I have not been a very good patron of Goodreads. Sometimes, when I finish a book I add it to my list and post a review, but I feel I have missed out on the community here.

Recently, a writer I met on Twitter, Shannon Mayer, announced that she was quitting her regular job to write full time. I have read two of her books and enjoyed them, but have followed the progress of her other books series with interest. It is great to see someone's career take off.

This is not a promotion for her book, I am merely writing about living vicariously. Many people I meet on Twitter, Goodreads, and all the other social media sites are writers. I wish everyone the best.

This May I am going to the OWFI writer's conference again. Last year was the first conference I attended and I was on cloud nine. A few of my off line friends are writers, but none of them are as fanatic about it as I am. OWFI was better than Disney Land for me. Everything was exciting. Just being there made me feel I was living the dream.

I have friends at work that discuss books with great enthusiasm, and that's great too, though most of my friends and acquaintances want to talk about sports and hunting. I don't have time for either, so I usually feel like the odd man out.

I am reading Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni and Browne for the second time, because I am in the midst of editing a book I just got back from a professional editor. First time for me. Wish me luck.

I hope to see more of everyone on Goodreads. I could promote my book, but I would rather get the feeling I had at the writer's conference.