KYRA DAVIS: As Of Next Week I Will Be Posting On 3 Blogs

When I started this blog I saw it as a means to connect with my readers. I feel that I've been successful at that. However it's also fair to say that my blog has been sort of all over the place. I've written several posts about the publishing industry, about dating, about parenting, about the Sophie series, about my own personal emotions and so on and so forth. As far as I can tell all of those topics are of interest to many of my readers (although not every single reader will find every single topic I blog about riveting). Where it gets sticky is with the political stuff. I have some very liberal readers and some very conservative ones. And of course there are lots of you who couldn't care less about politics, period. Personally I'm a passionately moderate Democrat. You don't usually think of moderates being passionate but I am. I am passionate about moderation. I'll even go further and say I think moderation is sexy. So there.

But this is not the place to write about my political views or observations. That's not why you're here and God knows it's not why you read the Sophie books. The Sophie books are about escape and on occasion, humorous personal introspection. Oh, and they're about sex too. Can't leave that out.

I'm not saying that my blog will always be light and airy going forward but I don't want to hammer you over the head with the world's problems either.

So, going forward I'll be starting a new blog. Passionately Moderate. That's where I'll talk about politics and social issues that have political implications. I'll be posting here 1--2 times a week and every other Thursday I'll be posting on Killer Fiction, which I strongly encourage you to check out regardless of if it's my posting day or not because the other author-bloggers on that site are quite talented and fun to read.

I'm not sure if I can blog more than 3 times a week and so for Passionately Moderate I'd like to find other moderates to blog there as well, moderates from all different parties. Maybe I can even find a moderate Independent and...oh, I don't know...a moderate Green Party candidate? Do those exist? I suppose it's possible although my sense is that it would be easier to find Big Foot. Whoever I include in this will be either another author or have some experience in journalism. And it may take me a while to find those people (and if you know of someone please let me know via comments or a direct message on Twitter or Facebook). While I'm searching I'll just blog by my lonesome over there. I just really feel that moderates don't have enough of a voice. Our presence and our politics are just largely ignored and with the rhetoric in Washington and on the various campaigns that we've all been recently subjected to, well it's sort of amazing that moderates haven't just completely tuned out. But a lot of us haven't and while I don't expect to get some kind of huge following on that blog I do want to add my voice (and hopefully the voice of others) to what seems to be a shrinking group. A group that doesn't think that compromise on BOTH sides equates to selling out. A group that won't automatically dismiss or praise politicians based on solely on whether there's a D or an R by their name. I have a suspicion that we're the "silent majority." I just think we need to be a little less silent.

It's an experiment and it may not work but I'm going to try it. As for here...well I'll continue to blog about dating, kids, life, publishing and the joy that can be had by simply holding a martini glass.

Kyra Davis