Update on the Status of the blog, the book, and everything.

Ok folks, time for part of the silence to end.
I am sure there are a boatload of questions about just what is going on.
This blog was highly active and then suddenly lacking of said activity.
I know many of you out there were avid readers so let me explain what all is going on.

First off, I was on a doctor ordered week break from the computer. Why might you ask? Because on Saturday August 29th at about 5PM I underwent a successful LASIK surgery procedure. My eyes were horrible, anything past two feet was a blur. Now I have perfect if not near perfect vision. During the first week after the surgery the computer monitor only caused pain due to the glare that I had never experienced due to an anti-glare filter on my glasses since I started wearing them at around age 8.

Second, I was lost, mentally speaking. One of my college classes, a required one, made me HATE writing anything. Oddly enough, this was a class entitled Expository Writing. The topic was Argument. My first paper was on the Importance of Understanding the Psychological Impacts of a Disaster on the Human Mind, mainly so that people could be prepared. Yep, I have survival and disaster preparedness running through my brain so much that I actually wrote a college paper on it. The teacher’s response? C- and I quote “There are no psychological impacts of a disaster”. This made me resentful and question myself more than just a bit. I will be honest with you readers, at first I was tempted to say screw it to the blog, the book, and anything having to do with writing. Low and behold, my mother suggested that I pass the paper by some other english professors to see what they thought. I passed it by teachers I respected, due to their wisdom and experience, instead. All of them had a good giggle at the teacher’s response and all said that the paper should have ranged from a B to an A. This helped a lot but after finishing that class (passing it barely) I decided I needed some time to mend myself from that little mental rape. I hate second guessing myself and I have always trusted my instincts, I should have still trusted them then. That is all in the past now and my will to work on this book and this blog have been renewed.

Now that that is all out of the way..time for some good and some bad news (Relatively speaking).
In the not so distant future this blog will be being retired. But wait…
Why?
The shortcomings of wordpress (which while it is a great site, has limitations) is a major reason.
My co-author and myself both want more control over this blog.
One thing we both agree on is that we want to enable guest authors to pen entries from time to time, which is a really hard process with wordpress.
Also we wanted..more.
We are working on the book, we have the blog, but we wanted more.
So while THIS blog will be going away at some point…never fear because there is a reason behind it.

What is this reason? Well readers…I won’t be telling you.
I told my co-author some of the things I wanted to do with this blog and the web pressence of Beating Murphy. He had many ideas of his own. To his credit, he suggested an idea that for some reason just refused to enter my brain.
Because of this, I will let HIM tell you all the big announcement.
I love suspense, don’t you?

So in the end, don’t forget about us as we are not quitting and disappearing. We are simply making a tactically sound move to the rear to reevaluate our position so that we can move forward with a better overall understanding of the battlefield. (Ok so in non overly complicated turns, we have paused for the moment to take a look around a bit more carefully).

Also, and this is not the big announcement, there will be a facebook group and possibly a myspace page put up for the book.
As most of you know, my normal way of getting the word out is by advertising on websites such as ZombieSquad, comics such as EverydayDecay, and many more.
The problem there is that many of these websites are having issues with this. I can understand this wholeheartedly and I think utilizing facebook as a tool will greatly increase the reader base.

I also feel the need to update everyone on Corbin’s status. He is very very busy. Currently he is doing EMT Training with the current phase being 2 24hr long ride-along’s in an ambulance a week. That is a major time commitment and I applaud him for it. Obviously this can create scheduling issues, but they will be worked through with no problems that I can foresee.

So with all of this I hope you all now have a much better grasp as to just what is going on behind the blog and with the authors.

Stay tuned guys for the big announcement.