About

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

The posting schedule looks like this:

Monday: Pen to Paper, about writing and the writing life

Tuesday: a haiku

Wednesday: a quote about writing

Thursday:  a new piece of short fiction.

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 am now a freelance editor and book publisher. 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. I’m a member of the Northeast Kansas Writers Exchange.

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 online writing blog.

PRIVACY POLICY: Catsignal does not collect information on its visitors. Feedburner and sites linked to, however, have their own policies.

COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE: All my haiku and fiction, the posts I write, and the Catsignal logo are Copyright © 2008-2010 by Bryon Cannon. They are presented here under a Creative Commons license, to wit:

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

This applies to my stuff. Other writers who may appear here, or to whom I link, will be playing by their own rules. 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.