I apologize for my nine-month absence from my blog. I have been writing almost nonstop for this entire past year, and have made little time for blog posts or anything that detracted from my writing endeavors.

As a blogger I spent the majority of time focusing on other authors and sharing their work. While I truly enjoy doing this, I received so few reciprocal offers it became a distraction rather than a boon. In fact, some of the authors that I actually interviewed and spent time working with proved to be quite unfriendly and ungrateful. Perhaps their fame limited their ability to be kind to the little guy, like me. I don’t begrudge them that, and I hold them in no ill will, but I had to choose what was right for me.

So, moving forward on this blog, I will feature only authors who reciprocate. Not to be selfish, but I have two small businesses: writing and editing, and am a webmaster for multiple sites. I simply do not have the time to give freebies any longer, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. I wish my fellow authors all the luck in the world and I promote them whenever I can. But my blog has to be at least equally about me.

I will expand the blog to include editing tips, writing tutorials, promotion and options, and anything else I think could help me and my fellow authors. When I choose to promote a fellow author’s works on my blog, there will be a reciprocal agreement in place first. This means you will find my works on their blog as well! (About time, too). This is essential for both the best use of my time and, to a lesser degree, my sanity.

I hope you will enjoy the new blog. I believe I’ve always had a great deal to offer both readers and writers, and I love to learn for my fellow authors and readers as well. If they have something excellent to say, I will share it.

For the love of writing and reading, I remain humbly (or perhaps less so now), Dave Cleinman.

My two eBooks on Amazon. (there are more, but they will are remaining unreleased (publicly for now,at least):

Principle Destiny follows the intense efforts of Alyssa, banished Princess and yet royal heir, as she strives to regain both her position and her rights as heir to her father’s crown. The only remaining path for her to accomplish this is to race her brother across three kingdoms for almost a thousand miles. She is harried, pursued, attacked, and endlessly threatened by unseen lurkers. She is a fighter, determined, and deeply loved by her people, but can she prevail alone and hunted in the vast wilderness of the race terrain?

Toys In The Attic is the survival story of Sarah Stewart, abused and horribly victimized by her unstable father, and forced to cope with horrors that are as dark and distressing as they come. She prevails, and does survive she believes, until she enters into a relationship that threatens to bring back the very horrors of the past she thought she had left behind. Sarah is a fighter, and a perfectionist, but her shattered life as a teenager rears its ugly head at times, and she finds herself at war with both her instincts, and her choices. Can she truly survive a return to her haunted past?