About

Hi all, I’m George. Can you believe I wrote all those books? Boy, were they fun to write, and not always easy! As you can see, I’m an author. I’ve been an author for over 13 years now. Not well known, but it doesn’t matter or bother me, so long as I get to do what I love doing. Writing is it’s own reward.

It now feels like I have entered the midlife of my career. In the beginning I had dreams of making it big: “Hey, maybe someday I will have a best seller!” was what I thought then. I wrote letters to New York agents, in the hopes of fame and fortune. Now, after all these years, and more experience, I can see that this is the level of success I was meant to have. I was not meant to hit it big. I feel that not just the books, but even the blogs, and videos I publish; they are my career. Doing them makes me happy, and makes me think “this is it!” I have realized my dream.

If you ask me being an author and blogger is very much like being self employed. Aside from the writing, which is the creative side, there is a practical side, publishing and marketing. I publish my own books and e-books and offer them for sale on Amazon. Though I confess to being a poor marketer.

The great thing  about writing is that one can work from home. I don’t need to rent a large and expensive downtown office. I can even work at the local coffee shop, at the airport, or at the zoo. OK maybe not at the zoo… I usually write at home. What is most important is that you write when you are in the mood for it, and when you aren’t give yourself a break. 

With the passage of time, I think you have to reinvent yourself. Now I put more importance on blogging than book writing. Moreover, when you aren’t new, your readers “leave,” and look the new big thing. Motivation decreases but at the same time you feel a sense of liberation. I am not “worried” about book sales anymore. I am my own boss, I always have been, and I’m not going to get fired because I’m self employed! That’s the beauty of life as a blogger and independent author.