Sentinel Release Day, MISC stuff, plus Blogger stuff…
First off, before I forget, I have a contest winner to announce! Congrats to Eleanor! You should have an email from me.
And now on to Sentinel….
I was on an airplane when Sentinel went live digitally in the U.S. When we touched down and I powered up my cellphone, I got all excited by the tweets and messages about reading Sentinel. On release day, I was attending Houston Bookrave, which was AWESOME by the way and Trini, Yara, Damaris, and all of those behind the scenes did a GREAT job with the event. I haven’t been able to respond to the messages about Sentinel and the end of the Covenant series, so I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for all the wonderful messages. Writing Sentinel wasn’t easy. So far, it’s been the hardest book to write since it is the end for Alexandria Andros. I think she had a good run and I hope her story has many re-reads in the future.
Don’t forget the Sentinel and Frigid release party. There’s a very special announcement that will occur at the signing. I think some of you may be happy to hear it
Barnes and Noble
The Metroplex
2300 Chemical Road
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
November 16, 2013
12:00pm
Signing and Discussion
- Special dinner to follow/contests/giveaways/etc
Which brings me to my last thing I wanted to talk about, sort of announce. I can’t think of the Covenant Series without thinking about bloggers. People heard and read the Covenant series because of bloggers/reviewers getting behind the series and spreading the word. It’s the same with all my books to be honest. Any success they have acquired can be directly contributed to bloggers and readers, so the last couple of weeks I’ve been toying with this idea that I ended up telling Vilma from Vilma’s Book Blog about, and decided I needed to get off my rosy rear end and go ahead and do it.
I don’t think people, even me, realize how much effort goes into running a review blog. Something that was reinforced this weekend when Vilma was telling me how three nights a week she’s up until 2am or 3am doing posts, announcements, and what not for her blog. Vilma is also married, has kids, and a full-time job. And I was thinking, holy shit, I don’t even stay up to 3am to write the book she’s posting about, and I was all like…
Oh, and review bloggers don’t make money off the reviews. Some might have ads and some get a ton of books from publishers, but in the end, the publisher and the author get more out of the exchange, at least in my opinion. Why? The power of word of mouth, good and bad, typically equals sales. Word a mouth starts in the blogosphere and of course there is the normal reader word of mouth that is as powerful as Apollo on a really sunny day.
There’s also a lot of bloggers out there, big, HUGE, small, tiny, and just starting out. So many that I don’t think bloggers, authors, and publishers even know about. I and I’m sure, a crap ton of other authors wish there was something huge we could do for bloggers, because we fangirl over you guys as much as you fangirl over us.
So my idea, and it’s not something huge or earth shattering amazing, but something I hope you guys enjoy. I want to start a weekly post on my website that’s dedicated to getting to know a different blog review site every week that involves learning about the blog, the peep behind the blog, getting word out to authors, publishers, bloggers about said blog, and also featuring a giveaway (handled by me) unique to that blogger.
It’s going to be really simple to sign up for it. All you will have to do is fill out the Getting To Know You form, which asks 10 questions about you and your blog, and I will take care of the giveaway and what not. You will receive a email before your post goes live.
So, yeah, it’s not a big deal, but it’s something I’d like to do, because there’s many of you that I’d like to get to know better myself. I imagine there has to be other people. Here is the LINK to the form again. Please read instructions carefully and DO NOT submit twice.
Oh. And I finished edits. So I’m starting to write Opposition tomorrow and…
