5,250!

Today marks blog post #5,250 for me. With the exception of three or four guest posts, they’re all mine. When I launched musoscribe.com way back in the ‘00s, part of my motivation was to collect all of my music-related writing in one place, for easy reference. Related to that, I sought to establish my ‘street cred’ in hope of eventually landing a book deal.

I submitted my manuscript for book #3 in early March; it’ll be out later this year from HoZac Books. And I daresay I’ve achieved some modest measure of street cred.

From 2008 to early 2010, I posted new reviews, features, interviews or essays every business day: five days a week, 52 weeks a year, for about 260 posts annually. But I had so much material coming in — albums to be reviewed and so on – that in ‘18 I made the decision to go from five to seven days a week. 365 days (and posts) a year.

I did that for seven years. In that period I wrote those three books and had two of them published, went on a book tour, launched two monthly discussion series and kept writing. I still have a lot of music coming in that deserves coverage, but I’m the busiest I’ve ever been.

This is my last weekend post. Starting today, I’m going back to my five-a-week standard. Monday through Friday, every week, readers can come to musoscribe.com and find something new. And if you drop by on the weekend and found that you’ve already, say, read Friday’s bit, there’s well over five thousand other pieces, at least some of which will surely interest you.

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy what you’ll find here: honest, ad-free music-related writing, interviews and more. And there’s plenty more to come.