We Die by the Pen Not Dead Yet!

Shelly Barclay, Khalia Bentson, Linda Louise Johnson, John Myers, Dan Reveal and Patricia Sicilia introduced themselves last month as "We Die by the Pen" in Han Van Meegerin's "Sprint to 2010 Page View Race." Visit Han's source page here, and catch up on the race news, and his other articles. Han has started the second lap of this race, the "Rush to April 2010," and has given us a new teammate, Priscilla Clements.

Welcome Priscilla! Priscilla's writing covers humor, factual reporting and true-life experiences. She says, "My brain and heart feed my fingers and articles (like offspring) are born." She's had a varied work life, with experience as a corporate secretary, hairdresser, real estate broker, small business owner, and single mother of two in her younger days. My favorite article of hers is Babyboomers-We're Broke. We Lost Our Jobs. We Lost Our Houses. Now We're Loosing Our Hair! Drop in on Priscilla Clements and check out her other titles.

In our last race, Shelly Barclay garnered the most page views for us with her informative and entertaining articles covering historical people and events. I don't know where she gets her inspiration, but she should be a history teacher. Lindy Lou did some great holiday articles, John's "Family in Crisis" series proved heartwarming, and Dan's eclectic titles are always a surprise. Khalia was totally missing in action but I learned illness felled her over the holidays. She does seem to tickling that keyboard again.

News for our team: you won't have Patricia Sicilia to kick around much longer. I've reached 200,000 page views as of January 14th, and so will be "graduated" out of this group in April. I hate to leave you guys, and I hope one of you takes over our update article. I'm going to try my best this session. "We're Number Four! We're Number Four!" is only funny once.

Finally, just a reminder that Han has asked the race participants to message him periodically with their page views. I will attempt to do this every Friday, unless I get a huge bump in PVs in the middle of the week.

For more info about these writers and their work, check out "Introducing We Die By the Pen"