Charley in Charge

In case you’ve not been formally introduced, this is Charley:

In addition to being a mentor when it comes to balancing all the craziness of life and business and pursuits of happiness, he occasionally helps out by subbing for me and writing an issue or two of Guitar Noise News, the free twice a month newsletter of Guitar Noise. I think he likes to write these because he usually gets a lot of fan mail and that is cool.

Anyway, things have been very crazy and hectic here. If you’ve not read any of our recent issues of Guitar Noise News, then I guess you may not know I’ve gotten a new book contract from Alpha Books. Yes, I’ll be putting out another title in their “Complete Idiot’s” series and this one will be called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar.  It’s scheduled to be out by the end of this year, which means that I have to finish it by mid-August. And that means that I’m not going to be doing much of anything for a few months.

Paul (“Paul” being Paul Hackett, the gentleman who created and still owns and runs the Guitar Noise website, has long been advising me to get a personal assistant to help with the work load. And while I think it’s amusing to think anyone would want to have me as a boss (let alone be happy with what I could offer in terms of payment), Charley has given me a bit of insight on how to cope. And that’s to not worry so much about things. Yes, there’s a lot to do. Yes, there’s always more to do waiting in the wings. Do what you can when you can. Worrying about it usually causes more worrying and keeps you from doing things in the here and now. And you have to be in the here and now to get things done.

Okay. I’m good. Now let’s get on and see what we can do…

Be chatting with you all again soon.

Peace