The 131 Preview Review

On January 31, 2013 as my readers know I launched The 131 Preview Review. I read and review Fiction, for free. It was to be my venue to connect with other Indy Authors, a way to help them promote their work and tell people who they are, it was also a way to let readers hopefully find books that should be plucked from obscurity, including mine... Awakenings the Wrath Saga, written with Will Van Stone Jr[and In Dreams.

Here at the 131, Authors like Will,Eri, Solease Barner, Lynette Sofras and Tof Eklund, to name a varied few, have been able to express their views on writing, talk about their lives and I hope, had a wee bit of fun doing it. It has been a way to create strong and lasting connections where we have helped each other find readership and kinship with works and Authors, which I probably would have never found if the Authors hadn't found me through my website, where the sign up sheet is found. I have been very fortunate to find very few reads that I couldn't completely embrace.

But in my time doing the 131 my health took a turn in a bad way. My Bi-Polar went wacky, and other things had to take precedent, so I have embarked on a journey to regain myself. I pulled away from the blogs, Twitter... All social media, because it continued to create the "Squirrel Effect." Every time I was supposed to be writing I would check out something and it actually became just like the meme's. You know the ones about click here... e-mail this... share that... The next thing I know it would be 8 AM Monday and I hadn't slept since Friday Night, not to mention that I hadn't gotten a single word written in all those waking hours.

I will continue to be on Hiatus until mid to late August, when I return there will be changes, and hopefully a real schedule that I can post for the 131, something that I can keep up with that wont run me down. I am still taking query's and do not often say no. I am hoping that it stays something that we can all enjoy, and engage with. I have talked to many Authors/Bloggers and I find that we all suffer from a need to feel noticed, accepted, and encouragement seems to be the thing that all of us crave. If you like something, SAY something. We CRAVE COMMENTS! We Writers are a very delicate bunch, often what we write is raw, unbridled, deeply personal and when we release it to your reading eyes we twist up inside hoping and praying to which ever Gods and Entities we believe in that you will be honest, and kind. Two things that so often do not go hand in hand. We need that small modicum of recognition, we need that comment, even if it is just a simple smiley face at 130 AM.

If you're here, say something, please.

If you've enjoyed it, subscribe, follow, like and share. It is so easy to please us, and at the moment you do, you can succeed in the even easier task... To dissuade us from ending our efforts and hanging up the pen and paper. So often I have heard Writers say that they feel like they haven't accomplished anything... I think it's high time we proved them wrong... Don't you?

Happy Writing!

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