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News: Publishing continues - and continues and continues. I'm well past 3-4 dozen books published. What started as a simple research study itself spun into six books. Then I published the public domain books which mostly were out of print (or very poorly formatted online). As I continued to research in this area, more and more books showed up. So I've put these into collections. The most recent project has been the Law of Attraction Classics Series - which was capped off with "Secrets to the Law of Attraction", which has excerpts from these series. And that capstone book is just about ready to show up on Amazon. There is a great deal of additional research to post, most of which has been linked through my original blog entries, but now also have a more polished version waiting for you in my articles section -- but these projects are waiting time to get written up fully. There's also some free downloads on my Lulu storefront - lots of MP3 audio.. Most recent research is into online marketing. This will ultimately result in its own book. There is a lot to study up on this area, as it is populated with a great number of valid approaches and a greater amount of hype. Meanwhile, I've put a couple of Autoresponder books on Lulu for your study. Look for some ecourses you can take in the near future... Art News: While I'm doing some caricatures this summer and fall, this is winding down quite a bit. Mainly as the county fairs didn't pay their way - I do better in smaller one- or two-day festivals. (Especially those which don't have carnivals or attendance fees.) I'm looking into a better e-commerce site, one with neat shopping carts and all the bells and whistles most people want. Looks like Lulu.com. might get my fine art - since they have a new beta program going. Otherwise, I'll probably go with Deviant Art. As well, I've found CafePress, where I've got some simple work up for you. While this doesn't cover everything, it will probably go far enough. Great to have some T-shirts with the "Go Thunk Yourself!TM" logo on them, as well as hats, clocks, mousepads, and coffee cups. Future Plans: I'm planning to venture into children's stories, keeping painterly styles for the backgrounds while adding my caricature-style work for the subjects. These will be made available on-line as well as published in for-purchase printed volumes. Also, I've begun experimenting with cartoons, which will be posted to their own blog. Mostly, these are waiting time once my books are completed. Research My research is continuing down the line of rural quality of life and our humankind adventure. I've studied along these lines for over a quarter-century and currently have been wrapping up loose ends as I start to discover the underlying system we are all using.  As I finish parts - or find where authors have already figured this out, I'm publishing these as books.  Other research is agricultural, as I am operating my parents' farm meanwhile. I hope to start publishing this data as well. But that is another line of research and writing... Some wireless research was done a couple years ago. You may find it interesting. It is more socio-economic than hard computer science. Improving this site I'm working as I can to improve this site and make it more friendly. What you don't see is what lies beneath - research into an ecommerce site for my artwork and also a content management system which makes updating this far easier than having to hack HTML code. I'm open for comments - just go to one of my blogs for now and leave a comment.  Otherwise, send me an email: ---worstellr@yahoo.com--- (between the dashes). More to come...