Greetings and welcome to my blog, which will contain thoughts and opinions on the writing business, travel, and whatever else pops into my head at 2 a.m.

A fellow writer and I were debating about how much effort regarding self promotion. It seems like a necessary evil.

I recently read Jon Krakauer’ s great book Into the Wild, and it was as good as I thought it would be. There was one thing that puzzled me, however.