Checking my email this morning, I had four messages in the Spam folder advertising child porn.

Most spam I just delete without concern. But in this case I wasn’t going to just dump the junk. Gmail doesn’t have a one-click reporting feature, so I did an online search and found that the Cyber Tipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children http://www.cybertipline.com/ has an online reporting form. (It includes options for reporting incidents in or from the UK, Australia, and Canada as well.)

I’m pretty liberal about live and let live, but the exploitation of children is something that no one should be okay with.

It’s almost November! You know what that means …

Nah, not the elections. More important than that, it’s National Novel Writing Month.

NaNoWriMo calls to us all to connect with the writer within and write 50,000 words.

Had an idea lurking forever that cries out to be shared with the world? Now’s your chance to get it out and let it shine. Can’t string a sentence together? No problem! The goal is just to write – good, bad or indifferent – and celebrate the wonders of the written word.

And there’s no need to go it alone. Sign up for free (free is great!) at the official National Novel Writing Month website, www.nanowrimo.org^. Connect with other writers – professional, amateur, and hopeful – in your area and around the world.

See you there!

Help yourself to a copy of the NanoRhino image!

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Well. It’s been an interesting month to say the least. :)

I’ve hit 150 posts and 3,000 visitors. Not bad.

I’ve got my dot-com going with products from Zazzle and Cafe Press, as well as helping to promote the collection “An Essential Jinx” by C.A. Broz.

Who knows what this week will bring …

Mood:

Productive

The short-story collection introducing the Quasiverse, following Jinx.
From the internationally recognized rising star of occult fiction, C.A. Broz.

Trying to do cover art for a book and I have no inspiration whatsoever! It doesn’t have to be fancy, the author says plain text on solid background is fine, but I want to do something at least a little more evocative than that.

Mood:

Frustrated