This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #537, on the subject of Authorship Review.

Lately I’ve had several people ask in private e-mails about authorship–how and why I started writing or continue to write.  As this has more than once sent me on a search, I decided it would be practical to post a brief index of the web log posts and pages I usually include in my answer, most from my mark Joseph “young” web log.

Blog post #72:  Being an Author discusses what it means and who qualifies.

#279:  My Journey to Becoming a Writer gives a lot of that history.

#504:  Why I Started Writing looks a bit deeper at that.

#18:  A Novel Comic Milestone is specifically about the origin of the Multiverser novels.

#439:  Corpoises:  Toward a Story provides a similar background to my novella Corpoise.

#132:  Writing Horror provides something of a how-to on the genre.

#426:  A Christian View of Horror looks further at the genre, tempering the previous article to some degree.

#331:  What’s With the Names? connects to my history in writing, explaining why my books and articles appear under different bylines.

A complete list of books I have or have had in print can be found at Books by the Author:  M. Joseph Young.  The novels have been published serialized online for free reading; the index of the first and links to the indices of all the others are at Verse Three, Chapter One:  The First Multiverser Novel.  The M. J. Young Net web site long ago exceeded a thousand pages, originally at several other addresses, covering many subjects including Bible, Law, Politics, Dungeons & Dragons™, Multiverser™, Martial Arts in Role Playing Games, and Time Travel Theory, hopefully reasonably well organized.  The blog itself has exceeded five hundred entries; #500:  A Five Cent Review selects sixty-three of what I thought were the most notable when it hit that milestone.

I rarely mention it, but sometimes people ask, or perhaps challenge, what makes me think my thoughts on all these subjects matter.  Although I didn’t recognize it until I was an adult, I’m smarter than the average bear, as the saying goes.  Years back I posted a page called M. J. Young’s Bragging Rights, which references a few of the recognitions I’ve received over the decades which mark me as a bit smarter than average.

I expect if these prompt more questions, I’ll provide more answers, but as I said to one of the questioners, that’s a good place to start.  Feel free to write to me at mjyoung@mjyoung.net if you want to talk about any of these things.

I hate to have to include this here, but for anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to offer to sell me their services as web designer or book reviewer or promoter or anything else, the budget is $0.00, non-negotiable.  If you can work with that, we can talk.  I get at least a dozen such letters every day, and consider them Spam, what is properly called U.C.E.:  Unsolicited Commercial E-mail.  Please don’t contact me for that.