Good Grief!

Welcome to Gadabout. I expect to use this as another tool for selling my books, which can be purchased at vandermeerbooks.com, but I also expect this will be of interest to readers all on its own. I would like to have followers and I would like to have input, so make comments, they will be more than welcome. 

A gadabout is defined by dictionary.com as 1) a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another, and 2) a person who travels often or to many different places, especially for pleasure. My definition is a person who cannot make up her mind. That would be me, which is why Gadabout will be about "a little of this and a little of that."  

This is my response to a free online course about marketing available through Sandi Krakowski, an online marketing guru. Yes, she is selling herself and she’s selling WordPress, another blogging and web development site, but that does not diminish the value of what she has to offer. Click on Sandi's name to access her FREE 30-day introduction to marketing on the web. I’ve found it to be informative and user-friendly

What am I marketing? Obviously myself as a writer, but along the way I’m expecting to provide you as a follower with worthwhile information. When deciding what to focus on in this blog I realized that gathering information and writing articles is what I do best. That's why the content type may change from day to day, but the themes will be consistent. For example:

• In Explore I’ll take you on journies local and far-flung. (Well, not too far-flung. I’m old and I live on a tight budget.) Nevertheless, the articles will be interesting and entertaining.
• Interested in living a healthier lifestyle? Follow my once-a-week column, Age is Only a Number, on getting in shape and eating healthier. It will be painfully personal but worth keeping up with because you will likely see yourself in my struggle.  
• Keep up with ways to improve your life and your community with my weekly Make a Difference column.
• Want to be inspired? Connecting the Dots will lift you up and make you smile.
• Down Home in Northern New Mexico will include home decor, food, entertaining, area personalities and more. 
• Book Blast will introduce you to characters from my books and reviews of books by other authors.

So there it is, a blogilicious smorgasbord of interesting reading, all of it right here.

Also check out my other blog Writers Bloc. That one is exclusively about writing.

Stay with me! Become a follower.

Books by FS (Sharon) Vander Meer

Tiger Lilly, contemporary fiction (ebook/pdf only) fastpencil.com

Not Just Another Day, inspiration

The Ballad of Bawdy McClure, science fiction

Future Imperfect, science fiction

These books are available at www.vandermeerbooks.com, and at online retailers. Print books also available at Tome on the Range in Las Vegas, NM.