You may have ended up here in response to my latest email announcement, all nice and formatted with images and new info. I’ve been wanting to make this improvement for some time and I’m happy with the results. Above all, it contains an “opt-out” option at the bottom which is just polite, but I never had the means to do it in a standard, email-friendly format.
It means a lot to have the support I’ve gotten from many friends and even strangers in this journey. The book is out in the wild, I’ve gotten my first press coverage in our hometown Claremore Progress, and I’ve lined up my first book signing.
The book signing, at a super-nice independent bookstore, The Same Page, 514 W. Will Rogers Blvd., also here in Claremore, will be on May 3 and I will be writing more about this in the coming weeks. The store owner, Katie Varner, had the brilliant idea of asking if, instead of (or in addition to) doing readings from the book, I would like to do a linoleum-printing demonstration in her store. I think this is a brilliant idea and told her so! In fact when I approach other bookstores I plan on making the same suggestion to them, as it would be a great novelty for a bookstore to host an event like that.
You’re probably wondering about the title of this post though. This is about another big surprise I’m still puzzling through.
I do get regular views on a couple of my posts here, for instance I get regular above-average traffic for my post on the great 19th century illustrator Gustave Doré, not a lot but generally six to ten views a week for that one post. I don’t know if this has to do with the tags I have on that post, but they’re not out of the ordinary.
This week I got a surprise though: on Tuesday March 4, out of the blue, my post on Police Inspector Bucket, a truly original character and one of the first police detectives in fiction, got 238 views from 211 unique visitors!
Look at that bar! I don’t know what the cause was, though it appeared to be all from Google searches, but on what topic I don’t know. Now I just need to get that kind of viewing on ALL my posts!
Thanks once again for stopping by and reading all the way down here. There will be more to come, more press, more readings and more excitement moving forward. You can always leave a comment below, or drop me a line at dickens@mooneyart.com
