Nieslen Torpedos Another Program

So it appears that the powers at be over at CBS have decided to cancel the show "Joan of Arcadia." Personally I am shocked by this announcement as I thought it was a really well written and executed show. The actors and plots were believable and it gave just the right amount of God factor that it didn't tick off too many people on either side of the fence. It was a good show and in my opinion much better than "Touched by an Angel" which should have been a short run TV mini-series and not a long standing staple of weekly television. Ugh, the mere memories of that show make me ill.

Anyway, evidently "Joan of Arcadia" was not getting adequate ratings. ARGH! I swear that I am going to beat this horse until it is decayed and not just dead. The Nielsen Rating system is flawed, inaccurate and at best it is an incompetently lazy way to gather horrible ratings information. Now with that said, Nielsen may have been a decent sampling of data in days gone by but there are definitely better and more accurate ways of gathering ratings information today. In the opinion of this writer the major cable, satellite and DVR (Tivo and such) companies need to get off their collective butts and start assisting their customers by tracking watched programs through their boxes and DVR’s. After the data is collected it should then be released for the purpose of research analysis. The data could also be sold in order to create a new cost center for the cable companies. A little extra cash in the corporate pockets never hurts the earnings numbers now do they? :)

In my opinion we are loosing too much quality television these days in favor of mindless reality clone programming. Certain programming seems to almost hypnotizes the Nielsen participants which skews the results of the nations prefered television programming.

Introducing "The Library of Keys"

So I guess it is time to make the announcement about my new book project. I am currently working on a new book which targets young readers. The title will be “The Library of Keys” and it centers around two young children; a thirteen year old girl named Clara and her eleven year old brother Michael. After the children's mother dies their father is forced to send them to live with the mother's sister where they soon discover that their family has an ancient secret and they in particular have a destiny. The children learn throughout the course of book that they are the heirs that will be responsible for protecting the “The Library of Keys” and its secrets from the evils of the world above and below.

Character and plot development is coming along great. The characters so far seem to be real with genuine motivations for their actions and personalities. The main characters are all unique and deal with their emotional struggles in very different ways. Also one character is required throughout the series to face their own inner demons which try and tempt them from good to evil. This illustrates two driving morals throughout the series; Doing what is right is not always easy and Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The plot already has several twists and intertwined mysteries. So far this book is set up to be the first in a series and I have been surprisingly impressed with how it is unfolding. I have already written the end of the series so I know exactly how it will all end in the last moment and I think it will be awesome.

First Post

So this is my first post to this new Blog so I thought I would drop a quick message down and say hello.

CYA's

Maisis