About Rhett Soveran
Rhett Soveran was born July 1, 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada). He lived, worked and studied in Regina until graduating from the University of Regina in 2006. After his graduation he moved to Calgary, Alberta—to find work and love. Mostly love. On September 2, 2006 Rhett married Leah (née Johnson) Soveran. So that was a pretty busy year.
Since that time, Rhett and Leah adopted a cat, Elly and a dog (SCHNOODLE!), Duke, bought a house and manage to have a nice life without kids.
Currently, Leah is doing her MA in Sociology and Rhett works as a the Web Editor of WestJet’s up! magazine.
About Bailing Bucket
Prior to Bailing Bucket, Rhett has blogged since 2006 originally with the handle rockstarpoet. Somewhere between there and now, being a rockstar____ became cool and popular and it lost it’s meaning. Also, he couldn’t get the .com domain. But for some reason, Rhett registered bailingbucket.com with all sorts of different ideas for the domain. Ultimately, he left those ideas behind, as well as rockstarpoet, and began blogging at Bailing Bucket with dreams of becoming a professional personal blogger.
Bailing Bucket is hosted by DreamHost. If you sign up with DreamHost and use the promo code “BAILOUT” and you get $50 off, plus a free domain name.
DreamHost is awesome because they are green, cheap and don’t use cPanel. If you don’t know what cPanel is, you are already ahead of the game. What I am trying to say is that they are extremely customer and earth friendly. And that’s important. Bailing Bucket runs on WordPress and on the Thematic Framework.
Do you make money here?
No, not really. Not yet. Though it would be something of a dream to employ myself as a personal blogger. That being said, I have a category called Affiliate where I post all the things that I buy and some times those posts will contain affiliate links so that if you decide to buy something from the same site I will make a little money. I have tried using different types of advertising in the past, but I believe in only supporting goods and companies that I used and subsequently endorse.
What kind of writer are you?
Aside from my day job, that’s a question I continue to struggle with. Part of giving up the name “rockstarpoet” was because I no longer felt that the term “poet” suited me. I done readings of my poetry and short stories across the prairies, but for the past few years sort of distanced myself from that type of writing and in search of other styles of writing that fit my creativity and interests better.
What’s Flame Sing Productions?
At the beginning of most of my videos you will see my very own production company’s intro video for Flame Sing Productions. Initially, you hear my sister (Emily) coaxing her dog, Flame, to howl or sing. But, I don’t want you to worry about it. I just do that for fun. Flame Sing Productions doesn’t really exist. I just thought it was a cool piece of video and I figured I ought to have my own pretend production company. I make everything on Windows Movie Maker—hardly professional.