Upcoming Site Changes

This is just a quick post to let you know I'm making progress on another story. Sadly the progress has been slower than I would have liked. Mostly life stuff getting in the way. I'm hoping to get this next story out either by the end of the month or the beginning of February. This time I'll try and give notice before it comes out, instead of like last time and posting, 'oh by the way, here's a story.'

In other news, I'll be making design changes to this site. In fact, I may have already started on them by the time you read this.

If you've been following along with some of my older posts, then you might recall that I've considered making some design changes to this site some time ago. I plan on starting on those this week. So if you happen by and things look a little wonky, that is why.

I've thought of changing platforms, but honestly, I don't really have a real reason to do so. I use Blogger for this site, and I have fun with it and it's easy for me to maintain. I've learned that the fun factor means a lot these days. Tweaking the themes has become a obsession hobby that I really enjoy.

However, this is not to say I won't change platforms in the future. Right now, I'm more focused on writing stories and playing around with this site.
 

Also, I want to try to promote my work more. So I think I've found a way to do that on this site without it being too intrusive. After all that is just one of the many things this site is for.
 

Another thing on the to-do list for the site, is to set up a subscription to receive blog post by email, if that's your thing. This service used to be handled by Feedburner, which ended their email service last year. While I didn't have many subscribers, I still thought I'd find a service and put it up there just in case someone wanted to follow this site in that way.
 

I have no interest in starting an email newsletter at this time. Or if at all. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is, I can't think what I'd put in a newsletter that I wouldn't post here on the blog. The other thing is, anyone can access what I write on this blog, with a newsletter, only subscribers can read it. So it seems rather pointless to me. Although, there are authors who swear by this, and if that works for them, great. But subscribing to my posts by email would be about the same experience.

I'll be working on all of this little by little over the course of the next week or so. I'm sure there are other things that I'll be changing as well, but this is what I'm focused on right now, while also working on the next story.