How did you find me?

It’s always great to log into my Kindle Direct Publishing account and see that someone has bought one of my ebooks.  What sucks is that I usually have no idea how they discovered it.  I do Facebook posts, tweets, and things on other sites about my ebooks, but I’ll be tweeting about ebook X one week and someone will buy ebook Y.  I’m not complaining, it’s just I’d like to know how they found out about it so that maybe I could change tactics and get more traffic.

That’s the point of this blog.  Basically, if you are a reader of one of my ebooks – or my blogs – I’d love if you left a comment telling me how you found me.  It could be as simple as one of your friend retweeted one of my tweets, you were scrolling through ebooks on Amazon and the cover caught your eye, whatever.  Honestly, any information would be beneficial. 

So that this post isn’t lost in a week, I’m going to put a permanent link to this on my website so that it can still be found a year from now.  I hope to hear from people.

My website is ten years old!

Actually, my website may be a little older, but it was on September 19, 2006 that I added a visitor counter.  Since then there have been over 16,000 visits, or almost four-and-a-half visits a day.  Which is a lot more visits than my first website got.  I was in college in the mid 90’s, and one of my professors was big on this new internet thing.  I don’t believe it was actually part of a class, but he showed us how to make webpages with Netscape, I believe.  If we wanted, he would have helped us get it online, but I never took him up on it.  That first webpage of mine – which I just carried around on 3.5 disk – was just a list of movies and TV shows I liked, with images from The Terminator, Babylon 5, and such.  I had links to things, but I’m not sure what they were. 

After college, especially once there were more interesting places on the internet, I made a new webpage which I again just carried around on 3.5 disk since most of my internet use at the time was from visiting the library.  This one was just a list of links I’d use instead of having to remember all the addresses.  Some were to my email, but others were to various websites I liked to visit on a regular basis.  For example, I’m pretty sure one was to Astronomy Picture of the Day.  Of course, I still have a box of 3.5 disks and I’d wager that one of them had my portable website on it.  I’d check, but I no longer have a computer that reads 3.5 disks. 

Anyway, once I started getting serious about my writing, I decided I should probably have a website to act as a central source for info about my writing.  And that’s basically what my current, on the internet website is.  If you check it out, you’ll find links to my books, as well as links to all of my stories that are online, many of which are on my website itself. 

I’m not really sure what else to say, but here’s to the next ten years.