My review of How to Befriend a Demon marked my 500th post on WordPress. Now, I’ve actually been blogging for more than ten years. If I think about it, I started around 2010 or so, so that means sixteen years of writing. I started out with Google’s Blogger (lost all the posts), migrated to Wix (started new posts from scratch), then switched here to WordPress (lost all the posts and had to start new again) which I enjoy greatly.

I started writing for this blog July 12, 2025. Here is some fun data:

My top 10 posts in order of popularity

You can zoom in to read by clicking on the picture, but if it’s still a lot of trouble, here are the posts and numbers:

• Homepage, 7942
• K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is the real deal, 7218
• Manga review: PALACE OF THE OMEGA vol. 1, 1888
• Blog Archives, 1431
• THE LAST UNICORN and the Unicorn Tapestries, 707
• Manga review: REAL-TIME FEVER, 701
• Vengeance and Mercy: a review of DORORO, 579
• Quirky and Eerie: JUNJI ITO MANIAC: JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE, 471
• The perils and pitfalls of writing 1st person POV, 466
• Tropes in books and marketing, 425

Only two of these are writing posts, and only one of them refers to a writing post related to my books: The Step and the Walk. That’s a little disappointing, to be honest.

My 10 least popular posts

Again, you should be able to click on the picture to enlarge, but if not, here’s the rundown. All posts have 4 views.

• TOKYOPOP licenses the celebrated Spanish manga PERFEDDION For North American English and Spanish releases
• Reading, Writing, and Publishing Goals 2026
• Happy (belated) Lunar New Year
• Earworm: THE DEAD DANCE
• Happy super-belated National Black Authors Day
• AnimEigo announces Blu-ray home media release of ALIEN NINE
• THE NAME AND THE KEY fashion boards
• New Disney manga debuts from TOKYOPOP for spring
• In two months, THE NAME AND THE KEY releases
• Something personal…

Super bummed to see posts about my books and my writing listed here in the bottom. I work really hard on these.

The future of this website?

Well, I’m going to keep writing about writing, my novels, reading, and publishing. But I do feel like this site is going to morph into a massive review site for manga and comics thanks to my NetGalley membership. Reviews are the bread and butter of this website, but I just need to find a way to entice my manga buddies to embrace my books somehow. The taste I have in manga and comics (especially the darker ones) reflects my tastes in the books I write. How do I get manga and comics fans to stick around? That’s the real question…

Here’s to the next 500!