I popped into my local Barnes and Noble yesterday to buy some Christmas presents and pet the books.  It always gives me a little thrill to hop in the escalator and ascend directly into the YA section.  Yeah, it's kinda cheesy, but it almost feels like one of those movies where you've died and gone to heaven. LOL!  So, I'm about half way up when I ( Read more... )

In my last post, I talked a little bit about Marketing Your Unborn Book.  Today I wanted to follow up with a similar topic.  Word of mouth.  This is very closely related to what I previously talked about.  When you make genuine connections with people, there is a good chance that those people will support you.  That's what friends do.  It's also ( Read more... )

Yipee! My BFF and Crit Partner Jodi Moore went to visit her local bookstore to celebrate the birth of her first book baby. So much fun. But when Jodi got to the store, she couldn't find WHEN A DRAGON MOVES IN anywhere. Her first thought was that the store was very busy and the staff hadn't gotten a chance to get it on the table, but low and ( Read more... )