Happy birthday, dear blog! Yes, amazingly, this blog is now three years old.  And it is amazing, I must admit.  It’s hard for me to tell whether it’s “grown up” that much over the years or whether it’s changed at all.  So I did go back and take a peek at what posts were like way back when and how they’ve changed.  First off, I have to admit that my posts are much longer now.  The first ones were barely a paragraph or two long. Now I do tend to go on.  I’d like to think that’s just me being more self-assured, but maybe it’s me being more long-winded.  Hmmm.

I also remembered that there were two other new features this year — the redesign (new colour, new layout), and the addition of my “Great Conversations.” These have been some of the most fun posts for me.  I do love getting other writers of all sorts into my living room for a good old-fashioned  chin wag.  Writers are fascinating creatures, after all 🙂  And I love to look over to the side and see the list growing.  If you yourselves would like to show up on that list or know of a writer you would like to see there, do let me know.

But I suppose the most important sign that the blog is growing bit by bit is that more and more people are following it.  It’s a slow, but steady process. I seem to pick up one new reader here, another there. It reminds me of the way I sell my books, to be honest.  One reader at a time.  But it does also make me very happy to know that most of my original readers are still here with me, slogging along with me through the ups and downs of this Writing Life.  Many of you have become friends in “real life”, too, which is more than I had ever hoped for.

So all in all, there’s plenty to celebrate this year, and I thought I’d now link to some of the most popular postings of the last twelve months, in case you missed any:
   On Giving Away eBooks and Celebrity Memoirs here 
   Rules for Writing by Famous Authors here
   Getting Permission to Quote here
   Putting on a Play here
   Which Poetry ‘Should’ Be Published and Which ‘Shouldn’t’ here
   Marketing here
   What is a Prose Poem? here

Thank you all for sharing my year with me.  And as I always say, and probably too often,  ‘Ever Onward!!’