Pardon me while I toot my own horn...

Okay, so apologies for bragging, but it's nice to get validation from time to time. Plus, I can share this news with you as an excuse to have you read something that I actually got paid for, as opposed to reading my ramblings that have made me zero bucks over the past year.

Good Catch Publishing, one of my freelance employers, selected a piece I wrote for them as their "Catch of the Month" for June, which means they picked me as the author of their favorite article for that 30-day span. Pretty cool, huh? The piece is a chapter of a book and details the true story of an Oregon man and his struggle to overcome an addiction to pornography. You can read "I Can't Do This Alone" by following the link.

It is a long one, so apologies. But I hope you like it!

They like me... they really like me!

So, it's not even the end of January and I already met one of my goals for 2008, which was get paid to do this writing thing.

Actually, that was one of my goals from 2007, but let's just say I rolled it over to this year.

Good Catch Publishing, a small, up-and-coming house based in Oregon just asked me to join their staff of freelancers. GCP works predominantly with churches to put out books with the life stories of their members. The churches then use the books as an outreach tool, a fundraiser or just as giveaways.

I will come in to the process as a GCP journalist. Typically, I'll be assigned to interview one person, get their story and write it up for an upcoming book. Pretty exciting stuff, I think...

I don't know if they'll let me publish excerpts here, but if they'll allow it, I will. If not, um, well, I don't want to get fired, so you can call me and I'll read it to you over the phone and you can be mesmerized by the smooth, sultry sounds of my "reading voice."