It's possible, but it's hard work.




Phyl Campbell is Author, Mother, Dreamer, and Dr. Pepper Addict. And you can bet she's procrastinating on writing what she's actually supposed to be writing -- RIGHT NOW.

NANO is coming and go see my blog... WHAT?

I have been SO very busy living life.

I did not write about my eleven state book tour (only 3 states actually had launch parties, but STILL!  They weren't right all together).

Multiple new books have been published. I can't even keep up with all of them anymore.

And I've been updating. I have a Square store and a bunch of new stuff for book shows and expos. I have learned a lot.

I've also been crafting.

And I have been railing a lot against dumb decisions made by people I really can't control.

But I can vote. And I plan to on Tuesday.

I hope you vote, too!!

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So I haven't written much lately -- guess what? Neither has Hemingway.

I have so many things I want to tell you. Unfortunately, they are more in limbo than out.

I pretended I had a comfort zone and stepped outside of it last year. Actually, the last 2-5 years. So 2018 has me returning to a hidey-hole of sorts, allowing certain entrepreneurial fields to go fallow while working on some more creative endeavors of a personal nature.

I am also open to seeing what comes, especially of some opportunities I have had to support the artistic and entrepreneurial endeavors of others in this harrowing political time.

I do believe there is a moral crisis going on -- and I believe that there is a huge cavern between what I perceive as morals and what my opposition views as morals. I have morals which can easily be understood by a five year old and don't make my teenager look at me like I have two heads. Collectively, my spouse, son, and I have started looking at our opposition that way -- one head they talk from while the other is shoved firmly up their ass.

Make no mistake. I support immigrants, not walls. Marijuana, not big Pharma. People, not corporations. Soldiers, not guns/weapons/special interest groups with government contracts.

I've been more vocal on social media than personally, though I think anyone reading my blog would be well aware of my political leanings. Except it really isn't political anymore. Not in my mind.

I'm updating my website again today. Some things are frustrating me. One was that the blog wasn't loading. So while I was figuring that out, I wrote this. Sure hope you enjoyed it. And I have some old stuff making a comeback here from Wikinut. So you have that to look forward to. Or not.