Jen K. Blom's Blog, page 12
September 10, 2010
Friday check-in!
September 8, 2010
Marketing Interview with SHARI MAURER!
Heya guys!
Today I'd love to introduce a good buddy of mine to the blog, SHARI MAURER!
Her debut CHANGE OF HEART was published by Westside this year and it's an absolutely fabulous read!
JKB: I know that everyone says it's not fair to just expect your pub to market your book. Did you do anything special to your books subject matter in terms of marketing?
SM: I tried to supplement WestSide's efforts with a big blog tour and have been coordinating signings, book festival appearances, etc with a...
Today I'd love to introduce a good buddy of mine to the blog, SHARI MAURER!
Her debut CHANGE OF HEART was published by Westside this year and it's an absolutely fabulous read!JKB: I know that everyone says it's not fair to just expect your pub to market your book. Did you do anything special to your books subject matter in terms of marketing?SM: I tried to supplement WestSide's efforts with a big blog tour and have been coordinating signings, book festival appearances, etc with a...
Blog tour update and Interview !!
Hey guys!
Yesterday I started my job again after six blissful months off with little Loki. I wanted to catch you up as to where the lovely and talented Hilary Wagner can be found!
Yesterday!
Today!
I'll have the others up tomorrow! Thanks to everyone for participating!
And swing by later today for the fabulous and talented Shari Mauer to give some great marketing advice!
Yesterday I started my job again after six blissful months off with little Loki. I wanted to catch you up as to where the lovely and talented Hilary Wagner can be found!
Yesterday!
Today!
I'll have the others up tomorrow! Thanks to everyone for participating!
And swing by later today for the fabulous and talented Shari Mauer to give some great marketing advice!
September 6, 2010
Month of the Rat meets Marketing Month!
I'd like to welcome my good buddy Hilary Wagner to the blog today!
A group of writers will be hosting Hil on their blogs this Month of the Rat. Stop by each day for a link to a brilliant host on yet another blog!
Whew. I just realized this month is gonna be mad busy! wowsa!
So anyway. On to Hilary!
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JKB: Welcome to the blog, Hil! Your debut, NIGHTSHADE CITY, comes out in a month! How does that feel?
HW: It's been nuts! I'm crazy busy with my debut, plus that pesky real life has...
September 2, 2010
OH . OH OH OH OH OH !
Well, it seems as though there's new news every day here lately at Casa Blom, and today will be no different!
To say I'm excited about this would be like saying a terrier is pleased when you throw their ball. A cat is happy to have some catnip. A possum is happy to bash on a rat!
What is it, you ask? Coming soon:
POSSUM SUMMERThe online video game!
Oh yeah! Awesome game developer, an awesome idea straight out of POSSUM SUMMER, and an awesome game designer and we are set, people!
How nifty is...
To say I'm excited about this would be like saying a terrier is pleased when you throw their ball. A cat is happy to have some catnip. A possum is happy to bash on a rat!
What is it, you ask? Coming soon:
POSSUM SUMMERThe online video game!
Oh yeah! Awesome game developer, an awesome idea straight out of POSSUM SUMMER, and an awesome game designer and we are set, people!
How nifty is...
August 31, 2010
Big plans are a-comin' !!
Heya guys!
Well, it's been super busy these last five (almost SIX CAN YOU BELIEVE IT MY BABY IS ALMOST SIX MONTHS OLD) months...but I promise I haven't forgotten about you. Now that things seem to be honestly settling down, and I'm going back to work for a couple months (I get to be Worker Man, and hubsie gets to be Mr. Mom), I'm really working on getting some things kicked off with a bang.
What are those things?
Let me make you a list! You know how I loooooooove lists!
1. I've finished The...
Well, it's been super busy these last five (almost SIX CAN YOU BELIEVE IT MY BABY IS ALMOST SIX MONTHS OLD) months...but I promise I haven't forgotten about you. Now that things seem to be honestly settling down, and I'm going back to work for a couple months (I get to be Worker Man, and hubsie gets to be Mr. Mom), I'm really working on getting some things kicked off with a bang.
What are those things?
Let me make you a list! You know how I loooooooove lists!
1. I've finished The...
August 26, 2010
What was your favorite animal story?
Hey guys!
I'm over at PROJECT MAYHEM today talking about my favorite animal stories from when I was a squeaker.
Drop by!
I'm over at PROJECT MAYHEM today talking about my favorite animal stories from when I was a squeaker.
Drop by!
August 24, 2010
YOU
You.
You write what you write. It is your theme, your subject. You write in your voice, and that is distinctly you.
Don't let anybody tell you that you need to write "like this" or "like that" to get a book published. Your voice is the completion of your experiences in your life.
I can speak from my own background, here. I wanted to have an agent, that was all I wanted. I wrote like "this author" and "that author" for so long, disregarding my own voice, racking up rejection after rejection.
I...
You write what you write. It is your theme, your subject. You write in your voice, and that is distinctly you.
Don't let anybody tell you that you need to write "like this" or "like that" to get a book published. Your voice is the completion of your experiences in your life.
I can speak from my own background, here. I wanted to have an agent, that was all I wanted. I wrote like "this author" and "that author" for so long, disregarding my own voice, racking up rejection after rejection.
I...
August 19, 2010
Project MIDDLE GRADE Mayhem
You've been warned!
Join a group of (only slightly insane) middle grade writers as we review, interview (in my case, indie bookstores!! yay!) and preview fabulous MG books!
Are you ready?
Here's our group in order of release!
TEAM MAYHEM (in order of release):
Dawn Lairamore, IVY'S EVER AFTER, 5.15.2010
Dee Garretson, WILDFIRE RUN, 8.31.2010
Adam Jay Epstein, THE FAMILIARS, 9.7.2010
Andrew Jacobson, THE FAMILIARS, 9.7.2010
Hilary Wagner, NIGHTSHADE CITY, 10.01.2010
Tim Power, THE BOY WHO HOWLED...
Join a group of (only slightly insane) middle grade writers as we review, interview (in my case, indie bookstores!! yay!) and preview fabulous MG books!
Are you ready?
Here's our group in order of release!
TEAM MAYHEM (in order of release):
Dawn Lairamore, IVY'S EVER AFTER, 5.15.2010
Dee Garretson, WILDFIRE RUN, 8.31.2010
Adam Jay Epstein, THE FAMILIARS, 9.7.2010
Andrew Jacobson, THE FAMILIARS, 9.7.2010
Hilary Wagner, NIGHTSHADE CITY, 10.01.2010
Tim Power, THE BOY WHO HOWLED...
August 18, 2010
Shake out the stress! Shake it!
Just in case you've ever wondered how to massage a possum....
