Karen Brichoux

Due to some changes with my website host's site-building software, newsletters, although sent, are not being received. Until the problem is resolved, I'm discontinuing my newsletters. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.

Signing up for my newsletter entitles you to a quarterly e-mail of news, announcements, a list of books I'm reading, and what sometimes amounts to meaningless drivel on the topic of writing. I'm open to suggestions for newsletter topics and if I run out of topics and no one suggests any, I still have the option of discussing why dogs in sidecars promote peace and harmony.

Although I will announce upcoming books in my newsletters, if you would like to receive a separate snail-mail postcard reminder when a new book is released, just use the e-mail link on your left to send me your mailing address. Please put "mailing list" in the subject line.

Please Read This: When you sign up for the newsletter, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the address you supply. You will not receive newsletters until you follow the instructions in the confirmation e-mail. This may seem like a hassle, but it helps cut down on spam.

Archived newsletters are listed on the right.  Visitors of my old website will notice that many of the newsletters from the archives are gone.  May they rest in peace. While the article series on the agent hunt is a little outdated, a number of readers who are also writers have found the series helpful, so it abides.

What I'm Reading:

• Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
• Last Orders and The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Why things have been so quiet

You might have noticed that my website was looking pretty dead.  That's because I've been part of the beta test group for the new website software being developed by the Authors Guild.  Given that no one has invented a thirty-six hour day (although with Daylight Savings Time, I feel like I'm having a thirty-six hour day.  It's dark when I drag myself out of bed; it's bright and sunny when I should be getting sleepy.  My body is on the sun's clock.), all of the time I previously used to keep up my old website was devoted to playing with and redesigning the new.

I'm happy to say that, with some flaws we're working
on, my redesigned site is now live.  Although it has a few new bells and whistles, the main changes will be for the person who maintains the website (that is, yours truly).

I'll be adding a journal.  It will look suspiciously
like a blog, but I'm not really a blog sort of person (Horrors!  Bring out the stocks and throw rotten tomatoes at her!), so I'm calling it a journal.  And it will probably not even look like a journal.  Basically, it will be whatever I want it to be, except that's the definition of a blog, and it isn't a blog.  Confused?  Good.  So am I.

You might notice that the Guestbook is gone.  I will
continue to post bits of what readers send me on my Bookshelf page.  Speaking of what readers send me, the Contact page is a new item that should make e-mailing me easier.  

The Newsletter function is still a bit iffy.  In fact,
I've received only one of my test newsletters that I've sent to myself.  So, if you are just now reading this and you have been signed up to receive my newsletters and didn't receive this one or are receiving it for a second time, it's something we're working on.