I’m incredibly heartened by all of the support and positive feedback from friends, family and the AW community.  A lot of the credit for the site goes to graphic designer Larry Black who came up with the background and put up with my indecisive, yet exacting  direction.  Now comes what I call OPERATION:  OPTIMIZE.   I need to get lots of traffic here.  I’m slowly figuring out how to do things behind the scenes.  You’ll notice links added, for instance.   A word about those…

Absolute Write is the best writers community on-line.  Why?  Because it’s this huge, free, grassroots space, simple to navigate and full of writers of every stripe.  I recently started an LGBT Writers Groupthere.

Ganymede, of course, is the awesome journal that actually agreed to publish my work.

Gregory Maguire is my literary hero.  Eric Marcus is a terrific gay historian.

Lambda Literary Foundation is a not-for-profit that supports and recognizes LGBT writers.

Only five so far, but many more to come.  I’m being very picky.

But back to OPERATION:  OPTIMIZE…I’m building up my presence by networking at sites like gaywriters.ning.com, gayauthors.com, and gaywebsource.com.  I put in a listing request at DMOZ.org, and I’ve Facebooked my url like mad.  Drop me a comment if you have other ideas for promoting my site.