I’m not going to tell you ten reasons to start a blog, or how “easy” it is and how “essential” it is to build an audience online, or anything like that.

I’m actually seriously asking, why start a blog? Why post anything online at all?

But, I know depression. The cold, hard truth of it has given me empathy. I sincerely believe that everyone, even assholes, are doing the best they can. I know I’m not the only one carrying an invisible weight. Everyone suffers. Everyone.

“Five Horror Stories: Tales of Mystery, Misery, and the Macabre. A Collection” is now available on the kindle store, where it will be free for 5 days. I used Kindle Direct Publishing to make it.

It was so much fun to write and compose, I’m super excited for its launch (It’s already doing quite well, and I’m thrilled).

100 followers may seem like a small goal, but it has taken me many months and I’m very grateful to have reached it.

My one goal was to be able to create and self-publish my book with only free tools and methods. No outsourcing the work or paying for nifty software.

I already had the original drafts of the content (30 poems) published here on Medium, so I thought I could quickly assemble the work into a .doc file and publish it as an ebook.