Greetings, Loyal Reader!

It’s National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo has been around for about a decade. I only became vaguely aware of it a couple of years ago and have never participated. Nor will I be participating this year, at least officially. I will, however, be writing a novel in November: Jason Cosmo #2: Noble Cause. Since I’ve already written a good bit of it and will mainly be filling in gaps and revising, it doesn’t fit the NaNoWriMo model, but I’ll be playing along in spirit.

Incidentally, my friends at Smashwords have an interesting National Novel Writing Month promotion underway:

Participants can upload daily updates to Smashwords. Their works-in-progress will be made available as multi-format ebooks, readable on any e-reading device, personal computers and many mobile devices.

All participating writers will receive promotion at Smashwords.com within a special NaNo catalog, as well as distribution of their works-in-progress to Stanza, the e-reading app used by over 2.5 million people on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and to Aldiko, the e-reading app for Android smart phones.

If you want to share your NaNo novel in progress as an e-book, check that out. I am, as Loyal Readers can probably tell, a huge fan of Smashwords. (Where you can read Hero Wanted as a free, full-length e-book right now.)

Meanwhile, best wishes and godspeed to all the NaNo writers starting your project today! I hope you have fun with your story and stick with it for the next 30 days. If you want, leave a comment and let me know what you’re working on. And write! Write like the wind!

Best regards,

Dan McGirt