I am at work on the outline for a new novel, which will take my love of history's mysteries in a new and unusual direction. I have come across a coincidental set of events joining all of the world's great religions, and the steps taken in the first days of the Dark Ages to break that link, forever. As much as I enjoy cryptofiction, and have devoted my first three novels to it, it has not provened to be a very viable commodity as the subject of fiction. My deep and scientifically accurate research is lost when compared to glorified novellas that immerse themselves in the thinnest of plots and the most outrageous of situations. Nothing against them. I just feel that my talents would be better served in more of the mainstream genres. I know that there is a market out there, when my books have routinely climbed so high on Amazon rankings without my promoting them. I will finish "Wake of the Lake Monster", then shop the trilogy around to a larger publishing house. The one disappointment I have is that I have not heard back from any more readers than I have, thus far. I will be glad to finish "The Cryptids Trilogy", and can scarcely rouse myself to take it up again. Two years has been a long time to go without publishing anything more than a novella. In that time, I have not attended a CZ conference and have not hosted a radio show in over a year. I miss it, but no one can provide for themselves and their family in a field with a major discovery every half-century. The odds of being the one making that discovery are slim to none. Until then, many are eeking out a cottage industry, but little else. I have bigger aspirations for my writing career. Thus the change in focus. I look forward to a wider audience and hope that those of you who have enjoyed my writings thus far will continue the journey with me. I wrote for myself until I published. I have been a professional author for three years. Most do not make a living at it, as evidenced by the "About the Author" portions of most books. My hope and goal is to be an exception. It should be the aim of all who write. Until I promote again and you find me a second time, I will keep this journal as a record of that effort. Feel free to comment on anything I write, as ever. It is a very lonely craft, and any distraction, in the form of replies, is appreciated. D.L.