June 4th, 2008
This will be my last announcement about podcasts on the main page for a while. I've decided to make recordings on a weekly schedule, but I don't want to clutter up the main page with announcements about the podcasts. So I will only update the main page when I'm shifting over to read a new story.
I want to thank those of you who wrote to me to offer your critiques of the first two recordings. I think your advice has helped me improve my pace and inflection, but I also believe I have some room for improvement. Comments are always welcome, and can only help me to make these recordings better.
Finally, I'd like to ask folks with blogs and web pages to post a link to my podcast page if you find yourself liking the story. Every link or digg (or stumble, or de.li...you get the idea) helps to introduce a few more people to the podcast, and I could really use the help of some word of mouth advertising. If I can get enough traffic generated during the first few chapters, I will be reading the whole book. So maybe that will serve as an incentive to get more links out there. I thank you in advance for the help.

May 19th, 2008
A link to my account with Podbean.com is being added here on the news page, and a test recording has been added while I try to figure out whether or not people can tolerate the sound of my voice.
Seriously though, on this first post, I'd like to get as much feed back as possible. Is the recording loud enough for me to be understood? Am I reading too fast or too slow? I'll even take suggestion on things like what length people prefer podcasts to be and what information should be included in the ID tags, both in the file and in my posts. Any form of feedback and ratings is appreciated.

April 11th, 2008
I've made several changes to the site layout, one of which is the addition of this page. I wanted to implement some other changes as well, all of which required a longer explanation than I have room for on the front page. This page will be used for making longer updates related to changes or additions to the site. This will also allow me to keep a longer archive of site news than the front page allows for.
The Articles section has been more aptly renamed to Stories, and I've removed the few articles which I'd posted last year. The journal page has also been removed, but I added links to my InsaneJournal and MySpace page in the navigation menu on the right. Both seemed to fit here in the news section.
In the books section, the multi-page HTML previews have been phased out in favor of the single page designs I implemented back in August. I've also discontinued selling 4"X7" e-books from Lulu. Instead, the e-books will be avaible directly from this site, and they will be in the 6"X9" format. The price is still $1, but the file will now include a copy of the cover graphic, something Lulu wasn't able to do.
Finally, I'm removing "Waiting for a Miracle" from publication due to low sales. It will be taken down from my site first, and over the next few months, I expect it to disappear from other online bookstores as well.
Thanks for stopping by to read all of this, and I hope you like the new site design.