It has been a year (almost) since I left full-time employment to become a full-time author and part time (from home) ad designer. You may be wondering how it's gone.

Let me be blunt. I LOVE IT!

My life long goal has been to work from home, and make some sort of living with the creative works that I've been producing most of my life. It's starting to happen now. Aside from doing ad work for the Good Life Magazine, I've put out two novels this year and one Wandering Ones compilation. (Wandering Ones: The Road Home). Three books is not a bad output for a year, and the novels, while not selling like hotcakes, ARE selling. Mac Crow 2 is in the works, and I hope to have it ready by mid-February 2016. Both of my novels at this point have mostly 5-star reviews. Pretty dang awesome!

There are other wonderful things though. One is that my health has improved. I still have to watch my blood sugar carefully, but I've been able to get out and exercise more and I don't spend my entire day sitting at a desk. I've started meditating regularly, (OK, semi-regularly) and I feel I'm starting to see some of the mental benefits. Last year I bought David Michie's Why Mindfulness Is Better Than Chocolate as a CD and I just leave it in my elderly Honda running on loop. It calms me and it keeps me going to the cushion (or in my case, often to the bed of pine needles). I also get to spend time with Suzie, though we are often at our various creative ventures at opposite ends of the house. 

I suppose I shouldn't brag about talking to her on the cell phone when she's fifty feet away... :o

2016 is right around the corner, and I hope to get at least two novels out. Keenspot has also given me the okay to reprint the two Wandering Ones compilations that they published in the early years of the comic. I also have a non-fiction book on survival knives I hope to publish this year. I'm stoked!