Friday, September 11, 2026

Storytelling in a Landing Page

With the release of my novel Sabriya's Hope, it was time to up my skills in webpage or landing page development.  My habit for such things is predictably to prevaricate, not wanting to spend time on marketing, dismissing it...and generally hating it. Creatives want to be creative, not waste time, and much of marketing creative works feels like a waste of time—a lot of time and money, with no results. Yet, the adage is that marketing takes as much effort as the creative. So, on Sabriya's Hope's landing page, I spent time learning some CSS techniques to add to my HTML inventory, and even better, how to sift through AI prompts to get at the nuggets. Here's the result. Click on the image to get to the interactive site. (The art and much of the CSS learning is all care of Chat-GPT.)



The Chase: A Moral Premise Podcast

 I was wondering whether there's a need for a Moral Premise Podcast on the importance and techniques of storytelling. There is a lot of material out there on the topic, in part because yours truly has disseminated some of it across various forums and media. 

The podcast below was a test. It didn't seem to go well; that is, not many watched, and even fewer stuck around to the end. I couldn't read the market in the era of Instagram 60 reels. 

So, clearly I should spend my time elsewhere. Needless to say, here it is: