I have struggling with coming up with ideas for posts recently. Not that I don’t have lots of them, it’s just that I don’t see the need to add to the clutter and chaos of everybody else’s lives via my blog. I mean, the few who do read the blog, all have lives to lead, and I have never been a huge fan of using filtered reality to reach people.
In fact, I have been having a great time setting up my table in grocery stores as part of the National Author’s in Grocery Stores Program. I feel much more comfortable talking to folks face to face, one at a time.
I am taking the time and effort to do this partly because it gets me out of the house. But mostly because I am launching the second Trier novel, The Trier Goes to London. In order to promote that book, I’ve been out talking up the first novel in the series, The Trier. The third novel in the series is already written, and I invented my own genre, coffee magic realism, in the process. Hmmm. Maybe that is why I haven’t found the time nor inspiration to post here.
That ended when I saw that WordPress sent a congratulations on reaching 10K views on this old warhorse of a blog. That happened just as I asked my phone how many days there were until National Coffee Day 2026, when The Trier Goes to London comes out. Math to the rescue!
All that happened Saturday morning on my porch over a cup of coffee, where so much of the Trier novels came to life. And so many of the posts for the blog. May as well add this one and start on the next 10K views.
And now that it is Monday, it is 100 days until The Trier Goes to London is published.
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