I’ve been working hard on the alpha testing for Snowflake Pro. I have a team of 23 testers and we’re making rapid progress. I will of course notify all my e-zine readers when Snowflake Pro is ready for prime time.

In the meantime, it’s worth noting that my latest humor column, featuring the ever-enthusiastic Sam the Plumber, is now posted online. You can read all about “The Wife Coach” here.

Have fun!

I’ve been quiet on the blog lately because I’ve been working frenetically on my next software product, “Snowflake Pro,” which will make it fun and easy to work through the steps of the Snowflake method. “Snowflake Pro” also creates the skeleton of a book proposal, after you’ve completed the first 6 steps of the Snowflake method.

[Note added on Tuesday, June 30:] I posted the above yesterday and asked for volunteer alpha testers. I received a flood of emails and have selected a team of alpha testers that is small enough for me to be able to manage all the comments. I have put a number of people on the waiting list. I believe I have enough alpha testers for now. Thanks to all of you who volunteered!

I’m working on my e-zine today, which should go out tonight at midnight.

In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to note that my latest “Sam the Plumber” humor column is now available. Sam is now on Twitter! The title of this month’s column is “All A-Twitter.” Read all about it here.

And by the way, Sam really does have a Twitter account! Not sure how that happened, but his user name is “SamThePlumber”. Are you following Sam?

A quick note to say that my latest humor column starring Sam the Plumber has been posted. Sam decides this month to help me out with an overzealous endorsement seeker. Unfortunately . . .

No, I can’t say any more. I leave it to you to read the column.

I’m behind in everything, but hope to get my e-zine sent out tonight, so I need to finish that up.

I’ve been pretty quiet lately on the blog, for reasons that I can now reveal.

A few months ago, I began working on a proposal for a book titled WRITING FICTION FOR DUMMIES. I have a co-author, Peter Economy, who has done a number of books in the famous Dummies series, and we have been working from the get-go with an acquisition editor at the publisher. The proposal was accepted several weeks ago, and we’ve been working through those pesky contract details ever since.

As of yesterday, I signed the contract on the book. I’m taking it in to FedEx it to the publisher in a few minutes. And I’m busy writing chapters now.

I’ll post more information as we get closer to publication date. Currently, we’re scheduled to launch the book in November, 2009, right in time for National Novel Writing Month.

So now you know why I’ve been so quiet. I want this book to be the best it can possibly be, so I’ve been working extremely hard on it. Once we get past our first milestone date, I’ll be better calibrated on how much time and effort it takes to reach milestones, and I hope to get a bit more regular in my blogging after that.

In the meantime, I’m celebrating the fact that . . . I’m a Dummy.