Mike the Obscure

There's another side of me that first showed his inscrutable face in 1994. I call him Mike the Obscure. This is what he looks like:

He has a quirky habit of putting everything that happens in life into neat little nutshells. Mike the Obscure started ghost writing a blog called "25 Words or Less" in 2007 that is supposed to be written by me and I can't seem to stop him. So, I simply indulge him.

25 Words or Less

The Self-Publisher Hat Rack

One of the things I've learned is that a self-published author without much a budget has to wear many hats.

The editor hat is a hat that no author should ever wear but it gets donned when there is no one else to wear it.

A poor author also has to be his or her own proofreader (an impossible job), publicist, agent, advertising copy writer, publisher and worst critic, whether or not any of those hats actually fit.