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April 30, 2018
Books & Authors, Spring 2018!
[image error]Yesterday was the spring Books & Authors event at Leon & Lulu! Despite the gnarly road construction and the lure of a gorgeous spring Sunday, people turned out in droves to support their local authors!
I will be the first one to admit I am very lucky…my day job requires me to do presentations and trainings on a daily basis, so I learned a long time ago how to turn nerves over public speaking and interaction into excited energy. I’m one of the few people I know that LOVES public speaking. I...
April 19, 2018
Smashwords – Yay or Nay?
[image error]I had someone ask me the other day on Instagram if I recommended publishing on Smashwords. I’m going to cut right to the chase and tell you that my answer was a straightforward unabashed unqualified YES! YES YES YES! I’ll be honest…right now I’m selling more books through Smashwords than through Amazon.
So what IS Smashwords? It is the world’s largest distributor of indie ebooks! They distribute to Barnes&Noble, eBooks and Kobo (and technically to Amazon, but you don’t want to go that ro...
April 9, 2018
Books & Authors 2018!
Yes, it’s that time of year again! Time for the spring half of Leon & Lulu’s biannual Books & Authors event! This juried book signing has become a fixture in Metro Detroit, and I’m honored and thrilled to announce that I’ll be there for the second time, signing copies of both Pistils AND Sub Rosa!
Books & Authors is insanely cool on so many levels. The store that hosts it, Leon & Lulu, is my favorite local business in all of Metro Detroit. It takes “awesome” and cranks it up to eleven. If...
April 2, 2018
Camp NaNoWriMo! April 2018
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All right friends, I’m feeling a bit more lucky this time around! I was derailed off the regular NaNoWriMo last November by ill health, but Camp NaNo is a bit less intense. And to say I’m excited about my planned project is an understatement.
Working title is Snapdragons, and in the series chronology, it’s a novella that takes place just before the beginning of Pistils. What I’m most excited about, though, is that I intend to publish and offer it permanently for free…if you or a friend ha...
March 24, 2018
Scribbler Unboxing and Review!
[image error]There’s an aphorism that goes something along the lines of “if something exists, someone somewhere has found a way to make p0rn about it.” I strongly believe the same applies to subscription boxes…there are subscription boxes for every single conceivable thing under the sun. They appeal to our love of opening gifts, getting things in the mail (!!!), and finding things that are tailored in some way to our tastes and preferences. I currently subscribe to four, and my husband has devised a w...
March 14, 2018
Engaging New Readers with Bublish!
[image error]Back in the days when an agent was required to present your work to a traditional publishing house, there was a grim catch-22: in order to get published, you needed an agent, but to get an agent, you needed to be published. It’s amazing that any of those many authors who were repeatedly rejected doggedly persevered anyway. Indie publishing has evened the playing field somewhat, but we’re up against a new version of the same problem: to have successful sales, you need to have a readership, a...
March 8, 2018
International Women’s Day – As an Author
[image error]March 8th is designated as International Women’s Day, “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.” I look forward every year to seeing how people share their thoughts and experiences on this day, and this year, I thought I’d share some of mine.
I’m writing today as a female author who writes books about strong women. I’m privileged to be able to publish these books under my own (obviously) female name. This was not always the case for women...
March 6, 2018
March 3, 2018
Sub Rosa Launch Party – Come On In!
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Today is the official launch event for Sub Rosa! The party is over on the Facebook page and everyone is invited…there will be prizes, events, giveaways, interactive posts, videos and more fun stuff, so don’t hesitate to come by!
It’s all day, from 9am-9pm EST, and it’s all online, so you can pop in whenever you want to say hi and opt in to win a prize (including Amazon gift cards and autographed paperbacks).
If you could share the event with any other book lovers in your life, I’d truly app...
February 25, 2018
Smooth Operator – A Book Review
[image error]Olivia Holman is living the life that 99% of authors dream of…a Hollywood producer’s wife has fallen in love with her pirate romance story, and it’s being made into a movie. It gets better…she’s being brought on as the screenwriter. And then even BETTER…hottie Tyler Sutton has been cast as the sexy swashbuckling lead, and despite his reputation as a ladies’ man, he seems genuinely interested in Olivia as opposed (maybe?) to his gorgeous co-star.
So obviously all of us all indie authors were p...
