Tag Archives: December

What’s in your earphones? It’s Release Day! “For the Love of Christmas”

Posted on December 4, 2012 | 24 comments

“Write a Story with me” will be back December 25th Cause now….

Let me tell you… when I made a bold statement last New Years that I would be published this year.. I NEVER IMAGINED I would have back-to-back release dates in December!

Total Awesomeness!

So, What’s in your earphones? What inspires you, and where do your musical tastes come from?

Stop on over to Nicky Well’s website and let’s chat about it. I’m guest blogging over there and ready to have a little fun!

This is stop #1 of the “For the Love of Christmas” blog tour.

Come on! Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Click me to space warp to the musical side!

Nicky’s Website

My Favorite Obscure Christmas Songs (theflatgirl.wordpress.com)

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Posted in Author Interview

Tagged Christmas, December, Holiday, Hosts, New Year, Publishers, WordPress

I’m on a roll! More Exciting News

Posted on November 2, 2012 | 45 comments

I am super excited to announce that I have signed a contract with Still Moments publishing for my single short “A Test of Faith”.

This is a really big step for me, because this will be my first publication outside of an anthology. Yep, that’s right… only my name on that cover.

Yeah, okay, maybe that sounds vain — but tough cookies!

“A Test of Faith” is part two of the Jack and Jill story that begins with “Connect the Dots”, which will be published by Still Moments in their “For the Love of Christmas” Anthology that will be released December 4th.

“Connect the Dots” takes place during the stress-filled week before Christmas, and closes on Christmas morning.

“A Test of Faith” picks up a few hours later, and follows our characters through a very bumpy week leading to New Year’s Eve.

Yeah, it looks like this is going to be a holiday thing. I have an idea for Valentine’s day, but I decided to shelve it temporarily because another project is tapping on my head and screaming “write me first!”

So Yay! Three contracts for me this year! Two publications in December, and this new one is tentatively scheduled for January 2013.

For the first time in maybe EVER I can honestly say that I have lived up to my New Year’s resolution. I hope some of you guys have done as well!

Countdown to Christmas with our Christmas Advent Calendar! (debenhams.com)
Rescuing Christmas by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Catherine Mann and Kathie DeNosky (ov099.wordpress.com)
Christmas Countdown – 10 Weeks (elfblog.typepad.com)

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Posted in Road to Publication

Tagged A Test of Faith, Christmas, December, Holidays, Literature, New Year, Opinions

Road to Publication #20: Setting up the Blog Tours

Posted on October 15, 2012 | 26 comments

OMIGOSH, my head is spinning. Seriously, it is.

I started a few weeks ago, setting up my own dates for the blog tour for the “Make Believe” Anthology. Then, after the Arcs went out, all of the sudden requests started coming in from people who contacted J.Taylor Publishing asking for interviews.

I’m really glad that I took someone’s advice and found the calendar feature in my email program. I started making appointments for the different days in December… but December is filling up pretty quickly.

I also have to wiggle in a blog tour for Connect the Dots, coming out from Still Moments Publishing in their “For the Love of Christmas” Anthology the day after the “Make Believe” Anthology releases.

It looks like I’m going to have to double book dates – talking about Connect the Dots on one Web Site, and Last Winter Red on another.

Now, I’m starting to pull my hair out because I have a list of people who I “Cyber know” who I wanted to ask to host the blog tour, and all these dates are filling up fast.

I know, I know, just smack me. These are good problems.

I am starting to feel what I’ve heard other authors talk about in the past… Marketing is a full time job, and detracts from your writing.

I had all these lofty goals for when I would finish and submit Fire in the Woods, but they are falling by the wayside.

It’s true what you hear… this really is hard work.

What do you think… Do you hear about books on blogs? Have you / would you buy a book after hearing about it on a blog? What would make you interested in buying an anthology?