A special thank you is due:

Mary Evslin, author of hackoff.com, a murder mystery by Tom Evslin about the death of the CEO of an anti-hacker software company during the Internet bubble which is available at www.800CEOread.com and Amazon -- the podcast is available at www.hackoff.com.

And Charlene Wroblewski, friend and programming maven (read: high-tech savior) whose online home is www.webwisewardens.com (and whose blog lives at www.webwisewardens.com/blog).

Mary turned me onto a free service called FeedBlitz that allows those with technical savvy (people like Charlene!) to add a pseudo-RSS feed to blogs instead of waiting for our Webmasters to figure out the ins-and-outs of RSS feeds.

Thank you, Mary! Thank you, Charlene! And thank you, too, FeedBlitz. Now let's just see whether this blog-posts-by-email concept really works.

Who says book promotion is tough? This blog thing has people like me thinking it's a piece of cake to book authors on national TV shows.