advice 1

Michael Hyatt's blogging advice, via Kristi Holl's excerpts from her book Writer's First Aid, sent via the list I get from the Institute of Children's Writers---long way around for a short cut.  Hyatt give 13 ideas for novelists to use in their blogs.  The first is to blog excerpts from my novel.  I'd love to do that, but won't until I have one actually published.  Logically, Hyatt recommends that the excerpt conclude with a link so the reader can buy the book.  I'm tempted to give an excerpt from one of my unpublished novels, but as there's a strong likelihood it would be revised and possibly changed in the revision, there isn't much point.  However... see "advice 2"