The Pop Army

For those of you who have been following my efforts recently, you know I kicked off my own parenting/kids website called Kid Wonderful on August 26th. Thanks to the combined volunteer work of great friends/writers like Nicole Ireland, Patrick Pillars and David Sobkowiak, Kid Wonderful is faring well, growing traffic-wise and gathering a loyal readership.

After losing our jobs just near the end of July, James and I spent a lot of time considering our options. We are building a future together, and one of the many things that brought us together in the first place was how well we worked together as a team. When faced with a hard trial ahead of us at a time when things were starting to look up, we knew we had to combine our awesome power to do something we both loved that would also potentially help us build our future.

Writing is something we love, and combined with networking and meeting new people, we’ve discovered over the last year how much we really enjoy creating online content. We enjoy it even more when we know our efforts and focus is centered around things that matter to us. That was why I started Kid Wonderful. Being a mother, having a family, exploring parenthood… those are some of the most important things in my life, so I wanted to put my passion behind it and share that passion with the world.

When James and I started talking about creating our own connected network of sites months ago, one of the first thoughts we both agreed on was centering a site on entertainment. We both love movies, television and anyone who’s ever listened to Podcaturday, our joint venture with Acadia from Superficial Gallery knows how much we like to talk about entertainment and celebrities. And so was born Pop Army.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Pop Army yet, I hope you do. Be sure to subscribe to our Twitter Feed and “like” us on Facebook if you hang out there. We’ve got an awesome team of volunteer writers who will be submitting their own thoughts, including our managing editor and dear friend, Nicole Ireland, Chandra Jenkins, Tony Faville, Heather Faville, Patrick Pillars and my Internet BFF, Acadia Einstein.

This is just the beginning. We have big ideas for creating a network of sites under our very own brand: Double J Media, which you may have seen in the past on our short stories for sale. There is great content going up on the sites every day, and before long The Inner Bean will be getting a makeover as well, so stay tuned, and thanks again for sticking by us during this difficult time.