While we’re still in the midst of a grand & long holiday weekend (wasn’t the PBS telecast of “A Capital Fourth” terrific!), I thought it might be well to bring my readers up-to-date on why blogging has been very light the last six months or so.
Over the last few months, the Meitzler family has been working diligently to develop our Family Roots Publishing Company business. When we started out we were only marketing our own products, and a hundred or so other selected titles – all genealogy guidebooks. The model worked well for us. Then we began displaying our books at conferences and at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel. Many of our customers asked for guidebooks that we didn’t handle. Based on these requests, this spring we began purchasing important and informative guidebooks from dozens of publishers, putting them into our stock and marketing them to the public. Most sales have been made at conferences.
In the last week, Dale and I have begun posting many guidebooks to our Internet site, FamilyRootsPublishing.com. We have several hundred volumes to go yet, but we’re sure we can have most of them posted in the next two weeks or so.
So by necessity, something had to give the last while, and I’m afraid it was my blogging activities. I find that I’m getting a bit more time now, so expect my comments here to pick up in the next few days.
Now back to my never-ending yard work before the weekend is officially over! Never-ending yard work is the price one pays for living on a large corner lot in twenty-first century suburbia!
