Bestselling Author J Marcus Ross
This Blog thing has really evolved for me over the last few months. I haven't really taken it as seriously as Simon says I should. There are all kinds of people getting fame, recognition and book deals from the attention received from their blogs. However, I haven't been able to bring myself to commit to writing here everyday. Especially about any one particular topic.
Instead I spend most of my writing time on articles for magazines and my current manuscript. Then something happened two days ago that changed the way I will look at blogging forever.
Someone wrote me on my website saying they had seen my blog and wanted to learn more about me. After learning I'd written a book this person went out and ordered it from their local bookstore. Today, the same bookstore called because they were interested in perhaps doing a book signing. It seems this blog reader had read loved the book so much he went in and raved about it to the owner.
Amazing.
Now, I'm not new to the power of the Internet. The main reason
Darkness Within was ever published was because of the strong reader response to its release on the Internet. But blogging had nothing to do with it and I never considered myself a blogger. There have been so many different new ways for people to connect on the Internet I've become a little jaded about some of these fads. And I have to admit, blogging seemed like exactly one of those flash in the pan fads that would soon die out. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was wrong.
For those of you saying: Great, now you’re convinced just because one guy read your book, all I can say is --yeah. It's worth it to me if just one person discovers something I've written. I've never been in this for the big bucks but I do love hearing what readers have to say. If I was into just being the next bestselling author and make a million then I would've made a lot of different decisions in my life. I'd write the boring cliché books that seem to get gobbled up by every bookstore. Instead I'm doing it my way.
So, there now I'm a convert blogger. I'm hoping that I won't just rant and rave and waste people’s time. That's why I've recently added a couple of different blogs so I can include some of my short technology reviews or travel articles. This way I can have a bit more rambling here on my main blog. It'll be an evolution I'm sure I'm hoping you'll all be patient with me. If your not, then move along and go read more about
Julia Roberts pregnancy or what the
Friends cast members are doing now.
