As any author will tell you, writing is hard – very hard. Writing an exordium, the definition of which is, “A beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition,” is almost as hard as writing a 200-page book. After the initial angst caused by the thought of summarizing my books in a few sentences, I breathed a resolute sigh and sat down at my computer. Then, I got up and paced the house because I went completely blank. Then, I prayed. You’d think I would have done that first-but no, once a slow learner…always one J. Low and behold, I wrote the exordium. With polishing by my wonderful publisher, here it is in final form:

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We are in the darkest time of the year for Alaska. In Anchorage today, we have 5 hours and 48 minutes of daylight. So, as I sit here watching the snow start to fall, I am asking myself what I’d like to get done outside before night falls again. The answer? Today in an inside kind of day. Since my last blog post, I have finished my new novel, Ingress, and it has been published.

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