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About Promotion and Helping Each Other

Most writers I know are not necessarily great at promotion. And it's not that we aren't proud of our work and excited to share it with anyone who seems interested, but it's simply not the nature of most writers to toot their own horns. We pretty much do this stuff all alone, spending long hours in our own little worlds. Being a storyteller means we like being someone else or at least being somewhere else, so saying "Look at me!" comes hard.

However the facts are we do have to work at promotion...

When the frost is on the punkin...revisited

This is, you will notice, a repeat post. It was first here in September of 2015. I'm posting it again not because it was so memorable or so great but because at the end of launch week for Heartwarming Holiday Wishes, I am so tired that getting out of bed requires a real effort. Thinking up new things to say when I'm there is just beyond me. So, thanks for your patience.
Liz
"They’s something kindo’ harty-like about the atmusfereWhen the heat of summer’s over and the coolin’ fall is here—Of cour...

Moments that Define Us

When Liz mentioned having a theme for this week’s blogs – defining moments – I didn’t have a clue what to write about. I think of a defining moment as a fork in the road. Take one fork, and you end up in location A; take the other fork and your life goes in a completely different direction. A defining moment can also be an epiphany, a time when you come to a realization, perhaps a life-changing realization.

Then I thought about moments in my own life that have defined me. Like realizing my hus...

Defining Moments... or just Moments...

Happy Friday! Not to make anyone jealous, but today I’m headed down to Florida for a week at the Universal Theme Park and Harry Potter world. Just kidding… I’m totally trying to make you jealous!

While you contemplate my travel plans with envy, I’ll admit to being envious of the other Wranglers’ defining moments. How cool are they?!? My own seem a little… meh…in comparison. And to be honest, I’m not even sure what I have are truly “defining moments.” I imagine a defining moment as involving a...

Defining Me

[image error] by Margie Senechal

When Liz floated the idea on Sunday of defining moments, I thought of quite a few. But, today with 30 minutes left before I have to head to work my mind is kind of a blank. 

Except for the one that happened a few months ago. I had lunch with my friends Gayle and Ivar wherein I mentioned writing this blog. I told them how I was the only unpublished writer in the group. And Gayle--who has read many a work-in-progress over the years--asked why I wasn't published.

I didn't h...

Definining Me

[image error] by Margie Senechal

When Liz floated the idea on Sunday of defining moments, I thought of quite a few. But, today with 30 minutes left before I have to head to work my mind is kind of a blank. 

Except for the one that happened a few months ago. I had lunch with my friends Gayle and Ivar wherein I mentioned writing this blog. I told them how I was the only unpublished writer in the group. And Gayle--who has read many a work-in-progress over the years--asked why I wasn't published.

I didn't h...

Defining Moments Aren't Always Pretty

When Liz asked us this week if we wanted to do a theme week, around defining moments, I was all for it. I thought, hey, I can talk about The Call or maybe The Next Call or maybe...but then I thought, you know, defining moments aren't necessarily bright, shining, beautiful moments.

Sometimes a defining moment is dark and dreary...and about picking up and moving forward.

I had one of those defining moments earlier this year. In May, my editor at Superromance called my agent to say Yes, they did w...

My Defining Moment

Right off, we have a winner in the giveaway that I held on September 26, which was as you all recall, release day for Saving Sarah AND my birthday. I love giving gifts, don't you? The winner of the complete paperback set of the Women of Willow Bay series--all four books--is Carolyn McCutcheon. Carolyn, contact me at nan at nanreinhardt dot com to claim your prize! Woohoo!!

On to the topic of the day. We're doing a theme week here in the round pen and Liz started the ball rolling yesterday with...

A defining moment in time

The fourth Christmas Town anthology, Heartwarming Holiday Wishes, is being released October 10. If you haven't already pre-ordered your copy, go ahead--I'll wait.

No, wait, I'm kidding. I mean, I'll be glad if you order it no matter when it is. But there's more to it than just that. I love Christmas Town and its stories and the authors I get to work with. I love that while this is an indie-published boxed set, as have been the two before it, A Heartwarming Christmas and A Heartwarmin...

Once More With Feeling

To say it's been a bad week is probably an understatement. Shootings in Vegas, attacks in Edmonton, and the death of a rock icon. I decided to rerun the blog I posted in June, not long after my husband and I saw Tom Petty in concert. At the time I was concerned about the money the concert had cost, but since I'll never get another chance to see Tom Petty in concert again, I'm very glad we went. You just never know.  

www.tompetty.comA couple of weekends ago, my husband and I drove ei...