Hot News: NeverEnding Story's Fourth Birthday and 2016 Year-End Stats

                                                                                                      first sunrise ...
                                                                                                      my midlife drained of all
                                                                                                      but hungry
                                                                                                      for these magic words,
                                                                                                      NeverEnding Story

 My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story was launched on the first day of 2013. Today is its fourth birthday.

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 562

Pageviews last month:16, 378

Pageviews last year:150, 613
Average pageviews per day: 411

Many thanks for your ongoing support of my translation project and for helping increase NeverEnding Story's readership.

Look forward to reading your new work (see 2017 haiku and tanka anthology submission guidelines)

All the best for 2017

Chen-ou

Note: The accepted haiku/tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and Twitter (You are welcome to follow NeverEnding Story on Twitter at @storyhaikutanka, following: 7, followers: 1, 018) and retweeted by Chen-ou Liu (You are welcome to follow Chen-ou Liu on Twitter at @ericcoliu, following:3, followers: 2, 771) to reach a wider readership.