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October 26, 2015
Working Together
While working together isn’t a true collaboration such as you think of when reading James Patterson with (take your pick), an anthology or boxed set takes a lot of coordination and working together. I’ve never done a boxed set, but I’ve been in two anthologies now (Christmas Revels and Christmas Revels II) with fellow Ruby Louisa Cornell as well as friends Hannah Meredith and Anna D. Allen, and I believe the rules are about the same.
Rule #1. Make a plan early. It was decided Christmas Revels...
October 25, 2015
What’s In Your Bookmarks?
A credit card might be What’s in Your Wallet, however, that’s not what I’m interested in today.
This inquiring mind would like to know What’s in Your Bookmarks Manager and how do you keep it organized?Here’s the deal of the day—I’ll show you some of mine, if you’ll share some of yours. 
October 22, 2015
Fangirl Friday
It’s Friday, and we have some amazing weekend reads for you. In Christmas Revels, you can read Ruby Sister Louisa Cornell’s debut, prize winning novella for 99 cents and get Ruby Sister Kate Parker’s regency murder thrown in for free! Can’t get enough Christmas? You’re in luck, because Ruby Sister Kim Law’s Hot Buttered Yum is on sale through the 24th. Or take a quick trip to Vegas with Ruby Sister L.L. Kellogg’s Sin City Seduction–free at Amazon. For shifter lovers, Ruby Sister Vivi Andrews...
October 21, 2015
This or that – does your family read your books?
My husband and daughters read a lot of non-fiction. Fiction? Not so much. Young Adult romance? Even less.
So Hubs has never read one of my books. Daughter #1 hasn’t either (although the poor thing has heard me brainstorm enough that she can sketch in the plots fairly well). Daughter #2 will copy-edit (for a fee, of course), so I can claim one immediate family member who reads my work.
I have many author-friends whose partners, children, siblings, or parents serve as critique partners. I don’t...
October 20, 2015
Show and Tell Wednesday: On one hand…
An idea stolen, ahem, borrowed from the “Hand in Hand” photo series created by Wofford College for SharedWorlds 2013.
I know I tell this story often, so please excuse me if you’ve heard it:
I was about to sign up for my first fiction-writing class, a course that met once a week on Tuesday nights. It was taught by romance author Barbara Ankrum — who I’d never read before. Little Sis suggested I read her books so I’d know whether her writing jived with me. I found several of them, a historica...
October 19, 2015
How to Make Excerpt Booklets at Home
Hello, everyone!
Not to stress you out, but it’s October, a slippery slide to the holidays and the new year when we make resolutions about conferences and promo. In an effort to prepare and plan, I have perused swag sites and read views on author swag to increase sales.
Although there are a lot of fun swag ideas out there (which I also use), I’ve read on several author loops that book excerpts are more likely to lead to a sale than, say… a pen or koozie. Since I don’t have the funds to have m...
October 18, 2015
Taking the Slow Road
When I originally scheduled this blog post some months ago, my plan was to celebrate the release of my fourth Underbelly Chronicles novel, ENTHRALL ME, and to extol some of the merits of taking the slow road to publication.
Well, unfortunately, ENTHRALL ME’s road to publication is going to be even slower than I anticipated.
The book is finished, ready to go – but for reasons having nothing to do with the book, and everything to do with career planning, I’m not going to publish it yet.
A littl...
October 15, 2015
Fangirl Friday
It’s Friday, and we have some amazing weekend reads for you–two new Ruby releases, as well as some amazing sales and a Goodreads giveaway. Read on for all the details!
WISHING FOR YOU 
by Elizabeth Langston
New Release!
She’s a girl who can’t remember. He’s the guy she can’t forget…
It’s her final semester of high school, and Kimberley Rey is curious about what will come next. She needs to pick a college, but her memory disability complicates the choice. Will her struggles to remember make...
Party On!!
With my b
ook coming out, I started to Google “launch parties” and everything I found dealt with large venues that were rented and inviting the businesses in town with the town’s officials. It was all about sales and presence.
And that is not what I wanted. I didn’t want an “event”. I wanted a celebration with my close friends and family of what I had accomplished.
I took the concept of”launch party” and I pulled it into an intimate setting and started planning what I saw as the perfect way to...
October 13, 2015
Show and Tell Wednesday: Graphic Inspiration
Here’s one that makes a nice image out of that...
