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This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Having said that, or allowing Word Press to say it for me, because those words were already here, the focus of this blog is…indeterminate. Because I haven’t decided. I’ve batted about several ideas, including focusing exclusively on the books I’ve self-published, but that is limiting, and in a sense self-defeating, because you can’t go on about the same subject indefinitely. Well, obviously some people can, but it gets tedious. The books I’ve read, the books I want to read, the books I love or hate; nothing wrong with that idea. Politics; this is the kind of slippery slope that just begs to be avoided, but here in the U.S. we’re headed into a major election year, so can it be avoided, especially if you have strong feelings on the subject? We’ll see. My job, the place I work that actually brings money in and pays the bills because the books, though occasionally purchased, definitely do not; oh my God no. If I wanted to talk about that place it would be on a site dedicated to that place. I don’t hate my job but I also don’t love it. I do it well. I want to go in every day and then leave it behind when I clock out. So…no.

In the end I think the blog will choose it’s focus and until then I’ll write whatever I happen to be thinking about or pondering at the time I sit down at my desk, in front of the computer, and begin…typing. It will probably be mostly about books, my own and those I’ve read or am currently reading.

This actually isn’t my first blog and, technically, I still have an ongoing one connected to GoodReads, but this is an attempt to dive back into creating a blog, a web-site, something with a little more character to it, and, unfortunately, the success or failure will not depend solely on the content or any skill I may or may not possess with words. Success or failure will also depend on just how “user-friendly” WordPress truly is, because my computer skills very often come up against the frustration of not being able to make things emerge the way I want them to. And just as my non-existent do-it-yourself skills force me to admit that that water feature in my backyard is never going to be built by anyone but a professional, so too the time may come when Tempest In A Thought may require skills far beyond my abilities.

But…the books.

To Go To Sleep In The Dark is the title that sells most often, that gets picked from Kindle Unlimited most often. I love that, because I love mysteries. They were my first reading love and remain my favorite, despite the fact that I read a wide range of books, from mysteries to sci fi to fantasy to classics to biographies to histories to contemporary, to kids’ books. To Go To Sleep In The Dark is a straight-forward tale of a murder committed decades earlier and a sister determined to find the truth behind the death of someone she never knew. Cold cases that delve into the past always seem to resonate with a certain melancholy and I think that’s true here, as the main character, Natalie, finds herself searching that past for answers.

I have plans to move my books out of the “Kindle only” category, in hopes of widening their readership, as I hope this blog will also appeal to more people.

Tempest In A Thought’s first post welcomes you.