I have been harassed and inveigled by would-be publishers who were no more than exploitation artists my whole career as a writer. Being an distrusting soul, with the exception of one long battle with a supposedly reputable agency, I’ve been able to stay out of their clutches. But the proliferation of web blogs that are there to sell to people only proves the adage that there is more money to be made in exploiting writers than in publishing them.

Sorry if it turns out that my previous attempt to comment appears, and I am repeating myself.

It never fails to irritate and disgust.

I guess comments give positive affirmation that you’re doing something right in terms of engaging people. Not getting many comments though is not to infer that your site isn’t good or value-adding or whatever. Maybe you’re simply not high enough in the search engines for people to stumble across your content. Either way, keep plugging away, becuase I see some good and unique content here.

Prior to this post and your response you seemed like a pretty cool person, someone it might be fun to have coffee with some day. Guess not.

You’ve definitely just lost a subscriber, and my respect – which likely won’t mean much to you, but I’m disappointed by this loss.

Yes, Nico, I would rather have been born in Pennsylvania rather than this two-bit dystopia, but alas I was not. So I sought to better myself, just as I would have if I’d been born in say, Kentucky, where people talk like they’re gargling testicles.

Wendy