IWSG’S 12th Anniversary and Another, Upcoming, Anniversary

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. To my awareness, this month of September brings us two anniversaries. First is the anniversary of the IWSG which is 12 years old today! Second, is the 10th anniversary of my first full book of short fiction, "The Fool's Illusion" which is coming up next Thursday the 14th! More about that later. For now, I'm going to help celebrate IWSG's 12-year anniversary by answering the question of the month, which is catered for that: The IWSG celebrates 12 years today! When did you discover the IWSG, how do you connect, and how has it helped you? 

My Answer to the Question of the Month

To tell the truth, I don't really remember when or how I discovered the IWSG. I probably came across it on one of the blogs that I follow. At that time, I was getting few visitations to my own blog and needed to increase its views and so I learned one of the best ways to do that was through a blog hop. IWSG’s monthly blog hop was the one that I was most familiar with and I think I was reading several posts by other bloggers, including IWSG founder Alex Cavenaugh's, and I left a comment on his blog saying that I'd like to participate but that I wasn't sure if I had the time to commit to it at the time. He was really friendly about it and invited me to join it when I felt ready too. 

Well, sooner than later I felt ready to. And so ever since that first post of mine back in March of 2019 I've been participating and have felt it to be a really awesome experience meeting and conversing with all kinds of wonderful fellow bloggers including Alex. In that way, I've made plenty of blogger friends that have helped me to keep going in the writing journey that can be a real struggle and has been for me several times. 

Upcoming 10th Anniversary of 'The Fool's Illusion'

September 14th will mark the 10th anniversary of 'The Fool's Illusion"! It will have been ten years ago from that day that I released my first book of short fiction which consists of horror, dark fantasy and science fiction. Since then, I've mostly written and published short stories individually in book format and, more recently, have been working on my next short fiction collection, “Bad Apps”.  

To celebrate 10 years of “Fool’s Illusion” I'm going to hold a free giveaway next week, possibly starting on the book’s anniversary day! It’s going to last through the end of the month, so there will be plenty of time for everyone to enter! Maybe I’ll even have a blog post of links to past posts that led up to the book's release. So, keep checking back here at the Far Out Fantastic Site and my Facebook page  for more details. 

It's great to be a part of such an awesome blog hop and group! It's like gathering as a family each time we post and comment on each other's posts. I don't see myself leaving any time soon! How has the Insecure Writer's Support Group helped you? Do you have any anniversaries of your own coming up? (e.g. For a book? A relationship? Your own blog?)

Today’s IWSG is brought to you by these super co-hosts:  Sonia Dogra, J Lenni Dorner, Pat Garcia, Sarah - The Faux Fountain Pen, and Meka James! IWSG was founded by awesome author Alex Cavanaugh, writer of the Cassa Series of novels!

Until next time . . .