Unfortunately I received an email from J.C. Hutchins yesterday, telling all of the MINE contributors that the site will not be updating anymore. It’s a sad effect of the downward turning economy and being a new blog. While this news is most certainly disappointing, I was very happy to be a contributor and have benefited from both the exposure and more so from the encouraging and ego boosting words from J.C. himself. It has given me more confidence with my writing, and that maybe one day I really will finish something I want to share with everyone. I know when I do I will definitely be putting out for free, and maybe doing a podiobook/podcast.

The stories I submitted for MINE are still, well…mine, so I may be reposting some of them here for when I need a quick and dirty Full of Fun Fridays! post. It will be better than what happened last week, when there was no post anyway.

It was a great honor and blast working for J.C., and while a lowly little Z list blogger like myself probably won’t get a chance to…I’d sure love to work with him in some capacity again! At the very least, I’ll be there with all the other Beta Clones when it’s time to rush the Amazon charts for all of his projects. Like the soon to be released Personal Effects: Dark Arts and of course 7th Son Obsidian!

But not in the Daffy Duck sense. I mean it as in J.C. Hutchin’s new social media project, MINE. It’s that cool announcement I’ve been waiting to tell everyone about!

MINE is your one-stop shop for entertainment news, crazy rumors, Internet memes, whimsical news bites, music, gossip … you name it. We’ve amassed a small army of savvy, slightly-snarky writers — we call them “MINERS” — dedicated to extracting the most fun and interesting stuff from the webscape.

I follow J.C. on Twitter, and when he put the call out, asking for volunteers to blog short, fun news items, I answered! It’s been very fun so far putting together stuff for MINE, and very cool to say that a Z-list blogger and “small w writer” (as in writing for fun) person like myself can have my stories up there with greats such as J.C., Mur Lafferty, Jared Axelrod, and many others!

I don’t get shiny gold rocks, but I do get my blog pimped out with link love and I’m having a blast, which is awesome enough. And if that’s enough for you as well, give a shout to J.C. He’s looking for more people to submit stories, and his site has all the details you need to contact him if you are interested!

So head on over to MINE, check it out, and give us a comment or two.

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