Apparently, I decided I didn’t have enough to do, so I needed a few more websites. I recently re-launched Crescent Moon Haberdashery as a blog to showcase my CafePress store. I’ve been selling products with photography, artwork, and graphic work on CafePress for years and will soon be trying my hand at Zazzle as well. Crescent Moon Haberdashery is also featuring some beautiful jewelry from Aether Designs.

My mother and I have looked for a way to share recipes and finally decided, after searching for and not finding a solution we liked, that we might as well share them with everyone. Thus, I launched Community Cookbook a few weeks ago. It’s still a work in progress, but hopefully I’ll get the bugs ironed out. I went for an actual community setting and it isn’t working quite the way I would like it to. The name might change, but Community Cookbook works for now. We have a couple of recipes up with many more to come in the future.

After I feel like I have Crescent Moon Haberdashery and Community Cookbook well underway and help Jane with The Diary of Jane, I’m going to re-launch Macabre Manor. Macabre Manor has needed a lot of work for a long time and I hate to go the blog route with it, but I don’t think I’ll ever get anything done with it if I don’t turn it into a blog. Hand editing pages is so 1990′s, right? I’m still unsure I can make it do what I want, but I’m going to try. I can never make Macabre Manor what it once was, but I can do something with it… when I figure out exactly what that is, I’ll let you know.

In the meantime, this site will become my master feed as it were and my writing blog. I’ll be cross-posting things here from the other sites for the time being, except for the cooking site that is. I might make a post with recipes that have posted for the week, but I’m not going to post all the recipes both places. If cross-posting everything stops making sense or becomes too much, I’ll stop, but for now almost everything I do will still be on this blog. Why? For people who want everything but don’t want to visit tons of sites to get it.

As for the podcast, I gave up on it a long time ago. I wanted to podcast, but the more I tried the more I figured out that I didn’t really have anything to talk about. Maybe some day.

I remember Joe…

There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t been said by the people you will hear in this podcast.   I never met Joe, but I’ll always remember his wit, his timing, and the outpouring of support when he took ill.  To this day, I’m still amazed by Joe and by everyone that supported him.

Tee and everyone on this podcast, thank you for keeping this going and for keeping the memory of Joe alive.

I hate root beer, but I’m drinking one right now in honor of Joe.

Remember Joe 2009 [ 34:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Intro music by Biology – found at http://music.podshow.com

Endings and beginnings…
Crescent Moon Haberdashery
Tee Morris gives fabulous ad!
New project, Almost True, starts soon.
First voice mail feedback! Thanks, Jack!
Why I don’t consider myself published…
Lunatix-Online.com
Subscribe to 12 Volt Theater!

Outro music Sometimes Life Starts to Fall Into Place by Munk – found at http://music.podshow.com

KM 003 - Starting From Nothing #3 [ 16:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I read a post the other day where someone was talking about updating 30+ blogs. I have problems finding the time to update one blog. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to try to keep up with over 30 of them. Sheesh.

Based on the last random question, I’ve decided to try podcasting a short story in the next couple of weeks. I’m not quite finished with it yet. I’m trying not to be a perfectionist about it or I’ll never be happy with it and I’ll never release it. The first one is going to be the hardest. I think it will be easier after that.

So, I’ll be launching this thing for real in a couple of weeks. No more Starting From Nothing. First will be the short story I’m working on now, then I’m going to launch into a series of short stories I’ve been working on over the years. This is all leading up to the launch of my first novel, which probably won’t happen until 2009. Unfortunately, November and December are entirely too busy for me to attempt the novel before then. I also won’t be participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I wish I could. I enjoyed myself in 2006, but I tried last year and failed miserably due to time restraints. This year is going to be worse.

Things are not all quiet on the podcasting front, but things are in flux as I switch gears. Just a couple of weeks and I’ll be doing this for real. Scary!

Podpress and Podango problems
Two feedback already received – Kryson sucks!
Explanation of an author duel
Dead site Macabre Manor needs some help.
Ad for Crescent Moon Haberdashery to appear soon on MOREVI Remastered!

Intro music by Biology – found at http://music.podshow.com
Outro music by A Step Behind – found at http://music.podshow.com

Starting From Nothing #2 [ 16:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s not fixed. I hosted this one locally until I can fix the podpress vs podango problem.

Here’s the real first episode of Starting From Nothing.

Music from Biology at http://music.podshow.com

Just a brief overview of why I decided to podcast in the first place and what is hopefully in store for the future.

Also mentioned:

Mur Lafferty

Jack Jaffee

Wingin’ It

Starting From Nothing - Episode 01 [ 8:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ok, here’s the problem. I’m using podpress and podango, but the files I upload aren’t showing up at podango. I uploaded a file manually at podango instead of using podpress and podpress isn’t linking correctly to it.

It was working… and now it isn’t. Ugh. I have no idea how to fix it and searching both podango and the web hasn’t netted any help. If anyone stumbles in here that can help, please get in touch with me.

For now, I’m gonna get back to work and try again later. Sorry.

Nothing I’ve tried so far has worked. I’m gonna take a break and try again later. I’m sorry everyone… for the life of me, I cannot figure out what could have possibly happened.

Sorry to those of you that tried to get the podcast this morning. I have no idea what the problem is, but I’m working on it.

Well, uploads aren’t working for some reason.  I’ll try a work around in the morning.  Hopefully, I’ll get it to work somehow.  This is supposed to be a lot easier than this, right?