That's me in a big way this year. You see, I've signed up for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge . Along with 2,000+ other bloggers - yes, more than 2,000! - I'll be blogging daily starting with the letter A prompt and ending with Z at the end of the month. Why do something like this? Well, the best way to boost your blog traffic and get notice from search engines is to post meaningful content on your blog regularly over an extended period of time. This is proven. The blog I'm working with was created to support a book title, the first in a trilogy, and deals with environmental themes, as well as murder and romance. So my goal going through the alphabet will include topics I might be writing about in the series. I'll also be reporting my daily word counts and hope interaction with other A to Z bloggers will inspire me, and maybe even garner a few new friends. Are any of you reading this post planning to join the A to Z venture? What is your blogging focus...

After almost five glorious years of daily posting, we are closing the Blood-Red Pencil blog.     Now that I've gotten that out of my system, let's get down to business! I don't know what you have planned for April, but it's a busy month for me. I've wrapped up some winter projects and am ready to set my sights on new things (isn't that what spring is all about?), so I'm participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge to goose my News From Nowhere blog . It's the platform I intend to use to promote a mystery novel trilogy I'm imagineering, with publication planned for two years in the future. To that end, I'll also be participating in Camp NaNoWriMo in an attempt to crank out 50,000 words over the next 30 days. I know many people don't think this is a good way to write anything of worth, but it gives me something tangible to work with, which in my book is worth a lot more than nothing. Otherwise I'd moodle forever and never get one...