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Doormat

What do you feel when it seems like you’re being taken for granted? Do you get angry? Sad? Does there come a time when you just say, “Enough, I’m tired of being told ‘no, sorry, I have better things to do?’” How do you deal with friends who say, “Well, yeah, I might be able [...]

Amalgamation

I really like that word. So today, I’m going to recap a few things. First, you can purchase your own copy of REDUCED in many different ways: Through my website – bonus, you get a SIGNED copy! Through our bookstore website – bonus again, SIGNED copy! Via our bookstore itself and, yep, SIGNED copy! Plus, [...]

Interview with Juliet

Hello, Juliet. How are things going these days? About the same as usual, why? I mean, not a lot happening, really, but I have a feeling it’s going to get busy pretty soon. Well, I actually meant that as a general question, but as long as we’re talking about what’s going to happen, what exactly [...]

Adventures in SP#9 – Sales

Shhh – no one ever talks about sales figures! At least, best I can figure out – unless they’re phenomenal, of course! But I’m doing okay, really. Sure, I ordered some myself, but didn’t go overboard. I know some authors who ordered 1000 of their own books. Yes, THOUSAND. Or even some who paid $10,000 [...]

Adventures in SP #8 Publicity

First, let me apologize for the lack of a post yesterday – I was exhausted after getting up before 4:00 a.m. and never quite recovered until this morning. Threw off my whole day! On to publicity: Yes, I shamelessly started the ball rolling by asking if anyone would like to interview me. I just posted [...]

Adventures in SP #7 – Marketing

Let’s play Fun with Marketing! Twitter, Facebook, website, Goodreads, Amazon, Google+, Pinterest, features, interviews, signings. Where do you start?? Well, I kind of started everywhere! I teach a monthly marketing seminar at our bookstore, All on the Same Page, and the first thing I tell authors is that you MUST have a website. Must. Most [...]

Interview with Abby, from REDUCED

Good morning, Abby. I have to tell you, this is kind of strange – interviewing the main character in my novel, REDUCED. Yeah…imagine how I feel…I’m not real comfortable with all this publicity. Well, let’s start with you. Tell us a little about yourself. Not much to tell, really. My parents died when I was [...]

Recap!

It’s been a busy few days – okay, a busy couple of weeks! But first: So Friday night was the launch party for REDUCED! We had food, we had wine, we had giveaways – and we sold quite a few books. Lots of friends came, a big storm blew through the area around 6:00 p.m. [...]

Book Launch Party Tonight!

Yes, I’m throwing myself a party! And no, my ego isn’t that big, it’s just that, well, I’ve always dreamed of actually writing and publishing a book and…I like parties! Naturally, I’m terrified that no one will come. Or buy my book. Or read it. Or think it’s horrible. I should probably stop thinking about [...]

They’re Here!!!!

I wanted to hold off on a new blog post today, since I was waiting for THE BOOKS to arrive – and they did! FINALLY! Teehee! I am positively GIDDY!