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Update #2 on this month’s booksigning events

Lori K. Marchand

So in my last post, I shared some of the wonderful interactions I had at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Cleveland Clinic) booksigning.

Yesterday, Lori Marchand, an author friend of mine, and I drove up to Loganberry Books for the store’s Author Alley event.

While we were there, we had a chance to hobnob with a lot of other authors (including my writer friends Christine Benedict and Claudia Taller, among others!) as well as chat with those who had come out for the annual event....

Update #1 on this month’s booksigning events

So in my last post, I talked about what could go wrong at a book signing and how you just have to go in with no expectations except that whatever happens it will all be good.

And yesterday’s signing at the Cleveland Clinic, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, proved that point.

Here’s what went right:

I had a very heartfelt and touching conversation with a mother whose 28-year-old son has been dealing with cancer for eight years and was undergoing yet another procedure. We talked about courage and...

The pleasure (and sometimes panic) of booksignings

I have quite a few book events coming up in next few months—some just for my newest book, TRAVELING LEFT OF CENTER AND OTHER STORIES—and some for both TRAVELING and my first book, THE GIFTS OF CHANGE.

And I’m excited—of course I’m excited! Who wouldn’t be excited!

Standing there, greeting all my fans, signing book after book, telling the booksellers that they better pull the ones in the stockroom out because we are very nearly out of the ones on display, asking the photographers to please sto...

Talking About Your Book: Guest Post From Tue Møller (T. M.) Stengaard

Tue Møller (T.M.) Stengaard

Møller

Today I’m turning the blog over to Tue Møller (T. M.) Stengaard, a writer from Denmark who has an interesting take on how to talk about your book.

(Note: I didn’t say “pitch” but “talk”—a distinction he explains in this delightful post!)

But first a bit about Tue: A Danish writer, he studied Literature, Culture and Language at Aalborg University and received his MA in 2009.

Currently, Tue is working on his first novel, investigating temptation and nature in...

Talking About Your Book: Guest Post From T. M. Stengaard

T.M. Stengaard

Today I’m turning the blog over to T. M. Stengaard, a writer from Denmark who has an interesting take on how to talk about your book.

(Note: I didn’t say “pitch” but “talk”—a distinction he explains in this delightful post!)

But first a bit about T. M.: A Danish writer, he studied Literature, Culture and Language at Aalborg University and received his MA in 2009.

Currently, T. M. is working on his first novel, investigating temptation and nature in a society on the verge of ind...

Selling Your Book To Libraries: 5 Tips From Book Marketing Expert Fern Reiss

Authors can’t sit back and wait for readers to show up, clamoring to buy their latest work. And authors also can’t hope that book buyers will troll through catalogs and press releases and decide they absolutely have to stock that latest title in their store.

No, authors (and by “authors” I mean myself as well as the rest of you!) have to take the initiative and do whatever it takes to drum up sales. We need to find new market, mine existing ones and never stop reaching out and connecting.

For...

Selling your book to libraries: 5 tips from book marketing expert Fern Reiss

Authors can’t sit back and wait for readers to show up, clamoring to buy their latest work. And authors also can’t hope that book buyers will troll through catalogs and press releases and decide they absolutely have to stock that latest title in their store.

No, authors (and by “authors” I mean myself as well as the rest of you!) have to take the initiative and do whatever it takes to drum up sales. We need to find new market, mine existing ones and never stop reaching out and connecting.

For...

Three Tips To Help You Juggle All Those Writing “Balls”

One of my recent posts at The Writer’s Place, 5 Tips for Dealing with “Work-in-Progress” Woes, led indirectly to a comment on another site about how hard it was to stay on top of multiple writing projects to keep them moving forward.

There are so many obstacles to the progress, especially if the projects in question aren’t those required for a client, editor or publisher—what I call “work writing”—but rather are ones that we want to complete because they matter to us.

Two big obstacles—at lea...

5 Tips for Dealing with “Work-in-Progress” Woes

There are few things more frustrating to a writer than getting part way into a project and hitting the wall. (The other issues are not being able to find a way to start the project and not being able to satisfactorily bring it to a close!)

I call this the “Work-in-Progress” Woes—you are either facing a complete shut down or the going is so hard and slow that you feel like you are writing through metaphorical molasses.

As a matter of fact, this post was inspired by my own experience with this,...

Want to be a guest on my blog? Here are some tips!

As anyone knows who follows my blogs — One on One, The Writer’s Place and Focus on Fiction — I regularly interview authors and writers as well as run guest posts on the subject of writing. I appreciate the willingness of those in the business of writing to share their experiences and truly value their comments and insights.

And I have a very warm spot in my working writer heart for those who take the time to follow what few requests I have, since my ultimate goal is to make your interview or...