I’m Mike Salsbury, a Windows System Administrator for a not-for-profit organization in Central Ohio. The team I’m part of has the responsibility for the desktop side of our Windows computing infrastructure. My expertise and experience includes security patching, software repackaging, software deployment, desktop backup, scripting, desktop virtualization, and PC hardware. I’ve written and ghost-written a number of technical articles that have been published in trade journals.
When I’m not at work, I’m often reading, writing, watching television and movies, listening to music, playing computer games, and playing board games. I also brew my own beer.
Recently, I decided to start taking a more serious stance toward my writing efforts. I’ve attended several writing seminars held by bestselling authors, read a number of books on writing, and engaged in a variety of exercises to improve my writing skills. In 2009, I successfully completed the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge to produce 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days. I plan to participate again in 2010.
The site you’re now visiting is my blog. On this site, I plan to share what I have learned about writing from various sources, works of fiction (and non-fiction) I’ve written myself, reviews of tools and books for writers, and technical items for Windows administrators like myself. I hope you’ll find something of interest or value here.
If you want to contact me, put my first name (“Mike”) to the left of an at-sign and follow it with the “.com” address of this web site. Please note that I do not check that email often, so it may be a while before you get a response.
Yours is the 1st blog I’ve read since I was diagnosed w/ Thyroid cancer. I just had surgery on Tues. and although I am in a lot of pain, was glad to be able to read your story and see more about what comes next. I did not see a more recent update and would like to know how you’re doing and ask some questions, if you don’t mind.
I’m actually doing pretty well. I will post an update shortly.
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it
I saw your post about Rodney Carrington. I knew him in high school. He’s always been funny and, as you put it, off-color. Nevertheless, he is a great guy, or at least he was in our days at PTHS. He used to entertain us in class, singing his made up songs about people we knew or teachers. Most of his stuff back then was meant to get a laugh from the juvenile potty humor crowd. He’s progressed tremendously and the alumni at our school is/are (?) all very proud to say we know him and knew him when. Thanks for plugging Rodney, not only is he talented and funny, he’s hard working.
Hello,
I just wanted to know if it’s OK for me to link to your blog from my website? Thanks.
BM
Of course.
Thank you for your article on SEO for authors. I have been reading and studying about SEO, but none of the other sources tell you how to optimize as a writer. Most SEO is about optimizing for a given topic, and since writers write about all kinds of topics, I found that to be confusing. Your article was timely and helpful. Best wishes with your own writing efforts!