Eek. This kind of makes me feel like a tool (and I promise I will never, ever send you out an invitation to be a fan of me), but I realized that I’m supposed to have a professional page to put the news through, rather than my personal Facebook account. So, here is a link: […]
Good Idea: Promoting your work. Bad Idea: Promoting your work by pretending that you are a reader who is commenting like any other person on a blog, pimping your book, and having your fake reader name link to your author website. There are plenty of stupid people on the internet. But people who spend a […]
I’m about to send my order in to the printer for promo items I’ll be mailing out this spring (I don’t have any releases, so I’ll just be promo-ing the series as a whole and mailing my little heart out). I always hate this part, when I finally close Photoshop and start making the order**. […]
I have an interview and a giveaway up at Marta Acosta’s Vampire Wire, so I’ll be popping online to answer any questions over there, and today is the start of The Italian Gourmet Baby Food Baron’s Ironically Pregnant Virgin Mistress. Catch it over at The Thrillionth Page!
I’ve got two online ad campaigns running. One is based on cost-per-clicks (how many times someone clicks on it and goes to my site) the other is a cost-per-impression (how many times it appears on computer screens across the US). Both are targeted to specific demographics. The cost-per-click ad is getting a higher click-rate-per-impression than […]
This is where I will be on Sunday, October 26: stalking Gail Simone with my own little Wonder Tot at my side. (Thanks to Megan Frampton for the heads up!) Not really related, but I’m thinking about contests to celebrate the release of Demon Bound. So here’s a poll: [poll id=”6″]
Authors – The Swivet is having a fantastic series on publicity and getting the word out on your book. There’s a lot of great info there (including what a publicist can/can’t do for you.)
I’ve been invited to guest blog at The Book Binge all this week — today, we’re talking covers. <— Specifically, this one. In unrelated news: Dear New York Times, I saw your headline this morning that read: “A perfect ending, for the Giants” I really think you should have used a dash instead of a […]
Find out here on February 1st at 1pm PST. (Yes, there are prizes involved.) And just because:
I think I’d have bought ad space at Smart Bitches this month. *This one ALWAYS trips me up. Is it subjunctive, so I use “were”? Or should I be using “was”? ::goes and looks it up::
The two examples of bookmarks I gave below were 2×8 — but those are too tall for mass market books. So I went for stubby (2×6) instead (these show up on my screen actual size, in case anyone was wondering). Poor guy. I had to clip off two inches to make him fit. Also, squishing […]
I’m designing bookmarks for Demon Night, and am wondering: for those of you who use/collect them, do you prefer bookmarks that are slightly longer than the book, so they stick up a little — or that can be tucked inside, so that when they sit on the shelf, it disappears into the book. And, just […]
Want to get on the L.U.R.V.E. Train, and get a chance to win copies of Demon Moon, and a triple-digit or seven double-digit Amazon gift certificates? Find out how. Dear People Magazine, Every November, you come out with your “Sexiest Man Alive” issue; every spring, you print your list of the “World’s Most Beautiful People.” […]
WILD THING RELEASES TODAY! New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Marjorie M. Liu, and sizzling newcomers Alyssa Day and Meljean Brook discover the wild instinct in everyone with four all-new stories of feral heat. Fans will get swept away by the passions in the unfathomable depths of Atlantis; they’ll follow the shadows that […]
Went to the Beaverton Borders for my first reader group — and it was awesome. I really wish I’d known about it before, but it wasn’t until Tammie at nightowlromance.com gave me a heads up that I found out about it. I met Marcy Dodge, who was RWA’s Bookseller of the Year a couple of […]
No matter how much I love love love DEMON MOON, I actually wince every time I send out an ARC, or trade one with another author, and feel compelled to apologize for giving them something to read. Which doesn’t make sense, because I like getting them. I don’t know what causes bad feeling, but I […]