Well, I whined a couple of weeks ago about not having sold any novels in a while, and since that time I’ve sold two. I’m not sure whether it was the whining or whether it was my post on the health care Bible study a day later, which was linked to and resulted in a spike in visitors. Or maybe it’s just coincidence.

I went to an economic outlook conference today in Murfreesboro. Most of the speakers talked about the economy, but at one point they gave out an award to an elderly businessman and he gave an entertaining but much-longer-than-scheduled acceptance speech. It turns out that at one point, H. Jackson Brown was doing the advertising for the award winner’s car dealership in East Tennessee. That led to the award winner telling the story of how Brown ended up, almost by accident, self-publishing, and then selling, “Life’s Little Instruction Book.” It made me feel a little inadequate, and a little guilty, at my offering and at how little I’ve done to promote it.