And thus it came to pass that Wimgo vacated this world, a bright green star upon the pale sky that dissolved into the æther far before its time. Extinguished in haste it was, stamped out from the annals of the web ancients. Although eradicated, those souls that bore witness shall live on to tell the tale…

Excuse me for waxing poetic for a moment, but I’ve always wanted to be a professional poetic waxer. At this point, I’m wondering what that position might pay. You see, the company in which I worked for as a Senior Interactive Programmer (or the Phantom Programmer as my business card stated), Wimgo, has ceased operation. That means my primary source of income has vanished. Sure, I’d love to write full time, but it doesn’t pay all the bills at this point.

The crew at Wimgo was, as Paul Lightfoot stated on Facebook today, was an eclectic one. It was an interesting collection of personalities that made for quite a colorful team, fantastic controversial conversations, and some real kick-ass ping pong. The office culture was laid back, but that wasn’t what doomed us as everyone worked their butts off. I don’t even necessarily think it was a failed business model as I believe given another year it could have worked as envisioned. But business is business and it always comes down to the bottom line.

So where does this leave me? Oh, I’ll get some irons in the fire, and some of my former co-workers have been kind enough to point me in some directions around here. In the long run, however, my journey is all about the writing and the paranormal. I have a number of projects in the works which I believe will piggyback well off of this past year’s success. Any and all updates on appearances, paranormal or otherwise, will always appear on the website or the Facebook group.

The writing itself continues on with Campfire Tales of the Midwest and the next entry to the Chase Michael DeBarlo mystery series (not yet titled). One positive out of all of this is I can get a lot of that kind of work done. And I certainly will…