Thanks to everyone who made March 2010 my best-selling month ever! I sold 56 books on Amazon’s Kindle platform, easily out-pacing my previous best month by 24 books.

As usual, the leader was “First Time: The Legend of Garison Fitch – Book 1″ with 14 copies, but “Saving Time: The Legend of Garison Fitch – Book 2″ was close with 12. And people are starting to read “All the Time in Our World”, my latest novel and the story of how Garison Fitch’s grandson, Edward Garrett, is propelled far into the future to fight the battle to begin the ending of the world.

Between March 1 and 30, 2010, I have sold 53 copies of my novels via Amazon's Kindle platform. This makes March my best selling month ever! Thanks to whoever it buying them.

I also got my first fan letter from a total stranger! A man named Scott who is employed in Saudi Arabia (!!) emailed me and thanked me for the books. I was really excited (and still am).

If you would like a personalized, autographed copy of any of the three Garison Fitch books, email me at garisonfitch@gmail.com. Order all three novels at once and I'll cut you a special deal!

Sonrise Service 2010

I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of time travel. There are the stories in science fiction where the person travels to the past and does something that re-writes the present. Movies like “Star Trek” and “The Final Countdown” and TV shows like “Star Trek” and “Quantum Leap” have explored the idea of traveling through time and changing something in the past.

3.28.10 – In Genesis 23 we come to the death of Sarah, at the age of 127. If you have any doubt about Sarah’s importance in Biblical history, take note of the fact that she’s the only woman in the Bible about whom we get such information. The other women in the Bible just die or disappear from the narrative.

With apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien for borrowing his phrasing for my title, I sit here and write this article having just learned that 219 elected men and women have voted to end quality health care in America and drive up taxes for all of us.

If I may be serious for a moment, a question I ask myself more than you, I want to address something that’s been preying on my mind. To wit: bipartisanship in politics.

“Most writers don’t make a living at writing.” I’ve heard that many times. It’s meant to be discouraging and, yes, it is. As a young writer, one sees the writers who are obviously making a living at it and it’s natural to think to oneself, “I want to do that.”

The reality is that the old cliche is true and most of us who aspire to be writers won’t be living in Breckenridge anytime soon. Colorado, anyway. I might could live in Breckenridge, TX … no, I’m not making enough money off writing to live there, either.

According to my calendar, this past Monday we celebrated “Presidents’ Day”. I’m pretty sure the calendar was right because I didn’t get any mail that day and the bank was closed. Still, “Presidents’” day?

As the author of several phenomenally unsuccessful novels which sell almost 20 copies a month on Amazon, I feel qualified to write on the following subject if for no other reason than that I have a computer with an operating keyboard (unless you count the F5 key, but what’s that for, anyway?):

I still don't know who's reading about Garison Fitch. I can check my account at Amazon and see that—this month—I have sold several copies of my books about Garison (and even a couple copies of the books about his grandson ["All the Time in Our World"]) but other than the one friend on Facebook who told me she bought a copy, I have no idea who these people are.

Yes, I realize that's SOP for most authors. John Grisham probably gets a lot of fan mail, but I doubt that he gets a letter from every one of the millions of readers each of his books have.