I launched a website Sept 7th 2001, that has since accrued well over 50,000 hits. I even spent two intensive weeks in May redesigning the layout to keep it updated.

There's a soundtrack for my writing freely available on mp3.com - in fact, one of the tracks is currently no.1 in the classical charts at mp3.com

I've put a lot of time and money into giving myself an online presence, and marketing my work and giving it an audience.

But now I'm feeling that it counts for nought - that's it's of no value in the approach process.

The point here being that my site host is really ****ing me off - they suspend my site in error in May [no apology], and I've just found that they're still deleting my log files from the webspace I paid for, which means I have now lost all detailed records of site visitors during my past two weeks of paid marketing.

At the moment the only reason I can think of for keeping the site up is to blacklist my ISP.

I thought agents and publishers wanted someone who was willing to market their work. I've tried to show that I can do that. But now the money and time I've spent on it feel like a waste.

Bo**ocks.

Shawn