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...and Russia takes the lead as far as viewing my blog goes...

Sorry I haven't been writing as much this past week. Life has been pretty busy. Hopefully I'll have a lot of news to report before too long, as far as my books are concerned, especially the most recent (LOL at the GOP) and also news on the coming radio show of which I'll be a part. I've been designing merchandise, mailed a copy of my book to the host and he wants to interview me after he finishes reading the book.

So, this is very random... I've been noticing a great deal more traffic on my blog over the past month or two, I'd say. I was surprised to see that most of the traffic has been coming from Russia. Just through this half a week, my blog has been viewed 90 times from that country, 37 from the U.S. and 7 from Brazil, which ranks them third. Over the past month, the countries are in the same order one through three, with Brazil viewing my blog 35 times, the U.S. 142 and Russia a walloping 696 times. The UK is a distant third for all-time views at 172. The U.S. is in a solid second with 1,705 views and Russia now leads with 2,106 views of my blog. I don't know why this is so surprising to me. I've done blogs before and the U.S. was always in first by a long shot, with the likes of England, Canada and Australia rounding out the top 4. Well, to the Russians reading my blog, thanks for taking an interest. I hope you like what you've been reading and continue to do so. Oh and help me sell some books, why don't you? : ).

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