The Fall of the House of Asher

On August 21st, 2009, I built my very first website:"The House of Asher."It was created for one sole purpose: to house all of my work, whether it be fiction, non-fiction, or films. Each of these mediums was given its own room. "The Library" was where you could find short stories. Walk down the hall to "The Study" and you'd be greeted with reviews and interviews. There was a "Screening Room," a "Hall Gallery," and a "Workshop," where you could sneak a peek at my next projects. And as one might expect of a horror writer's home, the house was not without its own ghost.This ghost was my blog.Like a phantom haunting an old Victorian mansion, my blog only showed its face for the briefest moments. If you weren't paying close attention, you were bound to miss it. Its presence became so scarce that a visitor would've needed a PKE reader just to catch a glimpse.Of course, this was entirely my fault. Like so many bloggers before me, I originally intended to maintain a regular schedule of posts.  "At least once a month" was my modest goal, and I was confident I would exceed it. But once a month soon became once every two months, followed by a two or three month hiatus, until one day I realized it had been almost half a year since my ghost had offered so much as a "boo!"The House of Asher had become the abandoned mansion on the hill, a place where thrill seeking children might dare each other to spend the night. In fact, in just over five years of existence, I posted only forty-four times. That's less than nine posts in an entire year.As author Chuck Palahniuk once said, "To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost."So it's time I started contributing. I hope you'll join me as I vow to get this new blog up and running and haunting your computer screens on a regular basis. The House of Asher hasn't fallen. It has simply been renovated.Come on in and make yourself at home.
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Published on February 15, 2015 14:05
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