October saw a nearly three fold increase in traffic to the site, all without any promotion, other than listing the newsletter as a blog, the Iambic Blog, at some clearinghouse for bloggers, BlogCatalog. The traffic pattern was unusual, but I won't get into that, except to say that many visitors enter at note pages which usually don't have any back links to the overall site. So I'll try to correct that.

I opened an account on Facebook, but am still contemplating how to use it, perhaps through special interest groups. Have noticed on mySpace one can list audio files. This could be very useful. Apparently this can be done on Facebook, so I'll need to explore that.

Although I have several projects in various stages of completion there are basically two that I want most to promote, namely Toward Canterbury, & Pale Fire; and, after that, Westron Wynde, and A Little Garden of Recorded Verse. Would like to re-record all the Chaucer pieces. Feel like my recitations are always improving. All recital though improves with time and greater familiarity, the opposite of many human relations I guess.

Work on Pale Fire commenced in early August. Now its early November, three months later, and I feel that I'm about to start making my first good takes on recording it. I upgraded my version of Peak LE, my recording program, so now recording is a lot better, no glitches I think.

I'd like to produce a package consisting of CDs, transcript, and notes for both Pale Fire and Toward Canterbury and have it ready for personal distribution before the holiday, if only to promote myself among my friends, and see what kind of reaction is elicited. This is to be the grand concept:
And then of course there website promotion, which is to say, soliciting other sites to link to my site. First I intend to solicit Chaucer sites, as these are the more easily enumerated than say poetry sites in general. After that, and after more notes are written for it, I'll attempt to promote Pale Fire, directly, to the Grand Poobah, Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and commentator. This should be interesting, where things will go to then.

Public recitals perhaps. Which would require textual aids, the proper venue, a library, bookstore, coffeehouse, a classroom, in high school, junior college, the university.

And, as always, write more entries to the innerlea blog.
Also re-record A Visit from Saint Nick and fix up the page of winter verse in A Little Garden... and its links.