This just in: Willow’s Grove has joined the collective known as Spider Forest! What is Spider Forest, you may be asking yourself? Simply put, it is a collective of web comic creators pooling together to better themselves and other members as well as cross-promoting of said member web comics. It has been on the interwebs since 2004 and has a very nice line-up of comics. You should really check it out.

You may remember we were once part of the WebComic Planet Collective, which was (and the members of this former collective still are) a great group of creators that worked at basically what the Spider Forest folks are doing. I enjoyed my time with the WCPC before its untimely death, and enjoyed being a part of a group that could share ideas, methods and help cross-promote each others comics. When I saw that the SF was taking applications (via @kezhound over on twitter) so I gathered up my stuff and applied. A couple weeks later, I got the email that I was accepted and jumped right in (which explains the uppermost banner at the top of the page now)…YES! Along with my plan to visit local comic stores to post advertising, I am hoping membership in the SF will allow for more exposure and bring in new readers.

BTW, I don’t know if anyone has seen my little blurb on FB recently, but I am starting a new promotion to try and get more Willow’s Grove: The Kidnapped Saga Volume 1 moving…I, Karl, will not get a haircut until 1000 books have been sold. More updates on this to come!

That’s right, Grovers…you read the headline right. As a challenge to all my readers, past, present and future, I am putting it out there to spread the word: I will NOT get a haircut until one-thousand (1,000) books are sold in 2011! Now, my hair is pretty long as it is right now (much to the ire of my spouse)…see! Quite shaggy…but I am resolved, I am serious as a heart attack in that I will not cut my hair until my goal has been met.

I give you this challenge, dear friends: Tell a friend, a relative, tell two, spread the word far and wide, have the people you tell tell two more people, three more people, anyone and everyone, buy a copy (or more) of Willow’s Grove – The Kidnapped Saga: Volume 1 (click on the clickery-type button over on the left sidebar and buy it from Paypal! By doing this, you not only allow yours truly to be able to see what he is doing, but also allow me to look less like a homeless artist (which is on the verge of happening for real anyway with the bill collectors banging on my door and me using a pretend voice to say “uh, they no here, please go away”…they buy it at first and start to walk away, but then they realize they have been duped and wait for me in the front yard. Right now, I have about 5 or 6 just mulling around their tents and campfires waiting for me to pop out to get the paper or the mail to tackle me and pin me down while the others rush to the door to change the locks) and more like a professional…I see you laughing out there…and I’d be laughing with you, too…if it wasn’t so serious.