About

Welcome to Catsignal. I’m Bryon Cannon, your genial host.

For the curious: I have a master’s degree in communication from a fully accredited Midwestern university. I spent 15 years editing daily newspapers (winning both awards and downsizing for my efforts), and then I edited nonfiction books for a decade. I also have a book of quotations available, The Purple of Emperors. This blog I do for fun mine, certainly, and yours too, I hope.

You may comment in the comments or, if you absolutely must and promise not to try to sell me something, you may e-mail me at readcat (at symbol) catsignal.com.

WHY CATSIGNAL? This site began its life as something very different, and the name made much better sense then. But that project didn’t work out and I blasted it all into oblivion. Rather than let the domain name go to waste, I decided to use it for my writing blog.

PRIVACY POLICY: Other than the hosting company tracking the number of visitors, Catsignal does not collect information on those who come here.

COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE: All my haiku and fiction, the posts I write, and the Catsignal logo are Copyright © 2008-2023 by Bryon Cannon. They are presented here under a Creative Commons license, as seen at the bottom of each post.

This applies to my stuff. Other writers whose work may appear here, or to whom I link, will be playing by their own rules. If you print my stories or haiku or post them on your own site, please keep my byline and copyright and Creative Commons license with my work, and, as a courtesy, let me know. (And a note to would-be plagiarists: I have three friends who are high-powered attorneys and make a lot more money than I do. They’d all be happy to sue you for me to get in a little pro bono work. I’ll let them draw straws.)