Welcome to my website! Glad you found me here.  I am a writer living in Maine and slowly pulling the threads of a writing life together.  

My blog (The Empty Next, at left) is offline until I can reduce the spamdex it generates.  Spamdex blankets websites with fake messages that you repost as comments. The more entries posted from these phony home pages, the higher those websites appear on search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. 

This is a good, common sense article.  Very helpful to one who is just finding the resouces (sic) about this part.  It will certainly educate me.

The author shot himself knee from a Romanian sex site.  

Looking for summer reading?   Here are my favorites--
    Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondantje
    Freedom by Michael Franzen
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 
    The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
    The City of Thieves by David Benioff
    Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
    Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
    The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrecht