As Mr. Cheap announced yesterday, our blog partnership has come to an end. It’s been a great three years and I only hope that he continues to write elsewhere, so I can still enjoy his posts.
Future direction of Money Smarts Blog
My plan for Money Smarts Blog is to make the blog more focused on personal finance. There will be the usual range of personal finance topics, but there will be an increased emphasis on investing topics such as investing accounts and investing products.
I’m going to do one post on Wednesdays and a roundup on Fridays. I may try doing the occasional extra post, but my hope is that by only having one “real” post per week – the quality will be higher than if I try to do several posts per week.
I wrote a book!
I have written a book – it’s very, very close to being published. I’m not going to reveal the book topic just yet, but I hope to announce it sometime this month. Writing and self-publishing a book has been a very interesting project. It’s a lot like doing home renovation – there is always one more thing to do. You might have noticed the name change underneath the post title – this is a result of the book. It’s hard to sell books that are written by “Mike”. 🙂
Thanks a lot for reading Money Smarts Blog and thanks to Mr. Cheap for all his great posts!
26 replies on “New Direction For Money Smarts Blog And A Book Announcement”
Maybe you can write a post about self publishing! Congrats!
Congrats Mike! Can’t wait to read it.
Go go go! Looking forward to seeing a sub-10k sales rank for the book. (Or whatever a comparable rank would be on amazon.ca…) 😀
You’ll have to send your fellow bloggers a copy of your book so we can post reviews.
@MDJ – I plan to write something over at http://www.blogthority.com about it.
@Emily – Thanks.
@Mike – Thanks – I have no idea about the .ca rankings, but I’m sure I’ll be learning. 🙂
@Larry – I will be doing that as soon as I can order from the publisher.
Mr. Holman: Best of luck going forward! Like FrugalTrader, I’d love to read some posts about self publishing (I’ll keep an eye on blogthority).
Congrats on the book, Mike!
Wishing you the best with the solo blog, and looking forward to the one “real” post per week.
Way to go Mike, I have something similar up my sleeve… so I’ll be interested to hear how it progresses for you.
Congrats on the book Mike, I look forward to reading it!!
Looking forward to the book… Do send us a copy for review.
Great news about the book. I would also love to hear more about your self-publishing adventure. When is the expected publication date? I’ll bug you for a review copy.
Tim
Good stuff Mike!
Looking forward to hearing more about the book.
Keep up the good work!
Mich
Congrats – I still remember publishing my first book and how exciting it was! Good luck!
Well done, look forward to reading it, as long as it’s not a book of cat photos.
Also looking forward to hearing more about the book, and good luck with the future direction of the site!
Thanks everyone.
@Guinness – That’s a great idea for a book!!! Mind if I steal it? 😉
That is crazy!
Man, we have the same initial (M.H.) 😉
Good luck with your book Mike aka My Canadian Anglophone Alter Ego 😉
I hope it doesn’t have a big green pig on the cover. 😐
I am happy about the book 🙂
I am sad about once per week 🙁
And who will flirt with me now that Mr Cheap is gone?
@FB – We do have a lot of similarities, don’t we?
@Squawk – It has 101 green pigs on the cover. 😉
Rachelle – The once per week is a minimum. We’ll see how it goes – I may try to do a smaller post or two as well. You can still email with Mr. Cheap
Congratulations on all the changes! I’m looking forward to reading your book. It’s fun to say I “know”the author!
Congrats on the book and on the blog changes!
And it’s about time you “came out” and started using your last name 😉
Congrats on the upcoming book – looking forward to it!
Wait – people still read books? I thought we were all solely focused on blogs now (and Twitter and Facebook).
Looking forward to it, all joking aside…
Looking forward to your book!
Thanks Ron!