The Perfect Song Blog

I felt like my webiste www.perfectsong.net was getting large and nearly unmanageable.  I’ve posted the equivalent to a whole new book in my Muse section.  So, to get a little more efficient, and to be able to communicate more regularly, I’m starting this blog. 

Some background:  I wrote the novel, The Perfect Song, over the course of 25 years and published it last year.  It’s been getting great reviews http://perfectsong.net/reviews.htm so check it out sometime.  I know many of you already have.

I’ll be adding a chapter a week to the excerpts section so if you haven’t read it and can’t afford to buy the book, you can read it online.  If you feel like making a donation in lieu of buying it, you can donate to my paypal account or send a check to the Mansfield University Foundation, Mansfield University, Mansfield PA  16933.  All money from the book goes into a scholarship fund for future writers.  The contribution is tax deductible. 

I’m the PR director at Mansfield University.  Today the admissions director, his assistant and I visited a group of high school students to see how they look for colleges and find information in general.  Funny, in this hi-tech age, most of them said they started by asking friends and family.

Then they switch over to the Web to check out colleges they may be interested in.

We asked them what their biggest fear is about the future. All of them said they most feared getting stuck in a job or profession they don’t like.  They all said they want to be in a profession that gives them pleasure and where they can make real contributions.

Only two of them have myspace accounts.  A couple said they’d been seeing news items that myspace isn’t such a good place to be.  So maybe myspace has peaked and there’s a backlash brewing.