You're starting to make me feel like a bad host!

All the OTHER authors have long lists of readers who sign their guestbooks and add their names tTHEIR email lists.

I'm trying to compile a list of people who want to get notifications about new books, contest rules and possible freebites (I've got a cool trinket in mind for the next novel) when the next book -- a tense tale of the trip of a lifetime turned into a flight for life -- is about about to debut.

Won't you please sign up? I know you visit (I see your footprints in the sand and the snow!) but you leave no trace.

I promise never to send you spam. I promise not to nag you if you don't buy my novel. I just want to know you're out there, reading, and I can't really if you don't sign the guest book.

A flight attendant on a business flight I once took to California warned us all to be careful about letting bottles and other unsecured items roll down the aisle. "These are new stockings," she said to us. "You really need to think of MY needs."

The whole plane cracked up.

I don't want you to think of MY needs, but please do sign the e-list and the guestbook. Tell me what you like and don't like about the site, and what you want added. Is it easy enough to buy books? Is the content entertaining and informative? I worked hard on this school project, and I want to get a good grade.

And you're my only teachers.

Jackie