The Newsman from The Muppet Show

After a successful Cover Reveal, I was content to let things coast until the debut of:

Curse of the Dark Wind on December 12th!

Then I realized, I should probably do something on the day of the debut.  Yet I didn’t want to organize a blog tour because those are a lot of work and haven’t had any payoff the last two times.  Besides, people are coming to the holiday time and that’s when scheduling things enters a realm of ‘hit, miss, and oops’.  So what did I come up with while I was painting, eating pizza, and cursing at my GPS?

First, I really should update the maps on the GPS.

Second, I’m going to make another call for volunteers for a BlOG BLAST!  It’s really simple this time.  Here are the steps:

1. Say you’ll help.
2. I post the ‘CURSE OF THE DARK…

Ronin Shimizu

Like my son, Ronin Shimizu was a young boy living in California. He was a cheerleader, like my son hopes to be one day. Ronin is described as positive and happy, like my son is often described. He endured bullying because he liked something that some people is “only for girls.” Sadly, my son knows exactly how that feels.

Last week, 12-year-old Ronin decided to end the bullying by ending his life.

I worry every day that my son will have this too in common with Ronin. Because the group of kids like Ronin and my son have the highest rate of suicide attempts in the world.

The articles about Ronin’s death report that in the years leading up to his suicide, Ronin’s parents made multiple complaints to his school about the homophobic and gender-based bullying their son was experiencing. The school’s response was inadequate and the bullying…