Hi, have we ever met?
My friends call me Els or Mark; I’m a writer. Since we don’t know each other, yet, I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d call me . . . Els or Mark. After all, I once heard, a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met, yet.
I’ve had a few different titles through the years. Most notably, I’m a former school teacher, basketball coach, baseball coach, college professor, professional tutor, and sports writer. Oh yeah—I almost forgot—my first two summer jobs were just as glamorous. I was a bagger/stock boy at a market as a 16-year old the summer before I was a tuxedo salesman at a rental shop; great, demanding times. (That’s sarcasm, Sheldon!)
Fast forward three or four years (ok, I can’t lie, it’s a few more than that) from the Cleanup-in-Aisle-Five days, and I’m now a full-time writer. . . . a novelist . . . an author! Well, that’s what my one friend called what I do. He said because I attempt to put the contents of a dictionary into a semi-logical, un-alphabetic, dramatic order, I’m an author.
I’ll take that!
As an independent author, I just released my second novel, Book #2 of the Vows Trilogy, Vows of Vengeance: a Father’s Revenge. Before going the indie route, I had my first book, Padman: a Dad’s Guide to Buying … Those and other tails, released by Modern History Press. Between Padman and Vows, I published a couple of novellas and a couple more short stories, which are all available online. Finally, even my ulterior ego has published two novellas.
But, that’s enough about my background. My writing career seems to be gaining more and more momentum. In fact, it’s time for a(nother) huge step; time to shake things up with a takeover.
Starting tomorrow, January 4th, you are all invited to attend Els’ first-ever takeover. (Man, that sounds intimidating, doesn’t it?) From 9:30 am est until 4:30 pm est, I’ll be the supreme dictator—HEY! If you read that, I did say –tator after the first syllable!
Anyhow, I’ll be the guest DJ (disc…ussion jockey). For seven hours, I’ll be guiding a fun-filled, educational, laugh-out-loud discussion about reading, writing, my books, other books, your favorite authors, and other topics.
PLEASE share . . . there will be several free giv-a-ways during the session.
I don’t know if you could tell, but that was read by the voice that played The Wall in Amityville Horror—remember: “GET OUT, GET OUT!”
Each hour, there will be prizes won, mostly books, totalling 10-20 for the day. They’ll range from comedy, suspense, romance, drama, erotica, to horror.
The hostesses with the mostesses at Hooked on Books are allowing me to Frank Sinatra the day. All I’m asking you, authors and readers, is to keep it clean, well, relatively clean. I want you to come, chat, contribute, bring it hard, and let’s rock the page like H o B hasn’t seen.
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