What's New?
What's new this week? The first thing is that my website has been completely redone. My brother did an awesome job and found a web hoster thingy that I can edit myself instead of waiting for him to do it. If you can't see it yet he said something about re-directing traffic this week. I've also hooked up (I think) all the RSS feeds so when I blog it should go everywhere. I'm setting up a poetry corner tab today and will put in all the poetry I use for the Tiger series. There's a forum for fans and you can subscribe as a user to get updates.
Many people have been writing in asking what they can do to help get me published (traditionally). Here are some suggestions.
1) Write reviews on goodreads, amazon, and shelfari. So many people read your reviews before purchasing.
2) Get your local library to carry it. Most libraries if they get two or three requests will buy the books.
3) Ask your local newspaper to review it or write an article. My local newspaper did and a fan and student of Western Oregon University wrote her own articles and submitted it to the college newspaper. They ran both of her articles.
4) Join the forum on my website and the facebook fan page. Computers gather statistics in regards to how many hits a site gets and those numbers can be used to prove how many fans I have.
5) Call your local Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, or BJ's and ask them to carry the books. My local Costco is going to do a print run themselves which means the books will be much cheaper and if other warehouses show interest they may order them as well.
6) Send out invites on Facebook and tell others about the books. (Many people are doing this already and its been very helpful)
7) Blog/twitter
8) Set up a book signing. I have family in Utah and Arizona and live in Oregon so I'm up to go there to do book signings. Warning most bookstores won't host a signing for a self-published author. You can try but its hard. I recently did a signing in a wine shop and that went well. My mom is trying to set one up in an Indian store in the mall.
9) Or you can just make a giant batch of double chocolate chip peanut butter cookies and take them to your neighbor. Cookies win out every time.
Other news-China has expressed interest in publishing my books and I'm currently in negotiations with them. I'll put up pictures of the last book signing as soon as my husband figures out the digital camera we got for Christmas.
Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all get a good present. At my baby brother's wedding, my other brother Andrew said a good husband will follow the four "P's." He will Provide, Preside, Protect, and 'Pologize. I think there needs to be a gift giving formula. A good gift should be Personal, Pretty, Punctual, and Precious. I'm sure all of you can come up with better ones than I did.
Signing off,
Colleen
Many people have been writing in asking what they can do to help get me published (traditionally). Here are some suggestions.
1) Write reviews on goodreads, amazon, and shelfari. So many people read your reviews before purchasing.
2) Get your local library to carry it. Most libraries if they get two or three requests will buy the books.
3) Ask your local newspaper to review it or write an article. My local newspaper did and a fan and student of Western Oregon University wrote her own articles and submitted it to the college newspaper. They ran both of her articles.
4) Join the forum on my website and the facebook fan page. Computers gather statistics in regards to how many hits a site gets and those numbers can be used to prove how many fans I have.
5) Call your local Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, or BJ's and ask them to carry the books. My local Costco is going to do a print run themselves which means the books will be much cheaper and if other warehouses show interest they may order them as well.
6) Send out invites on Facebook and tell others about the books. (Many people are doing this already and its been very helpful)
7) Blog/twitter
8) Set up a book signing. I have family in Utah and Arizona and live in Oregon so I'm up to go there to do book signings. Warning most bookstores won't host a signing for a self-published author. You can try but its hard. I recently did a signing in a wine shop and that went well. My mom is trying to set one up in an Indian store in the mall.
9) Or you can just make a giant batch of double chocolate chip peanut butter cookies and take them to your neighbor. Cookies win out every time.
Other news-China has expressed interest in publishing my books and I'm currently in negotiations with them. I'll put up pictures of the last book signing as soon as my husband figures out the digital camera we got for Christmas.
Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all get a good present. At my baby brother's wedding, my other brother Andrew said a good husband will follow the four "P's." He will Provide, Preside, Protect, and 'Pologize. I think there needs to be a gift giving formula. A good gift should be Personal, Pretty, Punctual, and Precious. I'm sure all of you can come up with better ones than I did.
Signing off,
Colleen
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Great to hear that China is interested in publishing; good luck with that. Also, very excited to hear that Costco is going ahead and printing/selling. That will be exciting to see. I know I've asked and asked and I haven't heard, but I'm happy to know they will follow through. Kudos to you! : )
Keep smiling. I think Voyage will come out sooner than we [all:] think.