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Monday Afternoon Ramblings

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This post is specifically for my friends and readers who enjoy my series.  I need your help.  With the reissues of books one and two, there’s been some good buzz and a decent number of initial sales, but I need to expand my audience base tremendously this year.  That’s the only way I’m ever going to reach the point of writing full-time, and at this point in my life, I have to retire from education within the next year or two and focus exclusively on writing.  This where I need your help.

Seventh Star Press has given me an excellent platform, with outstanding covers and a lot of exposure through various blogs/reviewers, but even with that, I still feel like an unknown commodity.  If you are a fan of the series, I’m appealing to you for two specific things: 1) The books need more reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads.  If you can, please write reviews and post them to these sites.  The more reviews each book receives, the more other readers will see that this series has some depth and quality to it.  Just like anything, the more people who have already tried something, the more others will be willing to try it themselves. 2) Please, help me spread the word by reposting links on your social networking pages like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Four Square, and anything else you might use.  One of the secrets to the algorithms used by Facebook and Google for deciding what to show people is the volume of shares and traffic a page gets, so the more activity, the more likely they will show my stuff.  If you could share my author’s page or the main page for the series to your wall, it could go a long way to sparking more volume.

I understand that you are busy and probably have a million things on your to-do list, but if you could help me with these two things, it would go a long way to boosting interest in the series and allowing me to focus more on writing.  Some of you have been with me from the beginning and have already helped tremendously; some of you have only discovered the series in the last year or two.  Either way, I’m asking you personally to please help me spread the word.  As always, thank you for your support.

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Please, take a moment to look at the pages I’ve created for each book.  The link below takes you to the main page for the series, where you can jump to each individual book.  From there, each one has links to the most popular outlets for purchasing each one, including Kindle and Nook.  Please, let me know what you think and help me spread the word about the re-launch of the series.

http://daadams.com/the-brotherhood-of-dwarves-series/

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Thursday Morning Ramblings

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I’m beat up, half broken-down, tired, and most days feel used up.  Between working in education and living on this roller coaster I call a life, I’m worn to a nub.  Most days, I’m pulled in every direction by student demands, academic duties, promotional efforts, family obligations, and my personal life, and there is very little left in my tank.  Something has to give soon, or I will not make it.  I’m saying these things, not to get pity or encouraging comments or anything else from anyone, but because I need to express just how depleted I am.  Life has beaten me down mercilessly, and I need a break from the beatings.

Here are my biggest issues that I need to work on as an individual to become a healthier, happier person.  First and foremost, I have an unhealthy relationship with food.  If I get angry, I eat.  If I get sad, I eat.  If I experience anything joyful or unpleasant, I eat.  Food is my drug, more than anything else, and for more than a year, I’ve been working on this issue and trying to overcome it.  Some days I succeed; some I fail.  I like to think I’m improving because I’ve lost a lot of weight, going from about a 44 inch waist to now below a 38, but I recognize that this is a battle I’ll have to fight for the rest of my life.

My second biggest issue is my temper.  I can make plenty of excuses for why I have such a short fuse, and many of those excuses are legitimate, justifiable reasons for carrying what I carry.  Nonetheless, I have to learn to let go of my frustrations and anger and become a more calm, laid-back, peaceful person.  I have to do this for myself, for my children, for my family, for the woman I love, and for my future.  If I don’t learn to let go of my anger, I will die too young.  That’s simply a fact.  As a man, I’m willing to admit that I need help overcoming this issue; I need to learn better coping mechanisms and healthier outlets for my frustrations.

In the past, I’ve been criticized from multiple sources for being too open, too public, too personal on this blog, and maybe there’s some truth to that.  Maybe I should keep my life more private.  Then again, this is who I am.  I started this blog as my outlet for expressing my thoughts and feelings on whatever subject happens to appeal to me on that day, and I intend to keep it that way.  I don’t care about creating a facade that tells the world I’m perfect and my life has no flaws.  That’s not authentic, not genuine, and not honest.  My life, just like every single other human being I’ve ever encountered, is flawed.  I’m flawed and am not ashamed of or scared of making those flaws known.  The only way I can grow as a person is to face those flaws head on and try as best as I can to learn and grow from my mistakes.  I happen to do that best by writing about them, by sharing them with my friends, and by listening to what others have to say.  If my openness and transparency is offensive to some or comes across as unprofessional to others, then please accept my apologies, but you don’t have to read this blog or share my life.  Take  me as I am, or don’t.  The choice is yours.  Right now, at this point of my life, my only concern is to heal my wounds and become a better man.